The WikiTree Challenge 2022 Challenge 23

Date: 1 Dec 2022 to 8 Dec 2022
Surnames/tags: challenges wikitree_challenge cuban

Contents 1 WikiTree Challenge Week 23 1.1 Needs Work 1.2 Photographs 1.3 FamilySearch Image Look-ups 2 Tell Us What You Found!! 2.1 Interesting Finds 2.2 Free Space Pages 2.3 Military Profiles 3 Media Outreach 3.1 WikiTree Posts 3.2 Participant Posts: 4 Ancestors 4.1 Brick Walls 4.1.1 Paternal Brick Walls 4.1.2 Maternal Brick Walls 5 Resources 5.1 General WT Resources 5.2 Specific Country Resources

WikiTree Challenge Week 23

Focus: Mark Cuban

Needs Work

1. Gottlieb Jeremias Wirth (1833-1918) CC5 needs German records for parents etc

Photographs

Note: Please check with your captain, Thomas Koehnline, if there are any questions about the images being protected by copyright.

• add image link here

FamilySearch Image Look-ups

Tell Us What You Found!!

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week. "Sign" your find with a row of four tildes (the ~ key, often next to the 1 key on American keyboards.)

1. Mark's mom, Shirley Feldman gave a wrong birth year on her marriage certificate. She was not yet 21 so she made herself older to get married. Dunja Niehaus
2. In 1954 Morris Cuban found a grenade while sweeping the sidewalk in front of his house. Neither he nor any of his neighbors wanted to deal with it, nor did the police when they were called. They notified detectives, and one who "knows about grenades" was sent to deal with it. He found it was empty and took it away. Marsh-9608 23:17, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
3. Josef (Chabinski) Cuban (1903-1938), the brother of Mark's grandfather Morris was part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed in action in Spain 28 July 1938. Donald Lindgren
4. Harry Lincoff was involved in a burglary situation at his family’s jewelry store; he stopped a heist in progress, shooting the would-be thief, who died. Weatherall-96 01:55, 3 December 2022 (UTC) ^[1]
5. Mark's grandfather Morris Cuban was caught selling butter for 95 cents a pound in 1946. At the time butter prices were fixed by the US government. He was fined $100 and given a six-month suspended sentence. [Thiel-559]
6. Mark's great grandmother's brother's nephew Max Mittleman worked for his brother-in-law Joseph Alpern's wholesale liquor store. In June 1916 he chased two young men who were attempting a theft out of the store and fired a gun three times, killing Rocco Fieri. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and given probation.[Thiel-559]
7. Mark's great grandmother's sister-in-law [[Mittleman-25|Bella (Mittleman]) Alpern] had gone to visit her parents in Novoselits in the Russian Empire in the summer of 1914. Two days after she arrived World War I started. She was forced to spend the next 21 months there, fearful of traveling across the Atlantic Ocean during the time when German U-boats were sinking ships. [Thiel-559]
8. Mark's great grandmother Pessia (Medovoy) Lincoff (1870-1943) migrated to Pittsburgh after husband died and and married Moshe Nahum Lincoff (abt.1856-1950) the husband of her late sister.
9. Mark's grandfather's sister (Freida Feldman), her husband and 2 children were murdered in the Holocaust. Maharoof-1 23:22, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
10. Mark's grandmother's sister Sara (Jenoff)(Greene)Levin opened a high-end women's clothing store in Pittsburgh in 1952. The store was still in operation in 1976. [Thiel-559]
11. Mark's grandmother's brother Isaac Lincoff owned several jewelry stores in the Pittsburgh area. In November 1923, thieves tossed a brick through the front window and snatched nine rings valued altogether at $2,500. That would be about $43,065 in 2022 dollars. [Thiel-559]
12. 7 degrees from Mark, is Abby (Goodman) Mann (1927-2008). He is notable as an Award-winning screenwriter with his most notable works being "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), which was initially a television drama that aired in 1959. While working for television, he created the series Kojak, starring Telly Savalas. Mann was executive producer, but was also credited as a writer on many episodes.Tucker-11084 15:32, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
13. Mark's grandmother's second husband Max Grunes had been in the country only two years when he was assaulted in 1905 by two young men throwing wet paper balls at his head. Years later in 1946, someone sneaked into his home and stole a wallet containing $30 and 10 pounds of sugar- the latter a valuable commodity because post-war rationing of sugar was still in effect until 1947.[Thiel-559]
14. Mark's great-grandmother's sister's nephew William Robert Shulgold became a fairly famous artist, first working in the Pittsburgh area before moving to Hollywood, where he painted movie stars including Ronald Coleman.[Thiel-559]
15. Mark's matrilineal great-grandmother was Tsivia (Ziv) Grunes (1867-1942), born in Darbėnai in what was the Russian Empire but now is Lithuania. Records from Lithuania have allowed us to piece together more of her family through Tsivia's father Euzel Ziv, grandfather Leiba Ziv great-grandfather Eliash Ziv and great-great-grandfather Israel Ziv, the latter being born about 1750 likely in the town of Plungė, which is about 20 miles East of Darbėnai. Kessler-2015 02:48, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
16. Movsha Freintel (abt.1825-aft.1892), Mark's second great-grandfather, was an innkeeper in Darbėnai, Russian Empire. Movsha was in a list of residents who suffered from fire of October 1882 that resulted in forty buildings being burnt down. There are 84 records of individuals who suffered in that fire. Elaine (Weatherall) Martzen
17. Mark's great-grandmother Rotza Galperen (bef.1878-) had a brother Joseph Galperen (1873-1929) who operated a liquor store in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1916 through 1918. On 8 January 1920, whisky valued at $1,000 was stolen from Joseph's wholesale liquor store on Larimer Avenue. Melanie (Doherty) McComb
18. Mark's great-grand-uncle Joseph Galperen (1873-1929) was the relative in the United States that Mark's grandfather, Zelman Feldman (1899-1983), listed in his migration document in 1922. Two years before that, clothing valued at $120 was taken from Joseph's clothing store at 415 Larimer Avenue. Homer Thiel
19. 7 degrees from Mark, through G-Grandmother Tsivia (Ziv) Grunes, Benjaman Griggs (1876-1926) was a prominent figure in Paterson, NJ. He was one of the largest junk dealers in Passaic Co and was involved in well-publicized proceedings over his right to have a junkyard in the “over-the-river” section of Paterson. His nickname was “The Governor”. He was tragically killed when he stepped out in front of a truck while carrying a box that interfered with his view. ^[2]In December 1926, his wife and children sued the driver of the truck as well as the owner for $50,000, as it was charged that he was driving with excessive speed.^[3] In February 1928, Minnie Griggs settled for $3,000 in the wrongful death suit on the eve of the trial.^[4]Tucker-11084 15:30, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
20. Sergeant Goldstein's WWI service below—Lowe-866 16:39, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
21. Researcher Boris Makalsky has found many records back to 1750 for both of Mark's Khabinsky and Kostinsky families. One sample record and translation from each family was provided and are included on the Meer Khabinsky (1808-) and Morduch Kostinsky (1845-) profiles. Boris said that Mark could email him at borismakl@gmail.com if he's interested in acquiring the other records. Kessler-2015 06:56, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Free Space Pages

List of Free Space Pages created for or linked to members of this family.

• Darbėnai aka Darbenai, Dorbyan, Lithuania the historical background on the town of Darbėnai, particularly its Jewish inhabitants.

Military Profiles

• wife’s gggrandfather died in Andersonville John Calvin Moss (1830-1864)
• Shirley Feldman's cousin Saul's wife Hermoine's uncle Sergeant Jacob Samuel Goldstein (7 degrees) from Braddock, Pennsylvania, served in France during World War I. After five weeks of training, he was assigned to Company D, 109th Infantry, on 30 March 1918 and arrived in France in May. There he joined a rapidly expanding American response to the German spring offensives. He was at Ourcq and Vesle (Battle of Soissons) in July, and part of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the fall that led to the armistice. Fortunately he suffered no disabilities during six intense months of warfare. Lowe-866 16:35, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Media Outreach

WikiTree Posts

Hashtags: #WTChallenge #CollaborativeGenealogy #YearOfFamilyConnections

Day	Subject	@WikiTreeOfficial @MarkCuban	@WTChallenge @MCuban	@WikiTree	@WikiTreers @MCuban	@WikiTreers
11/29	About to start!	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/1	Zoom Kick-off AM	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/1	Zoom Kick-off PM	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/3	Zoom Weekend Chat	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/4	Halfway	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/6	Winding down	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/8	Zoom Wrap-Up AM	Link	Link	Link	Link
12/8	Zoom Wrap-Up PM	Link	Link		Link
12/14	Challenge Highlights	Link	Link	Link	Link	video

Participant Posts:

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Ancestors

Brick Walls

These links will be added mid-week by Mindy and Thomas Koehnline. Remember to claim any brick wall bounties in the G2G!

Paternal Brick Walls

1. Yosef Khabinsky (abt.1850-)
2. Pesil (Susil) Kostinskaya (abt.1855-)
3. Mordkhe Janoff (bef.1870-bef.1922)
4. Chaim Aharon Medovoy (abt.1835-)

Maternal Brick Walls

1. Itzhak Feldman (bef.1862-)
2. Leibish Galperen (abt.1855-)
3. Samuel Freintel (bef.1870-1915)
4. Ieuzel Ziv (abt.1823-)

Resources

Please list any resources that you have. We all gain knowledge from each other!

General WT Resources

• Editing Tips This page shows basic markup that can be used on WikiTree profiles and Space pages. Please remember not to use tables on Challenge profiles.
• Example Challenge Profiles This is a guideline on how the profiles can look.
• The WikiTree Browser Extension now includes functions from prior individual extensions.
  • WikiTree AGC This addon is to clean up gedcom 'clutter' once we've connected to existing profiles. It is awesome at cleaning up the gedcoms and putting the source information together. (Tutorial)
  • WikiTree BEE This addon is great for a lot of things, but the main help for the Challenge is the 'auto-bio' button that it puts on the profiles. This will give you basic narrative you can add to.There is a WikiTree BEE extension available for Chrome and Firefox users. (Tutorial)
• The WikiTree Sourcer helps you easily create narrative and complete source citations for any public or open profile. (Tutorial)
• The Background Images Category contains pages that you can find a large variety of background images on. Most of them are tiled (repeatable) images.

Specific Country Resources

(Jewish) Lebanon, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, United States

• Romania

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Romania_Online_Genealogy_Records

• Russia

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Russia_Online_Genealogy_Records

• Ukraine

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Ukraine_Online_Genealogy_Records

• Romania

http://arhivelenationale.ro/site/?lan=0

• Russia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archives_in_Russia

• Ukraine

https://archives.gov.ua/en/

• Genealogical inquiries and family history in Russia can be performed reliably through Russian Society of Historians and Archivists (ROIA)

e-mail: roia@rusarchives.ru

• Romanian County Archives list

http://arhivelenationale.ro/site/directii-judetene/

• ARCHIVE: MAKING AVAILABLE ON-LINE THE PARISH AND CIVIL REGISTERS FROM BUCHAREST AND BRAȘOV COUNTY ARCHIVES (ROMANIA)

https://coop.hypotheses.org/1311

• Reading Russian Handwritten Record

https://www.familysearch.org/ask/learningViewer/76

• Romanian Genealogy Society

http://romaniangenealogy.com/

• Jewish population of the Ukraine

http://www.londoncomiccon.ca/

• Changes in Europe over 2400 years

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2400-years-of-european-history/

• a bibliography of ship passenger lists from 1538-1825
• WikiSource.org Scans