Re: Help Reading Signature

Elzbieta Porteneuve — Wed Jul 12, 2017 2:24 am

Author: Elzbieta Porteneuve

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2017 2:24 am

CarolinaBoone wrote:

My Wife's Great GrandFather migrated to the US in 1907-1908 from Minsk and would never speak of his past. Her Grandfather now 94 got him to write the family name once and we're having trouble making out the spelling. We know nothing of that side of the family before 1922. It's the signature along the bottom of the card, that's repeated again, vertical on the right. We would really appreciate some help with it.

Kind Regards and Thank you for the help.

Hi,

I had difficulties to imagine what it could be written in Polish, Latin script, HC? JK? Which would suggest the given name starting with H or J.
Then it became much easier with Cyrillic script.

Жевицкий

Which could be in Polish Żewicki or Rzewicki - Ż and Rz spells the same.
Both names exist today, very few, 4 and 2 cases, but existing in today Poland.

Best,
Elzbieta
NB. The bottom is rather Жевецкий - Żewecki or Rzewecki, but the vertical is clearly Жевицкий - Żewicki or Rzewicki

NB2. The English spelling by google is Zhevitsky; Polish spelling of the first letter Ż is similar to "J" in Jamie; Polish w spells like v.

May I suggest you try to spell it like in Polish to the 94 years old Grandfather, his memories can help.

==MORE==

I googled in Cyrillic Жевицкий Минск - Żewicki Minsk (it is Belarus now), and get many results, including Живицкий - Żiwicki. All that Żewicki Żiwecki Żiwicki have very close spelling, even for native Slavic language speaker.

Amongst the list: Consolidated list of Powstanie z 1863-1864 // Insurrection 1863-1864, cf. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powstanie_styczniowe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Uprising
those send to Siberia http://kdkv.narod.ru/1864/Ssilka-ZapSib.html#07

Жевицкий Станислав Фелицианов – муж., 57 лет на 1870 г., дворянин Гродненской губ., сослан пр. без лишения прав пр. на жительство, с 1865 г. находился в Тобольске — ГУ ГАОО. ф. 3 Оп. 5. д. 7601. Л. 59 об.-60, 113 об.-114, Оп. 6. д. 10388.
Żewicki Stanislaw Felicjan, 57 y old, in 1870 for life sentence, etc. --- in case you want one day to digg names from Minsk.
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Help Reading Signature

CarolinaBoone — Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:41 pm

Author: CarolinaBoone

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:41 pm

My Wife's Great GrandFather migrated to the US in 1907-1908 from Minsk and would never speak of his past. Her Grandfather now 94 got him to write the family name once and we're having trouble making out the spelling. We know nothing of that side of the family before 1922. It's the signature along the bottom of the card, that's repeated again, vertical on the right. We would really appreciate some help with it.

Kind Regards and Thank you for the help.

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