My mother-in-law (Mikhla Shapiro) was born in Raguva. Her only reference to it was to quote her own mother, who used to say she was "from Raguva, may it burn to the ground!" --courtesy of Bruce Abell via Jewish Genealogy

Raguva (Rogova) lies nine miles southwest of Troskunai (Traskun) on the north-south road leading from Panevezys (Ponevezh) to Ukmerge (Vilkomir). The Neviazha River passes around the town which, like Troskunai, is set amidst many small lakes.

The town is mentioned in Henryk Sienkievicz’s historical novel about 17th century Poland, With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i Mieczem).

Raguva is a very old Jewish settlement dating back to the early 16th century. A rich noblewoman named Rogova owned a large estate in the area, where she lived with her two sons. One of her sons was killed and she erected a memorial to him. She was friendly to the Jews and traveled through the surrounding locale inviting Jews to settle on her estate; she offered them free land and timber. Historians have discovered from old tombstones that Raguva predates Ponevezh, since the Ponevezh Jewish community used the Raguva cemetery before they established their own. Raguva’s towered shul with a beautifully carved wooden ark was built in the 18th century. It was lost when two large fires destroyed first one half of the town, then the other, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 1897 Raguva’s population of 1223 was 80% Jewish, and Troskunai’s population of 779 was 78% Jewish. Raguva was a very poor town long before economic conditions worsened all over Lithuania. The five families probably moved to nearby Troskunai in the second half of the 19th century in hopes of making a better living.

Persons were grouped by household on the census; therefore when persons with different surnames shared a household, some kind of family relationship may be assumed even if we don’t know what it was. The earliest generation of which we have knowledge are the FATHERS OF ADULT MALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD on the 1846 Raguva census. Because the generation of the fathers was no longer living, information on their birth years and wives’ names was not recorded. I estimated the approximate decade of birth for the fathers from the recorded year of birth of their adult sons.

[ESTIMATED birth years in brackets]

(RECORDED birth years in parentheses)

Another basis on which to speculate about family relationships is the recurrence of given names over several generations, as offspring were named in honor of departed forebears. Alexander Beider's Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation and Migrations is very helpful in exploring the associations in Jewish tradition, sometimes overlapping, sometimes obvious, sometimes not at all obvious, between a Hebrew name and its vernacular (everyday, profane) counterpart, the kinnui. Fayvel, for example, is the kinnui of Shraga Menakhem, the Hebrew name of Orel Itzikovitz's's eldest son. Without Fayvel's Hebrew name, precious information contributed by Yitzhak Kovitz, I could not have identified Fayvel's stone, one of many photographed by Don Ugent in Troskunai, since the name on it is not "Fayvel Itzikovitz" but "Shraga Menakh bar Aharon."

Beider's book explains that Fayvel is a variant of Fayvush, an ancient Jewish name whose origin was the Latin vivus (living, alive), a loan translation (calque) from Hebrew chaim (life). Later the name Fayvush was erroneously considered to be a derivation from Phoebus, god of the sun; consequently Fayvish became the kinnui not only for the Biblical Hebrew name Uri (light) but for the Aramaic name Shraga (candle) in the Rabbinic period. Folk legends along with true and false etymologies gave rise to these interwoven associations.

In the early 19th century, government bureaucracies in Europe and Russia began to require its citizens to devise and use surnames for census and taxation purposes. One common source of surnames in Slavic countries, for Jews and non-Jews alike, was the addition of the suffix -ovitz, -ovich, -ovicz ("son of") to the given name of one’s father (e.g. Itzykovitz meaning "son of Itsyk"). In some cases men took their wife's surname when they married, in order to evade the draft.

Gimpel BERK (b. 1822), son of Meir, was head of household in Raguva for two adult sons of Nokhim KHAIT, Shimel (b. 1821) and Meir (b. 1830), and Shimel's wife Ginda. These four persons left Raguva in 1857 (RELOCATED per 1858 Raguva census), as did large numbers of other Raguva residents in the mid-1850s. Destinations were not stated.

Shimel (b. 1823) + Merka (b. 1824)

Zalman (b. 1853) + Khaya Feyga (b. 1854)

Dovid Itzyk (b. 1874) + Pesa (b. 1868). David Itzyk was conscripted in 1896.

Buna Gitel (b. 1877) + Mendel Leyb GLEZER (b. 1876) Offspring under GLEZER

Abram Josef (Yosel) (b. 1880) + 1st wife Bluma (1883-1910), daughter of Sholom [no known offspring]

+ 2nd wife Toba (nee Kodn)

Berel

Frida

Sonia (Sheyna)

Dvora

Zalman

Reyza (b. 1883)

Shimel (b. 1884) served in the military 1904-1909

Fayvish (b. 1885)

Gisa (b.1887)

Mirka (b. 1892)

Freyda (b. 1894)

Libke (b. 1900) + Bentzion ITZYKOVITZ (b. 1899) Offspring under ITZYKOVITZ

This stone is for the wife of Dovid Itzyk Berk (b. 1874): Pesa, daughter of Gilel. Although the stone is only partly legible, Pesa’s identity is confirmed by the 1891 Troskunai census, which states that in 1902 Pesa Berk was 34 and her father was Gilel SAPOZHNIK ("shoemaker" in Russian). The latter is the family of Miriam (nee SCHUMACHER aka SAPOZHNIK) Krakinowski, who was born in Troskunai in the 1920s and now lives in New York state. Miriam is a friend of Sonia Propis.

Itsko (b. 1819) + Brayna (b. 1819)

Izrail (b. 1843)

Shora Leah (b. 1851)

Gruna (b. 1855)

Borukh (b. 1817) + Sheyna (b. 1820)

Orel (1834-1891, died in VILKOMIR) + Mousha Gena (b. 1836)

Gana (b. 1867; married 1891)

Sheyna (b. 1871)

Abram Mendel (b. 1874)

Chaya (b. 1879)

Rocha (b. 1889) was the right age to have married Velvel Itzikovitz (b. 1883). This speculation is based on the name of Velvel's (and Rocha's?) daughter Mousha, possibly named for her grandmother Mousha Gena.

Mortkhel Orel (b. 1838) RAGUVA + Gita (1842-1897)

Shimel (b. 1870) + Elka (b. 1872)

Sora Frada (b. 1898)

Gitel Rochel (b. 1902)

Gershon Berel (b. 1909)

Shneyer (b. 1873)

Orel Berko (b. 1875) + Buna Gitel (not nee BERK) (b. 1863)

Gershon (Gershke) (b. 1902)

Rivka (b. 1903)

Sora Beyla (b. 1878)

Honel (Elkhonen) (b. 1840) + Dveyra (b. 1844)

Meir (b. 1869) + Chaya Feyga (b. 1877)

Nekha (b. 1894)

Sora Gitla (b. 1896)

Sora Feyga (b. 1871)

Mendel Leyb (b. 1876) + Buna Gitel nee BERK (b. 1877)

Borukh (Botske)

Dverka

Roska

Girsha (b. 1841) + 1st wife [...]

Chaya (b. 1872; married 1891)

Sheyna (b. 1876; married 1898)

Malka (b. 1880)

+ 2nd wife Chana Rocha (b. 1870)

Leyzer (b. 1890)

Chana (b. 1893)

Dina (b. 1894)

Nekhama (b. 1898)

Reyza (b. 1900)

Rafail (b. 1902)

ITZIK GLEZER [b. 1800-1810]

Yankel Meir (1834-1905) RAGUVA + Gitla (1835-1907)

Mortkhel (b. 1868)

Yudel (b. 1870)

Peysach Zalko (b. 1872) + Chaya Tsesna (b. 1878)

Mortkhel Itzyk [b. 1840s] + Mushka (b. 1845)

Yankel (b. 1875) RAGUVA

Freyda (b. 1881)

Girsha David (b. 1884)

Shmerel (b. 1847) + Rochla

Zlata (b. 1875)

Dveyra (b. 1882)

Etla (b. 1886)

Borukh GLEZER (b. 1817), son of Markel, was head of household in 1858 in RAGUVA for Abram KUSHNEROVICH (below) and his family.

SHIMEL (KUSHNER?) [b. 1780s]

Abram KUSHNEROVICH (b. 1802) + Paya (b. 1808)

Riska (b. 1842)

Berko (b. 1846)

The above stone in the Troskunai cemetery is for Yankel KUSNER (1841-1929), son of Abraham Elkhonen Kusner. Yankel's father Abraham may be the above Abram KUSHNEROVICH (Litvak pronunciation did not distinguish "s" and "sh") who lived with Borukh according to the Raguva census. Honel (Elkhonen) was also the given name of Borukh's third son (b. 1841), supporting a possible connection between the Glezers and Kusners. The left side of the stone is for Yankel Kusner and the right, for his wife Mariasha. Mariasha is the Hebrew name of Marilyn, youngest daughter of Daniel Kovitz; if Daniel's wife Elsie was a Glezer (we're working on finding out her maiden name), perhaps Marilyn was named for this Mariasha.

The extended ITZYKOVITZ family lived not only in Raguva and Troskunai but Dusetos, Subacius, and Seta (and possibly Salakas to the north). Per the Troskunai census, Wulf (Velvel), Fayvel's eldest son, moved to Subacius in 1901 when he was 18, and Orel (Ortzik/Harry), Fayvel's second son, moved to Dusetos in 1904 when he was 16. At these ages, the brothers were likely sent to apprentice with relatives in the shoemaking trade. I believe it was Frank Kovitz who recalled hearing the family talk about a strange place that sounded like "Shat," which I later discovered is the Yiddish name for Seta. Indeed many Itzikovitzes resided there. This simplified diagram of northeastern Lithuania also shows Ukmerge (Vilkomir), town of origin of Fayvel’s wife Yokhved, and Juzintai, from which the Ugent/Juzint family name was derived.

Itzykovitzes with given names similar to those of "our" group lived in nearby Kovno and Jonava as well. Families with the surname Itzikovitz lived also in central and western Lithuania, but without the pattern of recurring familiar given names as in the northeast. As you examine the Itzikovitz family outline below, keep in mind the following associations from Beider's book mentioned earlier: Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation and Migrations .

FAYVUSH: kinnui for URI, SHRAGA, ELIEZER, ELEAZAR, SHMUEL

ZALMAN: kinnui for SHLOMO / SHLOYME

ZELIK: kinnui for GERSHON / GERSH / GIRSH

ZALMAN, ZELIKMAN, ZISKIND, ZUSSMAN: kinnuim for SHNEYER (senior) from Judeo-Romance; also from Hebrew shney (two), when any two of these given names are used together

ZISKIND, ZUSSMAN: kinnuim for ELIEZER, ELEAZAR, ITZIK, SHNEYER

LEYB: kinnui for YEHUDA or YUDE (lion) since Judah is compared to a young lion in the blessing given him by his father Jacob (Yaakov).

The name Ziskind is especially interesting because in a book about Vilna youth lost in the Shoah, I found the following photograph of a man who looks amazingly like a Kovitz. There are several Shmuel's in the outline below, including Frank Kovitz, youngest son of Bentzion (Fayvel's youngest son), whose Hebrew name is Shmuel Fayvel; Stuart Covitz, second son of Joseph (Zussman's second son), whose Hebrew name is Shmuel Yehuda; and Sheldon Kovitz (second son of Abraham Nosson, Zussman's third son), whose Hebrew name is Shmuel Beryl.

Below is another mystery man who looks amazingly like a Kovitz. Note in all these photographs the wavy hair and the part on the right, in addition to other features.

I found the following in the Jewish Genealogy database of Photographs of Conscripts to the Russian Army 1900-1914.

Compare his face to that of Arthur Covitz, Zussman's eldest son.

Keep "Yankel son of Abram" in mind especially when you read the JONAVA section below.

LEYBE ITZYKOVITZ [b. 1750-1760]

Genokh (b.1778) + Gitlia (b. 1783)

Fayvish (b. 1815) + Yokhveda (b. 1816)

Itsyk (b. 1830)

Giska (b. 1837)

Movsha (b. 1838)

Nisson (b. 1795 - missing per 1866 census) + Rivka (b. 1796)

Movsha (b.1821 - in the army in 1837 per census)

YANKEL ITZYKOVITZ [b. 1790s]

Asher Eliash (b. 1811) + Khaya Dina (b. 1825)

Yankel (b. 1829) + Malka (b. 1831)

Meir Movshe (b. 1852)

Bluma (b. 1859) (see below under Seta - married Shimon Cohen?)

Dovid Itske (b. 1841) + Yudis (b. 1842)

Honel (b. 1864)

Basa (b. 1848)

Leybe (b. 1851)

Gershon (b. 1856)

Yakhla (b. 1860)

Movshe Yosel (b. 1862)

Eliash (b. 1819) + Etka (b. 1817)

Girshe Leybe (b. 1843) + Rocha Leah (b. 1846)

Sheyna Khaya (b. 1873)

Itske Ovsei (b. 1847) + Dobra (b. 1850)

WULF ITZYKOVITZ [b. 1780-1790]

Nosko (Nosson) + Khana (b. 1814)

Israel Ruven (b. 1830) + Khasa (b. 1831)

Khaya Mikhla (b. 1855)

Leah (b. 1858)

Reyza (b. 1860)

Ester (b. 1862)

Beyla (b. 1864)

Abram GIRSHOVITZ / ITZYKOVITZ (b. 1811) + 2nd wife Gana (b.1814)
(The census lists both surnames)

Shmuel Leizer (b. 1845) + Khaya Leah (b. 1841)

Cherna (b. 1866)

Vikhna (b. 1851) See note re: Vikhna below in RAGUVA-TROSKUNAI section, and note re: Shmuel (her older brother) above.

SHNEYER ITZYKOVITZ [b. 1800-1810]

Eliash Aron (Aharon) (b. 1834) + Rysha

Rivka (b. 1857)

Zalman (b. 1862)

ABRAM ELIASH ITZYKOVITZ [b. 1807] + Tsype (b. 1812)

Ber Movshe (b. 1840) + Sheyna (b. 1838)

Yudel (Yehuda) Wulf (b. 1863)

Leybe (b. 1866)

Abel Leybe (b. 1843)

Khaya Leah (b. 1847)

Khana Sora (b. 1850)

FAYVISH ITZYKOVITZ [b. 1830s] + Liba (b. 1839)

Hinda (b. 1859) cf. Sheyna Hinda, Hebrew name of Hilke's daughter, Sonia Kovitz Crost below; also Sheyna Hinda was the name of a cousin of Louis (Leybe) Kovitz who lived in Duluth.

Tsivia (b. 1860)

Khaya Sora (b. 1864)

Itsko (b. 1866)

Leybe (b. 1868)

In addition to the brothers/cousins Itsko, Abram, Berko and Gesel (Yosel/Josef), born before 1800 in RAGUVA, there lived in TROSKUNAI an Itzykovitz of the same generation: the Jew Benjamin Izakowicz [Polish spelling], renter of a tavern/inn on Traupienska Street per the 1810 Troskunai Property Owners Inventory. Orel Itzykovitz's second son Benyomin Josef (b. 1864) was likely named for this Benyomin. mypage.siu.edu/ugent/list.htm.

ITSKO ITSYKOVITZ [b. 1780-1790]

Gilel (Hillel) SHAPIR (b. 1816) + Gana (nee SHAPIR?). Gilel SHAPIR was head of household in 1858 in RAGUVA for the two sons of Abram (below), Mikhel Movshe and Eliash, possibly cousins of Gilel.

ABRAM ITSYKOVITZ [b.1780-1790]

Mikhel Movshe KOTLIAR (b. 1818) + Rivka (nee KOTLIAR?)

Girsh KOTLIAR (b. 1846) TROSKUNAI + Rayna Beyla (b. 1849)

Sora (b. 1873) (cf. Sora Malka, Fayvel's eldest daughter)

Leah Freyda (b. 1876)

Vitla (b. 1878)

Rocha Liba (b. 1880)

Reyza Enta (b. 1884)

Ari (b. 1889) ("lion" in Hebrew; cf. Yehuda Leyb)

Abram KOTLIAR (b. 1861) TROSKUNAI + Khaya Basa (b. 1860)

Movsha Yosel (b. 1879)

Rivka (b. 1882)

Eliash ITZYKOVITZ (b. 1824) RAGUVA + Freyda (b. 1820)

Sheyna (b. 1842)

Wulf (Velvel) (b. 1819) + 1st wife Glika (b. 1822) RAGUVA

Nouma (b. 1848)

(+ 2nd wife ?)

Leizer Nosel (Eliezer Nosson) (b. 1864) + Freyda (b. 1867) TROSKUNAI

Leybe (b. 1893)

Gilel (b. 1894)

Daniel (b. 1869) left Troskunai for unknown reason per 1891 census

Nokhim (Menakhem) [b. 1820s] + Chipa/Gita RAGUVA

Orel is listed as the father of the three brothers, but since he was no longer living at the time of the census, no other data is given for him. I believe that Orel must have died sometime between the birth of Fayvel's first son Velvel in 1883 and second son Orel in 1888, since Orel (Ortzik/Harry) was named for his departed grandfather. The recorded birth years, however, may not be accurate since Leybe (Louis), who was the fourth son, always gave 1888 as his birth year. In any case, because of the sequence of births and naming, it appears that Leybe's grandfather Orel had died before Leybe was born; therefore the grandfather who told him about Napoleon's troops traveling through the vicinity must have been Yokhved's father, not Fayvel's father. Alas, so many questions we should have asked!

OREL (AHARON) ITZYKOVITZ [b. 1820s] + Feyga (b. 1828) Orel's father's name is unknown. The given names of Orel's offspring suggest that Orel may have been a second son of BERKO. Knowledge of the Hebrew names of Fayvel's grandchildren listed below would provide a good basis for further detective work.

Fayvish (Shraga Menakhem) (b. 1856 or 1859) RAGUVA + Yokhved (b. 1859) (daughter of Gershon of VILKOMIR)

Sore Malka (Sarah) (b. 1878) + ___ KARPOV

Aharon (Harry) KARP - the only surviving offspring of four

Sheyna Pesha (Pesl) (b. 1882) + __

Wulf Zalman (Velvel) (b. 1883) + __ Rocha? see above under GLEZER

Mousha and others

Aharon (Orel/Ortzik/Harry) (b. 1888) + Rina BARR

George

Michael

Helen

Sarah

Yosel Lazar/Eleazar (Joe) (b. 1889) + Sarah

Florence - died of pneumonia as a child

Mitchell

Lillian

Eddie

Yehuda Leybe (Louis) (b. 1890) + Leah (Lena) ZETCHER (b. 1893)

Benjamin

Ruth (Rochel)

Miriam

Frances (Fruma)

Chaim Gilel (Hilke) (b. 1891) + Mary KIKHEL/COHEN (b. 1896)

Jack, their eldest son, was the 5th person to be named for Yankel KIKHEL, who was conscripted into the Czarist army in 1854 at age 14 (see below under KIKHEL).

Philip (Fayvel)

Sonia (Sheyna Hinda) - Louis Kovitz had a cousin named Sheyna Hinda (nee Smith or "Shmid" in Russian) Kaplan, wife of Nekhemia Kaplan; they lived in Duluth. Sheyna Hinda's brother had a farm outside of Duluth. The Shmid family is listed on both the Troskunai and Raguva censuses and one of the stones in the Troskunai cemetery is for Asher Shmid.

Ruven Shaul (Roy) (b. 1893-1894) + Clara KRELL (Galitzianer family)

Philip (Shraga Menakhem)

Sheldon (Chaim Shlomo Zev)

Daniel (b. 1896) + Elsie (from LELIUNAI/Lelumi)

Beverly (Kenta Beyla) - born in Lithuania

Seymour (Sholom Ber) - b. 1927 in Lithuania
Daniel sent for Elsie, Beverly, and Seymour six years after he emigrated.

Marilyn (Mariasha) - born in U.S.

Bentzion (Bentsel/Ben) (b. 1898) + Libke BERK (b. 1900)

Dave (Dovid Mendel)

Victoria

Frank (Shmuel Fayvel)

Benyomin Josef (b. 1864 per census) + Sheyna Rivka UGENT

Vikhna*

Dov Ber (Berchik) + Chana Golda UGENT

Masha Khaya Feyga (b. 1920) + Issy BOLEL

Zussman (b. 1864 per family, 1870 per census) + Brynna RUBIN (b. 1859)

Arthur (Asher) (b. 1892) + Sayde no offspring

Joseph (Josef Dov) (b. 1894) + Sarah ZAFF

Merrill (Meir Leyb)

Stuart (Shmuel Yehuda)

Morton (Moshe Ruven)

Eva (Vikhna*) (b. 1898) + Myer ROSENTHAL

Philip (Fayvel)

Julian (Yudel/Yehuda)

Marjorie

Betty

Abraham Nosson Kovitz (b. 1901) (twin) + Marion

Marshall

Sheldon (Shmuel Beryl)

Fannie (Feyga) (b. 1901) (twin) + David MELAMED

Ina

Frieda (b. 1908) (did not marry)

Sally (Sora Rivka/Sorifke) (b. 1912) + Robert SIEGEL

Steven

Martin

*Vikhna is from Hebrew vered meaning "lily" or "rose." The eldest daughters of Benyomin and Zussman were each named Vikhna, suggesting that they were named for an earlier Vikhna. See in the JONAVA group of Itzykovitzes the Vikhna born in 1851, who may have died around the turn of the century, the same time when both Dov Ber's and Benyomin's daughters were born.

Gershon Leizer (b. 1823) + Basia Malka (b. 1828)

Zalman Izrael (b. 1842 - missing in 1858)

Keyla (b. 1845)

Khaya Raska (b. 1850)

Although the Seta records are less complete than others, note the following:

1877 Seta list
Girshe ITZYKOVITZ son of YOSEL
Girsh ITZYKOVITZ son of ZELIK

1879 Seta list
Fayvish GUTMAN/ITZYKOVITZ son of Girsh

1892 Seta list
Shimel Eliash ITZYKOVITZ

As a final note of interest, the following are buried in the SHAT (SETA) section of Montefiore Cemetery of Queens, NY:

Nokhum Dobuler (1857-1931), son of Khana nee ITZYKOVITZ and Yitzhak Dovid Dobuler

Mollie Kurlanchick, daughter of Bluma nee ITZYKOVITZ and Shimon Cohen

Morris/Moshe CUTLER (cf. Mikhel Movsha KOTLIAR, son of Abram), son of Sam ABRAHAM and Annie nee Fein

SHEVEL KIKHEL [b. 1790-1800]

Movsha (b. 1822) + Sora Dvera (Shora Tsivia) (b. 1823)

Shevel Yankel (b. 1860) + Khaya (b. 1861)

Iudel Osher (b. 1889)

Gena (b. 1890)

Mairim (Meir/Marvish) (b. 1826) + Mikhla (b. 1828)

Chaim (Hyman) Borukh (b. 1851) + Dvera (Dora) (b. 1852), daughter of Yakov BOYER
cf. Yankel BOYER, "well-to-do carpenter" on 1877 Seta list

Tsivia/Celia (b. 1876) + Ruvin UGENT (b. 1867) Offspring under UGENT

Leah/Lena (b. 1878) + Louis KIMMEL

Sora Rivka (b. 1881)

Leyb (b. 1884)

Yankel (Jake KISSEL) (b. 1891)

Mairim (Meir) (took the name COHEN in America) (b. 1894)

Mary (took the name COHEN in America) (b. 1896)

Gershon (b. 1859) + Rokha (b. 1859)

Peysakh (b. 1883)

Abel Mairim (b. 1888)

Feyga Dvera (b. 1889)

Yenta Matla (b. 1890)

Ester Rivka (b. 1894)

Shevel Yankel (b. 1865) + Rokhla (b. 1865)

Chaim Borukh (b. 1884)

Mairim (b. 1888)

Sora (b. 1893)

Gershon Mikhel (b. 1829) + 1st wife Leah (per Raguva 1858 census)

Sholom Girsha (b. 1851) + Kuna Gesa (b. 1855)

Leyb Tubiash (b. 1880)

Abram Abel (b. 1883)

Khaya Nouma (b. 1889)

+ 2nd wife Rasha (b. 1840) (per Troskunai 1891 census)

Shevel Yankel (b. 1865) + Rokha (b. 1859)

Chaim Borukh (b. 1883)

Sheyna (b. 1884)

Gena Leah (b. 1886)

Abram Gershon (b. 1869) + Sora Dina (b. 1870)

Pesa Kreyna (b. 1882)

1) Shevel Yankel KIKHEL (b. 1860), son of Movsha and Sora Dvera

2) Shevel Yankel KIKHEL (b. 1865), son of Mairim and Mikhla

3) Shevel Yankel KIKHEL (b. 1865), son of Gershon and Rasha

4) Yankel (Jake) KISSEL (b. 1891), son of Chaim Borukh and Dvera nee Boyer

5) Yankel (Jack) KOVITZ, son of Hilke Itzykovitz and Mary nee Kikhel/Cohen

Shimshon (b. 1810) + Rivka (b. 1810)

Rafal (b. 1818) + Mikhla (b. 1823)

Bluma (b. 1844)

Rakhmiel (b. 1832) + 2nd wife Chana Leah (b. 1838)

Zussman Leybe (b. 1868) + Sheyna (b. 1868)

Chana Golda + Dov Ber ITZYKOVITZ

Feyga (b. 1920) + Izzy BOLEL

Moishe (killed while smuggling)

Rivl

Movsha Berko (b. 1871)

Itsyk (b. 1836) + ___

Zelman Iudel (b. 1864) + Tsype Leah

Girsha Yankel (b. 1879)

Movsha Berko/Bentsel (b. 1880)

Ruvin (b. 1867) + Celia (Tsivia) (b. 1876) KIKHEL/COHEN

Jacob Aaron (Orel Yankel) (b. 189..)

Morris (Berel) (b. 189..)

Julius

Izzy

Ethel

Basa (b. 1869)

Berko (b. 1870)

Mushka (b. 1871)

Rokhla (b. 1873)

Gesel (b. 18..)

Mendel (b. 18.. )

Sheyna (b. 1878)

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