Wendy, Your timeframe is 1800's and at that time Berdynovo was part of the Tiraspol uezd within the Kherson governorate. Shiryaevo was a village in the Ananiev uezd within the Podolia governorate. Thr

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Nicolas, the registration system had no relationship to the place of birth or residence. While the record does show that your ggfather was registered in Kishinev, most of the times the father of the c

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Tulchin was in a different governorate altogether - Uman is part of the Kiev governorate, Tulchin - in the Podolia governorate. Most of the documents should be in the Vinnitsa archives, with some of t

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Rebecca, Kamenets-Podolsky uezd (county) was a distinct administrative entity from Novo-Ushitsa uezd. There is a possibility that the records have not survived, but they would definitely not be found

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David, The records are not kept in Zvenigorodka, but in Kiev, mostly in the DAKO (State Archive of the Kiev Oblast). A lot of these documents have already been scanned and available online, but a smal

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Hello I've posted a vital record in French for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96412 Please respond via

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It looks like Vitebsk to me, being spelled as "Witepsk". There were people with the last names Alenikof found in Vitebsk and Nevel and Filanovsky common in Nevel. Nevel was the uezd capital within the

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Giannis found the right place, but it's written as Volodarka (see the correct spelling in the provided jewishgen town link). This shtetl did have folks with Vaynshteyn last name, which is how it would

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Serfdom in Russia was abolished in 1861 for private serfs and 1866 for state serfs. Both of these were subclasses within the peasant social class. Vast majority of Jews were part of the meshchane (tow

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It refers to the change of social state from the Rossieny meshchane (urban dwellers) to the Rossieny merchant 2nd class, which is noted in the 3rd column. It likely happened between the dates of the 2

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There wasn't a White or Red Army during WWI, There was just a Russian Imperial Army. These Red, White, Green, etc terms refer to the Russian military during the Civil War 1917-1922, after the country

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Shelley, Ted has already partially answered this question, but here is the full information on what's Kiev's TsDIAK archive is planning on posting on their web site. They've renumbered these vital rec

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The scan is of the description of the archival file (identification 1-1-2909), not of the file itself. It states that there are 30 pages in this file. You would have to order this file from the archiv

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According to Dr. Beider, the name means "husband of Ruda" in Yiddish. There are some Ashkenazi last names that were formed as "husband of <female given name>". Mike Vayser

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#1. It was forbidden for Jews to marry non-Jews in the Russian empire, so I don't see how your great-grandfather could have married a Tatar woman, unless he converted to Islam. There was a not insigni

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Hi Michelle, the parents names were not recorded on their own in the Russian vital records (they were recorded in the Polish governorates). From the names above, it's clear what their father's name we

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The easy part first - recognizing text from late 1700's - early 1800's. There are a number websites that list samples of Russian letters as they changed over the past couple of hundred years, that you

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Michele, I think Greenfield might be correct as well, although I see your point as the notes say the father is from Austria. I would look for Grinfeld in the manifests. This might actually simplify th

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Until early 20th century Dubossary was a shtetl in the Tiraspol uezd, Tiraspol being the uezd capital in the Kherson governorate. These towns, which are 40 mi apart, are now part of Moldova, although

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In addition to Renee's comment about "Kevguberna" being a broken phone version of Kiev gubernia (governorate, province, etc), I'd like to add that the last name Coopersmith is likely not the original

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