FINDING FAMILIES IN THE 1795-1917: CENSUS RECORDS AND MORE

Rhoda Miller, Ed.D., CG® Sunday, March 24, 2019 Jewish Community of Long Island

www.JGSLI.org • YouTube about the book • Name Index to the book Very Helpful to Know... • Location information . Use maps . Use gazetteers . Know name variations / spellings in relevant languages • Original name . Pronunciation – use soundex tools . Name written in original language - Kotlowitz = Kotlovitch = Kotlowicz (Russia Poland origins) - Eisdorfer = Icedorfer = Aj(y)zdorfer = Eisdörfer = Eisdoerfer (Austro-Hungarian origins) - Cholodowsky = Kholodowsky = Чолодовский, Холодовский, Чолодовзкий, Холодовзкий (Russian origins) • Records . Do exhaustive U.S. research first . Use the big sites: - Ancestry.com - FamilySearch.org - MyHeritage.com . Use the specialized sites: - See handout Languages • • Hebrew • Polish • Lithuanian • Russian • Hungarian • Czech • Latin Image courtesy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement Gilbert, Martin. 1992. The atlas of Jewish history. New York: Morrow. GRANOV -1932 HRANIV – 2019

Image courtesy of Image courtesy of the Library of Google Earth Congress Russian Empire Revision Lists • Created for tax collection – not for a census • Patronymic only for head of household • 1st Revision – 1719-1924 • Female maiden name and patronymic only if • 2nd Revision – 1743-1747 head of household • 3rd Revision – 1761-1767 • Relationships within a household are defined th • Revision lists grouped by social class • 4 Revision – 1781-1782 th • Various categories of peasants • 5 Revision – 1794-1795 • Revision lists organized by district (uyezd) • 6th Revision – 1811 locality but no organization beyond that • 7th Revision – 1815-1817 • Revisions not always finished • 8th Revision – 1833-1835 • Not a snapshot in time as U.S. census • 9th Revision – 1850-1851 • Not everyone or every modern country is in each th revision list. • 10 Revision – 1857-1858 • First Census - 1897

Everett, Joseph B. "Soul" Searching in the Russian Censuses of the 18th and 19th Century." Federation of East European Family History Societies 5, no. 3-4 (August 1998): 34-43. Registration is in place of origin…

NOT in location of residence 1893 Family List

Note the notes!

Empire of Russia. Kaunas. Ukmerge. Utena. 1893 Family List. “СЕМЕЙНЫЙ СПИСКУ” [Family list]. Kaunas Regional Archive F.I- 207, Ap.1, B.1, p,186. 1893 Family List (Utena/Ukmerge/Kaunas) KOVALSKY Itsik Movsha Leyba Head of Household 74 54 Gen 1 KOVALSKY Movsha Wulf Itsik Son 54 35 Gen 2 KOVALSKY Zimel Aron Movsha Wulf Grandson 27 8 in 1874 Gen 3 KOVALSKY Iosel Leyba Movsha Wulf Grandson 20 Gen 3 KOVALSKY Mordkhel Yankel Movsha Wulf Grandson 14 Gen 3 KOVALSKY Abel Movsha Wulf Grandson 9 Gen 3 KOVALSKY Yankel Iosel Leyba Great-grandson born on 20 May 1891 Gen 4

KOVALSKY Evel Iosel Leyba Great-grandson born on 3 January 1904 Gen 4 4 generations 1 household KOVALSKY Aron Ayzik Iosel Leyba Great-grandson born on 16 July 1908 Gen 4

KOVALSKY Chana Wife 73 Why? Gen 1 KOVALSKY Chaya Itsik Daughter 37 Gen 2 KOVALSKY Nekhama Itsik Daughter 34 Gen 2 Died Gen KOVALSKY Chana Leah Daughter-in-Law 51 2 KOVALSKY Rochlia Mirka Movsha Wulf Granddaughter 22 Gen 3 KOVALSKY Gela Rivka Movsha Wulf Granddaughter 11 Gen 3 KOVALSKY Elka Daughter-in-Law 35 in 1896 a second wife Gen 2

KOVALSKY Rochel Mordukh Grandson's wife 24 in 1899 Iosel Leyba's wife Gen 3 1850 Revision List – Orla, Lida,

Key Elements Age

Males

1850 Revision List Another Kotlovitch Family Group

Revision List of Orlia Jewish Community of the Vilna Gubernia, October 15, 1850. LVIA 515/15/953 1858 Revision List

Name Age Comment Kotlovich Iankel ben 64 According to last Revision he was 56 yrs old Abram Merka bat Berko 62 Iankel’s wife Tsyrlia 28 Iankel’s daughter Berko ben Iankel 41 According to last Revision he was 33 yrs old Malka bat Pinkus 39 Berko’s wife Volf Iankel’s brother; is absent from 1856 Aron-Noakh Berko’s son; absent from 1855; according to an additional Revision list 1855 #1 he was 21 yrs.

Revision List of Orlia Jewish Community of the Lida District, Vilna Gubernia May 27, 1858 No. 22/17 LVIA Ap. [Fond] 515 Description 25 Year 1858 Case 89 Sheet 529 Orlia 1858 Revision List 1850 pulls it together

1875 & 1868 1874 Additional Revision List 1878 Additional Revision List (ARL) 1868 ARL

1874 ARL 1875 Additional Revision List 1874 and 1878 Additional Revision Lists Alphabetical List of – Men Living in the Lida District of Vilna Gubernia, 1875

Kotlovich Vulf ben Abram, his registered # 26 Kotlovich Abram ben Girsh, his registered # 684 Kotlovich Shaia ben Israel, his registered # 103 His son Meier, his registered # 27 [p.160] His son Movsha and his registered # 685 [p.205] [p.167] LVIA Fond 380 Description 120 Year 1875 Case 772 [online under Tax and Voter Lists] Births

Lithuania Deaths Lithuania Marriages

Same marriage recorded twice – note spellings of groom’s given name, town names, and clergy names Creating the Tree! 24 1858 Revision List Oshmiany

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p. 295 Family/Registration No. in the previous revision: 97 Family/Registration No. in this revision: 78

Left side (males): Leyb Leyzerov/son of Leyzer Persky, age last revision – 52, absent since 1857 His sons: -Girsh, age last revision – 23, age now – 31 -Getsel, missed in the last revision, age now – 25

Right side (females): Leyb Persky’s wife Khaya Yoselova/daughter of Yosel, age 58 Girsh Persky’s wife Tuyba Abramovna/daughter of Abram, age 30 Getsel Persky’s wife Mikhlia Yudelovna/daughter of Yudel, age 24 25 Getsel’s daughter Dyna, age 4 My Brick Wall: Name and Address of Nearest Relative Whence Alien Came

Solution courtesy of Alan Shuchat

26 FamilySearch Wiki

Not indexed Not translated Украина, Одесса, перепись населения 1897 г. Ukraine, Odessa, census of the population of 1897 27 Архивные описи File numbers for each street, more or less alphabetically

28 Address Book Ф. 2, о. 8, д. 1496-1510

Film # 005678142 Украина, Одесса, перепись населения 1897 г.

29 Ф. 2, о. 8 (Архивные описи)

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Nov-Pereulok

НовПереулок

30 Новый переулок

https://odportal.com.ua/uliza/01.html 31 Новый (novyy) means new and переулок (pereulok) means lane. Search was done in Cyrillic 32 Courtesy of Joel Ratner https://archive.org/details/russianempiregenealogyresources 33 https://www.tkfgen.org/open_sources_ak_p09.html 34 Use Social Media!

Pinterest: Explore Maps History, European History, and more!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/269160515205280967/ Galicia = Poland + Austria (now Ukraine) (1772-1918)

Images courtesy of www.GesherGalicia.org Map Room Changing Borders

Image courtesy of https://www.litvaksig.org/information-and- tools/online-journal/jewish-genealogical-resources- at-the-kaunas-regional-archives

JewishGen Communities Database c. 1900 c. 1950 c. 1930 # of Before WWI Modern Town & After WWII Between Wars JGFF Other Names Town / District / Country Town / Town / District / Entrie Province / Country Province / Country s Country Orlya, Orli Orlya [Bel], Orla [Pol], Orlya Orla 53°30' N 24°59' E Lida Orli [Rus], Orlova [Yid], Lida 109 mi WSW of Vilna 29 Orlowa, Orlovah, Orle, Nowogródek Russian Empir Internal Passports & German Passports

https://www.litvaksig.org/research/special-projects/internal-passports German Ober Ost Passport Internal Passport – Photograph Verification Found! Mera Kowalska Internal Passport File 29 School Street, Svencioneliai, Lithuania Residence of Mera Kowalska Logan Kleinwaks: genealogyindexer.org Ancestry.com Finding Families in Eastern Europe: The Beat Goes On… • Ancestry.com – blog for updates • FamilySearch.org – blog for updates . Use catalog . Records are indexed and not indexed...know the difference • MyHeritage.com – blog for updates • Utilize Facebook groups for specialized areas • Listen to Webinars • Subscribe to discussion groups Jewish Community of Long Island

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