I recall seeing a post a few weeks ago >from someone who reported that family members >from Belarus had first moved to Ekaterinoslav in the Ukraine before emigrating. This was true also for two TOUGER sisters, Bessie and Anna, who with their husbands (the former married Sam SCHEFRIN, the latter Max or Mendel TOUGER) first moved to Ekaterinoslav and then (c. 1906) to Milwaukee. Their naturalization papers indicate Borisov (Bessie and Sam), Novine (Max) and Chachichove (Anna) as their respective birthplaces. I am wondering if other people also have forebears who moved to Ekaterinoslav before leaving Russia completely. Does this ring a bell for any SCIFRINs/SCHEFRINs? Is this a common enough circumstance to merit further inquiry by the SIG?
My late dad used to mention Ekaterinoslav Gubernia and it is possible that his father and uncle passed that way before coming to England in the late 1880s. You are the only other person I know to have ever referred to the place! I would be intrigued to know anything you can discover about it.
