I have been researching the names GEN, GENN >from Skvira and Chudnov
(and their variants) in the Ukraine. Someone mentioned to me that
these may transliterated as HENN. Does anyone have a view about this?
Please respond to me personally at jgandz@....

Thank you

Jeffrey Gandz
London, ON, Canada
Researching GEN, GENN, ULITSKY, ULITSKIJ and variants

Jeffrey,

The letter "G"in Cyrillic is pronounced somewhere between a /g/ and an
/h/ sound. I have seen many names in 19th century vital records that are
written with a leading /G/ on the Russian language side of the ledger
and with aleading/H/ (heh) on the Hebrewledger page.I also have seen
many names that sometimes are written with a leading /G/ in Cyrillic and
other times written with a leading /H/, even in the same family.

Ron

Ron Doctor (rddpdx@...)
Coordinator, JewishGen Ukraine SIG
www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine
where Jewish genealogy is personal

Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all >from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets
and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all >from Kiev, Uman, Odessa