Index to Tetiev Death Lists
1919-1920


From several contemporaneous Ukrainian-Jewish death lists I have compiled a master death list for the period of the pogroms of 1919-1920. The master death list contains information which in many cases includes first name, age, occupation, and family groupings for each individual listed. In order to facilitate access to the master death list, I have compiled and reproduced below an index to those surnames appearing on it.

Next to each name in parentheses is the number of individuals listed as having that surname. In certain cases, the number is given as a range where the appearance of duplication is noted to be significant. Depending whether one considers that potential duplication, the list has between 1,480 and 1,491 names.

One caution. Doubtless, there are still errors and duplications in the list. The way that different information gatherers wrote down names may have caused duplication. For example, is Yanishevsky and Yashevsky really the same name? Hard to say unless you can match up the first names and see that they're the same. Another problem is that one list may note Chaim Gold-65, his daughter-37, and three grandchildren-6,8,10. Another list may note Basya Stein-35, children Noah-9, Miriam-7, and David-6, and Basya's 62 year old father. These listings might be a duplication although one would have no way to tell without more information. However, one can't be sure. I chose to err on the side of inclusion and include everything unless a duplication was almost certain. Let researchers who might have additional information determine there's a duplication rather than erroneously leave people off the list.—Stephen N. Roth

SURNAMES APPEARING ON TETIEV DEATH LISTS
WITH NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS LISTED AS HAVING EACH SURNAME