Kyivska - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: searching for Stermans

Rochelle830 — 2013-05-10 14:16:16Z

Rosenblum is my great grandmas name. Minnie or Mindel Rosenblum. Her father was a great rabbi Reb Yehuda Leb. Minnie Rosenblum married Louis Dolinsky and lived in Lakewood, NJ. Contact me for info or any family ties. In search of family. Rochelle@att.net

Radish (Radka) & Faydo families Ward Co North Dakota

livingstoneancestry — 2013-05-09 03:49:31Z

Hi all. I'm looking for more information on the Radish family and Faydo family in Ward Co North Dakota. My great grandfather was Matthew Radish (Sr), our aunt Betty told me his name originally was Metrofan Radka and they came from Hvra about 2hrs south of Kyiv in a fishing village. I believe his father's name may have been Kaprion and his mom was Wasalena (unsure of her maiden name). We're trying to trace our family back further if at all possible.

Faydo family also of Ward Co, ND; not positive of exactly location they came from in Russia/Ukraine. they may have come over in 1903. Alexander Faydo and Tena Zarodeny

any additional information is greatly appreciated

Suzanne

Re: surname:Spzuk

Mighthelp — 2013-04-10 15:59:45Z

Your Szpuk (Шпук) Family was WW2 DP (Displaced People).

Until you ascertain exact place of birth you will not be able to move your search to Ukraine.

Contact the Bad Arolsen Archives. There are appx 5 miles of shelves, stuffed w/DP records, being digitized. These archives will provide you w/details of Szpuk Family's exact experience in Germany and other personal details like EXACT place of origin. Inquiry by immediate family is available for free. All you need to provide full name of person and any other spelling variants and exact birth
date. Do not provide more info than that. You want the archivists to locate any and all records possible. Additionally, you can make an inquire for more than one person at a time.

Your inquiry can be done by e-mail. Response can take as little as three days or as much as three months.

Upon accessing site click FAMILY REQUESTS on top. Follow instructions.
http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
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Post WW2 quota in Brasil was 7,000 DP's . During WW2 there was hardly any Atlantic Immigrant Traffic. Most traffic was cargo and those ships were highly guarded against the German submarines.
http://www.dpcamps.org/migration.html
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Once you get an exact place name, feel free to contact me, and then we can go from there.

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

Mighthelp — 2013-04-09 17:02:33Z

BTW I think I saw something about a Lena Halchenko, that you posted? If she had been married to a Sam Halchenko at some point, a military record of his, shows that he and wife were from Zwenogorodka as well > village called Dolgaya Greblya.

Довга Гребля, с., Київська губ., Звенигородський пов., Боярська вол., transliterates & translates to selo/village Dovha Hreblya (I think means Long Oar or Long Dock, not sure > Kyivska gubernia > Zvenyhorodskij powiat (county)> Boyarka volost/rural village cluster.
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Nice Photos from selo/village Bojarka attached to map:
http://mapcarta.com/13768710/Gallery

Re: Kremenchug/Kiev area

Mighthelp — 2013-04-08 18:56:03Z

I would have no idea how to contact or communicate with these people!
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Write a letter in English, using simple sentences, which will be easier for them to translate.

A little later I will set up the mailing addresses for you, which you will copy and paste on the envelops.

Kyiv is a pretty cosmopolitan city. Many people are well-educated and multilingual. Don't worry about it all that much. You haven't gotten a response yet. When you get a response, you will deal w/it.

"Where there is a will, there is always a way."

I only found the surname Segal. I will go back double check for Segalsky.

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

katrzc — 2013-04-08 13:59:40Z

Thank you! I haven't checked the LDS catalog recently. I do not read or speak Ukrainian or Russian, so this may have to wait until I go to Salt Lake City next year.

Your help is certainly appreciated.

Karen T

Re: Kremenchug/Kiev area

braw_wee_dug — 2013-04-07 19:55:45Z

Could Segal also be sigall or Sigallsky?
I would have no idea how to contact or communicate with these people!
Thank you very much - the chances are they are distant. relatives.
I know that the Sigallsky family did end up in Kiev before the mother - Rachel (nee Shabelny) and her three children Michal, Samuel, Sarah and Rebecca moved to scotland.
I have no idea what happened to lieber - the father/husband. He was already deceased on the marriage cert of Michal in Glasgow scotland in 1895.
Rachel's father was a watch maker from Kiev.

Re: Kremenchug/Kiev area

Mighthelp — 2013-04-07 17:45:47Z

I just added some additional info to my first post. There are Segal in Kyiv.

Good Luck!!!

Re: Kremenchug/Kiev area

Mighthelp — 2013-04-07 17:43:56Z

The surname Shabelny could mean SOMEONE W/A SWORD. There were Jewish Cossacks. It could also be a toponym type surname, referring to place name. There is a place called Shabelle in Smolensk>Russia. In Russia, Jewish surnames were not mandated until 19th century. Up to that point they were patronymic. Czar Alexander's "Pale of Settlement" accts for much of the Russian Jewish migration within Czarist Russia. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11862-pale-of-set...

Kremenchuh is in Poltava oblast/region today. These are variant surnames appearing in regional capital, Poltava, Directory. Nothing for Shabelniy/Shabelnij/Shabelny.

Шабельнiк = Shabelnik
Шабельник = Shabelnyk

Following variants appear in Kremenchuh. I am providing closest transliteration/sounds-like I can.

Шабель = Shabelle
Шабельник = Shabelnyk
Шабельнік = Shabelnik
Шаблій = Shabliy
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Segal/Sigalor & other variants do not show up in Poltava and Kremenchuh, however there are four listed in Kyiv Telephone Directory.

СЕГАЛЬ А.А. 2670374 ЛЯТОШИНСКОГО УЛ. 18А /71
СЕГАЛЬ И.С. 4161385 МЕЖИГОРСКАЯ УЛ. 24 /4
СЕГАЛЬ Л.А. 4308523 ДУБРОВИЦКАЯ УЛ. 7 /34
СЕГАЛЬ С.Я. 5445149 ШОЛОМ-АЛЕЙХЕМА УЛ. 14 /2

Re: Kremenchug/Kiev area

braw_wee_dug — 2013-04-07 17:33:36Z

Wow! Thanks so much. I will certainly follow this up. Especially the Smolensk clue. I had found something a while back but had dismissed it as I thought - although on the same river - Smolensk was too far away. I will revisit this clue.
I do appreciate your information.

Re: Walof/Wallow/Walov family

Mighthelp — 2013-04-07 16:29:34Z

Philie has a very well organized Jewish Genealogy Society:
http://www.jgsgp.org/

http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsp/resourceguidev5c.pdf

There are two great resources that many descendants of Russian Jews overlook: Immigrant Banks and Russian Consular Records available thru NARA.

Immigrant banks. The Walow Family Members are listed in Blitzstein Bank Records. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/PhilaBlitzstein.htm

Everyone emigrating from Russia had to travel w/a passport. http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/26...
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Today there appx 300 Walow/Valov listed as residing in Ukraine. There are five Walow (Валов in Ukrainian) listed in Kyiv Telephone Directory. You can call using a translator or just write in English and give them enough time to locate a translator.

ВАЛОВ А.А. 5586711 МИРА ПРОСП. 7 /6
ВАЛОВ А.И. 5186120 БРАТИСЛАВСКАЯ УЛ. 42А /21
ВАЛОВ А.К. 4463608 ЛАГЕРНАЯ УЛ. 40 /
ВАЛОВ В.А. 4432755 КРАСНОДАРСКАЯ УЛ. 45 /7
ВАЛОВ В.В. 5475090 МАЯКОВСКОГО В. ПРОСПЕКТ 22А /321

Following look to be be Walow variants, Walowa and Walowaya, which are females versions of Walow:

ВАЛОВА А.А. 2288084 КРЕЩАТИК УЛ. 10 /14
ВАЛОВА А.Ф. 5502768 СЕРАФИМОВИЧА УЛ. 3 /62
ВАЛОВА В.Ф. 2645029 40-ЛЕТ. ОКТЯБРЯ ПРОСП. 15 /56
ВАЛОВАЯ В.А. 5587743 ВОССОЕДИНЕНИЯ ПРОСП. 13А /214
ВАЛОВАЯ В.В. 5603973 БАЖАНА Н. ПРОСП. 9А /61
ВАЛОВАЯ В.В. 5134159 ШОЛОМ-АЛЕЙХЕМА УЛ. 8 /9
ВАЛОВАЯ Л.Ф. 5629511 ПОЛЕССКИЙ ПЕР. 1 /3
ВАЛОВАЯ М.М. 2762107 УРИЦКОГО УЛ. 25 /105
ВАЛОВАЯ С.Н. 2249119 ЯРОСЛАВОВ ВАЛ УЛ. 19 /55

Re: Mikhneev, Kananuk, Guilevych

Mighthelp — 2013-04-07 15:43:31Z

I am not clear what you would like to accomplish.

The Guilevych/Guylevich/Hulevych surname is the only one that shows up w/frequency in Kyiv Telephone Directory. Your Mikhneev surname shows up as Mikhnev and there is only one listed. There are no Kananuk (more likely original Kananyuk/Kananiuk) in Kyiv. This surname looks to have Old Vohlynian origins as a Boyar name???
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Is there some family oral history that you can provide? Did these families emigrate and approximately when? In order to take advantage of my help, you will need to give me more info.

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

katrzc — 2013-04-07 15:02:18Z

Again, thank you. English transliteration of the surname on several papers was MYKOLENKO, though all U.S. records on my branch use the Michalenko spelling.

All, of course, of interest. Karen T

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

Mighthelp — 2013-04-07 14:57:30Z

Alexie.

Today there appx 730+ Michalenko = Михаленко living throughout Eastern Ukraine.

Best way to trace your roots is documenting the family back, STEP BY STEP.

Turn of the 19th century Zamuto (Hungarian name Opalhegy) was predominantly a Slovak hamlet w/population of 848. The filial GC (Rusyn) Parish was in Rudlyo. The filial Jewish kahal was in Varanno. Both the Lutheran and RC Parishes were in Sokut. This was the Varanno jaras/district > Zemplen megve> Austro-Hungarian Empire and today the village is called Zamutov> SLovakia.

You are in luck. Rudlyo GC Church Registers for 1796-1951 are available and can be ordered thru LDS.
https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/709701
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The Lemko (Rusyn), a micro-ethnic Ruthenian group, were very proud of their Kyivan Rus connection. From what I understand that connection goes back to 13th/14th century.

Additional Reading of Interest?
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/crchurch.htm

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

Mighthelp — 2013-04-06 23:14:54Z

KAT.

This is the only 19th century Zwenigorodka map using Latin Alphabet I could find. Clicking on map will enlarge it. The more clicking you do, the larger it becomes. Zwenigorodka can be found in the SE section of map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kiev_Governorate_1821.jpg

The green border around Zwenigorodka indicates uezd/district border. Just NW of Zwenigorodka, the district center, is a place called Lisianka. Today, maps show Lysianka as a district onto itself and there is a village called Bojarka in the central north of the district. The old map doesn't show this kind of detail. I am pretty sure your Immigrant Family WAS NOT from Boyarka/Bojarko, the large 19th century cosmopolitan town, today w/population of 36,000+ and located appx 10 miles outside of Kyiv proper, to which you made reference.

Your Immigrant Family likely emigrated from what is today selo/village Bojarka = Боярка > Lysyanskij raion/district = Лисянський район > Cherkasska oblast/region = Черкаська область > Ukraine, latest zip code 19311. There are currently 664 people living there. Since 1967 it has been clustered w/ Poradivka, Bridok and Kharchenko w/which it shares the village administration.

Current Google Map for your ancestral (small) village, Boyarka. Fiddling w/zoom top right will give you more perspective. Your ancestral selo Boyarka is 21.9 miles NW of Zwenohorodka: http://maps.google.com/maps?z=9&q=49.3333,30.6667+%28Boy...

Archeological digs indicate that this settlement dates back to the 10th/11th century, Historic Kyivan Rus Period. The name Boyarka was taken from the Boyarka River. Technically the village is first documented in 1644, as an attack focus of Polish Prince Vyshnevetski w/his Korsun army. In 1654 Boyarka geopolitically was located in the Bilotserkow county. That year there were two churches, St. George and St. Nicholas, located in this village. The population at that time was 89 Cossacks, 245 peasants and 21 landed gentry/nobility. In 1722 Bojarka belonged to the Polish Magnate, Jan Yablonski. The Hajdamaky attacked the settlement and in 1774 the Polish King, Stanislaw August, turned the village over to a F. Barannyskom.

During 1917-1921 the Kvitkovsky Free Cossacks fought very hard to keep the village out of Bolshevik hands. During the Great Ukrainian Famine, artificially created by Stalin in 1932/1933, 650 villagers died from starvation and 47 were politically repressed and sent to the gulags***. On November 24, 2007 the village created a memorial for all those that died in that time. During WW2 628 villagers were conscripted into the the Soviet Army, of whom 162 died in that war.

Populations of villages have changed dramatically in the last 100 yrs. Ukraine has seen a lot of migration from the small villages to the larger towns and cities for economic reasons.

****One of the Terror Lists coming out of the Moscow Archives should provide us w/a list of those and what happened to them.

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

Mighthelp — 2013-04-06 20:20:37Z

I have exc news. Your ancestral Bojarka (St. Nicholas Orthodox Church) Church Registers for 1875-1917 have been filmed by LDS: https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/658784

You should be able to obtain Grandfather Kyrilo's baptismal records.

I will check further and see if St. George's Church Records might be available as well, but it will have to wait until Monday.

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

Mighthelp — 2013-04-06 20:20:16Z

Kat.

Are you sure it was your direct family coming thru Odessa? Do you have a copy I can examine?

It makes no sense, because the two manifests indicate Hamburg and Liverpool as exit ports.

Anyone traveling from this region at that time frame traveled w/a passport. Passports could only be obtained in Kyiv.

Have you explored the Russian Consular Records (LI-RA-MA Collection) available thru Canadian Archives? http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-908.008-e.html

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

katrzc — 2013-04-06 16:46:30Z

Thank you. Yes, this does help. I've been aware of the two passenger manifests for some time but could not find anything resembling Lurnigoroda. I knew it had to be a misspelling by whomever took the information.

I do know that they are originally from Boyarka (Bojarka or about four other spellings.) which is slightly southwest of Kyjiv. It looks like they were moving toward Odesa and the seaport.

There is another record which shows family members last residence as Odesa.

The family went back and forth at least three times before settling in North Dakota. Kyril became Carl, my grandfather.

Thank you for you time and help; much appreciated! Karen T

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

Mighthelp — 2013-04-06 16:21:31Z

KAT

???????

First trip for Alexander and Nadezhda (Nadya) traveling w/8 yr old Hanna, 3 yr old Kyrilo and 11 mo old Piotr.

MANIFEST ATTACHED TO THIS RECORD SHOWS THE FAMILY EMIGRATING FROM ZVENOGORODKA, either from district or from district center (town population in that time frame 13,000+) in Kyevskaya gubernia/region??? Immigrants frequently referred to their district name as place of origin for geographic reference, because their own villages were small. It could very well be that Boyarka was a village in this district at the time. How did you ascertain the place of origin was Bojarka ? Maps for this time frame should be examined. Today Zvenyhorodka = Звенигородка in Ukr is part of the Cherkasska oblast/region. The Kyivska oblast is much smaller today than the Kyevskaya gubernia was at turn of 19th century.

Name: Alexander Michalenko
Arrival Date: 28 Jul 1899
Birth Date: abt 1867
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality: Russian
Port of Departure: Hamburg
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Pretoria
Search Ship Database: Search the Pretoria in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
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Following obtained using http://stevemorse.org/

Micholenko, Alexander Lurnigorodha 32 1867 1899
Micholenko, Hanna Lurnigorodha 8 1891 1899
Micholenko, Kirilo Lurnigorodha 3 1896 1899
Micholenko, Nadeslta Lurnigorodha 30 1869 1899
Micholenko, Poker Lurnigorodha 0 1899 1899
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After examining and reexamining ship manifest, I concluded that Lurnigorodha is Zvenygorodka = today Zvenyhorodka.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvenyhorodka
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Border Crossing Record :

Name: Alexander Michalenko
Arrival Date: 10 Nov 1905
Port of Arrival: Quebec, Canada
Ship Name: Tunisian
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Residence Place: ND
Residence Country: United States
Age: 38
Birth Date: abt 1867
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality: Russian
Record Type: Manifests
Line Number: 7

Looks like third trip. 11/10/1905 thru Quebec . Again Alexander and Nadezhda traveling (Hanna is not on manifest) Kyrilo, Piotr & Andreas and Grigori who were born in USA.
They were heading to Balfour. Alexander lists having made the trip in 1899 and 1904 w/brother Peter Michalenko. The family was traveling w/$275. This was likely last trip.

All records above obtained thru http://search.ancestry.ca/
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Today there appx 730+ Michalenko = Михаленко living throughout Eastern Ukraine.

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

katrzc — 2013-04-05 17:33:49Z

Please send me an email at katrzc@gmail.com. Thanks! Karen T

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

michalenkov — 2013-04-05 07:56:07Z

Alexander and michalenko are my grandparents from kief North Dakota. My father was the youngest son of alexander and Nora. In the 1960s my parents, Virgil and Alice michalenko moved west before setteling in Oregon. I would love information on how we are all related.

Mikhneev, Kananuk, Guilevych

anna_mikhneeva — 2013-02-17 04:12:04Z

Hello, I am wondering if anyone would know anything about the Mikhneev, Kananuk or Guilevych/Guylevich families in Kiev, Ukraine. If so, please contact me.

Re: looking for information on the name Liaschenko, or Samokish?

Mighthelp — 2013-02-16 16:37:45Z

William,

Please read post from Montolio 75.

He has family currently residing in Baba's village.

Re: looking for information on the name Liaschenko, or Samokish?

WilliamLiaschenko1 — 2013-02-15 23:32:32Z

My inquiry is based on the name Samokish being my grandmoth's maiden name. I wanted to get info on the family, as I am curious of my Ukrainian half. Katherine was her name, and all I really know of her family is that she at one point had a brother, Peter, and a sister Helen. Any information of the family would be greatly appreciated. I know that during the walk to the camps in Germany she met my grandfather.

Re: Additional info:

montolio75 — 2013-02-15 23:01:48Z

Good evening! My name is Igor Samokish. I guess I know who do you need. My relatives live in Kinski Rozdory. It's Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya region. Why are you interested to find the family with surname Samokish? Mail me: montolio@ukr.net. sincerely, Igor

Kremenchug/Kiev area

braw_wee_dug — 2013-02-10 00:16:22Z

Searching for names
Sigall and Shabelny.

Re: Walof/Wallow/Walov family

ravennestar — 2013-01-30 15:42:37Z

Thank you.......now to figure out where in Kiew? kiev? I know that Rubin was a tailor...but thats about all. Bubbe used to talk about hiding from the ppl throwing rocks into the houses (she was Ester on the list)

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

ZlaticaBeca — 2013-01-22 20:27:36Z

Mighthelp

an obituary of this ancestor.
http://userdoc.ancestry.com/userdocstore/download.ashx?filei...

Zlatica

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

ZlaticaBeca — 2013-01-22 19:48:54Z

NY EI site has the manifest as :
Bielozor, Gdwril Monaskrysuse, Russia 28 1884 1912

I know you have been researching this "ancestor" for a long time and it does seem like every document you locate on him is yet another puzzle piece that somehow does not fit.
Zlatica

Re: CAPOWIECKA

Charlene1925 — 2013-01-22 18:37:54Z

I asked Jerry and he belives this matter was resolved. It did involve Marcia Capowiecka Mandelman's estate in New York. If it is not resolved, please contact me.

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

1022xyz — 2013-01-20 10:49:56Z

Thank You!
I have tried St. Mary's...he was a member there.
Have marriage ban...not much on that...two witness names which also have brought me no luck.
Parents names Matrona Bilozor? and Leo Bandagski? I doubt that these names are correct but they are on a few documents that i have. Three children Of Julius were born in Toledo Ohio, under another name (Bondarszewski). I cannot find any ship manifest with his name on it. I can e-mail more info if you like. Again Thank You!!!!!
lblwish26@yahoo.com

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

Mighthelp — 2013-01-20 01:49:02Z

So you have ascertained his given name? What is it?

If you have his mother's maiden name, I can try running a search for both surnames simultaneously thru Ukrainian internet. I have had some success doing that.
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Russian Consular Records available thru NARA:
http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/26...
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New Russia Township > Lorain County > OH. Orthodox Churches???

Grandfather came w/a special kind of spirituality. Being so far away from home, he would have been a parishioner of one of the three Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in Lorain. He would have married there and had his children baptized there. Orthodox church records are full of detail like name of parents, and their parents, and where they lived and what they did for a living.

Start w/inquiry at St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Lorain, OH. This originated as a Carpatho-Rusyn Church, but you never know.
http://www.stnicholaslakewood.org/StMarys/index.html
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PS > July 8, 1896 DOB - stay flexible w/month and day, because this date may be his baptismal date or his actual birth date. In Grandfather's time frame in what is Ukraine today, baptismal dates were considered birth dates. Children were frequently born at home and the child would be baptized within 10 days of birth. To this day the birthday in Ukraine is not as important as the Name's Day is.

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

1022xyz — 2013-01-19 10:30:00Z

Have tried to find immigration papers...no luck for Lorain, Ohio. Military paperwork was a no go....have his WW1 draft card and found his WW2. Have SS paperwork that he filed in 1942, no REAL parents names.
Parents names i dont think are their correct names.

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

Mighthelp — 2013-01-19 04:18:43Z

Because you Immigrant Ancestor was carrying a Russian passport, there is another exc resource: Russian Consulate Records.

These records are available @ both Canadian and American Archives.

WHERE DID HE SETTLE UPON IMMIGRATION???

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

1022xyz — 2013-01-19 00:29:55Z

Thank you so much...but birthdate im looking for is July 8, 1896 ( Julius ) Single male 16-18 years old, Father was Constable (Leo), Mother Matrona. Your postings are very helpful...Thank You again!

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

Mighthelp — 2013-01-18 00:14:19Z

Immigrated to where in 1912 ??? What is appx birth yr ???
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Following is very likely H(G)AWRYLO Bielozor. He lists leaving wife Alexandra in Monastyrysche*** > Kiew. He was 28 upon arrival @ Ellis Island. He was short man w/blond hair and grey eyes.

Name: Gawrie Bielozor
Arrival Date: 2 Oct 1912
Birth Date: abt 1884
Birth Location: Russia
Birth Location Other: monasteryszee
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality: Russian
Port of Departure: Rotterdam
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Volturno
Search Ship Database: Search the Volturno in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database

Source for above is : http://search.ancestry.ca/

Today Monastyrysche is a district seat in Cherkassy region. In previous post I did point out that the Kyevskaya gubernia was broken down into some smaller regions. Cherkassy in 1912 was in the Kyevskaya gubernia. Today it is an independent region. (Monastyrysche is about 3 hours south of Kyiv.)

This immediate area is LAND OF COSSACK.

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

Mighthelp — 2013-01-18 00:07:05Z

Белозір (Ukrainian) or Белозор (Russian) and another Russian variant Билозир (BILOZIR).

The surname may have evolved as a descriptive surname , PERSON W/LIGHT EYES or HONEST, OPEN PERSON W/CLEAR VISION.

Since it is also a name for the perrenial Bilozir/Belozir, a white flower that grows in boggy, swampy areas and used as herbal medicine, the surname might also be occupational, MEDICINE MAN.
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In the 19th century, during Czarist Period, the Kyevskaya gubernia/region was much larger than it is today.
http://www.angelfire.com/or/yizkor/gubmaps.html

Today there are 410 people carrying this surname in Ukraine, mostly in Eastern Ukraine. 7 show up in Kyiv (the capital) and another 4+ living in Belo Tserkiv (district center), Vasylkiv and Boryspol, all in Kyivska oblast/region.
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In order to start, you need to locate immigration documents.

Appx when did your Immigrant Ancestor emigrate from Kyev gubernia and where did they settle upon immigration. What is the full name of the person?

Re: Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

1022xyz — 2013-01-17 19:05:21Z

Mighthelp:
I do not have a name.
And cannot locate immigration papers. This name was given as a possible name for my Grandfather.
I know that he was born in Kiev, immigrated in 1912 and i have a birthdate. I cannot locate his proper name.

Re: CAPOWIECKA

Mighthelp — 2013-01-16 20:14:29Z

Today there are appx 5,000 people w/Udin = Юдин surname living throughout Ukraine (UA). Closer transliteration would be Y(J)udyn.

177 currently reside in Kyiv, the capital. Another 25 + live in other towns in the Kyiv oblast/region.
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Tranliterational (sounds-like) variants of Mandel/Mendel surname found in Kyiv today:
Мандельбаум = Mandelbaum
Мандельблат = Mandelblat
Мандель = Mandel
Мандельгейм = Mandelgame
Мендаленко =Mendalenko
Мендеграл = Mendelgral
Менделевич = Mendelevych
Менделеєв = Mendeleyev
Менделєєв = Mendelyeyev
Менделенко = Mendelenko
Менделуца = Mendelutza
Мендель = Mendel
Мендельсон = Mendelson

Bylozor, Bilozor, Bilczor, Bielozor

1022xyz — 2013-01-16 20:07:39Z

Looking for any information on this surname.
Kiev area.
May have been schoolteachers, military and or policemen in the 1800's 1900's.

Re: CAPOWIECKA

ebf2001_2001 — 2013-01-16 08:59:33Z

Dear Jerry,

I happened to google "UDIN" and came across your long ago message!

Marcia Capowiecka Mandelman was a first cousin to my father. She was married to Oscar Mandelman, and they immigrated to the U.S. in 1964. She died in 1997 and had no children.

Please contact me at ebf2001@comcast.net so we can share information.

Evan

Re: Walof/Wallow/Walov family

ZlaticaBeca — 2013-01-11 23:41:16Z

Erinne

www.jewishgen.org

The family arrived NY Ellis Island. The location is Kiew.
Walow, Czirel Kien 8 1898 1906
Walow, Ester Kien 9 1897 1906
Walow, Jankel Kien 4 1902 1906
Walow, Jeschie Kien 6 1900 1906
Walow, Menie Kien 30 1876 1906
Walow, Tevir Kien 3 1903 1906

The ancestor Rubin WALOW must have come thru Philadelphia port since he does not show up in NY EI. Possible that uncle's name was KAFTAN.

https://familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

Re: YAROSLAVSKY

mirasinger2 — 2013-01-10 22:45:03Z

I was looking for information on any Yaroslovskys from Belaya Tzerkov. My father's name is Gilbert Yaros, and his father Baruch (Ben) Yaroslovsky (shortened to Yaros soon after he came to Philadelphia) came to the US/Phila in the early 1900s. He had a brother who emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina and apparently was killed in a car accident.

Walof/Wallow/Walov family

ravennestar — 2013-01-03 05:39:58Z

I am searching for the origins of Rubin and Menie Wallow/walof/wolov/ walov family.

Rubin left to america in in around 1900 on the invitation and encouragement of Uncle Isaak Kaften who had moved to NYC. Menie followd in 1906. She came with her children Ester, Jeschie, Jankel, Czeril and Tevir.
Rubin was a Tailor by trade.
they settled in Philadelphia pa.

Any information of family members who remained behind or moved elsewhere would bet fondly received either here or are ERinne.dock@gmail.com

Re: Family Research

pam1wilson — 2012-12-31 00:05:48Z

I can be reached at Pamela.Pasemko@ontario.ca

Re: Family Research

pam1wilson — 2012-12-31 00:04:20Z

i am pamela pasemko, daughter of john h. pasemko and joyce and last living of the family. i can be reached at pam1wilson@sympatico.ca

New address is Pamela.Pasemko.ontario ca

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

katrzc — 2012-12-30 00:14:03Z

I don't know the Sepchenko family of Kief, though my grandfather did grow up there. My great-great-grandmother was Thelma [not exactly a Ukrainian name!] Sepchenko (Sepchanko, Sipchenko) Michalenko, married to George Michalenko. I am not sure that they ever came to the United States. Three of their sons did and lived in Kief or the near vicinity.

A Sam Sepchenko married Marina Michalenko, daughter of Peter Michalenko, 7 November 1905. They had five children. The California online death index gave the maiden name of Sam's mother as Krowchenko. No first name for either his mother or father is given.

Hope this is some help. Karen T

Re: Michalenko - Bojarka > North Dakota, USA

jeraleesmith — 2012-12-29 03:19:53Z

My mother, Lena Mildred Spechenko, also grew up in Kief, North Dakota. She had a sister (Stacia) 2 years older. A brother (Dan), I believe 2 years younger. and two older brothers (Alex and Andrew). Did you know any Sepchenkos in Kief? Jeralee Smith

Re: looking for information on the name Liaschenko, or Samokish?

Mighthelp — 2012-11-28 14:49:42Z

These inquiries have been around for a while.

Given that the family spent time in WW2 and Post WW2 Germany, an inquiry at Bad Arolsen, should be helpful. Germans kept detailed records of anyone who set foot on their territory. Bad Arolsen contains appx 5/6 miles of DP (Displaced Peope) documents, that are still being digitized. You should be able to get a copy of all documents generated by your DP Family, including personal info like exact place of birth and copy of Grandparents' marriage certificate, etc. Inquiry is available at no cost to immediate family. All you have to do is submit Baba and Dido's full names and any transliterational (sounds like) name variants and their exact birth dates. You can perform inquiry for both at the same time. Additionally, include the names of children born in Germany. Response can come in three days or three months. Make sure to provide your full snail mail address with your email address.

Click on to FAMILY INQUIRIES AND REQUEST FORMS:
http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/archives/index.html

Once you get a response, feel free to contact me and I can then help you move your inquiry to Ukraine.

Re: looking for distant relatives

Dianne_Melnyk — 2012-11-27 01:11:33Z

saw the post. Did you ever find anything?