Hi 'Genners,

 

I'm hoping that someone who can read Russian would kindly look up something in old city directories at this website:

 

I assume that city directories of The Russian Empire would list business people in each town grouped under their occupation heading.  The Galician directories did, as did U.S. directories.

 

I am looking for people who were in the business of dyeing, or cleaning and dyeing.

 

Everyone in this family wrote a different place of birth on every single piece of paper, hence the unusual mix of possible towns.

 

Time frame:  1880 to 1892

 

Occupation:  dyer, or cleaner and dyer

 

Surnames:  WEINER

                    BLUMENKRANZ / BLUMENKRANTZ

                    ROSENBERG

                    APPEL / EPPEL

                    BOBISH / BOBISCH

 

Towns:         Vilna

                    Odessa

                    Brest / Brisk

                    Biala Podlaska

                    Vysoko-Litovsk

 

Also looking for Pesach Ber (surname may or may not be BOBISH / BOBISCH.)

Pesach Ber was a cleaner and dyer, and lived in Kiev when he emigrated in 1914.

 

Pesach Ber was supposedly born in Vilna circa 1875.  I do not know how long he lived in Kiev prior to 1914.

 

Thank you,