HOME AND FAMILY

HOME AND FAMILY
SECTION 1 INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS Harry Boonin Patricia Eames Dimitry Feldman Chaim Freedman Keith Freedman Mel Comisarow SECTION 2 Timeline SECTION 3 REGIONAL Western Podalia Kherson Ekaterinoslav Bessarabia Crimea SECTION 4 GEOGRAPHY SECTION 5 ARCHIVAL RESEARCH Dimitry Feldman Chaim Freedman V.N. Nikitin Vlad Soshnikov SECTION 6 HOME and FAMILY SECTION 7 TRAVEL DOCUMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX SURNAMES INVENTORY of colony Names CONTACTS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR LINKS	My family is from Courland Nancy Holden Melitopel 1894 Moische Beier was born in Aizpute Courland in 1865. Raised by Mennonites in Ekaterinoslav. Itinerant tailor traveled between Odessa and the Black Sea taking orders. Married Roche Beile Gordon who was a cook in a boarding house near the grain farms where gypsies traveled. Lost three children to a pandemic before 1893 in Melitopel. My family came from Bessarabia Karen Ziselman Chrandel Devorah Grosslerner Dombrivitz How the family came to live in the Colonies The story is that a male forebear served in the Czar’s personal guard. The Jews that served in his guard were given land in the colony or colonies. They eventually owned a seven room house and my Grosslerner grandfather (on my mother's mother's side) owned the local mill where the grains from the local area were ground.	My family is from the Kovno *Chaim Freedman* Shlomo Zalmen (1886-1958) and Khana Reizel (1887-1955) Komisaruk, both grandchildren of Rabbi Pinkhas Komisaruk of colony Grafskoy, with their children Tybel (Tessie Freedman -1909-1996) and Myer. see other documents Berdyansk* My great grandparents came from Courland *Marcos Curzon* Santa Fe Argentina c. 1909 -Marcos Curzon My grandfather Aron Kurzon born in Lvovo at 26 years in about 1909. He migrated from Lvovo in 1904 to Santa Fe Argentina .