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Searching for surname CZOLGOSZ with soundex code(s) 485400.

Soundex     Name                                          Data Bases

485400      CALKES                                        BD                                      
485400      CALKIES                                       BDW                                     
485400      CALKUS                                        BDJ                                     
485400      CALLEUX                                       K                                       
485400      CELKES                                        A                                       
485400      CHALKS                                        AJ                                      
485400      CHELKIS                                       R                                       
485400      CHILKES                                       AK                                      
485400      CHILKS                                        A                                       
485400      CHOLAKIS                                      K                                       
485400      CILKES                                        A                                       
485400      CLAAKS                                        V                                       
485400      CLOHESSEY                                     K                                       
485400      CLUCAS                                        K                                       
485400      COLGACZ                                       A                                       
485400      CULKES                                        A                                       
485400      CYLKES                                        A                                       
485400      CZOLGACZ                                      AN                                      
485400      JELICHICH                                     K                                       
485400      JELKS                                         K                                       
485400      SAILHAC                                       K                                       
485400      SALCIUS                                       K                                       
485400      SALHOZ                                        Z                                       
485400      SALKOCH                                       H                                       
485400      SALOCKS                                       K                                       
485400      SCHALGS                                       A                                       
485400      SCHALKS                                       K                                       
485400      SCHELHASE                                     V                                       
485400      SCHELLHASE                                    K                                       
485400      SCHELLHAUS                                    K

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A. Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (231,973 surnames). An index to over 2,400,000 Jewish birth, marriage, divorce and death records located in the archives of Poland. An on-going project--continuously updated. Online database
B. All-Poland Database (79,327 surnames). An additional 600,000 records for Poland, from a variety of sources, including: vital records, business directories, voter lists, passenger manifests, yizkor books and other Holocaust sources. Online database
C. All Lithuania Database (46,656 surnames). More than 400,000 records from many different sources, including Revision Lists (censuses), vital records, tax, voters, and cemetery lists. An on-going project--continuously updated. Online database
D. All Belarus Database (55,652 surnames). More than 300,000 records from many different sources, including vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records. An on- going project--continuously updated. Online database
E. All Latvia Database (8,188 surnames). 75,000 records from many different sources, including vital records, voter lists, tax lists, recruitment records. An on- going project--continuously updated. Online database
F. All UK Database (1,409 surnames). More than 50,000 records for England, Scotland and Wales, from a variety of sources, including: marriage and cemetery records, census records, business directories, and others.--continuously updated. Online database
G. All Hungary Database (26,426 surnames). 240,000 records from many different sources, including vital records, census records, property tax records, etc.. An on- going project--continuously updated. Online database
H. All Romania Database (45,240 surnames). More than 190,000 records for Romania and Moldova, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, census records, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.--continuously updated. Online database
I. All Scandanavia Database (2,659 surnames). Over 12,000 records for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, from a variety of sources, including: census, tax, cemetery records, and others.--continuously updated. Online database
J. JewishGen Family Finder (97,391 surnames). Surnames being researched by some 60,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide. An on-going project--continuously updated. Online database
K. Family Tree of the Jewish People (184,237 surnames). 2,000,000 persons who appear on family trees being researched by Jewish genealogists. An on-going project--continuously updated. Online database
L. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire (49,167 surnames). Surnames from the Pale of Settlement. Book
M. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland (32,884 surnames). Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland. Book
N. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia (34,597 surnames). Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland. Book
O. A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames (19,726 surnames). Surnames from pre-World War I Germany. Book
P. Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames: Second Edition (15,810 surnames). Sephardic surnames throughout the world. Book
Q. Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories (10,284 surnames). Surnames for which there is published family histories and genealogies. Book
R. Index to Russian Consular Records (38,533 surnames). 70,000 persons who transacted business with the Russian czarist consulates in the United States from about 1849-1926. Microfiche
S. Galicia Surname Index (5,671 entries). Various lists of persons who resided in Galicia. An on-going project--continuously updated.Online database
T. First American Jewish Families (4,758 surnames). 50,000 descendants of Jewish-American families who arrived in America in the period 1654-1838. (Out of print) Book
U. Palestine Gazette (15,142 surnames). 28,000 persons, mostly Jews, who legally changed their names while living in Palestine during the British Mandate (1921-1948). Microfiche
V. Gedenkbuch (18,144 surnames). 128,000 German Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Book
W. Index to Memorial to the Jews Deported From France (26,310 surnames). 70,000 Jews deported from France during the Holocaust. Microfiche
X. National Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (14,742 surnames). 35,000 Holocaust survivors living in the United States and Canada. Book
Y. Sephardic Surnames (7,889 surnames). List of Sephardic surnames.
Z. Les Fleurs de l'Orient (9,441 surnames). Family tree, heavily Sephardic, of 70,000 people.
a. Emergency Passports (2,383 surnames). 3,000 Jewish applicants for emergency U.S. passports, 1915-1924, processed by U.S. State Department. Microfiche
b. Index to State Department records found in the U.S. National Archives containing Jewish names in the section on protection of interests of U.S. citizens in Russia (3,104 surnames). 5,000 records. Microfiche
c. Index to State Department records found in the U.S. National Archives which is a registration of U.S. citizens in Jerusalem, 1914-1918 (863 surnames). 1,000 records.
d. Index to State Department records found in the U.S. National Archives which is a list of Jewish names in protection of interests of U.S. citizens category in Romania, Germany & Poland (1910-1929) (3,583 surnames). 4,500 records. Microfiche
e. Index to State Department records found in the U.S. National Archives which is a list of Jewish names in protection of interests of U.S. citizens section in Austria-Hungary (1910-1930) (1,554 surnames). 2,000 records. Microfiche
f. Jewish Surnames from Morocco. (4,510 surnames) 4,644 different Moroccan surnames. Microfiche
g. Jewish Burials in Hartford County Connecticut (8,320 surnames). 13,000 burials. Book
h. Jewish Surnames from Prague (985 surnames) Ancient Ashkenazic surnames from the 15th-18th centuries. Book
i. Cleveland (Ohio) Burials (1,413 surnames). Online database
j. Birth Index for Buda Jewry 1820-1852, 1868. Index to certain Jewish birth records for Buda (Hungary). (523 surnames). Microfiche
k. Obuda (Hungary) Census of 1850. Census of all households in this district of Budapest. (588 surnames). Microfiche
l. Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family (3,292 surnames) Compiled genealogy of more than 20,000 descendants of this great scholar. Book
m. Surnames in the Lomza, Poland, yizkor book. (2,268 surnames). Online database
n. Kiev Gubernia Duma Voters Lists, 1906-1907 (9,709 surnames). More than 32,000 Jewish men living in Kiev gubernia, eligible to vote in the Czarist State Duma elections of 1906-1907. Online database
o. Poor Jews Temporary Shelter (24,863 surnames). A social service facility in London designed to meet the needs of Jews who were coming to or passing through London founded in 1885.
p. Quebec Surnames (16,227 surnames). Jewish surnames appearing in Quebec vital records.

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Teddy Roosevelt, Jewish Avenger

In the 1890s, as Eastern European Jews poured into the tenements of New York’s Lower East Side, Chicago’s Maxwell Street area and similar neighborhoods of America’s cities, they faced great pressure from native-born Americans—most of whom were associated with the Republican Party—to abandon their ethnic loyalties and become "real Americans." Yet, when it was expedient, the Republicans—like the Democrats--were willing to appeal to Jewish voters on ethnic grounds. Today, we recognize that there is no conflict between being a proud Jew and a patriotic American. In the 1890’s, this fact was still contested ground.

In late October, 1899, the Lower East Side was flooded with handbills, printed in Yiddish, signed by "Jewish Members of the Republican State Committee." The flyers urged Jewish voters to cast their ballots for gubernatorial candidate Theodore Roosevelt, who the year before had led his Rough Riders in a courageous charge up San Juan Hill in Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War. The Rough Riders’ victory, combined with other American triumphs at sea and on land, led Spain to surrender her empire in Cuba and the Philippines.

The Yiddish flyers bore the title, "WHO TAKES REVENGE FOR US?" It’s opening sentence made the answer clear: "Every respectable citizen, every good American and every true Jew, must and will vote for the Republican gubernatorial candidate—Theodore Roosevelt." In the symbolic calculus of American ethno-religious politics, America’s victory over Spain was revenge for Spanish mistreatment of its Jews four centuries earlier, and candidate Roosevelt was the Jews’ leading avenger.

Roosevelt was an unlikely hero for Yiddish-speaking tenement dwellers. Descended from patrician Dutch colonial stock, Roosevelt was a wealthy, Harvard-educated outdoorsman. But American politics has a way of making interesting bedfellows. When Roosevelt campaigned for governor, the Republican party invoked the ghost of the fifteenth-century Spanish Inquisition to mobilize Jewish support for his candidacy.

The "Jewish Republicans" reminded (or educated) the Lower East side "greenhorns" that, during the Inquisition, Jews had been the victims of unjust persecution. "Our ancestors," the flyer noted, "were good and useful citizens."

They made rich Spain’s treasury; outfitted the ships which discovered America and gave Spain the power that made her a great nation. How did Spain reward them? Spain took away everything her Jews had, and she sent her Jews to the dungeons of the Inquisition and the fires of the auto da fe.

If this were not enough, the flyer reminded its Yiddish-speaking readers, Spain’s inquisitors pursued their Jewish victims to the New World--to Brazil, Mexico and especially Cuba—where, until the Spanish defeat in 1898, "there still rang in our ears the cries and screams of Spain’s brutality." When William McKinley, the Republican president, "gave the word that Spain should move out of the New World," Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt "worked day and night until he worked out all the plans for our navy" and then, "at his own, expense organized a Regiment of Rough Riders and went to the battle field to meet the foe. . . Under Roosevelt’s command there were many Jewish Rough riders. Roosevelt was like a brother to them. He recommended them to the president [McKinley] for promotions, and sang their praises to the world."

The flyer warned that, in this election, Roosevelt—and the war itself—now stood in judgment before the people of New York. Jewish voters, they made clear, had but one choice:

Every vote for the COLONEL OF THE ROUGH RIDERS is approval of McKinley and the War. Every vote for Roosevelt’s opponent . . . is a vote for Spain. . . .Can any Jew afford to vote against Theodore Roosevelt and thereby express his disapproval of the war against Spain? Vote for Theodore Roosevelt. Vote to express your approval of Spain’s defeat.

Roosevelt failed to carry the Lower East Side and lost New York City as a whole by 60,000 votes, but won election by sweeping the rest of the state by 80,000 votes. A year later, he accepted the Republican nomination for vice president and succeeded to the presidency after McKinley’s assassination in 1901. In 1904, when Roosevelt ran successfully for re-election, the Republicans once again appealed to New York’s Yiddish-speaking voters to support the hero of San Juan Hill [see the accompanying illustration taken from the American Jewish Historical Society archives].

It is the genius of America’s two-party system that, to win elections, the Democrats and Republicans must both provide "big tents" to accommodate diverse constituencies of voters. As the Jewish Republican campaign for Roosevelt illustrated, despite the pressures they put on immigrants to assimilate into the "melting pot," the need to build successful coalitions has eliminated the apparent conflict between retaining one’s ethno-religious identity and being a patriot.

Roosevelt's Mother

Bulloch Hall is owned by the City of Roswell, Historic and Cultural Affairs Division and managed by Friends of Bulloch, Inc. a 501(c)3 charitable organization.

Bulloch Hall is a Greek Revival mansion
built in 1840 by Major James Stephens Bulloch,
one of Roswell's first settlers.

On December 22, 1853, the Bulloch's daughter Mittie married Theodore Roosevelt (Sr.) of New York,
in the dining room of the house.

The couple, living in New York, became the parents of Theodore Roosevelt, our 26th president.

You can visit this lovely historic home as
it is open for tours seven days a week.

Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (July 8, 1835 - February 14, 1884) was the mother of president Theodore Roosevelt. She was usually known as Mittie. She married Theodore Roosevelt Sr., and had four children.

Martha was born in Georgia to James Bulloch and Martha Stewart Bulloch and was a supporter of the Confederacy and the Civil War. The family was extremely wealthy and were slave-owners. She married Theodore Roosevelt on December 22, 1853 at the Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia. She soon moved to New York where she bore four children: Anna Roosevelt Cowles (1855-1931), Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Elliott Roosevelt I (1860-1894) and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933).

Mrs. Roosevelt died tragically on February 14, 1884 of typhoid fever, the same day as Theodore's first wife Alice Lee and two days after the birth of her granddaughter, Alice Roosevelt.

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Commercial Growth

Between

Grocery Wagon

1890 and 1910, Bulloch County transformed itself into a major agricultural and commercial center, led by aggressive leaders who were new transplants to the county. These newcomers built links to railroads and developed an infrastructure of services. The once sleepy county seat became a regional hub. Enterprising businessmen, and Jewish merchants, developed a strong retail market that served the needs of farmers who brought their cotton and, later, tobacco to the markets in Statesboro.

In 1906 the county and city collected $125,000 in donations to support a new state-sponsored Agricultural and Mechanical School in Statesboro. Originally designed to advance the interests of the region's farmers, the school evolved into a teachers college and later Georgia Southern University.

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The mission of Bulloch Hall is to accurately restore, preserve and interpret this nationally significant (circa 1840s) antebellum historic site and to present an authentic interpretation to all Roswell citizens and visitors through quality tours, educational programs, community outreach and events.

Roosevelt's father

Theodore Roosevelt was a descendant of Claes Martenssen van Rosenvelt, who migrated to New Amsterdam (now New York City) from Zeeland, Holland (now in the Netherlands), in 1649. Roosevelt’s father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., was a New York businessman who married Martha Bulloch, a Southern belle from a prominent Georgia family.

The American Civil War (1861-1865) caused the Roosevelts much distress, because Mrs. Roosevelt’s brothers fought for the Confederacy. To spare his wife’s feelings, the elder Roosevelt did not enlist in the armed forces, although he was a staunch supporter of the Union. During the war he distinguished himself as an adviser to Union troops on missions that took him to the front lines. To his son the elder Roosevelt was “the best man I ever knew,” but the younger Roosevelt was ashamed all his life that his father had not fought during the war. Although he was an uncompromising Unionist, Roosevelt also took pride in the war exploits of his Southern relatives.

Roosevelt

Emma goldman

Her third imprisonment was in 1917, this time for conspiring to obstruct the draft: Berkman and Goldman were both involved in setting up No Conscription leagues and organising rallies against World War I.(illustration, right) She was imprisoned for two years, after which she was deported to Russia. At her deportation hearing, J. Edgar Hoover, directing the hearing, called her "one of the most dangerous anarchists in America."

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Deportation

This deportation meant that Goldman, with Berkman, was able to witness the Russian Revolution first hand. On her arrival in Russia, she was prepared to support the Bolsheviks despite the split between anarchists and statist communists at the First International. But seeing the political repression and forced labour in Russia offended her anarchist sensibilities. The Bolsheviks, however, argued that in times of revolution, violence is required in order to depose the previous power holders

Roosevelt picked VP

Vice President

Platt quickly tired of the governor’s energy and feared his independence, so he conceived a plot to bury Roosevelt in the vice presidency. Roosevelt didn’t want an office that would make him politically powerless, but having no political organization of his own, he decided to follow his party’s desires. He was nominated in 1900 as McKinley’s running mate and contributed his great energy to the successful campaign.

McKinley’s victory at first seemed to be a triumph for the conservative wing of the Republican Party, but on September 6, 1901, McKinley was shot by an assassin in Buffalo, New York. Eight days later, McKinley died, and the 42-year-old Roosevelt assumed the presidency.

Assistant Secretary of the Navy

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Roosevelt was eager to be involved in national affairs and hoped for military adventures. Roosevelt believed that strong nations survived and weak ones died; thus the United States had to struggle with other powerful nations for influence and territory abroad. He admired the writings of U.S. Navy Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890) advocated a strong navy as a key part of national policy. Roosevelt also dreamed of a canal through Central America, which would connect the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, to be built and owned by the United States. During a boundary dispute in 1895 over the line between British Guiana and Venezuela, President Cleveland aggressively challenged Britain’s right to intervene in Latin America. Roosevelt was delighted and talked freely to the press in extremely warlike terms.

With the election of Ohio Governor William McKinley to the presidency in 1896, Roosevelt urged influential friends, including Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, to obtain for him the position of assistant secretary of the navy. McKinley reluctantly granted him the office. Roosevelt acted quickly and played a key role in building the Navy and preparing it for action. Roosevelt looked ahead to war, as differences mounted between the United States and Spain.

A Cuban struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire had become an active revolution in 1895 because Spain failed to institute reforms promised to the Cuban people in 1878. In December 1897 the U.S. battleship Maine was sent to the port of Havana, Cuba, to protect U.S. citizens and property. On the night of February 15, 1898, the ship was sunk by a tremendous explosion, and 266 lives were lost. Reports about the explosion pointed to sabotage, but in 1976 the U.S. Navy published a study, which suggested that spontaneous combustion in the ship’s coal bunkers caused the explosion.

On February 25, 1898, while the secretary of the navy was out of Washington, Roosevelt, as acting secretary, cabled Commodore George Dewey, who was commanding the U.S. Asiatic Squadron. He instructed Dewey to sail for Hong Kong. He hinted that war was at hand, in which case “offensive operations in Philippine Islands” should follow.