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“Odessa Russia at No. 43 Bulgarski St.” | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. 8220;Odessa Russia at No. 43 Bulgarski St.”. Nathan and Leah Kaminsky, my great-great grandparents, were living at 43 Bulgarski Street in Odessa in 1907, according to the Affidavit of Support. Sworn by their sons, Abraham and Jake. With the help of my Russian-speaking son, I have found a picture, above. I had given Brady just the information of “Bulgarski St.” and a link to two old Odessa. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Jewish Herita...

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Nicknames: Lewis was Bobby and Bud | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Nicknames: Lewis was Bobby and Bud. This was my father, Lewis N. Levensohn, as a young man. Although his name was Lewis, no one in his family called him “Lewis” or “Lew.” They called him “Bobby” or “Bud.”. Here’s what I remember my mother telling me:. Bessie, his mother, wanted to name him Robert and call him Bobby. However, Morris, his father, took him to the shul and named him “Lewis Nathaniel.”. Apparently my grandma Bessie never accepted this as her y...

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Dorothy Levensohn and Her Academic Brilliance | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Dorothy Levensohn and Her Academic Brilliance. Aunt Dorothy was eccentric. That is a word we used to describe her. One of the examples I have used to illustrate her eccentricity is that she was a vegetarian from, I heard, the age of 19. That would have been in 1928. My cousin, Johnny, told me recently that in the 1980s, after Dot had moved into a nursing home, herself, she kept her apartment and let Johnny live there for 18 months. In 1926. WHHS, stil...

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Table of Contents | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Click on a title to visit a story:. Vivian’s Genealogy: The Basics. Clerk of Courts Research, Cincinnati, OH. Sonia Gertzman Einhorn: A Family Hero, A Childless Woman. Nicknames: Lewis was Bobby and Bud. Grinker Mysteries: What Happened to John Grinker? Etta Raiza Berlin Sklar of Moletai. Sklar Brothers Come to America, or My Grandfather Was an Illegal Alien. Pesach in Bond Hill. Passover Seders 1965 and 1968. Dorothy Levensohn and Her Academic Brilliance.

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Do I Have Cousins Named Shaffer and Finkelstein? | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Do I Have Cousins Named Shaffer and Finkelstein? Uncle Schmerl Arrives at Ellis Island. Here is Uncle Schmerl’s manifest from his arrival at Ellis Island in October 1902. His name is listed as Schmerl HERZMANN, 24 years old, a married joiner from Mogilev (“Mohilew” on the manifest). His destination is New York, specifically “cousin Benjamin SHAFFER, Stanton St 105.”. Benjamin Shaffer of 191 Allen Street. Here is the record of detention:. But immigrant wom...

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Etta Raiza Berlin Sklar of Moletai | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Etta Raiza Berlin Sklar of Moletai. The Death of Etta Raiza Berlin Sklar. Recently I found the death record of my great-grandmother, Etta Raiza Berlin SKLAR. She died in late 1933, a widow aged 74, in her hometown of Moletai. Her cause of death was listed as “psychic disease.” I wonder if it was Alzheimer’s? Or did he just not tell his children? Did their parents have the mistaken belief that she had passed? They would not name a child after someone still...

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Could’ve Been a California Girl (The Levensohns Go West) | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Could’ve Been a California Girl (The Levensohns Go West). The first evidence I’ve found of Joe and of Sarah are in California and, eventually, their father, Joseph Levensohn and all of their U.S. siblings left Cincinnati and moved to California. The 1910 Census shows most of the Levensohns living in Cincinnati. Max, who had been there since the early 1890s, was living here on West Liberty. And my grandpa and grandma were living on Gest Street. All of the ...

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Grinker Mysteries: What Happened to John Grinker? | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Grinker Mysteries: What Happened to John Grinker? I have already posted about some of the Grinker mysteries, including the mostly unknown figure of my paternal great-grandfather, John Grinker ( http:/ wp.me/p35vsQ-y. Birth record of Mat Grinker, from University of Cincinnati rare books website. John Grinker had left the family by 1910. Exactly When and Why Did John Grinker Leave His Family? John Grinker was the grandfather of Dorothy and Ruth. Dorothy...

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Pesach in Bond Hill | vivgenealogy

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Stories and facts and mysteries from my families. Pesach in Bond Hill. Zeyda’s House at 5403 Grafton Avenue. Every first-night Seder I can remember in my childhood took place I this house, “Zeyda and Aunt Frieda’s house,” I called it. It was my favorite holiday that did not involve receiving gifts. I loved it most because it was the one time of the year that I would be with all my Cincinnati cousins on my mother’s side of the family. Or am I just imagining that? That’s when the fun continued, becau...