This genealogical research and presentation is dedicated to my father, Cantor Roy Garber, and to all of our children's futures.
Included here are the known branches leading to my nuclear family. On the Garber side, this includes surnames: Rachevsky, Zelinsky (Zelensky), Lazarus, Seide, Schwartz (Schvartzvald), Dorn(Doran),Feinstein and many more.
On the Landerman side this includes families such as: Landerman, Lipsky, Friedman, Pearlman and (from California) Unickel or Unikel and many more.
* 6/1/2001 trip to Brockton, Mass yields lots of Zelinsky and Dorn gravesites. Photos to follow. Connections to other Dorns in Brockton (working with Rachel L. on this).
* 7/2001 trip to Pgh yields a treasure trove of landerman side trophies (thanks Ink and Ed!)
* 8/2001 Met Steve Bell and family in Vermont and planning return to Lynn to (re-)connect Damsky/Price relatives (thanks Cliff!)
* 8/2001 Plumbed the depths of Steve Price's memory in Lynn re: the Damsky/Feinstein/Price branches of the tree; Cliff helped with more Lynn City Clerk's office research.
* 9-23-2001 trip to Stepiner and adjoining cemeteries, W. Roxbury, MA, discovers Schwartz & Shain stones and many (unrelated?) Garbers.
* 10-1-2001 Trip to Randolph Mass: Many thanks to Charlie Shain for first hand memories of my grandfather, Benjamin, and for access to Schwartz & Shain Yartzheit plaques (below).
* 2/10/2002 Shain reunion thanks to Emily and Bernard! Many new photos and much new data!
* 12/2002-1/2003 Wonderful new connections with Cynthia Rachevsky Stein, Hagit Gilad and Marty Merin on Harry Rachevsky side ... possible new connections into early 1800 Poland?
* 6/2003 As my research reaches further into the past, progress slows. Many thanks for recent data to Rabbi Jonathan Roos.
* 11/2005 Been away a long while...ran into roadblocks once this research reached Eastern Europe. Recent family reunion in Pgh (thanks Sally!) prompted a quick revisit. More soon...?
* 2/2006 A link discovered on Laura's side to the Kaplan family will soon yield LOTS more data... stay tuned!
As self-appointed archivist and genealogist, I accept full responsibility for any omissions or errors. Your questions, comments, contributions and corrections are not only welcome, but needed!
Ben Garber
papaben@healthyparent.com
Thanks!
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- Ben and Laura, Mollie and Zoe 1999 (50 KB)
The autumns are beautiful in New Hampshire. (Don't ask about the winters!)
- HELP! Who is this mystery Bar Mitzvah boy? (87 KB)
Please e-mail if you recognize this child, circa 1910?? papaben@inr.net
- Lilly Rachevsky marries Hyman Bell (232 KB)
Standing,left to right: Boris Nelson, Minnie Nelson, Bernie
Lazarus, Blanche Lazarus, Howard Nelson, Janet Lazarus, Rebecca Lazarus.
Seated, left to right: Samuel Rachevsky, Hyman Bell, Lillian Bell, Ida
Rachevsky. On the floor,left to right: Flora Lazarus, Gene Nelson, Joel
Larus( Irving Lazarus), Howard Nelson
- Barney Zelinsky and Janet Lazarus's wedding (46 KB)
Back row: May Zelinsky, Barney Zelinsky, Pincus Zelinsky and Joseph Greenbaum
Front row: Jeanette Lazarus, Rachel Dorn Zelinsky, Yetta Zelinsky Greenbaum
- Garber siblings c. 1913 (150 KB)
(back row, left to right:) Jacob (b. 1906) Benjamin (b. 1902); (front row:) Israel (b. 1908), Rose (b. 1909) and Baby Burton (b. 1912)
- Young Israel of Randolph Yartzeit plaques (43 KB)
This is the first documentation of my father's grand- and great-grandparents, offering dates and Hebrew names. Many thanks to Charlie Shain!
- Is this Benjamin Garber with sons Roy and Buddy? (10 KB)
Recently pillaged through mom's storage closet and found this among many more. Compare these boys' faces with the mystery Bar Mitzvah boy also available here. Same?
- Barney Zelinsky and Janet Lazarus are married (149 KB)
Curiously, a number of Janet and Barney's ("Bop" to me) wedding photos survive today.
- Rebecca Rachevsky Lazarus and Harry Lazarus (18 KB)
These are Janet Lazarus Zelinsky's parents, circa 1959. Tracing back the Rachevsky line into Poland. As of 3/28/2001 research suggests that Rachevsky comes by association (not blood) with Count Rzyszczewski in Kleszczele, Poland. The family name may once have been Seide.
- Volhynia, Ukraine circa 1850 map!!! (60 KB)
Schwartz family identifies ZHITOMER and both Garber and Feinstein families identify SLAVUTA as places of origin. Both are in VOLHYNIA province, present day Ukraine (on Polish and Belarus borders). This map clearly shows Zhitomer. Slavuta is northwest (do you read Cyrillic languages?)
- Is this Benjamin Garber and Buddy? (16 KB)
Another treasure pillaged from mom's storage closet. Someone scratched the year -1936- on the photo. Still hunting for any data on Benjamin (my namesake) and his father, the elusive Max Garber.
- Leo and Bella Rachevsky (Rzyszczewski) c. 1880 (927 KB)
Believed to be from Warsaw, Russia. Poland was not a distinct entity yet. (With many thanks to Steve Bell)
- Garber clan 1999 in Washington DC home (52 KB)
left to right: Roy, Ben, Mollie, Robin, Laura, Zoe (with her tongue out) and Laura
- Ida (Schwartz)Shain and her young children 1919? (13 KB)
Harry Schwartz's sister, Ida (Schwartz Shain) (wife of Harry Shain) with children ... but I can't match these 5 kids' apparent ages with the known birthdates of Sarah (1903), Morris(1904), David(1905),Minnie(1911), Abraham "Boomie"(1913) and Charlie(1918)... can you help identify this photo??? Terrific (if scarred) photo thanks to Emily Mehlman 11-2001.
- 7 Lloyd Street, Lynn, Mass (50 KB)
The family homestead, circa 1905-1920s (although some records suggest that other similar residences in this same neighborhood were occupied as well. Story suggest that Max owned the whole block, inc adjoining offices on Washington Street. Benjamin and Anna lived on the first floor.
- Fanny Rubin (Warsaw, c. 1880) (2006 KB)
This is Ida Rachevsky's mother, matriarch of the line that leads to Janet Lazarus Zelinsky. This is Mollie and Zoe's 3rd great grandmother! (With many thanks to Steve Bell)
- Janet, Shirley, Rebecca and Ida (1944?) (19 KB)
Janet Lazarus Zelinsky with daughter Shirley Zelinsky (1yo), mother Rebecca Rachevsky Lazarus and (one of the only known photos of) grandmother Ida Rubin Rachevsky
- Pincus Zelinskys 2/1904 Ellis immigration manifest (364 KB)
Finally found it ... Arrived under name PINCHES ZILINSKY at Ellis Island on S.S. St. Paul 2/15/1904 (28yo), apparently accompanied by NAT. DORN (=Noah?, both intended to live with Rueben Dorn, 40 Bay Street, Brockton, MA. (11-2001: This completes all direct relatives' immigration docs. On to nineteenth century Europe!)
- Benjamin Garber's stone in North Reading, MA (48 KB)
My first and only meeting with my paternal grandfather.
- Samuel Rubin (Warsaw, Russia, c. 1880) (73 KB)
Ida Rubin's father and Mollie and Zoe's 4th great grandfather! (With many thanks to Steve Bell)
- Landerman/Friedman/Pearlman Clan 1995 (180 KB)
The gathering outside Pittsburgh. Who do you recognize?
- William Schwartz and Clara Bookstein 1909 (13 KB)
Photo thanks to Harriet Shain 2/2002 at Shain reunion in Brookline, Mass
- October 1, 1904 The Philadelphia arrives in NYC (453 KB)
This ship's manifest discovered via EllisIslandRecords.com reveals that Samuel Dorn (age 54) and wife Chaje (age 54) traveled with daughter Rachel ZELENSKY (wife of Pincus, not aboard; age 22) and grandadughter Yetta ZELENSKY (age 10) from Southhapton, England, to NYC. Samuel is listed as a boxmaker. Passage was paid for by Rueben Dorn, already living in Chelsea. Note the altered ZELENSKY name!11/2001: Found Pincus' manifest, now presented here as a separate photo... check it out!
- Sam and Ida Rachevsky with daughter Lillian (46 KB)
Boston, c. 1912, Lillian was about 3yo. In those days, the men were seated and the women stood. (With many thanks to Steve Bell)
- Rebecca Lazarus' 80th birthday? (40 KB)
Much of the exteneded family gathered to celebrate Rebecca's 80th in the Brockton, Massachusetts, area.
- Benjamin Garber marries Anna Schwartz 2-5-1924 (19 KB)
My namesake grandfather and his bride. Photo thanks to Shiela Photo thanks to 2/2002 at Shain reunion in Brookline, Mass
- Morris Landerman's grandmother, "Bubbi" (12 KB)
Identified by Ed Landerman, this otherwsie uncaptioned phot is thought to be Laura's father's father's (maternal or paternal? we don't know) grandmother
- The Rachevsky and Lazaarus crew 1920s (51 KB)
(left to right from rear:) Sam, Blanche, Janet, Beckie (Rebecca), Minnie, Ida and Flora (kids at front:) Howard Nelson and unknown girl? (Thanks here again to Steve Bell!)
- Shirley Zelinsky marries Roy Garber 1956 (219 KB)
Left to right: Joanne Schultz, Harry Lazarus, Flora Ginns, Becky Lazarus, Janet Zelinsky, Danny Ginns(child), Haskell Ginns, Roy Garber, Joel Larus, Shirley Garber, Barney Zelinsky, Bobby Ginns (child), Bernie Lazarus, Carl Zelinsky, Libby Lazarus, Joel Lazarus, Blanche Lazarus, David Schultz and Dicky Schultz
- Gregorovitch Landerman and family (30 KB)
Edgar's father (Morris's) father, Gregorovitch, presumably late 1800s in Romania
- Rachevsky and Lazarus clans c. 1925 (51 KB)
Galliton Street home, Providence, RI (left to right:) Sam, Blanche, Janet, Beckie/Rebecca, Minnie, Ida, Flora (kids in front:) Flora and Howard Nelson (thanks to Steve Bell!)
- HELP! Who are these unknown Friedman ancestors? (35 KB)
This photo survived in my wife's family's collection, presumably mid-1800s but we don't know who it is! Do you? e-mail papapben@inr.net
- Minerva, Rebecca and Lilly Rachevsky (92 KB)
Photo thanks to Steve Bell of California, Lilly's son and newly converted genophile; said to have been taken at Joel Larus' wedding in Belmont, Mass
- Janet Lazarus and Lilly Rachevsky c. 1924 (58 KB)
The girls at summmer camp. Lilly is about 13, Janet is about 15 but Lilly is Janet's aunt! (With thanks to Steve Bell!)
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The Garber & Landerman Family Trees 11-2005