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MIGRATION AND SURNAMES

Where We Lived and When

This listing shows the time periods that I am sure our families lived where they lived. If you notice any errors, or have additional information about dates or places, let me know.

BERNSTEIN  Poland > United States 1870's until now
 
BLUMSTEIN/BLOOMSTEIN  Russia (Warsaw/Poland) 1870's > England 1890's > United States 1906 to now
 
COHEN/KAPLANSKY  Lithuania > Russia (aka Prussia/Germany) > Wales 1880's > United States 1888 until now
(Connecticut 1890-92, Pennsylvania 1896, Missouri 1900, California 1903 to present)
 
FELDBERG  Poland/Russia > United States 1880's until now
 
GROSSMAN  Russia or Poland > United States abt.1888 > New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada 1898-1901 > United States about 1902 until present
 
JACOBS  Russia > England (Manchester, Liverpool, Canterbury, Sunderland 1869-81, Bristol 1890 on) and also some to Wales by the mid-1880's, and some to Australia and South Africa since the early 1900's.
 
KAMINSKY  Sarny and Osova (Russia) 1850 > United States (1908 to present), one branch from Russia to Poland (by 1920's) and then Argentina (early 1930's)
 
KASLE   Russia (Osova, Rovna) and/or Poland (Minsk) > United States 1900-1910 until present (initially Michigan and Ohio)
 
TENNEBAUM/TENNENBAUM/TENNABAUM/TENEBAUM   Rovney, Russia (1850) > Canada (about 1882-1895) > California about 1895 until present
 
VISHNICK/VISHNEK Poland (Makova/Makow and Lomza) 1800's > England 1890's to present > some migrated to United States ~1900-1910 to present

Surnames Taken by Our Descendants

This listing is very incomplete, as I am adding names as I work on each branch. If you belong to my family and you notice that your's or another's surname is missing, let me know and I will add it quickly if you wish.

ABRAHAMS  Corkland, Dubos, Ells, Franco, Horwitz, Lerman, Levitt, Matthews, Rabkin, Romoff, Rose, Rosen, Roy, Swerling, Targovnick/Targovnik, Young
 
BLUMSTEIN/BLOOMSTEIN    Abrams, Bloom, Granot, Grossman, Leavitt, Rubin, Sadick, Schoenfeld, Schwartz, Shabashov, White
 
COHEN/KAPLANSKY    Cooper, Herrin, Kollmyer, Lydon, McKnight, Sarver, Schneider, Speizer, Suarez
 
FELDBERG/FELBERG  Bendersky, Berger, Friedlander, Gilberg, Irlen, Jacobson, Jenkins, Johnson, Knee, Lauer, Liss, Maro, Netzky, Rosen, Rosenbaum, Rudy, Tagrin, Vishnick, Weinzimmer
 
GROSSMAN    Almada, Cohen, Jones, Koons, Lerman, Ramirez, Schell, Smith
 
JACOBS/JACOB  Abelson, Abrahams, Cohen, Goldberg, Heyne, Horwood, Levine, Wyburn, Zolty
 
KAMINSKY/Kamieneiki/Kamieniecki/Cominski   Charaff, Goldberg, Gordon, Joffe, Kamen, Kasle, Krivoshey, Lybeck, Markowitz, Nelson, Rutstein, Shapiro, Tennebaum, Waddell
 
KASLE/KOZOIL   Abrams, Black, Brown, Burstein, Cartlidge, Feldman, Greenson, Gudema, Jones, Leff, Liebman, Nelson, Petricoff, Pollens, Roskin, Rothstein, Sakols, Simon, Smith, Steinberg, Stutz, Taylor
 
TENNEBAUM/TENNENBAUM/TENNABAUM/TENEBAUM   Callen, Clapkin, Cohen, Hogan, Hubbell, Leibman, Levin, Levy, Oppenheimer, Rabinovich, Reed, Stone, Titus, Wayne, Weinstock, Weiser, Williams
 
VISHNICK/VISHNEK   Adams, Barusch, Blumstein, Broida, Countryman, Dean, Depper, Erdman, Forman, Gilberg, Godfrey, Heller, Hershel, Hilby, Hougham, Klein, Kulik, Levy, Lightner, Lustig, Mayer, McFetridge, Pactor, Phillips, Pollack, Portman, Regan, Saugstad, Seches, Willinger, Winitz

Maiden Names of Matriarchs

This is a partial listing of the maiden names of women who married, or whose descendants married, into branches or twigs of our family tree. I am adding names as I work on each branch. If you belong to our family and you notice any errors, or that your grandmother's, great-grandmother's, or another matriarch's maiden name is missing, let me know and I will add it quickly if you wish.

BLUMSTEIN/BLOOMSTEIN   Gold, Kvitsky, Lichtig, Marcus, Roswell, Vishnick, Weinberg, Wolfson
 
FELDBERG/FELBERG  Berger, Braudt, Cohen, Duby, Hampston, Handler, Pitlack
 
GROSSMAN    Bernstein, Bradley, Duncan, Kasviner, Shatkin, Tannenbaum
 
JACOBS    Figenbone, Fremason (or possibly Fromson, transliteration unclear), Sacof (Sacov)
 
KAMINSKY   Dworkin, Newman, Silverstein, Sokolov, Tell, Weinstein
 
KASLE   Ammerman, Baer, Klepper, Lewis, Neifeld, Pollock, Rosenzweig, Silverstein, Singer, Sott, Tuschman
 
TENNEBAUM/TENNENBAUM   Ballen, Broudy, Factor, Kaufman, Rosenberg, Rothblatt, Scheideman, Stein, Tovaroski
 
VISHNICK/VISHNEK   Belzman, Bressler, Feldberg, Gayetty, Josephson, Miller, Moscovit, Weisgarber

Other Families We Believe Are Related

We have not yet identified the exact links, but are certain that the following families are also related to us. The Greenbaums are related to the Blumsteins or Vishnicks, and the Finkelsteins are related to the Cohens or Jacobs, and the Wyshniaks are related to the Vishnicks. If you find your family listed here, please get in touch.

GREENBAUM/GRUNBAUM/GRUENBAUM Brooklyn 1905
 
FINKELSTEIN  Caplan, Heyman, Kaplan
Migration: Poland/Russia > United States 1890 > Massachusetts 1893 > Scranton, Pennsylvania 1900 > Oakland, California 1908
 
WYSHNIAK/WISHNICK/WISHNEK  
Migration: Poland/Russia > Ireland and England and Israel

Other Families of Interest

We also are researching the genealogy of the following families. They are related to our direct line families by marriage, or through friendship. Feel free to contact us for more information about them.

BLONDIN Poland > England - married Figenbone
 
BUROS Russia > Ohio > Arizona - married Lichtig
 
GEIGER Russia or Germany > Louisiana - friend of Gilberg
 
GITTLESON Russia > Wales - married Abrahams
 
LEVITT Russia > New York > California - married Grossman
 
POOKMAN Russia > Kentucky and California - friend of Cohen
 
SCHULMAN Poland/Russia > California - married Levitt
 
STEINER New York > California - friend of Cohen
 
WEISS Hungary > Ohio > Colorado - married Lichtig  

Revised January 20, 2009

NOTE: The links below will take you off of our personal family site, to various articles at the Learning Center at http://www.ancestry.com