These 2 last names only seem similar due to their transliteration and the eventual shortening. The original name in the first post is Tsarovsky, while the original name in the 2nd post is Zharovsky, w

#canada

Here lies the remains of Shiki Gamshievich, from Kiliya Russia Bessarabia. He died before the age of 63 [62 years old] on September 24/14, 1901. Peace be upon you, dear husband and father Mike Vayser

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On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 04:31 AM, Jill Whitehead wrote: Apparently my great great grandfather reached the rank of Captain in the Russian Army and was granted land as a gift for his service. ... He must

#russia

Yosef, My question in the original post was to inquire of the spelling of the name in Yiddish, as I do not have documents with the name spelled in Yiddish. Mike Vayser

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Odeda, I do not have the name written in Yiddish or Hebrew, which is why I was asking for the correct spelling. The name of the person in question was definitely Doda. You can see plenty of example on

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Is it possible that it's not Oranif, but Orativ/Oratov? Israel's 3rd PM Levi Eshkol was born there. In the 19th century, it was part of the Lipovets uezd, Kiev governorate, currently in the Vinnytsa o

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David, I'm not sure what you are trying to state by that - that one source only has Sefardi women with that name, which means that there is no possibility that Azhkenazim used this name as well? As I

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Sharon, To clarify, the photo is not of your relatives grave, but a marker at the mass execution site in Baranovichi, Belarus. It is dedicated to the memory of the 6000 Jews that were murdered at this

#poland #holocaust

Yes, definitely Doda, not Doba (Dobrish). I've seen the name both in the documents, as well as the gravestones. Yad-Vashem has over 100 people with Doda as the given name in the Victims database. I do

#yiddish

Hello Genners, If anyone is familiar with the Yiddish female given name Doda, I would like to know the proper pronunciation - is the accent on the first or the 2nd syllable? And what is the correct sp

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Raina, As Philip stated, the records he is looking for do not exist. There is a document with that year's deaths, but it's missing the pages for the 2nd half of the year. Mike Vayser

#records #ukraine

Yale, These are not Polish variants - they are common Yiddish variants of the Hebrew names. Other Yiddish variants of Yissachar/Isokher are Isakher, Sakhar, Sakher, Sokhor, Sukhar, Shukher. It's likel

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Barbara, The record states that Yakov was born to Shmul (registered in Kherson) and Ester-Malka on June 8. The birth record on Jewish Gen is 735. There are no patronymics listed for the parents, but i

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Wendy, The 1897 Jewish births records in Zhitomir have an archive ID GAZhO 67-3-566. The record is on page 202 of the book or page 207 of the pdf file. Father - Zayvel, son of Moshko, mother - Pinya,

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It should be located under DAViO 904-26, but the area is empty, except for the pdf with the list of available documents at the Vinnitsa archive: https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/Архів:ДАВіО/904/26. The

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One thing to keep in mind about Volhynia Gubernia - in the early 1920's western parts of it were already in Poland (until 1939), while eastern were part of Ukraine. Take a look at this map that shows

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Hello Denise, I believe the issue might have been in the incorrect transcription of Meshmar. Pre-reform Russian language (1918) had two ways to write the sound representing sound "e" as in "yes". One

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Daniel, As you did not provide an original scan or where the revision took place, based on a typical Russian Empire naming convention and the location of "Osherovich" within the record, I'm going to a

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Brad, The names might have appeared in any order or only one of the two, the same for father's name. The first person might have been known as Chaim-Ber son of Yudka-Leyb in one document, Chaim, son o

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Klassovsky last name is not found among Eastern-European Jewish names at http://stevemorse.org/phonetics/beider.php. There are 4 instances of people with this last name found in the Russian WWI databa

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