Thanks for the info, Jane. I was really hoping to narrow it down to entries during certain time periods, and, although I'm mainly interested in things written by Jews, reading what gentiles wrote woul

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Haha. In that part of the world, there was a lot of frost! I was trying to use the search by dates, which you would think would work, but I couldn't get it to.

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I found what looks like an amazing resource - it is a collection of diaries from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, dating from the 1800s to the present. https://prozhito.org/. In theory it is searchable, b

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I wonder how and when they figured it out, and how they would have reacted.

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They could be "naturalized" as Canadians after 3 years.

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My grandfather left Minsk in 1913 for Montreal. He was from Igumen/Dukora. Listed his name when he immigrated as Boruch Idelzchik. In Canada it became Bennie Adelson. He had a brother named Sruel, but

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I'm talking about little kids (4 years old), in the late 1890s. Translations I've seen include: mam & tate mami & tateshi eema & abba Thanks. Tema Frank Edmonton, Canada

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I'm researching the early life of my grandfather (Bennie ADELSON/Baruch IDELZIK), who left Belarus for Montreal in 1913. Once he had his Canadian papers, he went to New York in 1916, and then to Russi

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