As many of different other Jewish settlements (“mistechko”) at the Russian Empire, Stepantsy became a Jewish colony by some sort of machination. As we know, it was totally forbidden to the Jewish people to live at the villages and mix between the peasants. At the middle of the 18th century, they could live only at the agricultural colonies or at…
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Jewish History of Kanev At Kanev city the Jewish settlement was founded at the end of 17th century. The first Jewish population at Kanev was something about 98 persons. At 1847 the Jewish population grew to 1635 persons and during the Russian Empire Population census at 1897 was counted 2682 Jewish people who constantly lived…
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Settlement Sensus Kiev Gybernia 1858 Fastow, Rakitnoe, Skvira, Volodarka, Novohvastov ,Ružín, Borshchagovka , Khodorkov, Pavoloch, Vcherayshe, Uman, Bukov, Kiev county, Vasilkovsky county, Lipovetsky county, Gaysinsky county,Dashev, Letichevsky county, Uman county, Lipovetsky county, Radomyslsky county, Uman county, Cherkassky county, Berdichev, Bolshie Nizgurtsy, Novina, Kovalschina, Romanovka, Korolevka, Lopatin, Belilovka,Vahnovka, Priluka, Pogrebische, Samgorodok, Antonovka,Vasilkov, Fastow, Rakitnoe,Vasilkovsky county, Zvenigorodka,…
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Jewish names. Their origin and meaning Our site provides a unique opportunity to know the origin of his Jewish name. As in the Russian Empire were about half of all Jews in the world and among the Russian-speaking Jews have a great variety of names, (most of which – Jewish origin), it is necessary to clarify…
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Every person who tried to search his ancestors at Ukraine know that sometimes it is very complicated to find something at Ukrainian archives. So, why it is so difficult to find something regarding Jewish Genealogy at Ukraine? Now we will try to answer. There several difficulties with the Ukrainean archives: 1. Every 50 years Ukraine…
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Sometimes during our Jewish genealogical researches we are trying to find and place in a system overall documentation which is available to search in. So, few times ago we’ve found all the saved population censuses, 1897 at Kiev gubernia with detailed information of Jewish families (including Names, Family names, location, activity etc.). And now, if…
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1. Parish registers (metrical books): There are not so much of them, not for every village. The records started to be kept in general since 1850’s in two languages (Yiddish and local) by official rabbis. Births, deaths, marriages, divorces. This is the general source during the research of your bloodline history, making-up of your lineage…
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The researching of your lineage is one of the hardest and the most ungrateful job in this life. Why are we saying that it is ungrateful job? Because the first thing to do, if you have decided to research the history of your lineage, is to collect the primary information from all of your living…
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