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BEFORE YOU SEARCH

Before you give in to the temptation to search Shmuelbennachum.com for a surname, look at the four coloured lists displayed on the Homepage, to save yourself the bother of searching here. If you find the name you are looking for, go to the relevant group homepage (Goldberg, Tarakhovskii, Tyszkowski or Gutman) and look through it until you find information on that surname. E-mail me at saulmarks@hotmail.com for more information on any surnames on this website.

SURNAME VARIATIONS

If the surname is not there, is there something similar? I use standardised Polish or Russian versions of surnames on my site, but very few of these spellings remained the same after emigration. Indeed, some names varied in spelling while the family was still in the heim, such as Zilbersztejn and Zylbersztejn. Here is an example of how a Polish name spawned many phonetic spelling variations when the family emigrated to England and the US:

Original Polish spelling	T	Y	SZ	K	OW	SKI
American descendants' variation	T	I	SH	K	OF	SKY
English descendants' variation	T	I	S	K	OF	SKY
Ellis Island manifest 1909	D	I	S	C	OF	SKI

Others variations include Diskofsky, Kiskofsky, Tishkowsky, Tishkowski and Tiskonsky.

SPELLING VARIATIONS

Unfortunately, the search feature below is not a soundex, so it will not provide results which sound similar to the word you enter, only words matching it. However, it cannot be emphasised enough that,

if your search returns no hits, you must try

other spelling variations of the same name!!!

If you do not do this, you are greatly reducing your chances of making a connection! Try the following phoneme modifications to the surname you enter:

CH	→	CZ
CH	→	KH
F	→	W
EI	→	AJ or EJ
EL	→	IEL
I	→	Y
ON	→	A
SH	→	SCH
SH	→	SZ
SKY	→	SKI
STEIN	→	SZTEJN
TS	→	C
TZ	→	C
V	→	B
V	→	W
VITS	→	WICZ
WITZ	→	WICZ
Y	→	I
Z	→	C

Try different combinations of these to search for as many spelling variations of the surname as possible (or until you get bored!).

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Remember the cardinal rule...

if your search returns no hits, you must try

other spelling variations of the same name!!!

Of course, the search feature is not just for surnames, but any piece of text relating to my research, including first names, towns, resources, associates, research partners and many more.

THE EASY ALTERNATIVE

There is, of course, an easy alternative to going through all those spelling variations: e-mail me! If you recognise a name on my site that could be one of your ancestral surnames, or part of your research, e-mail me at saulmarks@hotmail.com, give me some information about the family and I will be able to tell you whether that information appears in my research!

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