The indefatigable Alex Krakovsky posted of an interesting record set that included--among other things--many family lists of both Jews and Christians in Chernigov Guberniya. So of course I went Lefand hunting--and I had success (although it does have their name here as "Lefan").
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| Lefand Family List Entry, 1822 |
This 1822 document gives me some information about the family that I did not yet know. (Thanks to Dmitry Pruss for helping me to read the comments!) Previous documents have mentioned that the Lefand family lived in Drozdovka (now Drozdivka) outside Nezhin from the 1840s, but now I know they were living there as early as 1822! I found two versions of the family list in this document set, one of which says that the head of household (my 6th great grandfather) was a farmer/peasant and one that said he had a tavern.
I also learn the name of some women that I did not have from previous sources, likely because they had married or died by the mid-1840s, at which point surviving vital records for this area began. I learn the name of my 6th great grandmother as well (yay!), which I had hypothesized already based on naming patterns among her descendants. But the last two girls on this list (my 5th great grandparents' 3-year-old and 2-year-old) while new to me, neither I nor several others have been able to make out. Can anyone help with their names from either of the versions of this family list?
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| Lefand Family List Entry, 1822, Version 2 |
Do you have family from Chernigov Guberniya that you hope might be in these lists? You can see the original document here.
And if you have family from modern-day Ukraine and you haven't checked out the records that Alex Krakovsky has uploaded or worked with others who uploaded, you should. Jewish-specific records can be seen here, and records for all religions can be seen here. It's worth slogging through lots of pages to find family gold like what I've found here.
Happy searching!
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