General - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: ROSIN - ROSEN

skref — 2013-05-23 12:24:31Z

Sorry, I have no information that would connect him to my Rosen relatives.

Good luck with your continuing research.

Re: ROSIN - ROSEN

rredrosie — 2013-05-23 12:24:08Z

My great grandfather was named Sam Rosen and born in Minsk, Belarus/Russia and came to NY in 1900. I have nothing on his parents and siblings, so would be very interested if you have any info.

Thanks,
-Heather

Re: Belorussian Surnames - ZLOTORZYNSKI

PenleyPearls2011 — 2013-05-20 10:47:09Z

I hope this link is still active. I have a good work-up on the ZLOTORZYNSKI (Golden) family of Shamokin. My interest is in Anthony's older brother, Alexander. I am nearly positive that Casimer ZLOTORZYNSKI went by the name Charles in census records. I have Charles as father of Anthony on 1900, 1910, 1920. The only place Casimer is found is at the cemetery. Newspaper index states 1933 death, FindAGrave states 1931. Censuses also indicate 1887 marriage to Victoria. Everything else is common ground with your post. Please respond if this is your same family---much to share. CRAZY spellings in the early records !!

old Belarus phonebooks online

veranmiller — 2013-05-18 17:50:30Z

I found a great website with old Belarus phonebooks.

Check it out at http://genealogyindexer.org/directories/

The website also has directories from Russia, Ukraine , Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, in addition to former Eastern Block countries and other western and eastern European countries.

Vera
Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family
http://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/

Schreibman, Seigel

benmeyerson1 — 2013-05-05 21:06:28Z

My great-great grandfather Moshe Schreibman (1836-1881) might have been born in Pinsk, Belarus. He married Anna (or Chana?) Siegel, who was the daughter of Meir Dovid Siegel, I believe. I know nothing about The Siegel family. Anna (Chana) might have been born in Pinsk, also.

Re: Perlman/Govser

Kbutlerstern — 2013-04-28 18:55:41Z

Forgot to give you my email. It's kbutlerstern@gmail.com.

Re: Perlman/Govser

Kbutlerstern — 2013-04-28 18:54:31Z

Omg! I just googled my great grandmother's name, Jeannette Perlman and found this! My heart is racing a little bit. My grandmother was Gloria Kulkin Finkel. Apparently, Jeannette didn't have much of a relationship with her siblings because she was crazy(my grandmother said) so no one in my family ever had any idea of who they were. Please let me know when you get this message and we can discuss further. How exciting!! :)

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-25 16:15:24Z

I just found a Department of Veterans Affairs Death File for Alex!!! Whoohoo. Feeling productive today, lol. So obviously he DID serve in WWI along with Karp :)

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-25 16:06:11Z

On Alex's WWII draft card he wrote his birthdate as 10/25/1893. Other records show 1892. I wonder if when he died, the relative who informed authorities got the birthdate wrong and it really is 1893? As far as the names, Karp Americanized his name and his gravestone says "Carl T. Grabko". Alex's says "Alexander A. Grabko". I wonder if they just completely Americanized their names to fit in.

I did find a WWI draft card for a Max Grabko living at 845 5th Street Oshkosh, WI in 1917. He was born in Nov of 1890. On Karp's Naturalization documents he is shown as living at the same address in 1918. The WWI document for Max I found on LDS familysearch. I don't see any immigration records for him, but in 1930 and 1940 census' he is in Luzerne, PA along with Astap and other Grabkos.

I am going to search the 1920 census records in Chilton and Oshkosh for Karp and Alex. I have no census for them in that year. Only 1930 and 1940. Also interesting, Karp/Carl's eldest son is named Peter Carl. Also, Carl/Karp did serve in WWI.

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

tabbinosity — 2013-04-25 04:55:50Z

Yes, I think Karp and Kusma were cousins. Karp was going to his brother Alexander and Kusma was going to his cousin Astap. Looks like the town is Chilton, Wisconsin. Prior to that, Astap was in NYC. He and Yakov arrived together ad went to their cousin Stepan Bohuk.

Now I'm afraid I'm going to be throwing a monkey wrench into things. Karp could not have been the brother of both Astap and Alexander, because -- based on their birthdates -- Astap and Alexander couldn't have been brothers. Astap's DOB was 11/28/1892 and Alexander's DOB was 10/25/1892. EIDB says Karp went to his brother Alexander, but there's no immigration info for Alexander. Per EIDB, Karp's father was Piotr and Astap's father was also Piotr. Were Astap and Karp brothers or could they have been second cousins, each of them having a father called Piotr and those two Piotrs being first cousins?

Another monkey wrench -- do you know what Alexander's middle name was supposed to have been? I see that in some places he used a middle initial of A. But Eastern Europeans don't have middle names like we have, they have patronymics, a kind of middle name made from the given name of one's father with a suffix that means "son of" or "daughter of."

If Alexander's father was Piotr, his patronymic would be Piotrovich. So why didn't he use the middle initial P? Where did the A come from? Every Russian-speaking man or woman I've ever known who used a middle initial used the first letter of his or her patronymic, even in the US. The men who chose to use a middle name after immigrating to the West used their father's first name without the "son of" suffix. (I even know a woman who did that -- her father was called Rafael and she uses the feminine version, Rafaela, as her middle name in the US.)

Another odd thing -- there's a WWI draft registration for Astap, but I didn't see one for Alexander. There's a WWII draft registration for Alexander, but I couldn't find one for Astap. Both men were born in 1892, so each of them should have been registered for both WWI and WWII.

BTW, Yakov, who traveled with Astap, is listed on two different manifests. Looks like he was supposed to arrive on 10/15 but for whatever reason he wasn't on that ship. Instead, he arrived on 10/28 with Astap.

Sorry to give you so many more questions, but at least I gave you a few answers as well. It might be useful to consider requesting records from the archives in Minsk to see what the deal is with Alexander.

There are two more guys at EIDB whose surnames are sort of close to Stepan Bohuk's, and they come from the same village as Stepan and the Grabkos. But I want to look at them again when it's not so late at night. ;)

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-25 01:13:08Z

I am thinking that Karp and Kusma are cousins? The thing I can't see or read is the city in Wisconsin that Karp is headed to; where Alexander was living in Wisconsin. Can you or anyone else make out what it says?

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-25 00:31:55Z

Yeah, I would love any info I can get. Eventually everyone has to connect somewhere ;)

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

tabbinosity — 2013-04-24 22:37:36Z

No membership, just a search of EIDB records via Dr. Stephen Morse's amazing search engine, and then looking at the original manifests. Those always show the name of the passenger's nearest relative back in the old country. For unmarried passengers that person was usually a parent. Astap and Karp each listed a father called Piotr (Peter).

I have been noodling around trying to find Alexander, searching with fragments of the family name and town name. I also did a search for immigrants from that town. No luck on Alexander yet, but have come up with two or three more guys who are connected in some way (blood or marriage) to the Grabkos. One of those names jumped out at me as the BIL (I think) of either Taras or Dmitry. LMK if you want to add those to your records.

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-24 21:57:14Z

Do you have a special membership with Ellis Island? I don't see anywhere on there a name for Karp's father? You must be looking at different records than I am able to access? I am still having trouble locating records for Alex, but I am 100% certain that Karp is Carl.

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

tabbinosity — 2013-04-24 19:41:35Z

Well, good that you've confirmed that they're two different people. Wonder how and why Astap went from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania and when and where Alexander entered the US.

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-24 18:55:14Z

Well thus far, Alexander is not Astap. Astap settled in Pennsylvania. I'm going to have to keep searching. I find it interesting that on ancestry search there are no immigration records for some of the people that are shown in the Ellis Island Database. Weird. I will keep digging away!

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

tabbinosity — 2013-04-24 16:56:37Z

You're very welcome! :)

The family story sounds a bit apocryphal, if you'll excuse the expression. Even if Alexander lacked the money to enter the US, he would still have been on the manifest because he'd have been on the ship. Everyone who had a ticket for that ship and that crossing was on that manifest even if he didn't actually sail. I've seen several examples of a person being listed on two different manifests but a month or less apart. It took about a month to make the crossing so there could not have been two trips -- for whatever reason, that passenger was not on the first ship. But the manifest for the first ship would show his name, with a line through it and a note that he wasn't on the ship when it docked.

That leaves two possible explanations:

1) Alexander didn't enter via Ellis Island but via another port like Philadelphia. Or he went to Canada and then crossed into the US.

2) Alexander and Astap are the same person, as I suggested in my prior post.

If your GFIL never heard of Astap, chances are good that Astap was his father's original given name and he changed it to something more American-sounding after he arrived in the US. This was common among Eastern European immigrants -- my own grandfather was Wasyl when he arrived in 1913 and when he re-entered the US after a visit back home in 1915. But by 1917 he was William. Luckily my mother had thought to tell me about her father's name change when I was a child, or it would have been much harder to search for him back when I first started.

BTW, I learned about my grandfather's trip back home and subsequent re-entry into the US via one of my Eastern European cousins, who found that my grandfather was listed in the metrics (annual census) records for his native village as being in his mother's household in 1915. My grandfather entered via Ellis Island in 1913, I'd seen that manifest. But there was no record at EIDB of his second entry. I searched every way I could think of, and nothing. Turns out that when he returned to the US from that trip in 1915, he came in via the port of Philadelphia!

I mention my own grandfather's experiences simply as RL examples of the possibilities I'm suggesting re: Alexander and Astap. My relatives (both sides) had some rather charming family stories which turned out to be highly inaccurate when I investigated. But -- as is often the case in such situations -- the facts turned out to be even more interesting!

I hope you'll let us know what your GFIL says!

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-24 15:04:11Z

Thank you SO much! I think that this IS them. There wouldn't be any manifest records at Ellis Island for Alexander. The family story is that he had no money for entry into the U.S. so he jumped off the ship near shore and swam. I will be seeing my grandfather-in-law next week so I can ask him if any of these names sound familiar; he is one of Alexander's sons. I do know that there are Grabko cousins on the east coast so this does match up pretty well. Again, thanks so much!!!

Re: Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

tabbinosity — 2013-04-24 14:43:14Z

Have you checked the EIDB (Ellis Island Database)? I did, so here goes.

At EIDB I found seven Grabkos, six of whom came from the same town. The spellings of that town name were not identical but were close enough to each other that I knew they were all the same place. One of these Grabkos was called Karp so I felt like I was on the right track.

I checked my favorite gazetteer for town names and found one in Belarus which was pretty close to what was listed for these Grabkos at EIDB. That town is Kholopenichi, near the city of Borisov, which is in Minskaya Oblast, Belarus. I don't know it, but I'm guessing it's a village.

Three Grabkos came together in 1912 -- Astap, Yakov (spelled Jakow at EIDB), and Dmitry. Taras (spelled Faras at EIDB) arrived in 1913. Karp and Kusma came together in 1914.

Karp's manifesto said he was going to his brother Alexander in Wisconsin. Kusma's said he was going to his cousin Astap in Wisconsin. I couldn't find a manifesto for Alexander Grabko but I did see that Karp's father was called Piotr (Peter) and so was Astap's. So either Karp and Alexander had a brother called Astap, or maybe Astap changed his name to Alexander in the US.

Yakov went to a cousin in NYC (lower East Side, by the street address). Dmitry went to his brother-in-law in New Brunswick, NJ. Taras went to his cousin Dmitry, who had moved from New Brunswick to Perth Amboy, NJ.

It looks like these guys are all related to each other, so you may have relatives that you don't know.

All these Grabkos are listed as Russian, both nationality and race (ethnicity). I checked the Grabka spelling, but none of the Grabkas was from Kholopenichi.

Hope this helps. Good luck in your search!

Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko

SEG06 — 2013-04-24 14:42:39Z

Anyone have any info on Carp (Carl) and Alexander Grabko? They are brothers that came to the U.S. in 1910. Carp was born October 1888 and Alex in October 1892. They both settled in Hatley, Wisconsin, USA. Family rumor is that Alex jumped ship because he did not have the money to come legally. We do not have any info where they came from other than possibly Russia. My guess is that what was Russia in 1910 is probably now a different country. I have heard some Grabko's could have been from present day Belarus.

Re: Researching these Surnames

SEG06 — 2013-04-22 16:50:50Z

I have Klimowicz in my tree. What info do you have on that name? I am searching 3 sisters from the Vilno area. Agatha Klimowicz Jurgielwicz, Theresa Klimowicz Twanowski, and Maria Klimowicz Pancelewicz.

BILDZUKEWICZ Family

2013-04-20 13:03:51Z

Anyone knowing of anyone related to, or knows about this name I would very much appreciate your help. My family and especially my husband would love to know more about his family. Thank-You, Tina Bildzukewicz

Re: BILDZUKEWICZ

@@jnieurzyla@yahoo.com — 2013-04-17 01:35:23Z

Good morning Tina, I am related to the Bildzukiewicz family tree, my link is from Belarus, and I believe my aunt was the mother to your branch coming to the States.
I look forward to your reply

John
jnieurzyla@yahoo.com

Jewish roots in Belarus - Israel & Masha Jablonowicz -- Jablonovich

2013-04-15 12:45:27Z

I am searching for any information on Israel and Masha Jablonowicz or any similar spelling. These are the names of my grandparents and my fathers parents. My father, Wolf Jablonowcz was born in 1914 in Narewka. Today Narewka is in Poland but it is only about 6-10km from the border with Belarus and I believe belonged to Belarus earlier. I am looking for any information to help me locate any possibly living relative and/or to find out more about my family. The smallest information will be gratefully received!

Re: NAIDOVITZ - NAIDOVICH Family

sshtukmaister1 — 2013-04-15 12:42:54Z

Hi, I noticed that you are making some researches about Naidovich family, Mera Naidovich from Tolochin Belarus was daughter of Boris (Ber) Naydovich, she married to Semon Shtukmaister their son was Lazar Shtukmaister is my grandfather, some of the Mera's family immigrated to the United States between 1890-1905?, where they changed their names to Naidoff.

Sergei

Re: Jewish roots in Belarus -Jablonowicz

tapoohi — 2013-04-11 11:32:07Z

Hi im sorry for a very late respond. for some reason i din not see you're answer.

How can i get a hold of you?

do you have a phone number?

We defenitly have the same last name. When i wrote this i was not sure.

Re: Makarevich, b 1895

sulligirl — 2013-04-07 12:43:21Z

Hi Tabbinosity,
I'm sorry for the confusion, I was asking you if you could e mail me privately @ kjl0708@hotmail.com
You gave me so much valuable information last year,& I have a question or two I'd like to ask you.
Thanks for your time,
Sulligirl

Re: Kazimir Dulka

tabbinosity — 2013-04-05 18:21:16Z

Given that the deceased and his family were ethnic Poles, it's a good bet that they were Roman Catholic. The cemetery name sounds as though it was a Catholic cemetery. Have you considered contacting the cemetery office of the proper archdiocesan authority? They would surely know where that cemetery was located and if it still exists, or if it no longer exists they would know where the remains of those buried there were moved. They may also have other records of interest to you.

Re: Kazimir Dulka

hyost8 — 2013-04-05 18:20:37Z

Kazimir Dulka died on Ellis Island,Sept 21,1913 and was buried in Calvery Ent. I have been tring to find this cemetary.Josef & Josepha lived in Seymour,Ct.and had other children,Wanda,Mary& Edward.Josepha died in the year 1966 and Josef Died 1967

Re: Maciej Dulka

tabbinosity — 2013-04-05 18:18:47Z

Dearco, I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner. I just now saw your post. I have found a couple of people named Dulka at EIDB, including a Josepha Dulka (age 25) who traveled on the Rhein from Bremen with two small children (Kazimir and Jan). They arrived on July 12, 1913. Kazimir (age 3) died in the hospital after they landed but before they were admitted. Josepha and Jan were admitted and went on to Seymour CT. Josepha's husband and Jan's father is listed as Josef Dulka, and Josepha's next of kin in the old country is identified as her father Josef Dulka of Wilno. Josef Dulka is listed as Jan's grandfather.

I thought there must be some errors here, with all these men called Josef Dulka. Searching further, I found Josepha's husband Josef arriving earlier in the year, on February 21, 1913, from Hamburg on the President Grant. Josef's next of kin was his wife Josepha of Wilno and he was 27, so he was born approximately in 1886, so that looks like a match. It was obviously not Josef's first trip to the US, as Josefa had a 3 year old with her (Kazimir, who died before they were admitted to the US) when she arrived a few months later, plus a baby who was less than a year old at the time.

Josef traveled with a relative called Witold Doborowicz, whose next of kin was his wife Marie Doborowicz, also back in Wilno. Josef and Witold went to the same address in Seymour CT, to a mutual relative (Josef's brother-in-law and Witold's nephew) Wladyslaw. I'm sorry that I can't make out Wladyslaw's surname. It ends in "owicz" but I'm not sure whether it starts with an L or an S. Maybe an S because the second letter looks like a K. But at least that confirms my thought that Josepha's father couldn't have also been Josef Dulka.

I did not find a Maciej Dulka. I did find a Matwey Dulkas, who arrived from Bremen on the Roon on June 21, 1913. He was 22. Matwey (usually spelled Matvey or Matvei) is the Russian form of Matthew, Maciej is the Polish form. I think that Dulkas is the Lithuanianized masculine form of Dulka. (Masculine surnames in Lithuanian often end in "as.") Matwey's next of kin was his father Josef Dulkas of "Gimabeny," Wilno. I could not find a town by this name in Lithuania or Belarus, but I think it's because this is a bad transcription of the town's correct name, which I can't make out on the manifest. Matwey went to a sister Marya (Russian form of Maria) Dulkite in Boston MA. Dulkite (maybe spelled more correctly as Dulkaite) is definitely a Lithuanian surname form -- in Lithuanian the surnames of single women usually end in "aite."

There were a bazillion Dulkas from all over Central and Eastern Europe but these seem to be the closest to what you're looking for. Maybe this will give you some more to work with. Good luck with your search!

Re: Seeking infomation about Wilna, Russia

kimlanelouth68 — 2013-04-05 18:13:03Z

Thanks for your reply.Yes we know about Kings Park. We have called Pilgrims and are sending a request for any records they may have of her. We do not know whether she ended up staying committed for the rest of her life or if she was only there temporarily (one hopes), but they said even if she did not transfer when they closed down Kings Park Hospital, all the records were transferred to Pilgrims, even for the patients who did not transfer. They did say they have records going back as early as 1924, so we are hoping they may have something about her.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Re: Seeking infomation about Wilna, Russia

matka1926 — 2013-04-05 18:11:51Z

My mother's family were farm people,not like my father's family. My mother told how in those days schooling was not free,but was paid for by the families. Being farm people, my mother's family paid for the sons to got to school, but at planting time or harvest time she was sent to school in her brother's place ,so as not to waste the tuition money.Girls did NOT need education,it was deemed. She was lucky enough to learn to read and write and figure.

Surnames: Chopko, Demkiw, Jurkiw

chopperc40 — 2013-04-05 18:08:47Z

looking for information on Chopko's who came to Canada in 1930's from Belarus. The original spelling was Czobko. Names associated with the family are Demkiw and Jurkiw from Stryj.

Re: Makarevich, b 1895

tabbinosity — 2013-04-04 21:26:02Z

Whom are you asking?

Re: Seeking infomation about Wilna, Russia

joyweave — 2013-04-04 19:54:27Z

Are you aware that Kings Park was a psychiatric hospital? In those days it's likely that the family was embarrassed and that's why they said she died. It's also likely that she spent the rest of her life there.
I don't know if it's possible to get those records, but I do know that records from Kings Park were transferred to Pilgrim State Hospital in Brentwood, NY.
Have you tried the 1920-1930-1940 census for her? It would possibly give you a ballpark period for her death.

Re: Seeking infomation about Wilna, Russia

kimlanelouth68 — 2013-04-04 19:09:16Z

I have a good friend in NYC whose grandmother arrived in Ellis Island on the SS Kursk on Nov 25, 1913.She came from Wilna, Poland. I know this because we are looking for any information on this woman. She was 19 years old at the time and on her own. We lost track of her because the grandfather told my friend's mother when she was a little girl that her mother, Anna Sewenuk had died in childbirth, but we have just located the grandfather's immigration record where he had listed her as alive and living at
Kings Park Hospital in 1924. Her name was Anna (maiden name Jakorlewa) Sewenuk and we cannot find any further record of her anywhere. We do not know what became of her.

My friend's mother was her daughter, Helena Sewenuk. She died not knowing that her mother had been alive and living at this hospital.

K

Re: Makarevich, b 1895

sulligirl — 2013-04-03 22:15:50Z

Hi,
If you have a minute could you email me at kjl0708@hotmail.com, I have a Belarusian question for you.
Thanks,
Sulligirl

GORODETSKY and BOUTELKOFF Families -- near BOBRIUSK

rlizgrossman — 2013-03-16 12:50:12Z

I have no knowledge of Bobriusk, but I suspect my Gorodetsky family was from there.

They appear to have been Talmudic scholars

Thanks for your help!

Rachel

Re: Chopko, Demkiw, Jurkiw

ZlaticaBeca — 2013-03-15 03:15:13Z

You're welcome.
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.eeurope.belarus/mb.ash...
http://genforum.genealogy.com/belarus/

Re: Chopko, Demkiw, Jurkiw

chopperc40 — 2013-03-15 03:12:32Z

Thank you. I did not realize I was on the wrong board. I searched the name Chopko and these where the only ones that appeared in search. I thought I was on Chopko Board.

Re: Chopko, Demkiw, Jurkiw

ZlaticaBeca — 2013-03-14 22:31:43Z

chopperc40
You might want to post on Belarus board as your post is on Slovakia's Ancestry board.

Location Stryj is in Ukraine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryi

Re: Thank you re Liskeva aka Lichkov

Piujvidin — 2013-03-13 11:31:47Z

Hi!!! I had the same problem than you have. They are two location with the same name, one in Lithuan and the other is 100km from Grodno, i think that your ancestor cames from there, liskeve or lyskov in belarus.
Have a nice day!!!!

Free Belarus church records online

veranmiller — 2013-03-09 11:54:24Z

The Latavian archives have a free website of Belarus church records at
http://www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/en/menu/lv/2/ig/15.html
The records are for 19th century evangelical lutheran churches throughout Belarus.

You will need to register first.

Vera
Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family
http://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com

Re: Siergiewicz-Michalewicz near Kurty, Weilka Olsia, Postavy Belarus

karlatsmt — 2013-03-08 01:17:58Z

I agree with the mapping issues...it is extremely difficult to locate small villages...either the map isn't indexed, or the search engine has difficulty with cyrillic.

That said, I did come across a miracle and have located the village of Zadziewia...If you pull up a map of Postavy, Belarus, the village is located between the old airbase and the city. You'll notice a lake on the Western edge of the city...Zadziewia is located between the West edge of the lake and the old airbase (you can still see the outline of the landing strips. Don't know if it's still in use). Just guessing, but the village may have around 100 residents today

Re: Siergiewicz-Michalewicz near Kurty, Weilka Olsia, Postavy Belarus

eglejara — 2013-03-05 09:14:17Z

Wilno refers to Vilna governorate so when you research various alternatives they have to be within borders of the governorate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilna_Governorate

According to Polish gazetteer, there were at least two Zadzewie villages in Polish settlement areas. The second one is in the Wilno governorate. http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_XIV/255

I am no expert in Polish but Zadzewie is in "powiat Wilejski" (district of Viliejkahttp://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powiat_wilejski) and it is closest to the village Mankowicze (Mankoviche) and it seems to have its own church.

When you type in задзевы (Zadzevi - Belarussian version of Zadzewie) to google, you will get a Belarussian website on Roman Catholic church network formation in Belarus. (Use google translate) Zadzevi is listed as a parish in Svir diocese with over 3000 parishioners. http://media.catholic.by/nv/n1/art6.htm

I think, the problem is that Google Maps are not detailed enough to spot Zadzewie or the town/village has not survived until today.

Re: Siergiewicz-Michalewicz near Kurty, Weilka Olsia, Postavy Belarus

joanh0207 — 2013-03-05 01:02:28Z

Wow, what a timely post. I was just researching Zadziewia, Wilno, Poland for my own family (Rundzia/Rundzio) and came across your post in a Google search. My grandmother listed her hometown as Sadvey, Lithuania on her ship's passenger list but as Zadziewia, Wilno, Poland on her naturalization papers years later. Further research led me to this familysearch.org page listing all the names that town has had over the centuries as well as some microfilm sources for church records:
https://familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainfra...
In case the link doesn't work, I'll list the names here: Zadev′e, Vileĭka, Vil′na, Russia; later Zadziewie (Postawy), Wilno, Poland; later Zadzei︠u︡e, Pastavy, Vitebsk, Belarus

Hope that helps you.

Linda

Re: Lieberman from Pinsk to Chicago, Illinois

ileane_shepperd — 2013-02-26 04:47:28Z

Hi, This is ileane shepperd. Is this Jeri?

Re: Mihailov relatives

falcon8696032 — 2013-02-26 03:29:35Z

Do you know who Nikolay's parents or other siblings were?

I have a Lubov Mihailov who has a brother named Nikolai
( whom I dont know anything about)

It is possible that we are related however unlikely. The relatives I'm aware of were in Bulgaria and Turkey.

Re: GLUWCHYNSKI Family -- from Uglany

missjez1 — 2013-02-20 23:21:10Z

Hi Teresa,
Would love to hear from you...my email address is missjez@hotmail.com I'm the grandaughter of Ignacy's son Joseph.
Jessie

Re: GLUWCHYNSKI Family -- from Uglany

gluwchynski — 2013-02-19 03:25:31Z

Hi,
I am curious to know who you are. My name is Teresa Andelic and I am Ignacy Gluwchynski's daughter. And probably can fill in some of the holes for you. Looking forward to talking to you.
Teresa