My maternal grandfather's parents were Galitizianers, my maternal grandmother's parents and my father's parents were from places within the Minsk Gubernia. So it's always both.

#galicia #lithuania

I vote for Rauchlese. Blowing up the image, it's clearly an "e" after the "l". There's no serif sticking up from the blob that is the last letter, so I don't think it's an "s"

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My middle name is Ira. My given name gets misspelled somewhat frequently, my surname gets misspelled very frequently, but I've never seen my middle name misspelled.

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 05:01 PM, <bobmalakoff@...> wrote: I had always been told my Hebrew name was יצחק Then, a few years ago, going through the various documents my mother saved, I found ou

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Have you looked for your ggf's family in the Belarus databases? My grandmother's family came the area around Novogrodek/Novogrudok/Navahrudak. When the first family members arrived, it was in Russia,

#general #russia #poland

Father's looks like "Budifist," mother's looks like "Bidifrist," and my best guess is that both are transliterations of an accented pronunciation of "Budapest."

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My 24-year old grandmother came to the US at age from what was then Russia in 1914 using the passport of her 19-year old sister. Her ship sailed from Rotterdam on the day Russia entered WWI. It was an

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It's been decades since I took a couple of years of Russian in college, but the letter Г was always pronounced has a hard G; never a soft G or H. On the other hand, Г, when it appears in a place name

#russia #belarus

Kopyl connection, or coincidence? As I mentioned above, my grandfather, Isaac Usdansky, who was from Kopyl, spent several years in Sioux City. In the 1918-1919 time frame, he moved to San Antonio, TX,

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In my family, one grandson of Chaim-Moshe was named that, two were named Moshe-Chaim. The reason for the reversal of the names remains a mystery.

#unitedkingdom

Although I always knew her as Hinda, my father's aunt, who came to the US in 1933, is shown on the passenger manifest as Genia and was known to her immediate family (don't know about her friends) as J

#belarus #names

ryabinkym@...: I have been working under the assumption that Shliomovich Sinensky was a combination of two last names based on the revision list showing the father of Fayvush Shliomovich Sinensk

#belarus #general

As I mentioned in my post, as shown in the revision list, Fayvush's father was apparently Iosel, not Shliomo. Which is why I'm confused. None of Fayvush's sons are named Shliomo, whereas Fayvush's old

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My paternal grandmother came to the US in 1914 using the passport of one of her younger sisters, claiming to be 19 rather than 24 or 25, because of age restrictions on immigrants at the time. I've als

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Looking through the Belarus Revision Lists for Siniensky, I was able to find a listing for my great-great grandfather, Feivel (Fayvush in the listing) and his family from dated July, 1874, in Lyubcha.

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No shtetl documents, but my grandfather, Isaac Usdansky, and three siblings, were among the Kapuliers who ended up in Sioux City for a while. I wasn't doing any serious record keeping at the time, but

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