The Yiddish name of my maternal grandmother Ida was Itke. Google Translate gives a Yiddish translation of Ida as "Ida" not in Yiddish letters. Hebrew translation is אידה (Ida!). Bob Malakoff Pittsburg

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Among early German Jews Jacob Simon naming his son Simon Jacob was common before family names were used. The family names were usually required by government edict. I do not know how common continuing

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Lev Girschov Malachosky(1884-1915) the husband of my 2nd great-aunt would have disagreed with him. His father's name was Girsch. Bob Malakoff Pittsburgh, PA

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I went to school in New Jersey in the 50's and there was very little taught about World War II and later. I guess they made the ridiculous assumption that since it was relatively recent we all knew ab

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I assume you want to know when family surnames were required. In 1807 the Tsar issued an edict requiring family surnames. I came across an interesting video regarding Jewish surnames on Youtube https:

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My mother and her parents were listed as naturalized in the 1930 and 1940 Census. I was told that based on the Cable Act of 1922, all women naturalized after the law became effective needed to be natu

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The 1930 Census appears to show my mother (age 17 at the time) and her parents as naturalized citizens. What confuses me is a Petition for Naturalization [of a Married Person, under Sec. 310(a) or (b)

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My late mother came to the US in 1913 from what is now Biarosa, Belarus at the tender age of 6 months. The only naturalization information that I can find is for my Grandmother dated 1945, but nothing

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The -ovich ending (-ович in Cyrilic) could also be Serbian, Belerusan or Ukranian. It also could be Polish or Croatian spelled -owitz or -ović respectively. The -ovich ending is more commonly used as

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Just for fun I plugged "Parkan" into Google Translate. I did a reverse lookup and it told me that паркан (parkan) is Ukrainian for fence.

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I don't really expect an answer but I will give it a try. I am helping a friend with her tree and one last name for a relative from Ukraine is Prince also spelled Printz. The name was changed from an

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Rifkeh (רבקה) is actually Rebecca in Hebrew and probably Yiddish. The parents probably preferred Rose.

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Risha in Russian

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The name change idea was perpetuated in the Godfather movie. Vito says to the immigration agent "I am Vito Andolini from Corleone" and the agent writes down Vito Corleone. Many families changed their

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I was wrong. Angielczyk is Englishman in Polish, not angel.

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Amelia, Your last name is interesting to me. My name Malakoff/Malakhov (Малакхов) comes from the Hebrew maloch (מלאך) which means angel. Maybe we are related :). Alternative version of the name was Ma

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I assume your middle initial is related to יצחק . What does the I stand for. My middle name is Irwin. I would have preferred Ivan or Isaac, but nobody asked me. Bob

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No, she calls her husband Jared:)

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Yitzhak (יצחק) is also the common form for Isaac in Yiddish. Although, the tombstone of my grandfather Isadore says אייזיק בר יעקב Aizek bar Yakov, Isaac son of Jacob. The Aizek is another Yiddish nam

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