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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