This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Samowitz, Chanowicz, Chanovich, Chonowicz, Berezovich, Beresowitz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FOZ.2ACEB/37.3.2 Message Board Post: I have relatives buried in that cemetery also. I do know which Gorodok it is related to. It is near Minsk and Moledechno in Belarus. My dad was Abraham Samowitz. He lived 11 years in Gorodok before arriving in Manhattan in 1922. He lived in the Bronx. The name was changed from Chanovich.