Hi,
I'm not an expert either, but to me it looks like a French unicorn (from above, a circular hat). Not Polish, their hats looked square from above. When the Poles liberated Poland from Russia, their army,  under general Pilsudski, they were said to have had help from 40000 French volunteer officers. 

Best regards

Mikael Grounes

There are 81 listings for Mutchnik survivors on the Arolsen archives website at https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/?s=mutchnik

Checking with GOOGLE (a researchers’s good friend) would let you know that oblast is 

1. "an administrative division or region in Russia and the former Soviet Union, 

   and in some of its former constituent republics”:    In other words, it is akin 

   to area, region, province, or state.

   
   

   Barbara Mannlein

   Tucson, Arizona

   
   

   
   

I understood the maiden name of my grandfather's mother to be Rose Sussman and the maiden name of my grandmother's mother to be Rose Smith.  Both were from Romania.  But on my grandparents New York marriage certificate from 1903, it lists my grandfather's mother's maiden name as Bazel Sussman and my grandmother's mother's maiden name as Chepah Smith.  Are Bazel and Chepah first names, titles, or something else?
David Schaffer
Vienna, Virginia

It is definitely not Russian. Probably Polish or Austrian. 

It is definitely not Russian. Probably Polish or Austrian. 

Definitely NOT Russian. Looks rather Austrian than Polish.  

My father-in-law, Herschel Saevitz (aka Harry Sayevitch), was brought to the UK as a child from the Poltava region of Ukraine c 1905. The 1911 UK census shows him to have been born in Kriukov, which seems to have been a shtetl near Kremenchug. His parents were Nathan Saevitz, b Romny, Ukraine c 1877 and Rebecca Troshansky, b Kremenchug c 1880. His siblings comprised Louis, Benjamin, Joseph, Esther and Gertrude.

Inspection of the LDS films for Romny leads me to think that Nathan was the son of Movsha Avram Hirsch Gillels Saevich, a former soldier of Romny. A very distant family connection has suggested that Nathan's mother was Paulia Lesnia. I have not yet seen documentation to refute or verify this.

Nathan was a Levite, and the FT-DNA Ashkenazi Levite project, of which Nathan's grandson is a part, has shown distant but direct paternal links with the Horowitz rabbinical dynasty. I do not know when the name evolved into Saevitz. Rabbinical records for Romny include entries for Saevitz males officiating at marriages but it has not been possible to verify whether these individuals are linked to Nathan's line.

As I have been researching this line for some years without making any further progress, I will probably abandon the search soon. However, if there is anyone with links to the family or who has helpful observations, I'd be very grateful to hear from them.

Thank you in advance for any insights.

Mary Sayers
Peak District, UK

Hello,

For those that are new to genealogy, I would like to add one more thing
to be cautious about. A source citation does not automatically make
something true.

For instance, in researching my SCHWIMMER family from Munkacz, I came
across Israel Schwimmer, living in NY. Israel passed away in 1938 in NY.
There are TWO death records for an Israel Schwimmer in NY, in 1938.

+ Nov: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W2Q-9WB
+ Jun: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WTS-754


If the wrong record is used, the wrong parents would be "cited", with a
data source, for this Israel Schwimmer. That is one of the reasons Bill
Dollarhide suggests, "There should be at least two citations (a minimum
of two separate sources) for each event listed." (See
https://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=20637).

Stay safe,

Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe.miller@...

I've attached the inventory for the 1834 Vilna Revision List.

I have a listing of a family member born in 1846 in Minsk,Minsk, Oblast, Belarus, Ssr.
I assume there is a town  minsk in the state of Minsk  and  Where/ what is Oblast? 
Mary Ellen Pollack
#222350 

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I'm not at all an expert but just from looking at images on Google and looking up who controlled Stanislaw during WWI I think it's actually an Austrian uniform.

Binyamin Kerman
Baltimore MD

Hi Barry,

Jedwabne is in Lomza Gubernia adjacent to Suwalki Gubernia in NE Poland. Both these were and are border gubernias, in the 19th century being the border with East Prussia (Konigsberg).  The area was frequently overrun by Prussians/Germans and Russians etc. in various land grabs or wars e.g. the late 18th century partitions of Poland, Napoleon in the early 19th century, and then the Tsar.

Jews fought the Tsar in two uprisings in the 1830's and 1860's, but Jews were not always on the same side, partly because of enforced conscription into the Tsar's army. Most of my family came to UK in the 1860's from this area to escape conscription into the Tsar's army but also because of famine in the Baltic area.

However, in one of my lines (the Brins later Browns of Edinburgh), the teenage and younger children were sent away because, according to strong family stories which I cannot verify, their father was a Captain in the Tsar's army and was allegedly given land for his troubles. There is little evidence or documentation of any of this, or BMD records for some towns in this area, because of the constant wars.

Many records were destroyed in WW1 and WW2 for certain towns (not all) when this area became the German front line, and Jedwabne was later the site of an infamous massacre by the Germans in WW2. 

You mention Warsaw. One of the children of the Captain in the Tsar's army escaped via Warsaw when she married her husband there (he came from Grodno), a fact confirmed via her children's Scottish birth certificates which give the place of her marriage as Warsaw (and her first child was born there too). Her three male brothers and one cousin's birth places were all given as Vishtinetz, then a town in Suwalki gubernia, in their naturalisation certificates. This town is now Vistytis in Lithuania following border changes in 1919 after WW1 Peace Settlement. 

It does help to learn about the history and georgreaphy of your ancestral area. You should note that there are older records for Jebwadne on JRI Poland website, and there may be some on Litvak SIG. You need to search to find out what there is here.

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

ryabinkym@...: I have been working under the assumption that Shliomovich Sinensky was a combination of two last names based on the revision list showing the father of Fayvush Shliomovich Sinensky as Iosel.  Michael Richman's comment suggesting that Fayvush's father had a double given name, with one showing up as the father's given name in the revision list, and the other as the patronymic in the surname, is something I never considered, but makes more sense to me than a double surname.

The name seems to be Sanneh סאנע which is short for Nesanel נתנאל. It is followed by the word Hacohen הכהן.

David Shapiro
Jerusalem

My ggg-gf Lewin LICHTENSZTEJN was born in 1832 in Mlawa, Poland.  He moved to Plock when he married Rayca LEDERBERG.  His parents were Nusen, who died in 1835, and Feyga, a sister of the Kuzmir Rebbe, Yechezkel TAUB.  
Attached is the 1822 death record for another Lewin LICHTENSZTAJN, who was a rabbi in the town of Kowal.  Could he be Nusen's father, my seventh-generation ancestor?  Can somebody translate the Polish for me?

Działoszyce researchers will be pleased to hear that the Jewish entries in the 1890-1931 Book of Residents Index are extracted.  The Index directs us to one of four volumes and the page where we can find details and household of each resident.  Most of the entries in the volumes are in Russian.

 

If a resident died after 1890 but before the Index was created or was born after its creation, or married and left the town to be registered with a spouse elsewhere, the resident's name does not appear in the Index, yet can none-the-less be found in a volume. This underscores the importance of fully extracting every page in all the volumes, which is our goal. We are half way through volume extraction.

 

Books of Residents are invaluable in that the entries provide details of an entire household over a span of time: date and town of birth, parentage and occupation. In some cases, this is the only place a person is documented when their birth, death or marriage was not registered or the book with their registration did not survive.

 

The status of “permanent resident” was inherited from the father or an unmarried mother. It was often a bureaucratic headache to change your town of permanent residence, so most people did not go through this effort if they moved to a different town.  The Books of Residents include vital details of household members where the head of household was a permanent resident. Any vital metric changes (death, additional child, moving out of a child through marriage, army service or issuance of an ID card) were noted to update the book during this time frame.

 

For additional details on Books of Residents, see https://jri-poland.org/bor.htm

 

Please contact me directly for more information to find your family listing in the Działoszyce Book of Residents.

 

Judy Golan

Kfar Vradim, Israel

 

JRI-Poland Działoszcye Town Leader

JRI-Poland Kielce Area Coordinator

Looks to me to be Sana followed by the title HaCohen, then YALEN.     The symbol of the open hands giving the priestly blessing is for a descendant of the Cohens the tribe of priests from ancient Israel.  You can find Sana here, in section 3.  a shortened form of Nisan
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/yidnames.htm

David Rosen
Boston, MA