Hi Les , Just wondering if you are related to either Sheldon Evans or Ron Evans they are both on Ancestry .My father is from Koidenov ,he shares a high DNA Cm with both Sheldon and Ron. My Dad was bor

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I am researching my paternal great grandmother, Dora Alperovich, who according to an Argentine document was born in the town of Jazan, Jazanka, Russia on March 20, 1889. Her father's name was Jaime Al

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My source is a former college student in one of my English classes who was from the area. He did some translations for me too. Barbara Cohen

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I have two families from Mogilev, in Belarus - Lazarovitch and Fuchs. My great-grandmother Rachel Lazarovitch married Davis Fuchs. They emigrated to England in about 1900. Richard Brett

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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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My maternal grandfather, Aron Revzin, was from Snovks and emigrated to Chicago in 1913. His parents were Feivish and Chaia Ededl, nee Haykin. Aron's sisters were Baile (Mendel Schulman), Chana (Sam Po

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Several Jewishgenners have contacted me to say that the first line of my message was missing. I must have been distracted by circumstances here. Anyway, here it is, in it's entirety, again.: You may w

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I have worked with Yuri Dorn at JHRG (jhrg@...)multiple times. They have found records for multiple sides of my family from all over the Belarus area. Costs are extremely reasonable, howev

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When I began researching my TALALAI in Mogilev some 35 years ago - it took me 2 years to confirm it was Belarus. Everyone I asked tried to convince me it was the Podulsk one, but it did not seem corre

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based in Minsk which offers an economical in-depth genealogical service as well as heritage tours. They have a genealogy staff fluent in many languages including, English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew.

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I'm sure that "your" Mogilev was Belorussian one. The reason of my confidence is that there were, at least, 7 Zhorovs amongst the Belorussian Mogilev electors to Gosudarstvennaya Duma (smth like Parli

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also take into account that the migration of Jews to the Chernigov province came from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, including from the territories of the Mogilev province. Iryna Tulchynska

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I came across a similar issue with my ancestors. A lot of my ancestors wrote down on their naturalization documents the "governorate" where they were from in Russia as opposed to the city. Some may no

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Check out my cousin Phyllis Berenson, who leads the Ukraine SIG. Her family comes from Mogilev-Podolsk and Shargorod. Have a healthy, meaningful new year, Molly Arost Staub

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There is no quick and easy solution to determine which Mogilev is the right. All available sources, primary, e.g. census records and family registers, and secondary, e.g. business directories need to

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Recent translations of Russian Empire documents through ViewMate indicate my great-grandfather was "a citizen of Mohilev." This is news to me, since all previous info connected him to Snovsk (Shchors)

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Dear Group, I'd appreciate a well-experienced reference to a researcher in Brest and Volkovysk. Thank you very much - Yaron Wolfsthal

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Is there somebody having connections with BIALYI family who lived in Grodno (Belarus) in the second half of XIXth century. I know Schlioma, married to Beila, both parents of Pessia born in 1886. Jacqu

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Hello, Does anyone know if the 1833 revision lists for Brest city survive, and if so, whether they are kept in Grodno or in Minsk? I've been looking at various inventories but have not yet found them.

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Thank you for this! my Gr-gr-grandmother's name was Hinda Podgaitz. She married Ephraim Friedman and they lived in Kopaigorod, Ukraine. I have always wondered if the last name Podgaitz meant that she

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