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TARAKHOVSKII GROUP
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is impossible to
acknowledge every contact I make within each family, simply as there are
so many, and it would defeat the object of the section. The following
are those who have contributed most to the advancement of the family
tree and family history, and why. We are all heavily indebted to you,
and to everyone else who has contributed by any means.
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Yefim Briskman of New York, for
spending a number of hours in Summer 2007 researching the
Tarakhovskii family in Ukrainian microfilms, thereby taking the
genealogy back to c.1770. As well as providing scores of new branche
for the family tree, this information also provided some very
probable solutions to various mysteries I've encountered since I
first looked at this side of my family in the mid-1990s. This is a
most incredible achievement, considering how hard it has been to
trace this family for so long, and also considering that Yefim is
not related to the family in any way. My gratitude to him cannot be
understated.
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Yury Tarahovsky of Pushchino,
near Moscow, for responding so warmly to my e-mails, providing
photos and stories from a branch of the Tarakhovskii family that
even Raie Kaitiff did not know existed! Never did I imagine that we
could have cousins still in Russia, retaining the Tarakhovskii
surname (using various transliterations) in the 21st century!!
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Joel Kaitiff of
Liverpool, for allowing me access to his research, including work
done by Raie Kaitiff and Sally Baratz in the early 1980s, as well as
being the first of the Tarakhovskii family to be contacted by our
branch in many a decade.
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Hillel Harris of
Edenbridge, Kent, for providing numerous photos, buying certificates and
suggesting all sorts of theories but, most of all, for suggesting to
my dad that I create a website for the family history!! The result
is a project far bigger than I could ever have imagined - thanks
Hill!
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The late Beatrice
Kapper and family of Milwaukee, WI, for providing photos, recollections and
boundless enthusiasm!
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Joan Tarachow of Milwaukee, WI,
for providing photos, genealogical data and, most importantly, for putting
me in touch with Yury Tarahovsky in Russia!
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Keith Munro of Birkenhead,
Wirral, and
Jeff Kaiser of Morton Grove, IL, for providing a translation of
the Russian inscription on the reverse of the photo of Gitl and
Nyunya.
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