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jensen183
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Jews in Edinburgh .....

Post by jensen183 » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:54 am

Hi
I have just joined this site and was wondering if anyone out there can help me. I have a photograph of my great grandfathers grave stone but it is in Hebrew. Is there anyone out there who could translate it for me? I have tried the translation sites but as I don't have a Hebrew keybord they are not much use.
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CatrionaL
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Post by CatrionaL » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:01 am

jensen

If you can send me the photo by e-mail, I can get a translation for you.

Catriona
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DavidWW
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Post by DavidWW » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:16 am

Sounds like Catriona can fix it!

In the meantime I've been looking at Cyndi's List and came up with the following, in which, somewhere, there has to be something that could help - http://www.cyndislist.com/language.htm#Foreign and http://www.cyndislist.com/jewish.htm .............

David
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momat
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Post by momat » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:22 am

Have you tried the jewishgen database .
www.jewishgen.org

Someone there is bound to be able to help you.
Cheers.
Maureen
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jensen183
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Post by jensen183 » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:33 am

Thankyou for your replies.I did try jewishgen, that was my first thought. I did e-mail Harvey Kaplin who is the moderator of the Scottish Forum but as yet I have had no reply.(that was a month ago). I am hoping to get useful info from the inscription, as far as I know his name (before it was anglasised) his date of birth and his father's name should be on there. My father who is 80 has always wondered about his family. His own father would never talk about it. I know they came from a place called Vlotslavic in Polish Russia but don't know what region it would be in now. All of my grandfather's siblings were born in this country. Hoping to get somewhere at last!!!!!!
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CatrionaL
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Post by CatrionaL » Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:30 am

Hullo Jensen

Thank you for sending the photo of the headstone. It's as I suspected, the inscription in English is simply a repetition of the text above it but in Hebrew.

Sorry it's not going to provide you with any extra information.

Kind regards

Catriona
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