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The document heading says it all. I’m trying to document the genealogy of my Paternal GF, Joseph Kulman.

Born: c. 1876 in Bauska, Latvia. No confirming documentation.

Died: August 17, 1910. Montreal, PQ, Canada. Buried at Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, Montreal, PQ, Canada. Have Death Record and Picture of Headstone

Emigration/ Immigration Path
Latvia to England – Documentation Needed
England to South Africa – Ship’s Manifest
South Africa to England – Documentation needed
England to Quebec, Canada - Ship’s Manifest

South African Immigration – Documentation needed
Canadian Immigration – Listed as English so Citizenship was implied.

Married Rose Ziman at Capetown, South Africa – Documentation needed

Children:
Daughter Rose Kulman, 1901 Capetown South Africa – Documentation needed
Daughter Sarah Kulman, 1906 Ste Agathe des Montes, PQ, Canada – No documentation available, Use 1911 Census
Son Samuel Kulman, 1908 Ste Agathe des Montes, PQ, Canada – No documentation available, Use 1911 Census
Son Julius Kulman, April 17, 1910 Ste Agathe des Montes, PQ, Canada – No documentation available, Use 1911 Census. Also, See Julius Kulman Folder for records. There’s confusion on this birth with a 1927 Registration showing 1906. 1910 is correct. The 1906 record was done to get him immigration rights to the US in 1927 at the age of 17.

To-Do’s:

I need to find a either pointers to the South African records that I’m missing or a researcher, preferably local and focused on South African Jewish Genealogy.

I also would like to get the 1907 Notary Bail (Lease?) translated from French to English . I have the entire document and have also enlarged it into 3 section to make it easier to real.

I would like a translation of the Hebrew on the Headstone.

All available documentation has been loaded to the Profile as Media - Documents

Can you read the Hebrew on the headstone or do you have what it says saved to your computer?
If both, try typing it into Google Translate. and seeing what it says in English.

Dan

The Hebrew on the headstone gives his Hebrew name as Yoseph = Joseph, and his father's Hebrew name is Shabtai Gershon

Leanne, Thanks for posting the links, I hadn't thought to do that.

Daniel, Thanks for the question and solution (I live with Google Translate and use it many times a week.)

David, Thank you. I had gotten the translation from a cousin on Saturday but I was travelling through yesterday and catching up today.

I added a profile For Shabtai Gershon to my tree today.

I will be contacting the manager of the tree you found. There is also at least 1 other tree [Newcombe Family Tree on MyHeritage} that I'll be contacting. Nothing promising on FTDNA Advanced Matching and nothing in Ancestry.

If I get really lucky there's a male line descendant who's done Y-DNA testing. :-)

I've scheduled a trip to Montreal in September to visit with my 2 surviving 1st Cousins to learn whatever they remember from their mother and maternal GM.

My father didn't talk about his childhood. He was 17 when he migrated to the US to join his brother.

I did some research to try and find the documents you need.

Profile from cemetery records- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kulman-10

Listed in family Tree DNA Website - https://www.familytreedna.com/public/coleman?iframe=ysnp

Thanks Mikey. Most of the information on Wikitree was provided by me.
I'm a member of the Coleman Project but hadn't paid to much attention to it. Kit B234867 is me. I'll check out the 2 E-M35's.

I don't know if anyone's done this or had any luck with it. I filed a FIOA request with the FBI for all information they have about my grandparents.

The FBI did an investigation in 1961 for a Security Clearance for my job in the military. That was at the height of the Cold War and with all 4 grandparents having been born in what was then Russian territory,, and with relatives still there, it took a while for my clearance to finally come through. I knew from family friends that they had spoken to people who know me from birth.

I just received negative responses regarding my paternal grandparents, Joseph and Rose Kulman. The FBI didn't have records back past 1908 and neither of them had ever entered the US.

I'm waiting for the responses for my maternal grandparents. My maternal GF, Herman Lewis Sviridow, is also Brick Walled. I'll be starting another BW project on his Profile once I get a further along in following up available leads for my other GF, Joseph Kulman.

Interesting idea re: the FRI. Did you have to file any specific document or form? Do you have any idea how far they investigate back? I also had to get a Top Security clearance in 1968 and I never thought of this ....

They go back to about 1908 - 1910. FBI.GOV is the website and you can do it all online, very easy.

It was one of those thoughts you get in the middle of the night and usually forget about. I had never seen any reference to it so I thought I'd give it a try.

'68 - VietNam?

Great idea - many thanks !!!

Mikey Ragonesi As you can tell from my initial post, I have all of these documents and have linked them to Joseph Kulman's Geni Profile.

I have Autosomal tested at Ancestry, 23andme, FTDNA, and MyHeritage. I have Y-111, BigY and Full mtDNA at FTDNA. All profiles are on Gedmatch, I'm on YFull.

ok. I have some access to South African records, I will try to find the ones you need.

If you want me to, i can be your researcher that you said you wanted.

Regards,
Michael

Michael, Thank you for the offer but I too have access to many South African records. The researcher I need must be in country with access to non-computerized records such as court documents and first hand experience in Jewish genealogy in South Africa.

ok

I will still try to help though.

Michael

This thread is a little old now, but I have a couple of things to add:

1) JewishGen's Latvia database indicates that there is a death record from Bauska available for a Sora-Yenta Kulman, wife of Shabsa (Shabtai), who died in childbirth on 27 Apr 1880 at the age of 30. Could she be your great-grandmother? The record is from Bauska, but there's a note that her residence was Shukian (Saukenai, Lithuania).

There's also a death record for a Zalman, son of Shabsa, who died at the age of 4 months on 26 Feb 1879, who could plausibly be your great-uncle.

JewishGen's database does not link directly to the records, but they are digitized now and available at Raduraksti (http://lvva-raduraksti.lv/en.html -- free to search, but requires that you register for an account). The records are typically written in both Yiddish and Cyrillic. If you'd like, I could look up Sora-Yenta's record for you so you'll have a copy.

2) You may wish to join the Jewish Community of Bauska project here:
https://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Community-of-Bauska-Latvia/54920

- Lisa K.

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