My second cousin four times removed was Feiga Lefand, who lived in Drozdovka, near Nezhin in Chernigov Guberniya, Russian Empire (currently Drozdivka, Ukraine). My 5th great grandparents (and Feiga's great grandparents) had received permission to move there based on an 1853 request (which led to the authorities trying to draft Lefand kids and multiple years of petitions that I've written about here).
In 1885, Feiga married Meir Lieberman, and they lived in Drozdovka as well. In the 1888 census, they had two young children, Simon and Dvora. But then in 1889, Meir was evicted from Drozdovka because he didn't have permission to be living there. He appealed his eviction and left us some insight into what Jews needed to deal with when living in the Russian Empire in the 1880s.
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| Part of the case related to Meir Lieberman's forced eviction from Drozdovka |
