Does anyone have information about the community of Lipkovitz? It may be part of Odessa. My grandfather, Jacob Goldstein, was born there in 1888. His name may have been Jacob Brodersky. Thanks, Barbara Silver

Hi everyone! As you may have noticed, Rootsweb mail lists are back on-line! Yay! If you need help navigating the new system: http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/listsHelp <http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/listsHelp> I hope everyone will begin utilizing this list and the many others available at Rootsweb. If you have any questions about this list please fee free to send me a message! Have a great day! Dee Admin http://www.genlady.com <http://www.genlady.com/>

I think I sent this question to the wrong e-mail address. The ship manifest for the Madonna coming to NY from Constanza, Poumania in November 1922 has an entry for Josif and Esther Viland. The manifest lists an address of the mother, Rosalia Viland as Piragowski Perculoc 8, Odessa. Can someone help locating where this was? I am trying to find anything I can about the Viland family. Thank you. Eric --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mj7777 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If you are tracing the family from Russia - you will find the Archives very helpful. You need a bit of information first. I notice you have several names. This may be time consuming to trace. However, start with what you know of the family name used at the time they were in Russia. If you have any idea at all it will help; addresses and religion play a big part. The Russian Orthodox church does have some records and again if you have some details they are a great source of information. So start with what you believe - Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic, etc. and do use google. Put in the names you believe even if they have been Anglicised as there may be other sites with members searching for your side of the family. If you think they came from Odessa go into the site on Ancestry for Odessa, or Belarus, etc. put a thread on each and see what happens; suggest one name for each thread or you could be getting several replies and the cope could be large. Good luck. I am delighted that after some years I have found help on this site to find both sides of my father's family. mj7777 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mj7777 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have spent years tracing my grandmother who was born in Odessa and used the term - they were 'White Russians' thinking this term would unite all of those people with that title. As research develops we find things are not always as they seem. My family moved to Moscow from Odessa and I am having success tracing them. Good luck, mj7777 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Wettstein_Elizabeth Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you. Good suggestion! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mj7777 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It may pay you to google "White Russian People" and this will give you a choice of headings. The term varies from a part of Moscow for different races living in the city to those who are terned 'old believers'. Have a look - it is interesting reading and will help to understand the term. You will find you can relate it to your families' situation. Hope this helps. mj7777 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: BrosHopSos Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/752.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi lafalot_1, We had emailed already about our Hopfinger connection. I still have your Katherine on my "orphan" Hopfinger list. The Hopfingers were from Selz, Kutschurgan and MightHelp was right, the best free source to start is the Odessa3 website. Then The Germans from Russia Historical Society has the most information on the Odessa, Russia area. Your family names are in several of the resources. And the Listserves (email groups) have been very helpful. The Odessa Catholic Archives have not made their information public and it is expensive to obtain the materials and then have them translated from Russian/Old German to English. Hopfingers were orginally from the Haganau, Alsace and those records are online, http://archives.bas-rhin.fr/scripts/accueilanglais.asp . However, you have to manually search through each page as they are not indexed. I have not started to look as I need a whole day to get into the French/Latin/Old German script. Will keep you updated. Tanya (BrosHopSos) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dobrev91 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/270.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Gerry As I wrote above, I have come to the village of the Island, where I came from Alexander Georgiev Fudulaki. I have information about his life and career. If interested, please contact us. In turn would like to receive information from Chisinau archive and about your wife. Suddenly able to find her relatives. I apologize for the error, I write through a translator. Total high class, Peter Odessa, 16.05.2013, the Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dobrev91 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/270.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Simion Recently found your post, it got me interested. I am originally from the village of the Island. You are right, the name Fudulaki found in the Island. Here live etnicheskie Bulgarians. Can you tell about your grandmother? What was her name, middle name? She accidentally did not write poetry? I apologize for the error, if any. I do not know English, I write through the translator. Total high class, Peter Odessa, 16.05.2013, the Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Mighthelp Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/751.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: ???????? or ????????? or ???????? are variants of the surname. I am sure there are probably more. Do you have any documentation for Grandmother, where we can see surname in the original Cyrillic Alphabet? How about any church records??? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: GeniLind Surnames: Fishelow/Fishelov Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/754/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Can anyone translate (handwritten) Yiddish? I have numerous post cards and a few letters from 1939, pre-WWII exchanged between my great uncles, one in the U.S. and one in Pinsk, Minsk Gubernia. They are BEAUTIFUL, but we really want to try to figure out what happened to him before his family perished in the Holocaust. Can anyone help? A couple of samples are attached. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: SandiNilson Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/219.8.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Curious what you know about the early Gisi history. My family emigrated from Fort Louis, Alsace, to Marienthal Russia (near Odessa) in 1804. Having a lot of trouble finding earlier chain of ancestors due to name changes! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: SandiNilson Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/219.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My family was the Gisi family from Marienthal. They emigrated there from Fort Louis, Alsace, in 1804. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Mighthelp Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Emigrants from Southern Czarist Russia traveled w/passports. It might be a good place to start. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-908.008-e.html Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: yugaya Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/282.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: For resources and help with that you should best contact their minority organizations in Serbia. Information on such organizations you will most accurately obtain through Russian embassy. http://www.ambasadarusije.rs/ru/soot.php For these migrants, many documents and materials are available in historical archives in Serbia. You should also try to contact through Russian Orthodox Church their temple of the Holy Trinity in Belgrade that was built in 1924. by the refugees from Russia and still serves this community. http://www.mospat.ru/ru/ According to the current priest who is himself from one such family, they have kept records of the congregation. http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Drustvo/Na-komadu-ruske-zemlj... EDIT: A book in Serbian you should look for: "Russian Refugees in Pancevo 1919-1941". The author has extensively studied the records of the Russian Orthodox church in Belgrade and the community. http://www.srpskadijaspora.info/vest.asp?id=6879 *** "Rodoslovlje" Serbian Genealogy Society www.rodoslovlje.com Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Wettstein_Elizabeth Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Dad's Russian name was Gyorgi (sp?) Stepanov or Stephanoff. His anglicized name was George Joseph Stephens. I have found border crossing information for him and his sister, Melania Chorolsky, her husband, Dimitri Chorolsky and children, Anna and Jim (aka) Eugene. There is a census from Alberta Canada for his brother Nicke (aka Michael or Archie) Stevens as well as his wife and children. They are my uncles family...Their father's name may have been Ivan Stepanov(ff) and mother Eglekeria Emilianova.. Another story has it that the father was Stepan Yuschenko or Urchenko. I found a Giorgi Steffanoff And a Michael Steffanoff who came from Bulgaria, but am unable to confirm that as my family as I found people in the US by that name. Re: White Russian I do not know. This came from My uncle's Daughter who is deceased. I was under the impression that my father who was the youngest son left Russia in a hurry possibly as an army deserter? The family had property that was sold to fund their escape. My aunt came by way of Siberia according to her daughter's family . Perisloka Tava. Sp? I have wondered if they were in favor of the status quo ibut might have run afoul of the Tsar's regime somehow. My uncle's granddaughter overheard a conversation regarding a family member having been shipped off to Siberia and never hear from again? there is also an Ivan Stepanov listed in the Jewish gen site as a victim of the halocaust ?? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Mighthelp Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What were the full names of the Immigrant Families? What do you mean by White Russian? Do you mean Belarusyn ethnicity or White Russians, who sided w/Czar? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Wettstein_Elizabeth Surnames: Stepanov, chorolsky osipoff, Steffanoff , Yuschenko, Urchenko Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/753/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Have run into a brick wall . Not able to determine names under which they travelled. May have been White Russians. Most of family settled in Western Canada. Believe they left under duress. They did not discuss details with us. Family members did not communicate with each other. Some have connected on ancestry.com. Any suggestions for further research. I have done ancestry dna. Male relatives live in Canada. Ancestry dna not available on Canada. Sme were Roman Catholic in North America. My dad said he was Russian Orthodox. He admired the Cossacks. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Mighthelp Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine.odeska/681.2.1.2.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There is all that more data available on internet since 2007. I have been exploring records in Kyiv and came across a village called Elizavetka in Kyiv region. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.