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From: Joseph J Jarfas <>
Subject: Re: [HUNGARY-L] Re: HUNGARY-D Digest V00 #411
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 20:23:15 -0500
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wrote:

> HI THERE. I AM CROSSING MY FINGERS AND WONDERING IF ANY ONE OUT THERE IN THE
> GROUP IS FAMILIAR WITH THE TOWN OF SEREDNE WHICH WAS LOCATED BETWEEN UNGVAR
> AND MUNKACH.
>
> SPECIFICALLY I AM RESEARCHING MY MOTHER'S FAMILY. HER MOTHER SHIFRA (CILLII)
> WEINBERGER MARRIED PINCHAS OESTRICHER (FROM MUNKACH) AND THEY OWNED A STORE
> ON THE MAIN STREET SELLING LEATHER, AMMUNITION ETC. MY MOTHER'S GRANDFATHER
> MENACHIM WEINBERGER WAS FROM SEREDNE AND HAD A SUCCESSFUL VINEYARD. HE WAS
> MARRIED TO CHAYA LEBOWITZ. THEY WERE BOTH FROM SEREDNE. UNFORTUNATELY HE DIED
> YOUNG AFTER HAVING EIGHT CHILDREN. MY GRANDMOTHER SHIFRA WAS THE ELDEST.
> HE DIED SHORTLY AFTER SHIFRA GOT MARRIED. FOR SOME REASON THERE WAS NEVER ANY
> FAMILY FROM MY MOTHER'S GRANDFATHER'S SIDE AS FAR AS SHE KNOWS.
>
> ANY INPUT OR INSIGHT WOULD BE APPRECIATED. THANKS
> SHIFRA KORNFELD BEMIS
> RESEARCHING: KORNFELD/OESTRIECHER/WEINBERGER
> SEREDNE, MUNKACH,UNGVAR, CZENGER

Hi Shifra,

Szerednye would be the proper (Hungarian) name for Seredne. Was located in
county Ung, the seat for district with the same name. Its population in 1910 was
1867.

Munkács was the way that town was known (again, in Hungarian); of course both
of them are now in the Ukraine.

Joe

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Joseph J Jarfas
Equinunk, PA - USA




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