I would like to find out what became of Dora Phillips Vorob after her 1931 divorce. Here’s what I’ve learned about her sad story She was born in 1897 in Sapockin, Belarus, to Sam and Sara who used the

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Maybe Vitebsk or some other spelling of that like Witepsk. Since Nevel was in Vitebsk Gubernia, that seems likely. Susan Slusky

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On Geni.com, there’s an Irving Henry Roth, son of Eugene and Rose Roth. His sister is named Ethel. But Ethel has a daughter whose birthname is Sharon Lee Witt and is married to a Horodner. So maybe yo

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Thank you all so much for the validation that Chiena is really the name. So it is three syllables, right? And the first syllable is KHY like the first syllable of Chaya? or is the first syllable KHEE

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In the Litvak SIG database, the 1829 Panemune Frentzela death record for my 3rd great grandfather Abram Werebey lists his wife, my 3rd great grandmother, as Chiena. What can you tell me about this nam

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Another place to look is cemetery burial records. Even if the family were keeping her death a secret, they would likely have buried her in one of the New York area Jewish cemeteries. In my family I ha

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Yes, my son in law’s family (GERSHKOVITZ Kerch, Crimea) has a story that their ancestor designed a bathtub for the czar’s railroad car that reduced water sloshing out. But this sounds so unlikely Susa

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And my Belarusian grandmother Sosha Rive took the name Sylvia in the US. Maybe because of the initial S sound and the last consonant V sound that matched Sosha Riva? In any case, more evidence that th

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One might think one could resolve these questions if one could only ask the grandparent, but no. I was already researching in the 70s and had my grandmother’s 1913 ship manifest while she was still al

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