"Jewish_Polesie" - Surname Project

Members: 99

Website: www.familytreedna.com/public/JewishPolesie/

Surnames In Project: Alderstein, Alperstein, Andronosky, Appel, Auerbach, Bayuk, Belarus, Block, Braverman, Brest, Brisk, Burstein, Chomsky, Chwat, Cohen, Daitch, Deitch, Deutch, Dolinsky, Drucker, Dubetsky, Dubin, Dubinsky, Ehrlich, Eisenberg, Eisenstadt, Epelbaum, Epstein, Fishman, Friedman, Garfinkel, Gershon, Gershonowitz, Gingold, Glotzer, Goldberg, Goldfarb, Goldsmith, Goldstein, Golub, Gozhanskij, Greenland, Grodno, Grushevsky, Grushewsky, Herman, Holtzman, Jewish, Kabotsky, Kagan, Kancyper, Kanziper, Kaplan, Katz, Katzoff, Kobrin, Kostrinsky, Krantz, Kuper, Levine, Levy, Lewak, Lewin, Lifshitz, Lipschitz, Liskowsky, Lurie, Malowicki, Margolies, Margolis, Mazursky, Mintz, Montak, Montauk, Mushkatin, Nathanson, Nitzberg, Oremland, Paler, Palevsky, Paley, Paleyev, Paller, Pappe, Perlen, Perlmutter, Perlov, Perlow, Perlstein, Permut, Pinchuk, Poland, Polesie, Pollack, Pollock, Polonovsky, Pomerantz, Putterman, Rabinowitz, Rappaport, Rifkin, Ritzenberg, Rosenberg, Rosenblatt, Rosenshein, Rosensweig, Rubin, Russia, Saltzman, Sapir, Savinsky, Shapiro, Shereshevsky, Stavsky, Stawski, Stawsky, Steinberg, Tannenbaum, Tartasky, Tenenbaum, Tennenbaum, Tucker, Weinstein, Winograd, Wishengrad, Wolinsky, Wolkin, Yablonsky, Yanowitz, Yudelevsky, Zubatsky

Jewish ancestry from southwestern Belarus? Read on to learn more!
This is a geographical project intended to compare and study the DNA of men and women who lived in southwestern Belarus, also known as the Polesie region of Belarus.

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To be eligible for this project, your patrilineal (father's father's father) or matrilineal (mother's mother's mother) ancestors must have been from the region described below.

Please specify your ancestral town in your join request. Only those with Jewish ancestry in the region described below will be approved to join.

Where is Polesie?

Polesie was an inter-war region of Poland, loosely defined as today's southwestern Belarus. Towns in the following districts of the Brest region are included: Baranovichi, Beryoza, Brest, Drogichin, Gantsevichi, Ivanovo, Ivatsevichi, Kamenets, Kobrin, Luninets, Lyakhovichi, Malorita, Pinsk, Pruzhany, Stolin, Zhabinka. Several towns outside the Brest region, such as Slonim, Volkovysk and Svisloch to the north, also qualify for this project.

Please fill in the form below to request to join this project. Your information will be sent to the project's Administrator, who will get in touch with you regarding your request. If the project Administrator and you agree that you should be part of the project, you will be given a web address and a "join code" which will allow you to join the project and to order DNA tests at reduced prices.