How does one research family in Poland-Brest Litovsk-family name I am researching is Faikes/Fajkes
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Re: How does one research family in Poland-Brest Litovsk-family name I am researching is Faikes/Fajkes
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Posted: 7 Dec 2006 10:54PM GMT |
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Hi Sarah,
My grandfather Shlomo SHNAJDER (Solomon Schneider) was born in Brest in 1911. Brest-Litovsk part of Poland until WWII when the border shift moved it under Belarus jurisdiction. I believe all of the records are in archives located in Belarus...see Miriam Weiner's website at http://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.html.
There is a Brest SIG hosted on Yahoo! at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brest_belarus/. Maybe some other members are researching the same names. You'll have to be registered with Yahoo! Groups to access the SIG but it's free of charge. The group got together a while ago and hired a researcher to copy and translate brest records located in the Minsk archives. I'm not sure if there are plans for another project like that. That's how I got my grandfather's birth record and also birth records for some of his siblings and his parents' marriage record (which of course led me to other towns). It appears that my family was only in Brest for 30-40 years with my grandfather leaving in 1928. Supposedly he lost about a dozen cousins in the Holocaust but I don't know how, when, where, or even who.
Good luck in your search.
Sharon Klein
Acworth, GA
My grandfather Shlomo SHNAJDER (Solomon Schneider) was born in Brest in 1911. Brest-Litovsk part of Poland until WWII when the border shift moved it under Belarus jurisdiction. I believe all of the records are in archives located in Belarus...see Miriam Weiner's website at http://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.html.
There is a Brest SIG hosted on Yahoo! at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brest_belarus/. Maybe some other members are researching the same names. You'll have to be registered with Yahoo! Groups to access the SIG but it's free of charge. The group got together a while ago and hired a researcher to copy and translate brest records located in the Minsk archives. I'm not sure if there are plans for another project like that. That's how I got my grandfather's birth record and also birth records for some of his siblings and his parents' marriage record (which of course led me to other towns). It appears that my family was only in Brest for 30-40 years with my grandfather leaving in 1928. Supposedly he lost about a dozen cousins in the Holocaust but I don't know how, when, where, or even who.
Good luck in your search.
Sharon Klein
Acworth, GA