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The name SHAPIRO is most often of Jewish origin and many of this name did come from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire of Central and Eastern Europe, or from Russia itself. As many of you know, the many wars, conflicts, and constantly shifting boundaries and frontiers in the past 100 years or more make it very difficult to accurately trace ancestors from these parts of the world. Your people may have spoken Russian, German, Polish, or other languages. If you can find out from older relatives the LANGUAGE they spoke and what their ETHNIC origin was, that will help you get through the mass of confusing information out there, and to focus more closely on the facts you need.
The following partial list of information sources is certainly not complete (and forgive me if some addresses are out of date) but it will be a start:
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- http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm - The JewishGen Shtet1 Seeker - the towns in Central & Eastern Europe. Displays latitude and longitude for each location and the distance to the country's capital city.
For a very interesting personal history of one man's search for his "lost" Jewish family from Odessa at the turn of the 20th century, look at - http://mypage.direct.ca/d/dwdwone/index.html -
It was very common for Russian Jews to change their names to escape serving in the Russian Army. First get the ships manifest that shows their American name and where they came from. Once you have the place they left in Russia, you can begin posting inquiries about them there. There is a lot of information floating around. The more posting you do, the more responses you get.
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- http://feefhs.org/ah/indexah.html - A major website for INFO on POLAND, HUNGARY, SLOVENIA, GALICIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA, BUKOVINA, BANAT Genealogy Listserver (for Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Croatia), TRANSYLVANIA
An Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of localities in Poland & Russia - http://www.atsnotes.com/other/gerpol.html -
Poland Border Surnames - http://www.maxpages.com/poland/ - ** excellent source of info on the following: Austrian Research | Balkan Research | Belarus Research | Book Stores Online | Carpatho Rusyn Research | Catholic Dioceses | Catholic Research | Cemeteries and Obits | Czech Republic Research | Dictionaries | Estonian Research | Family Reunions | German Research | Heraldry and Nobility | Hungarian Research | Jewish Research | Latvian Research | Learning to Research | Libraries | Lithuanian Research | Lutheran Research | Maps and Towns | Miscellaneous Information | Member Surnames | Moldovan Research | Moravian Research | Music | Name Meanings | One Name Studies | Orthodox Research | Passenger Lists | Polish Research | Professional Genealogists | Prussian Research | Russian Research | Search Engines | Slovak Research | Success Stories | Surname Search Online | Surname Mail Lists | Surname Websites | Telephone Directories | Ukrainian Research | Useful Addresses | Vital Records
- http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/ - University of Texas at Austin - extensive collection of MAPS OF THE WORLD showing all historical, ethnic, religious, political, military periods for MOST PARTS of the WORLD - excellent visual displays of CHANGES OF BOUNDARIES, BORDERS, and FRONTIERS resulting from wars and treaties, changing alliances, emigration and immigration of peoples (EXAMPLE: great visual explanation of constantly shifting borders, movements of people, and shifting ethnic patterns in EASTERN and CENTRAL EUROPE)
A lot of White Russian (Belarus) émigrés left in the 1950's and settled in San Francisco and in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Russian Orthodox Church normally has info. Look up the information on the Internet.
- http://www.infoukes.com/lists/ - a really good mailing list. Just sign up for the genealogy list, and post your questions there. The people on the list know everything about Ukraine.
The former Austro-Hungarian Empire province of Halic (Galicia), now southern Poland and western Ukraine, was part of the area formerly known as Bohemia (now Prague area of Czech Republic) and Moravia (Slovakia & Bratisalva). The modern city of Lvov or Lviv was Lwów, Halic (now Galicia, South-Eastern Poland & Western Ukraine).
The Banat, Bessarabia, Bukovina, Dobruja, The Maramures, Moldavia, Transylvania and Wallachia are now all within the modern nations of Hungary, Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine.
Volhynia Gubernia was the former name for northwestern Ukraine.
German-speaking regions include not only Germany itself, but also Austria, parts of Switzerland, Alsace, Lorraine, Bohemia and Moravia. The areas formerly known as Bohemia and Moravia now are in the Czech Republic, plus neighboring parts of Austria (especially Vienna), but not Halic (Galicia) which is now part of southern Poland and western Ukraine.
- http://www.people.adicom.ru/ - All Russian Genealogical Data Base (mostly in Russian)
You can search a database and post a message at a big Russian site "All Russia Family Tree" at: - http://www.people.adicom.ru/english.htm - and copy at - http://genealogy.h1.ru/english.htm -
AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GERMANS FROM RUSSIA - E~mail at - ahsgr@aol.com - WEBSITE: - http://www.ahsgr.org - Address: 631 D Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68502-1199. Tel: 402-474-3363; FAX: 402-474-7229. Betty Ashley, Brent Mai and Dr. Pleve can tell you whom to contact.
GERMANS FROM RUSSIA HERITAGE COLLECTION AT THE NDSU LIBRARY
- http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/gerrus/ -
GERMAN RUSSIA HERITAGE SOCIETY
- http://www.grhs.com/ -
ODESSA GERMAN-RUSSIAN GENEALOGY LIBRARY
- hhtp://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/odessa.html ?
Kassel (GERMANY) information (in Glückstal Colonies, formerly Hessen-Nassau) - http://pppixel.cs.vt.edu/library/boxes/ehrman/glueck - all are in English. Glückstal Colonies Research Association has LINKS to names in St. Petersburg, Russia. Also use "German Russian".
- http://www.iisg.nl/~abb/ - ArcheoBiblioBase - computerized records in English and Russian updated to June 2000, including military, naval, Foreign Intelligence Service, Internal Affairs, Vital Statistics of Ministry of Justice, etc. etc.
- http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/odessa.html - ODESSA GROUP ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library - Odessa provides a browsable and searchable repository of research documents that users may download and index in their own personal full text retrieval systems. Those who need a full text retrieval program will find a number from which to choose - read their copyright notice at the top of the opening page "All documents in this library are copyrighted; additional details are provided in the document headers. They may be freely used for personal, nonprofit purposes or linked by other WWW sites. They may also be shared with others for personal use, provided headers with copyright notices are included. However, no document may be republished in any form or embedded in public databases without permission of the copyright owner, since that represents theft of personal property".
- http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/index.html - Paul Goldschmidt's Dictionary of Period Russian Names - excellent source of origin of old Russian names (from 800 AD to ca. 1650) including derivations of names and diminutives. NOTE: this site will NOT give you "new nobility" created after the founding of St. Petersburg in 1703, nor the German-Russian names (Bessarabian) brought in by Catherine the Great in the late 1700's.
Two books "Russia", the other "Ukraine" both carry a lot of maps for the 19th century. They include maps for White Russia (Belarus), Ukraine, etc.
jan vandervliet (Belgium) wrote December 31, 1998: To all those researching family in Russia, I had good but expensive help from an organisation in St. Petersburg called "Blitz" - if you want more info on "Blitz", E-mail me at - vdvliet@glo.be -
Michael Katin-Yartsev - katinbal@cityline.ru - is studying history and genealogy of the German-Baltic nobility at Moscow State University. In January 2000 he wrote the following:
St. Petersburg Evangelical Lutheran Consistory - archives are preserved in 2 places. Records between 1834 and 1885 are in the Central State Archives of Russia in St. Petersburg. It is open to the public. It should have an e-mail address, but I do not know it.
Records before 1834 and after 1885 are found in the Regional Archives in St. Petersburg. (In Dec 1998 it was closed for repairs.) There is an outline or reference guide to Russian Archives with all these addresses, on a site, organized by them (archives) and the American scholar Patricia Kennedy Grimstead. Try her name on search machine - http://famytree.hypermart.net -
Get a researcher to check the Russian Military Archives in St Petersburg. It could be that your relative was made a 'personal' or 'hereditary' noble by virtue of reaching a certain rank. This information will probably be in the Archives.
- http://www.bessarabia.com/ - dedicated to supporting the descendants of Germans from Russia in their efforts to learn more about their heritage and ancestors who came from the Black Sea -
Bessarabia area of South Russia.
Compiler: Dale Lee Wahl
7370 Grevena Ave NE
Bremerton WA 98311-4046
E-mail: - dwahl@kendaco.telebyte.com -
- http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/ - German-Russian Genealogy - This is a prototype for a digital genealogical library of diverse documents related to the German colonies in Russia that arose in the early 1800's after the reign of Catherine the Great.
- http://www.sggee.org - Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe - "A Poland and Volhynia Genealogy Group" - web page is devoted to the study of those people with German ancestry (generally of the Lutheran, Baptist, or Catholic faiths) who lived in present-day Poland (including those lands known previously as West and East Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania), and also those people who lived in the western part of present-day Ukraine, in the old pre-World War II province of Volhynia (generally from the city of Kiev on the east to Lvov and Kovel on the Polish border on the west, to Odessa on the Black Sea in the south).
Belarus is made up from the former Russian Gubernii (provinces) of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev, and Vitebsk.
- http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/~kasaty/welcome.html - "BELARUS", an unmoderated discussion (E-Mail) list begun in January, 1996 - is designed to help coordinate and communicate information about the Republic of Belarus and all things related to Belarussian culture, history, language, literature, art, expatriate organizations, publications, etc.
- http://www.mapquest.com - or - http://www.maxpages.com/poland - the villages of Pukielieszyna and Czarna Trubowa or Czarna Hubowa, which were in Poland around 1900, are now in Belarus.
Wladzislaw Viarowkin-Sheliuta - v-sh@zbsh.lingvo.minsk.by - is a member of the Association of Belarussian Nobility, who knows a lot about family names in Belarus. He wrote Aug 29, 1999: To find a genealogy, it is necessary to know the place from which the person has come.
"Belarus Surnames & Placenames, Index to a History of the Byelorussians in Canada" by John Sadousk - talks about "White Russian" stock from the household of the "Tzar de Pavlovich", an example of surnames in this book. Pavlovich was very common in Belarus; the family were usually Catholic.
Belarusian Association of Historians
Ulitsa Pyotr Shuplyak,
Krasnoarmejskeya 6
220030 Minsk
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HTA of Belarus Rogneda
Irena Maksimenko
Sergey Esenin Str. 16-280
220025 Minsk
E-Mail - maksin@inp.belpak.minsk.by -
Sergei Gutnik works at the Embassy of Belarus Democratic Republic in London. He has relatives in Belarus and Lithuania.
Bragin is a town with a population of about 4,000 in the peninsula of Southeastern Belarus between Russia and Ukrainia. It's near Mozyr, Gomel and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The Jewish RUDOVSKY and DOBRINSKY families in Bragin (or Brahin), Belarus were there for a long time, too. Apparently, the DOBRINSKYS started out in Latvia and Lithuania. They may have moved to Bragin in the late 1600s or early 1700s. They owned a mill in Bragin in the late 1800s. They intermarried several times with the ROSOVSKY family. There is another RUDOWSKI family that started up in Chechiny, Poland, and it might be that both families are branches of the same family. They might have been involved in carpentry.
The village/town of Traby is now in Belarus near Lida. Voronovo also is in Belarus near Lida and Vissoki Dvor (Aukstadvaris) in Lithuania. All these villages are within 56 km/35 mi of Vilnius and were in the "Vil'na Gubernia" of the Russian "pale" of settlement.
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In 1999, the best authority on Russians in Egypt was Vladimir Beliakov, a Russian living in Cairo. His address:
Vladimir Beliakov,
30, Muhammed Mazhar,
Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
FAX: (+20-2) 341-9784
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