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Re: Vasilishok, Lida Uezd
#belarus
Phyllis Cole <phylliscole@...>
Belarus Sig,Judy, Gerre,
I found Vasilichki on a 1835 Russian map. At that time(1835) it was in Grodno province(Gubernia) sw of Lida. On map quest it is still sw of Lida but now in Minsk Gubernia, uezd Lida. Check with shtetlseekers. Phyllis Cole River Edge, NJ
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Re: Vasilishok, Lida Uezd
#belarus
Phyllis Cole <phylliscole@...>
Belarus Sig,Judy, Gerre,
I found Vasilichki on a 1835 Russian map. At that time(1835) it was in Grodno province(Gubernia) sw of Lida. On map quest it is still sw of Lida but now in Minsk Gubernia, uezd Lida. Check with shtetlseekers. Phyllis Cole River Edge, NJ
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Re: Chomsk- what Gubernia?
#belarus
Diane Jacobs <kingart@...>
Chomsk is in Grodno Gubernia, I believe.
A little SE of Kartuz Bereza. The BARG (Bereza Area Research Group includes Chomsk in its research area. Their website is http://people.netscape.com/morse/barg Although we don't have much on Chomsk itself we do have much info on Bereza and their are many Chomsky surnames listed. Hope this helps. Diane Jacobs New York
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Re: Chomsk- what Gubernia?
#belarus
Diane Jacobs <kingart@...>
Chomsk is in Grodno Gubernia, I believe.
A little SE of Kartuz Bereza. The BARG (Bereza Area Research Group includes Chomsk in its research area. Their website is http://people.netscape.com/morse/barg Although we don't have much on Chomsk itself we do have much info on Bereza and their are many Chomsky surnames listed. Hope this helps. Diane Jacobs New York
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Re: Looking for Brest-Litovsk Records
#belarus
Susan M. Rogers <smroger{@...>
It would be very helpful to many interested in Brest-Litovsk if you would be
so kind as to reveal how you happened to come across a book on Brest-Litovsk, which my great grandfather left in 1886. Also, what is the name of the book and in what language is it? When was it published? Does it have photos? Finally, it is customary to list with your surnames researching the places and guberniyas of origin to be of use to fellow researchers who might provide input to your own search. Susan M. Rogers CousinsPlus Family History Web Page Design Center New York, NY http://www.cousinsplus.com Researching: UBERSTINE, Ostroshitskiy Gorodok, goberniya Minskaya, Belarus, 1901 to US SIMON, Brest Litovsk, Grodno goberniya (now Belarus), 1886 to US POLACZEK, Lida, Lida, Vilna goberniya, now Belarus, 1905 to US DEUTSCH, Tryskiai [Trishik], Shavli Uyezd, Kovno guberniya, now Lithuania, 1906 to US
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Re: "Lapidus" ? (Jewish residence in Kiev)
#ukraine
NFatouros@...
In her message of 9-16-00 Eloise Hintersteiner wondered whether the surname
"Lapidus" could be derived >from the area in Kiev known as "Lipid." I don't think so. For information about the surname Lapidus, Ms. Hintersteiner should check Jewishgen's Discussion Group Archives where, unless I misremember, the name has been mentioned several times and its meaning or origin described. Naomi Fatouros Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY, Odessa, Berdichev; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SHUTZ, SCHUTZ, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse.
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Re: Looking for Brest-Litovsk Records
#belarus
Susan M. Rogers <smroger{@...>
It would be very helpful to many interested in Brest-Litovsk if you would be
so kind as to reveal how you happened to come across a book on Brest-Litovsk, which my great grandfather left in 1886. Also, what is the name of the book and in what language is it? When was it published? Does it have photos? Finally, it is customary to list with your surnames researching the places and guberniyas of origin to be of use to fellow researchers who might provide input to your own search. Susan M. Rogers CousinsPlus Family History Web Page Design Center New York, NY http://www.cousinsplus.com Researching: UBERSTINE, Ostroshitskiy Gorodok, goberniya Minskaya, Belarus, 1901 to US SIMON, Brest Litovsk, Grodno goberniya (now Belarus), 1886 to US POLACZEK, Lida, Lida, Vilna goberniya, now Belarus, 1905 to US DEUTSCH, Tryskiai [Trishik], Shavli Uyezd, Kovno guberniya, now Lithuania, 1906 to US
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: "Lapidus" ? (Jewish residence in Kiev)
#ukraine
NFatouros@...
In her message of 9-16-00 Eloise Hintersteiner wondered whether the surname
"Lapidus" could be derived >from the area in Kiev known as "Lipid." I don't think so. For information about the surname Lapidus, Ms. Hintersteiner should check Jewishgen's Discussion Group Archives where, unless I misremember, the name has been mentioned several times and its meaning or origin described. Naomi Fatouros Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY, Odessa, Berdichev; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SHUTZ, SCHUTZ, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse.
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Re: Ukraine SIG
#ukraine
Howard M. Kaplan <howardmk@...>
Jackye Sullins may be partly right, but her relatives may have been in
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the army later on. My great Uncle Gedalia Leib Kaplan served in the czar's army for nearly 8 years (drafted after his bar mitzvah and in until he was 21!!). When recalled to serve in the Russo-Japanese war, he LEFT (with the financial aid of the balance of the family) to Canada, later to Minnesota. Once here, he repaid the rest of the family by bringing the entire mishpacha out of the Ukraine. But he NEVER said they lived IN Kiev. (Howard Kaplan) * * * * *
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From: "Jackye Sullins" <jackye@mill.net> To: "Ukraine SIG" <ukraine@lyris.jewishgen.org> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Ukraine SIG in the tsar's army. Many of my relatives came >from Kiev and St.Petersburg. various from(all now deceased!) family ancestors. One even said the clan came WHEREKiev, but I learned later that any Jews found INSIDE Kiev's walls the Kaplan clan originated -- and with whom. Howard M. Kaplan,
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: Ukraine SIG
#ukraine
Howard M. Kaplan <howardmk@...>
Jackye Sullins may be partly right, but her relatives may have been in
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the army later on. My great Uncle Gedalia Leib Kaplan served in the czar's army for nearly 8 years (drafted after his bar mitzvah and in until he was 21!!). When recalled to serve in the Russo-Japanese war, he LEFT (with the financial aid of the balance of the family) to Canada, later to Minnesota. Once here, he repaid the rest of the family by bringing the entire mishpacha out of the Ukraine. But he NEVER said they lived IN Kiev. (Howard Kaplan) * * * * *
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From: "Jackye Sullins" <jackye@mill.net> To: "Ukraine SIG" <ukraine@lyris.jewishgen.org> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Ukraine SIG in the tsar's army. Many of my relatives came >from Kiev and St.Petersburg. various from(all now deceased!) family ancestors. One even said the clan came WHEREKiev, but I learned later that any Jews found INSIDE Kiev's walls the Kaplan clan originated -- and with whom. Howard M. Kaplan,
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searching names: Preluki Poltavska Gubernia
#ukraine
RMJaspan@...
Hi-
I am searching these names >from Preluki. They were related to Yashpan family from Kovno Gubernia in Lithuania. Please respond privately.Thank you. Randi Jaspan, New Jersey YASPAN/YASHPAN and MALAG (or possibly MALAGA OR MALAGI)
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine searching names: Preluki Poltavska Gubernia
#ukraine
RMJaspan@...
Hi-
I am searching these names >from Preluki. They were related to Yashpan family from Kovno Gubernia in Lithuania. Please respond privately.Thank you. Randi Jaspan, New Jersey YASPAN/YASHPAN and MALAG (or possibly MALAGA OR MALAGI)
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Ukraine SIG
#ukraine
Joan Rosen <jrosen@...>
snip (personal)<I am looking for information about a family named Krasne that immigrated to the Phila. area sometime in the 1890s. It is not my family, but that of my grandfather's second wife, and I am not doing research on this family with any intensity at all--mainly doing it for a (half)-cousin who is a direct descendant of these Krasne's. (Pronounced Krasny, incidentally). I have not come across any immigration information nor do I have any indication of where they came from, or whether their name was really Krasne or something longer. The original immigrant would have been Hyman Krasne. His wife was Lena, although I do not know whether they were married before or after they came here. They had 6 children...Isadore, Bertha, Harry, Sadie, Celia, and Fanny, in approximately that order. (I know this much because I actually knew all of them!) I believe all of their children were born here (certainly Bertha was and she was definitely the second oldest.) Other info: they left this area and went to Calif. early in the 1920s, and one of their children (Celia) was deaf >from birth--whether genetic or due to a problem during pregnancy I cannot say. Do you by any chance know anything about a Hyman Krasne? (No, I have not entered this name in JGFF because I am really not actively researching them!) Joan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joan Rosen jrosen@voicenet.com Elkins Park, Pa (outside Philadelphia) ----- Original Message ----- From: <GojuMom@aol.com> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 5:57 PM Subject: A welcome addition JoAnne Vanett HOSSMAN, GOMBERG, KRASNEY.....all in the Kiev-Podolia area
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Ukraine SIG
#ukraine
Joan Rosen <jrosen@...>
snip (personal)<I am looking for information about a family named Krasne that immigrated to the Phila. area sometime in the 1890s. It is not my family, but that of my grandfather's second wife, and I am not doing research on this family with any intensity at all--mainly doing it for a (half)-cousin who is a direct descendant of these Krasne's. (Pronounced Krasny, incidentally). I have not come across any immigration information nor do I have any indication of where they came from, or whether their name was really Krasne or something longer. The original immigrant would have been Hyman Krasne. His wife was Lena, although I do not know whether they were married before or after they came here. They had 6 children...Isadore, Bertha, Harry, Sadie, Celia, and Fanny, in approximately that order. (I know this much because I actually knew all of them!) I believe all of their children were born here (certainly Bertha was and she was definitely the second oldest.) Other info: they left this area and went to Calif. early in the 1920s, and one of their children (Celia) was deaf >from birth--whether genetic or due to a problem during pregnancy I cannot say. Do you by any chance know anything about a Hyman Krasne? (No, I have not entered this name in JGFF because I am really not actively researching them!) Joan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joan Rosen jrosen@voicenet.com Elkins Park, Pa (outside Philadelphia) ----- Original Message ----- From: <GojuMom@aol.com> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 5:57 PM Subject: A welcome addition JoAnne Vanett HOSSMAN, GOMBERG, KRASNEY.....all in the Kiev-Podolia area
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Ukraine Sig.
#ukraine
EHecht4085@...
Let me add my two cents as well. Have read the welcome mails >from viewers and
agree this is a neglected area. So far I have been working on my paternal side which originates in Galicia and have had no luck with the shtetl of Rusow(Rusov) not far >from Czernowitz. Now my maternal side came >from Kiev Gubernia, the shtetl is Belaya-Yzerkov, about 70kms SW of Kiev. Their name was Rosenkrantz, and the name does not appear too many times. My mgfather took the whole family to the US in 1909, leaving >from Antwerp and came on the ship Vaderland(Red Star LIne) ave not yet found the ships manifest fro this date. My father came >from Rusow, on the same shi[p in 1910 and I have his ships manifest. Just lucky. Anyway, trying to find family of the Rosenkrantz tribe. The gfather was Israel and his wife was Mechly(Mary). They had Chana, Chaya, Dovid, Yussel and Yaacov. Any information out there would be greatly appreciated. Wifes family came >from Krasne, Kamanetz-Podolsk. The name was Vinnitsky, but changed to Weiner when they came here. Came in two shifts, two brothers and a sister came prior to WWI, and the rest came in 1922 due to two brothers who served in US Army during WWI. Father of all was Mordke and wife was Liouba. They owned or managed a factory in Krasne. Again, any information would be appreciated. ELi C. Hecht ehecht@aol.com
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Ukraine Sig.
#ukraine
EHecht4085@...
Let me add my two cents as well. Have read the welcome mails >from viewers and
agree this is a neglected area. So far I have been working on my paternal side which originates in Galicia and have had no luck with the shtetl of Rusow(Rusov) not far >from Czernowitz. Now my maternal side came >from Kiev Gubernia, the shtetl is Belaya-Yzerkov, about 70kms SW of Kiev. Their name was Rosenkrantz, and the name does not appear too many times. My mgfather took the whole family to the US in 1909, leaving >from Antwerp and came on the ship Vaderland(Red Star LIne) ave not yet found the ships manifest fro this date. My father came >from Rusow, on the same shi[p in 1910 and I have his ships manifest. Just lucky. Anyway, trying to find family of the Rosenkrantz tribe. The gfather was Israel and his wife was Mechly(Mary). They had Chana, Chaya, Dovid, Yussel and Yaacov. Any information out there would be greatly appreciated. Wifes family came >from Krasne, Kamanetz-Podolsk. The name was Vinnitsky, but changed to Weiner when they came here. Came in two shifts, two brothers and a sister came prior to WWI, and the rest came in 1922 due to two brothers who served in US Army during WWI. Father of all was Mordke and wife was Liouba. They owned or managed a factory in Krasne. Again, any information would be appreciated. ELi C. Hecht ehecht@aol.com
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Re: Researching Korostyshev, Zhitomir, Tarascha, Uman
#ukraine
SOkun1@...
My relatives were named Korostoshevsky, and were >from the town of Koshovata,
which was very close to the town of Tarascha (Taraschta?). I wonder if you know the connection between the town and the name? Susan Korostoff Okun
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SIPERSTEIN - Orinin, Kamenets-Podolsk
#ukraine
haflo <haflo@...>
X-From_: bbrazy@sirius.com Fri Sep 15 22:29:20 2000
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:29:21 -0700 From: Betsy Brazy <bbrazy@sirius.com> This is being posted on behalf of Betsy Brazy who was unable to post it herself.
One of my surname researches is my maternal grandmother's branch, the
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: Researching Korostyshev, Zhitomir, Tarascha, Uman
#ukraine
SOkun1@...
My relatives were named Korostoshevsky, and were >from the town of Koshovata,
which was very close to the town of Tarascha (Taraschta?). I wonder if you know the connection between the town and the name? Susan Korostoff Okun
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine SIPERSTEIN - Orinin, Kamenets-Podolsk
#ukraine
haflo <haflo@...>
X-From_: bbrazy@sirius.com Fri Sep 15 22:29:20 2000
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:29:21 -0700 From: Betsy Brazy <bbrazy@sirius.com> This is being posted on behalf of Betsy Brazy who was unable to post it herself.
One of my surname researches is my maternal grandmother's branch, the
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