Fleeing Kiev one month before the city fell to the Nazis on 19 September 1941, Hana Yaroker, her two year old son Michail and seven year old daughter Hasia become part of the Soviet evacuation to central Asia. Traveling by…
Read more → The Kupchik family emigrated from the USSR in 1957 as part of the Soviet Union’s forced repatriation of ethnic Poles. Chava Kupchik‘s (née Yaroker) husband, first name unknown, was born in Poland, permitting the entire family to leave. They first…
Read more → Abraham Kolik lived in the town of Yurevichi of the Russian Empire and sold luxury goods to wealthy landowners in neighboring districts. Landowners placed orders for items such as French perfumes, silverware and fine fabrics. He owned horses and traveled…
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Bicycling 125km from Kiev, seventeen year old Mihail Yaroker and his friend rode into Kaniv, the birthplace of Shevchenko on the bank of the river Dnieper. The streets of Kaniv were cobblestoneded so the boys rode their bicycles on the…
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Filled and heavy with pennies, my lacquered wooden bank was shaped like a mushroom with a detachable top. I opened the top and poured the pennies into Al Connell’s hands. He was the staff photographer for the Evening Journal newspaper,…
Read more → Yurevich in 1881 was known as Jurewicze. It is described in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Polish and other Slavic Countries, Volume III. Jurewicz in 1881 1) Jurewicz is a small town in the former province of Minsk,…
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The interactive features of this website engage a younger generation. Family stories can include videos, audio, photographs and comments. Photographs, graphics, design and interactive elements give visual appeal to the genealogy data. For example, notice how newspaper clippings can be…
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The family history sections of this website can be restricted to family members. This offers all of the benefits of collaboration and sharing, but restricted to specific individuals. Registration and approval is required to access these private sites. Family members…
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How do you discover family members that you do not know you have? Let them discover you! Public Beacons are optional, search-engine optimized pages on this website. They are designed to appear on search sites when someone searches for his…
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To share and collaborate with relatives abroad, you must speak their language. The FindFollow website can be translated into different languages. These multi-language versions of the website are created using a combination of automated and manual translation techniques. Contact us…
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