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| Origin and
Meaning of
Molokan Surnames By Jonathan J. Kalmakoff with Andrew J. Conovaloff <<www.doukhobor.org/Molokan.htm>> "Molokan surnames often hold clues to family origins. In some cases they can indicate the name of an early ancestor, their trade or occupation, ethnic or geographic origin, or a descriptive nickname. The following glossary contains roots and meanings of over 250 Russian Molokan surnames in America" and Russia. This site will expand with "Noteworthy Molokans" and a surname location index. |
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| The
Poppin Family By Nancy (Poppin) Posey << http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/s/Nancy-A-Posey/ >> Extensive genealogy: 5 generations with 20 photos. |
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| ~200
Molokan Marriage
Records, 1906-1999 By Nancy Poppin-Posey << http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/posey.htm >> San Francisco Genealogy |
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| Russian
Sectarian Cemetery Tombstone Transcriptions By Nancy Poppin-Posey, 2006
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| Sandykov
Genealogy (in Russian) (Translated
online into English) By Vladimir Vasilevich, Alexey Ivanovich, and Paul Vasilevich Sandykov << http://www.Sandikov.name >> An ambitious Russian and Mordovian Molokan genealogy list started in 2006. Features a very complete Sandikov familty tree, and a history of Molokans in the Caucasus with a list of the original families that moved to their home village of Nadezhdino (formerly: Shorzha. Many of these families were Mordovian, and several migrated to America.
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| Molokan
Immigration Via Canada by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff, webmaster of the Doukhobor Genealogy Website, and the Origin & Meaning of Molokan Surnames As of March 2007 Jon posted 5 ship lists and 1 border crossing record. He estimates about 200 Molokans/Jumpers (most from Kars, some from Saratov) migrated first to Canada (Quebec) mostly with Doukhobors, then took the train from Winnepeg, Manitoba to Los Angeles. Some were quarantined in hospital. 28 standardized suname spellings include:
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| California
Tombstone Project —
Alphabetical list of 253 markers
and photos
of each grave marker. By Dorothy Reinhart, Jan 31, 2007 Sectarian Russian Molokan Church Cemetery, Kerman, Fresno County, California (north of Barstow Ave, 1 mile west of Madera Ave)
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| Konnoff
& Moiseve Genealogy Page by Ron Konnoff << http://members.tripod.com/~konnoff/konnoffgenealogy.html >> Ron who lives in South Gate, California, was the first to publish a Moloklan Geneology on the web; and he is the first to offer a Guestbook, with comments by site visitors. He is now redesigning his page which includes the histories and 13 early photos of these families. Ron invites any contributions, and has posted notices about Molokan Geneology on several websites. |
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| Tolmasoff
&
Patapoff Families: Tracing two Molokan Russian-American
Families by Pam Tolmasoff <<http://members.tripod.com/~tolmasova/tolmasovaindex.html>> In a colorfully designed website with lots of photos, Pam includes the history of her family in Oregon — from their villages near Kars to today. Photos date from 1915, the 30's, 40's and 90's. Be patient, the photos take a long time to load. Her site is divided into sections by head of family titled: |
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| Pam posted her site on April 24, 1999 on the Genealogy Home Page << http://www.genhomepage.com/really_new.html >> which has many links you may explore. | |||||||||
| Paul &
Annie Zolnekoff Family
by Allan Zolnekoff << http://www.allanz.com >> This is the latest addition to Molokan Genealogy. My cousin Allan crafted a sharp site with a short history and photos of his Molokan foster parents, his natural parents, and his council work with the City of Whittier. |
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| Shinen-Valoff
Family Pedigree Chart 5 generations prepared 2006 by Louis Walter Shinen, Jr. I traced my ancestors back to 1841. My grandfolks came to America around 1904 from Kars Oblast. They also lived in Georgia. My dad, Louis Walter Shinen, died in 1981 in Rosemead, Calif. My mom, Anna William Pavloff, died in 2002. I was in the service from 1963 to 1969, yet I was able to miss all the fighting. I was off the coast of Vietnam for two months before the war and we were rotated back to Okinawa just before the first landings. I was on orders to go to Danang when I got out and started college. So I was blessed in not having to shed the blood of my fellow man. Surnames of my ancestors:
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| Photos
— Russia (Kars 1903, Piatigorsk 1970), San Francisco 1911
by Jean (Evdokimoff) Murray << http://www.molokane.org/molokan/Genealogy/Murray_email.htm >> Jean sent in 4 photos. The first was taken in San Francisco around 1911-12: "Many of them are Evanikoff family, and it is one of my very favorite photos. The young boy, seated on the ground at left, is my father, and he is holding what appears to be a Bible. The other two boys are holding ENGLISH FOR NEW AMERICANS." Also there's several photos taken in Russia (Piatigorsk?) in August 1970 by my grandfather, but we don't know who there relatives are or where they live, and my grandparents in Kars about 1903. |
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| Russian
Molokan and Subbotnik Genealogy Research Web-site by Bill Aldacusion << http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/l/d/Bill—Aldacushion/index.html >> "...for people of Russian Molokan or Subbotnik heritage ... to encourage information sharing and joint family history research. " Bill, who was raised in Montebello, California, is looking for: Abakumoff, Agalsoff, Agazoff, Aldacushion, Aldakushin, Babashoff, babeshoff, Babishoff, Bolderoff, Federoff, Konnoff, Mohoff, Pivovaroff, Pivaroff, Samaduroff, Samarin, Shubin, Tolmasoff, Tolmachoff, Vichkonoff. |
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| Kars
Parish registers, 1879-1917 and 1871-1919 E-mail from Rob and Sue Craven << http://www.molokane.org/molokan/Genealogy/Kars_records.htm >> Microfilm of manuscripts in the Central Historical Archive of the Armenian Republic, Erevan. Text in Russian. Catalog information from the LDS Family History Library Card Catalog for information collected from Kars, Turkey (Russian Empire). The first set was filmed on 62 microfilm reels by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994-1995. The information was collected from churches in the Kars area, that were tasked by the Tsar with political record keeping. Our research has shown that these films contain a vast variety of documents and files, including Birth, Marriage, Death and Passport records. As soon as any of you have seen these please send in a report. Go to the nearest Mormon Library. In California, check West LA and Oakland, and in Arizona I'll visit Mesa. |
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| Russian
Genealogy Two articles edited in November 2007 to show information most useful for Molokan genealogy: Russian Genealogy, and Digging up your Russian Roots. |
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| Ellis Island Wall of Honor 18 Molokan families and individuals are listed on a new public display in New York — Belikoff, Bolotin, Buchnoff-Mendrin, Conovaloff-Miloserdoff, Kalpakoff, Loscutoff, Nazaroff, Novikoff, Popoff, Shubin, Soriakoff, Susoeff. These families donated $100 or $200 to the American Immigration Wall of Honor to help fund the Ellis Island restoration project. |
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| A
Dictionary of Period Russian Names (and some
of their Slavic roots) by Paul Wickenden of Thanet << http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/index.html >> This compilation of over 25,000 Russian names taken from period sources is a great place to start learning what your last name means in Russian. For example the most common American Molokan surname Shubin, comes from shuba, a fur coat; Conovaloff comes from Konoval (m) — "horse doctor." Not all names are listed. |
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| All Russia Family
Tree by Sergey Kotelnikov and Ludmilla Birukova << http://www.vgd.ru/ >> If you can read Russian, you can follow this drill-down site to find surnames. Most of the instructions are in English; but the name index is in Russian. They started by listing the most common Russian surnames and famous people with that name. Now it's up to the users to add their family data. |
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| Cyndi's List of Genealogy
Sites on the Internet by Cyndi Howells << http://www.CyndisList.com >> More than 54,350 links! 42,850 links, categorized & referenced, in over 100 categories. Another 11,500+ uncategorized new links in the works. See the Surname lists. Updated often. |
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| Researching
Russian Roots by Mikhail Kroutikhin << http://www.mtu-net.ru/rrr/bill.htm >> Links to several Russian geneology sites |
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| Searching
for: Susie Valoff by Antonio Solorzano, (found on CyberPages International, Lost and Missing Relatives << http://www.cyberpages.com/attractions/persons199610.html >>) I am searching for my first cousin, the son of my mother's late younger brother, Tom Mares, whose nickname was "Sailor". My uncle Tom has many Russian Molokan friends and spoke fluent Russian. His wife at the time was a young Russian Molokan girl named Susie Valoff (Valov). My uncle met Susie when they both lived in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles in the 1930's. I believe shortly after the birth of their son, Jeffrey, they divorced. A few years later, my uncle Tom approved of Jeffrey's adoption by Susie's new husband, a name I don't have. Information from my mother and surviving uncle is that Susie had family in the Bakersfield/Fresno, California area and that they were potatoe farmers. Susie and her family were members of the Russian Molokon community. Jeffrey is probably in his 60's by now. If there is anyone with information about Susie or Jeffrey, please contact Antonio Solorzano, Jr., 825 Bluff Road, Montebello, California 90640-5921 or at the following e-mail address: mjimenez@bell.k12.ca.us. Date added: October 30, 1996 Email: mjimenez@bell.k12.ca.us Entry #2465 |
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| Doukhobor
Genealogy Discussion Group / by Jon Kalmakoff on April 25, 1999 << http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Canada/Special/Doukhobor>> and http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=an&p=topics.religious.doukhobor Perhaps this bulletin board can serve as a "beginning point" for individuals researching their DOUKHOBOR family history. Interested in your heritage?? Unsure how to begin tracing it?? Looking for others doing the same?? Confused by Russian names and their forms?? Searching for long-lost family members?? Unfamiliar with Doukhobor history?? Any research tips to share?? Frustrated by the lack of resources and materials available?? Or "just surfed in" to check it out?? THEN POST YOUR MESSAGE HERE!! There are more researchers and resources out there than you might think!! e-mail: Jonathan Kalmakoff <<jon.kalmakoff@accesscomm.ca >> |
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| Doukhobor
Genealogy by Jon Kalmakoff on 2000 <<www.doukhobor.org >> "the primary internet source connecting researchers of Doukhobor genealogy. This site is dedicated to the reclamation, discovery, collection, preservation and free sharing of information related to Doukhobor family history." (and Molokans too!) e-mail: Jonathan Kalmakoff <<jon.kalmakoff@accesscomm.ca >> |
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