Before the Beginning - A Bit of History

Russia banned Jews until 1772. In 1772 Russia acquired a large area of Poland containing many Jewish people. By the laws of 1795 and 1835 the Russian Government limited its new Jews to the newly annexed areas, since known as the "Pale of Settlement." This large area included Kovno,
Vilna, Vitebsk, Milnsk, and numerous other states extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea. In 1882 more than 1.5 million Jews who had managed to live outside the "Pale" were forced into it. By 1897 there were more than 5 million Jews in the Pale.
The Strimling family move in the late 1870's is shown by the line.

Places on the map where each family came from:

Leighton
Siegel Kavarsk, Kovno Gaberna near Vilna
Ostrin Hershena, Chernigov Gaverna near Kritonslov (Ukraine)
Strimling Shavol, Kovno Gaberna, Lithuania also lived in Konotop, Chernigov Gabberna
Milavitz Kavarsk, Kovno Gaberna
Dianne
Ziskin & Posner Berlinitz, mogoliv Gaberna on the Kneper River between Mogoliv and Orsha
Wilensky Ylesavalgrid (Leningrad?)
Rubin unknown
Levin unknown

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