Stephen, Alex has scanned a number of records from Novograd-Volinskiy. These are the ones I found looking through the list, but there might be more Census: 118-14-0354. 1874-1882 Census of Jews of NV

Would you be able to post photo of the original, perhaps the name is a bit different.

This last name doesn't appear in Beider and Menk reference books: https://stevemorse.org/phonetics/beider.php?name=kushnevich&rawname=kushnevich&language=auto&archive=dgjs&archive=djsg&archive=djskp&a

Barbara/David, the suffix is transliterated from Russian/Belarus/Ukrainian as "vich". Polish doesn't have a letter "v" and uses "w" for the same purpose. While different letters are used to write this

>> “there is no G in Russian and H is used instead”. Actually it’s the other way round. There is definitely both G (Г) and H (Х) sound in Russian. Sound H, representing Russian letter Х, is often tran

Gayle, His last name is Zelensky, not Zelevansky. Regards, Mike

Yefim, Yulia is the author of the book and she lives in Odessa, Ukraine. Regards, Mike

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Beware that some of these name lists are far from being complete. There are more comprehensive lists that exist for towns of Radomysl uezd: census of 1815-1816, 1834, 1834 supplemental, 1850, 1850 sup

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Vladimir, Your ggfather would have had to undertake a step to register with another society to no longer be considered a Slonim meschanin. This was not mandatory. My ggfather was also born in Slonim,

Tashkent was often a transition point, not a final destination. In this case the "current address" field (lower left) has Tashkent oblast, Ordzhenikidze rayon, village Troitskoe, Lagernaya st 59. Pre-

Barbara, Town Snovsk is named after river Snov. But that doesn't sound like Russian word for snow. Snow in Russian is "sneg", in Ukranian and Belarusian - "snig". Mike Vayser

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Debby, the translation on the back has the information you already have from the photo itself: Regards, Mike Vayser

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Hello Alana, there are only a handful of birth record books from that year range that survived. The following are records with name Isaac Bronstein as the father. These might be all of the same person

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Paul, The headers are explained on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire_Census Regards, Mike Vayser

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Mary Ann, There are definitely Russian words with double O, but in this case the spelling of the last name is to convey Russian pronunciation - S-loot-ski. Slutski is an alternate transcription, but h

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Hello Davya, The name of the city was Elisavetgrad, not Elizabetgrad. It was a regional center of the Elisavetgrad uezd (county) in the Kherson province. The city was recently renamed from Kirovograd

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There are also more recent Pliskov documents: 1820 Suplemental census of Lipovets district shtetls of Rossosha, Konela, Pliskov. (DAKO 284/174/1379) Pliskov is on page 14 https://upload.wikimedia.org/

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Hello Angela, Do you have a copy of some original document with Russian spelling of PLAMOVATH? Perhaps the name was misread . "TH" sounds extremely unusual for Russian language. Perhaps the last 2 let

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Hi Ann, The original text implies that perhaps there was a landslide or a similar event that caused him his life. Mike Vayser

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Deanna, Unless the right side of the photo on the second line has some text, it should read "To dear sister Hannah" If, however, there is a word "от" / "om" on the 2nd line, that would indicate that i

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