The story is that one of the Shepsenwol families (Solomon) moved to Voloshin because he was at the Yishiva..  He was born in Horodok
Bette

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Barbara Ellman
Secaucus NJ USA
HASSMAN, SONENTHAL, DAUERMAN, LUCHS - Drohobycz, Ukraine
HIRSCHHORN, GOLDSTEIN, BUCHWALD - Dolyna, Ukraine
ELLMAN, COIRA, MAIDMAN - Minkovtsy, Ukraine
KAGLE, FASS - Ulanow, Poland

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Joel Weintraub
Dana Point, CA

In Russian:

 

АНКЕТА        263

 

1. Фамилия, имя и отчество                        Браво Лев Беницианович

2. Год рождения                                           1922

3. Место рождения                                       Город Гомель, Областной

4. Каким РВК призван, когда,                       В 1940, Гомельским горвоенкоматом

в какую часть и когда отправлен                 и отправлен в Каспийское Высшее

                                                                        Военно-Морское училище

5. Военное звание                                         Главный Старшина

6. Занимаемая должность в Сов. Армии     Не известна

7. Когда прекратилась письменная связь   В ноябре 1941 года

8. Воинский адрес по последнему               Войсковая часть полевая почта письму или со слов товарищей                    09291

9. Где проживал до призыва                        Город Гомель

10. Дополнительные сведения о                 14 ноября 1941 года из училища

разыскиваемом: письма товарищей,           направлен в распоряжение Военного

сообщение войсковых частей,                     Совета Северо-Кавказкого

свидетельские покозания, другие                Военного Округа

(приложить к анкете) 

11. При наличии сведений о гибели             Не имеется

указать: где, месяц, число, где похоронен.

12. Кто разыскивает                                        Браво Геня Лазаревна

13. Родственное отношение                           Мать

14. Подробный адрес заявителя                    БССР, город Гомель, улица                                                                                          Сазонова, 30

15. Личное заключение военкома                  После проверки по учетным                                                                                  данным целесообразно учесть                                                                              пропавшим без вести.

 

ВОЕННЫЙ КОМИСАР ЖЕЛЕЗНОДОРОЖНОГО

РАЙОНА ГОРОДА ГОМЕЛЯ, гвардии

 полковник                                                          подпись             (ХМИЛЕНКО) 

28.07.56  

 

In English:

 

QUESTIONNAIRE 263

 

1. Surname, name and patronymic                                    Bravo Lev Benitsianovich

2. Year of birth                                                                  1922

3. Place of birth                                                                 City Gomel, Regional

4. What RVK is called up, when,                 in 1940, by the Gomel Military Commissariat

to which part and when sent                         the Caspian High military- Naval school

5. Military rank                                             Chief Petty Officer

6. Position held in Sov. Army                      Unknown

7. When did the written communication cease      In November 1941

8. Military address at the latest Military unit

 field mail letter or from the words of comrades    09291

9. Where did                                                           Gomel

 live before the call?

10. Additional information                                    on November 14, 1941 from the Wanted: letters from comrades                              school sent to the Military

communication of military units,                           Council of the North Caucasus

testimonies, other                                                   Military District

(attach to application form)

11. If there is evidence of death                             Not available

indicate: where, month, date where buried.

12. Who is looking for                                           Bravo Genya Lazarevna

13. Relationship                                                      Mother

14. Detailed address of the applicant                     BSSR, Gomel city, Sazonova street, 30

15. The personal conclusion of the military

 commissar                                                              After checking the credentials, it is

                                                                                advisable to take into account    

                                                                                to take into account the missing                                                                                                                                            

 

MILITARY COMMISSION OF RAIL

AREAS OF THE CITY OF GOMEL, Guard

 Colonel signature (KHMILENKO)

07/28/56

The images are online. The view below was translated using Google Translate. You'll have to search among the records for the town. These are in Polish. so it should be recognizable.

https://eais-pub.archyvai.lt/eais/faces/pages/forms/search/F3004.jspx?_afPfm=6ec12758.1.1

Joel Ratner

I am trying to confirm data appearing in someone's autobiography: Was
there a dance hall in NYC in the 1930s called Whitier Inn ?

To add to the data I wrote in my previous post regarding a Sara
ABRAMOWITZ and her grandson Tom: It seems that Tom's parents, Sarah's
daughter and her husband were divorced and Tom lived with his father
in Boston. Tom's mother and grandmother may have lived in the Sea Gate
area and Tom would visit his mother during the summers. Are Coney
Island and Sea Gate close to each other?

TIA

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
p.s. If the general story sounds familiar to someone but have another
name rather than Tom I'd be happy to check it out.

Eva when the immigrants were called forward in turn they showed their landing card which contained their details including name, manifest page and number on page that had been copied from the original manifest on departure.   The entries were then looked up on the appropriate manifest page.  They had to confirm some details on the manifest and proceeded.  It has been estimated that each immigrant might spend just 30 seconds with the clerk.  See https://stevemorse.org/ellis/EllisMythNames.htm

It has been noted elsewhere that if you look at books about immigration published at that time or newspapers at that time (now searchable online) you will find no references to name changes.

So, we have many people repeating this story about name changes but several examples have been checked that show that those immigrants continued to use their original manifest names in subsequent census returns, marriage certificates etc and only later did they start using a different surname. I am not aware of any cases where there is documented proof that a name change took place at Ellis Island.  

Until somebody can show documented proof that this took place the evidence does not support it.  Please supply proof if you have some. 

There are similar family tales of immigrants arriving in UK ports (Glasgow included) being told they had arrived in the USA and being duped by the crew to leave the ship.  Again there is no proof of these claims and some of the claims are simply not possible.

Michael Tobias
Glasgow, Scotland

Notice that your story is not about a change wrought by an official; it
was merely personal advice, to be followed, or not, as the arriver
desired.  No one is disputing that such events might have taken place. 
Perhaps the immigration officer [by the way, half the immigration
officers at our southern border have Hispanic surnames] was himself a
landsman advising a new former countryman.

Jules Levin

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Deanna M. Levinsky, Long Island, NY

Very flimsy data but will try:

Researching a European born (1880s?) New Yorker Sara (maiden name
ABRAMOWITZ who had a grandson Tom who lived and/or studied in a
university in the Boston area.

Some other data possibilities: Sara came with her widowed mother to
New Haven probably around 1880s. Sara may have been married to a Sam
Cohen. They vacationed or lived on Coney Island during the mid 1930s.

Tom was born about 1912-14. His father may not have been Jewish. He
may have lived in the Sea Gate neighborhood in New York during the mid
1930s. He was Sara's grandson through her daughter (name unknown to
me).

There are no official records for the above data and would be very
hard to extract such data with the scant info I have.

Shabbat Shalom

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Hi all,
does anyone know where the 1764/1765 revision lists for Lithuania are available. I have seen some online for Sakiai, Yurburg and some others to name a few. I am looking for the Pasvalys revision list from this time. According to Miriam Weiner's Route to roots foundation website if you lookup Pasvalys it says that the 1765 revision list had survived and is listed with all the other Pasvalys revision lists under census . On Jewishgen however it is not there nor is it on Litvaksig . Is there another place where it could be? or is it not translated?


Thanks, Elani L. Joseph

For the record, there was a medical check as well, and people with
cholera were not admitted.  A significant % of passengers were not
admitted for health reasons, so passenger liners had an incentive to
check for health at ports of entry.  Your dramatic script for the
arrival scene does not comport with the known facts.  Actually, there is
a simpler theory to account for the myth:  the real weak link in the
chain was not the arrival but the departure in Europe.  By the way, all
ships' manifests still exist:  an unreadable entry would not be a
hypothetical, but a matter of record.  To quote Liza Doolittle:  show me!

Jules Levin

I made an error in the numbers- 18,000 ships.

Sorry

David

In 1893-1903, in several editions of a City Directory, the occupation of a particular person was listed as "carpenter", then "grocer", and in the last listing "notions". No question about carpenter and grocer, but what the "notions" could mean in the context of occupation?

As a member of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG)   https://www.immigrantships.net/
I have seen thousands of ship's passenger list pages.  Check marks, BSI notations, X marks, brief notations of many kinds are ubiquitous.
The ISTG requires a transcription to include every dotted i and every crossed t, with explanations of anything unusual, e.g. a name was spelled one way on the manifest but another way on the Detained Aliens list. 
ISTG members have transcribed more than 180,000  ships, hundreds of thousand of pages.  On their website is a search box.  I entered "Name change" in quotes. and came up with 28 instances.  This one is from one of my own ships, arriving Seattle from Japan in 1941 with Sugihara refugees.  It is the one and only entry in the entire database with a name change notation on the manifest, and it applies to the given name.  There are a small number within the 28 with alternate spellings, probably as clarifications,  but not actual changes. 
Almost all the ISTG transcribers will submit manifests for their own family member's arrival. They add notes to explain name changes within there own family as they took place in subsequent years, never at the time of arrival.       

 

David Rosen
Boston, MA

(for girl in poland)  - Nesseha
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Jgodelnik

As for the red hair, king David was a red head and every unit in the Israeli army was supposed to have at least one individual who was a red head , a descendant of Zwingli David