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A printout from JewishGen Latvia database searches about Courland > Kherson migration.
Database is described and accessed on https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/ukraine/relocation1837.htm
There is lots of good history about this to be found with simple Google searches .
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| Documents from the NP census, followed by version with translations |
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Old family photo which we have always believed to be Hirsch and Bossa. We had no idea who the children are, or when and where the picture was taken. However, with the census information in hand, it is reasonable to believe that the young woman is Rivke (on census) and the baby is David (born 1870), meaning the picture was likely taken in Nikolayev around 1870.
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Ship manifest found on fiche by Vera. It has since been digitized and searchable
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/passenger-lists/passenger-lists-1865-1922/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=11580&
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David Hershfield family in the 1911 census, searchable and downloadable followed by database transcription
 
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1921 Census record found on Ancestry
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Naturalization certificate that Vera saved, followed by file obtained on application to Ottawa by Larry
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Partial family tree of the major branches of our Hershfield relatives. This tree contains the information from the 1858 census. Once we had this information, it was reasonable to add our grandfather David as he was known to be from Hirsch and Bossah; easily add the information we had about the descendants of Mikhel; and add in Sheyna Hannah as a younger sibling to Mikhel, Hirsch…
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Photos of the family home (one of many homes in the North End) with grocery store in front. That business started after the loss of the lumber delivery business in the Depression. There is also a picture of what remains of the Ateres Israel synagogue (David Hershfield had presided as president).
 
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Family photos. Schifra/Sarah with her mother Leah/Lilly. Smiling Sam. Louis/Shmuel with his father David, and daughters Sheila and Joanne. David and Lilly’s three children were born in Novopoltavka, Liverpool/at sea, and Winnipeg. They became a physician, school teacher, and pharmacist.
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Gravestones and obituaries of David and Leah/Lilly Hershfield
  
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Search results of immigration to Argentina – searching for Hershfields
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