Alexander, I was wrong in my original premise, it was not Kolosva Ukraine - it was this place: https://radzima.net/eng/miejsce/kalyskovka-347.html Some kind of village that no longer exists, but very

So I tracked it down to this https://radzima.net/eng/miejsce/kalyskovka-347.html . Looks like it was a village that existed near Dolginovo. I used online image translation of his tombstone and there

Marcy, It is definitely not Vitebsk. It is this thing: https://radzima.net/eng/miejsce/kalyskovka-347.html I just have no idea what this means. Looks like some kind of village/area, but it no

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Arkady, You can post a request to the discussion list asking for someone who can read Hebrew to translate the stone for you. I tried to find Yakov Kamenetsky's passenger manifest, but could not, even

Dear Arkady, My maternal great-grandparents came from a shtetl in Vitebsk, Belarus called Kolyshki. Sometimes it is called Kalisk. Marcy Kalvelage

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Arkady, I have provided you with two reliable sources of the village existence in the past, and yes it was located just 9 km distance from Krzemieniec. Krzemieniec is original Polish name of Ukrainian

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A friend helped me find this place via an old website: http://radzima.net/ru/map/kalyskovka-347.html There is the link, but I am not sure what to make of it - or what to get out of it. Still though,

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Stephen's suggestion is excellent. As one of my heroes, Jessica Mitford, once said: "You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." This is a situation in which

Others have answered your main questions excellently and in detail. To those answers let me add an observation and a question: "Chicago" appears on this index card. What might this mean? If it has

Nicholas - were your great grandparents from Grodno and that is why you looked there? Or does Grodno have records from many cities in Belarus? I have some relatives that were from near Minsk, a

Ellen, Yes those online sources come from exactly one man, his son Nosson. They are just copied from one place to the next - and even the spelling changes from book to book. Which is utterly

Alexander, Interesting so this town no longer exists? Ellen who replied to this thread is not aware of any such thing in Kremenets district - I assume this is the same Kremenets? -- Arkady