You might want to look for town Goniadz, 53 29/22 45, this was quite close
to Trestin/Trestina. I have been trying to locate any information from
Trzciane, as this is the town my grandfather's, Levy Kantezcuk (sp),
emigration papers name as his birth city. I am having a very hard time
locating documents >from Trestina. My grandfather's tombstone designates
"Trestina" as his birthplace and I have decided this is now located in
Poland.

Lois Bebergal
Atlanta, Georgia
lb@...

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The town Cheryl Palacio refers to does exist and is often called Trestin (in
Hebrew, Trestina).

It is in the Grodno Gubornia and is well known. The family names referred to
also appear inLomza and Bialystok townships and those searching in the
Bialystok area should look in neighboring towns, especially the larger ones,

At 12:57 PM -0400 on 4/14/04, Lois Bebergal wrote:

. . . I have been trying to locate any information from
Trzciane, as this is the town my grandfather's, Levy Kantezcuk (sp),
emigration papers name as his birth city.

My ggg uncle Berel-Velvl HALPERIN (b. 1841) >from Trzcianne married
Rachel-Lea KANCHUK. I have many other Trzcianne ancestors.

When was your grandfather born? Do you have any other KANCHUK names?

If you search on the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jriplweb.htm> for KANCHUK in
Bialystok Province using the Surnames Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex, you
will find several KANCZUKs/KONCZUKs (Itka, Jankiel [two different
ones], Golda, Enia, Josel, Chackiel, Sora and Izrael) born in
Trzcianne between 1885 and 1894.

David

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