I've already poked around a bit, but some of my grandclient's ancestors are in the 1785 evidence file batch, the one with the surname adoptions - before they changed to a fabric-themed surname in 1788, their dyer ancestor used the surname "Ferb"!
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And my reward? Having finally worked my way around an incredibly thorny mix-up with a NYC marriage record with the wrong mother's name (a tall order to prove), there's now an uninterrupted path to phase 2 - which involve my beloved #LvivFamilyEvidenceFiles
Wahoo!
Kamien from Kamienopol. Porzer from Podborce.
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In 1785, three Jewish families in the village of Zimnawoda (“cold water”) near Lemberg (now Zymna Voda near Lviv, Ukraine) received the surnames Kalt (“cold”), Zime (clipped from “Zimnawoda”), and Kaltwasser (“cold water”) respectively
I love these
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Now there's a profession I've never encountered before... in 1789 in Lviv (then Lemberg), Moses Neuer was a Haarpudermacher: hair-powder maker.
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Drat. The National Library of Israel confirms: their microfilm is missing a page. (A page that almost definitely existed as of the time of filming)
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I love when surname adoptions are so transparent.
The Lviv Steinfeld family first appears in the #LvivFamilyEvidenceFiles as 'Kaminpol' - that is, named for the village of Kamienopol (modern Kamianopil) in the Lviv district.
In 1788, 'Kaminpol' is struck through and replaced with 'Steinfeld'.
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Another case of a surname in the making being caught in the 1785 #LvivFamilyEvidenceFiles:
We have the Czilower family in 1785. The name is a transparent toponym; when taking into account geography, Polish phonotactics and German difficulties with Polish sounds, I'm nearly certain it's ...
In the 1785 #LvivFamilyEvidenceFiles, homeownership - by far the exception, not the rule, in the Jewish community at least - was divided into three classes: owners of stone homes (synonymous with tenements, btw), of wooden homes, and Chalupniks - owners of huts. I wonder what the dividing line was.
A cool thing about the 1785 #LvivFamilyEvidenceFiles is that you can sometimes see a surname being made from scratch.
Chaim Kreinzes, sounds like a matronym...? Well his mother-in-law Kreinze is still alive! Checks out! And while Chaim dies before the 1788 round of 'real' surnames...
The other used a Hebrew patronymic acronym in 1785 - Berab (= b'en [-e-] r'abbi [-a-] b'aruch) and replaced it with a disguised patronym (Hirsch, German for 'deer' and the patriarch of the family - father of Baruch, grandfather of Mechel)
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Kalman Kiper (phonetic spelling, in the local Yiddish, of Kupfer, copper), a "Kleinwechsler" (small money changer)
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A guy name Geplagt ('tormented') - died young, no sons, so the surname went extinct almost immediately, it seems
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A furrier named Kaplusch. #LvivFamilyEvidenceFiles
Why was a family in 1785 Lviv named Jenikau (the German name of one of two towns called Jeníkov now in the Czech Republic) - a name which didn't make the cut in 1788, when it was replaced with Fak.
In my experience this usually suggests trade ties. Hmm.
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What sort of surname/patronym/matronym is Toteres? Todros? (lack of voicing distinction in early Habsburg Lemberg - and perhaps before - is rampant)
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Adding for my own convenience #LvivFamilyEvidenceFiles
