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Sources Front Page

Name Zavelsky...."A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From The Russian Empire" by Alexander Beider

Sources The First Ilya

Name Zavelsky...."A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From The Russian Empire" by Alexander Beider

Encylopaedia Judaica

Sources Historical Overview

Encyclopaedia Judaica

Photo Credits Front Page

#1,2..The late Alex Ephrat/#3,4..The Sovel Family/#5..Marjorie Goldberg/#6..Alan and Marjorie Goldberg/#7..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg/#8..Tina's Family

Photo Credits Historical Overview

Map from Mapquest/#1,2,3..Glukhov promotional material/#4,7..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg/#5..Library of Congress/#6..Antique postcard collection of Miriam Weiner

Photo Credits Ancestral Towns

#1,2,5,6,7..Town of Glukhov

#3,4,8,9,10..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg

Photo Credits Glukhov Diary

#1,#2,#3,#4,#5.#6,#7.#8.Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg.

Photo Credits Baku

#1,#2..Boris Feldblyum Collection © 1983

Photo Credits Kharkov

#1,3,4..Source Unknown/
#5..Boris Feldblyum Collection © 1983/#2,#6,#7,#8,#9..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg.

Photo Credits Kharkov Diary

#1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6,#7,#8,#9,#10,
#11,#12,#13..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg.

Photo Credits Eliezar's Family

#1..Glukhov Archives/#2,3,5..The late Alex Ephrat/#4..Alan and Marjorie Goldberg/#6..Jane Quint

Photo Credits Moishe Aron's Family

#1,2,3,4..Ilya Zavelsky/#5,6,7,8,9..The late Julia Ballo/#10..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg/#11,12,13,1114,15..Alan and Marjorie Goldberg

Photo Credits Kusil's Family

#1,4,6,8.. Zavelsky Family/#2..Ilya Zavelsky/#3..Miriam Halpern/#5,7..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg

Photo Credits Berel's Family

#1,2,3,4,5,6,.. The late Alexander Ephrat

Photo Credits Zalmon's Family

#1,#2,#4...Reece Franklin

#3..The late Alex Ephrat

#5..Jane Quint

#6..unknown

#7,#8..Herbert M, Franklin

#9..Deborah Budner

Photo Credits Moishe's Family

#1,#3,#4,#5,#6..Lenore Zavelle Marwil

#2..Alan and Marjorie Goldberg

Photo Credits Research

#1..Alan & Marjorie Goldberg/#2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9..Vitaly Chumak for Alan and Marjorie Goldberg

Photo Credits Immigration

#3,#4,#8..Philadelphia Municiple Archives

#5,#6..Marjorie Goldberg

#7..Lenore Zavelle Marwil
Acknowledgments and Thanks

To The Philadelphia Jewish Genealogical Society for their recommendation of two genealogists who made all of this research possible.


Elaine Kolinsky, who went to Montifore Cemetery in Philadelphia and discovered our Zavelsky ancestors names along with the multitude of research she did in the various Philadelphia archives. Also, she taught me how to do "proper" research.


Miriam Weiner, who found all of the documents in Ukraine and created family trees from them, and who tediously planned and implemented our visit to the Zavelsky ancestral towns in Ukraine. Miriam discovered my second cousins living in Russia and Ukraine.

To Vitaly Chumak, who guided us so professionally through our ancestral towns, made the plans for us to meet our new relatives and just made our Ukrainian trip the most memorable of our lives.

Without the above, there would not be a Zavelsky Family Story.

To Reece Franklin for finding me and bringing in the information on the Zavelsky/Franklin family, and for his support and being there for me throughout this project and now.

Last, but far from least, to my husband Alan who has helped and supported me in every way throughout the seven years of this project.

Resources
  • Address Bureau, Odessa
  • American Jewish Archives
  • American Jewish Historical Society
  • Archives of the City and County of Philadelphia
  • Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem
  • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  • Central Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kiev
  • Chernigov Oblast, Archives
  • City of Philadelphia Register of Wills
  • Dept. of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration
  • Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  • Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
  • Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
  • Jewish Genealogical People Finder
  • Jewish Genealogical Society of Philadelphia
  • Library of Congress, European Division
  • Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division
  • Library of Congress, Hebraic Section
  • Marriage License Bureau, Philadelphia
  • Montefiore Cemetery Company
  • Moreshet Center of Genealogical Research
  • Municipal Archives, New York, NY
  • NARA, Mid Atlantic Region, Philadelphia
  • NARA, New York, NY
  • NARA, Washington, DC
  • National Archives Trust Fund
  • NYC Dept. of Records and Information Services
  • New York County Clerk's Office
  • New York Public Library, Jewish Division
  • New York Public Library, Genealogical Division
  • New York Public Library, Microfilming Division
  • NY State Dept. of Health, Division of Vital Records
  • Nezhin Archives, Nezhin, Ukraine
  • Odessa Oblast Archives, Odessa, Ukraine
  • Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center
  • Pennsylvania Division of Health, Division of Public Records
  • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
  • Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
  • Steamship-Historical Society Collection, University of Baltimore Library
  • Sumy Oblast Archives, Sumy, Ukraine
  • Ukrainian Historical Archives, Kiev, Ukraine
  • U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
  • U.S. Dept. of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service
  • U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Special Consular Services
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern Division of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Government Printing Office
  • U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  • Yad Vashem, Hall of Names
  • Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

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Bibliography

A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Russian Empire, by Alexander Beider

"Chronicles," published by The Jewish Genealogical Society of Philadelphia

Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer of the World

Finding Our Fathers, by Dan Rottenberg

From Generation To Generation, by Arthur Kurzweil

Goode's World Atlas, Published by Rand McNally

Jewish Personal Names, by Rabbi Shmuel Gorr

Migration From The Russian Empire, Edited by Ira A. Glazier

Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals

Pictorial History of the Jewish People, by Nathan Ausubel

"Shtetl Finder Gazetteer," Heritage Books

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, by Arthur Kurzweil and Miriam Weiner

The Jewish World of Yesterday, by Rachel Salamander

"The New York Times," Obituary Section

Where Once We Walked, by Gary Mokotoff & Sallyann Amdur Sackler