I came across a 1906 database of voters in Zv., but was only looking for Kagans. Nevertheless, that was productive because I found some cousins. Apparently there's a lot of material in greater Philade

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I'm in Culver City. I read Cyrillic, though handwritten can be challenging. I studied Russian. I can catch some words in Ukrainian. Unfortunately I'm no help with Hebrew or Yiddish written in Hebrew l

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The link is much appreciated! I studied Russian rather than Ukrainian, but I'm finding the website pretty understandable. Kahan is yet another variant I'm trying. Pronunciation of Cyrillic Г varies be

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The town name in Russian would be Kirovgrad. In cursive script, lower case д looks exactly like our cursive g. Dave Mason

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CDs and DVDs may be the best digital media. CDs have been used for data for about 30 years, with no incompatibilities with contemporary technology. This said, there are differences in the raw media. S

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Richard Werbin – External CD/DVD drives for laptops and desktops remain an option. Plus most desktops still have 5.25” bays, plus SATA power and data connectors, so internal drives are easily added. I

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In Russian, Катя (“Katya”) is the most common diminutive of Екатерина (“Catherine”). Being subject to pogroms as well as official discrimination, Jews apparently assumed conventional Russian names as

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Zagradowka was the Polish spelling. It's Заградівка (Zahrivka) in Ukrainian and Заградовка (Zagradovka) in Russian. Classified as a village (population 717 in 2001) in Vysokopolsky district (Высокопол

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Has anyone checked with the district civil registry (РАЦС = RATS in Ukrainian; ЗАГС = ZAGS in Russian)? Ostroh is the administrative center of its district, so the civil registry for the whole distric

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These are references to articles/books about Babi Yar: "Memory of Babi Yar. Book of Martyrs" / Author V. A. Zgursky. Kiev: newspaper "Moment of silence" and "Young Guards" 1991, page 862. Articles abo

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In Russian Cyrillic, the letters Ч “ch” and Ц “ts” are somewhat interchangeable. Also, Cyrillic Г is transliterated to “G” or sometimes “V” from Russian, but to “H” from Ukrainian. -David Mason, Culve

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I've posted before about helping a Ukrainian and Russian Kagan/Cohen family who lost track of their American cousins in the 1930s, after falling into conversation on a train with the grandson of the b

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I was able to reconnect two branches of the family I’m working on with 1920 census data, where the pioneering brothers were still living in the same household in Philadelphia. One brother immigrated i

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It’s interesting that the birth certificate shows the mother’s maiden name. That’s a somewhat rare commodity in our genealogical endeavors! -David Mason in Culver City, CA

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I’m researching Kogan=>Cohen from Zvenigorodka, Cherkassy Region, Ukraine. Of 1,711 people in the Yad Vashem data for this town, 28 are Kogans and 13 are Kagans. I assume both are Cohanim, but how clo

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I’m researching Kagans and Kogans in the town Zvenigorodka (Звенигородка). This town belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until the Second Partition of 1793. It then landed in Kiev Gubernia.

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I want to learn more about adult life histories of Anna and Frank Cohen of Philadelphia. In the 1920 and 1930 censuses, Anna and Frank are recorded living with parents Harry and Esther Cohen in Philad

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