In a message dated 8/3/98 7:51:41 PM Central Daylight Time, epic@...
writes:

<< My family with the surname of ZARCHIN is from
Minsk gub., Ossipovichi, specifically. >>

I didn't see yet records >from O.

<< However, ZARCHINs keep popping up all over
Belarus. I can only hope that somebody out there knows of this name.
BTW, in Russian it would be ZARHIN and there is a ZARCHI family in
Brooklyn with my same oral history who dropped the "in". >>

You may say "Russian" about ZARKHI as well as about ZARKHIN. I know about
cople well known ZARKHI >from Russian movie business.

I saw few ZARKHIN, ZARKHOV and ZARSKY records >from Minsk - but I probably
supplied you already with the translations?

Vitaly Charny