"Molive" looks like a failed effort to write "Mogilev". Try that.

Michael Kranish wrote:

-> I am trying to determine today's name for a town that around the 1880s
-> was known as Molive, Russia, according to naturalization papers.

Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel
(Remove "takeout" >from domain; replace "sheol" with "stan". Sorry)

Searching:
NEACHOWICZ, NEJMAN, ISMACH, ROKITA: Lomza Gubernia, Poland
HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: Dorohoi District, Romania
GRISARU, VATARU: Iasi, Romania
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