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Lena Frank, also known as Lee

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Echiel and Leah Ghan came to the United States from Kiev, Russia. Echiel's last name was originally Ghanchansky.

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Worked in insurance in Winnepeg, Canada

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Also known as Ray

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Changed his name to Jerry G. Bishop

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Leroy retired from his Podiatry practice in 1977 in Chicago. he moved to Florida in 1979. After Rose passed away in 1984, he remarried to Helen Levine in 1985.

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Samuel Sher came to Chicago from Johannesburg, South Africa. He left Lithuania at the age of 13 and went alone to Johannesburg. He arrived in American at age 16 or 17 and joined two brothers and a sister, Frank, Isadore, and Rose. Sam and his brothers opened a business together, a cleaning and tailoring shop. He was a tailor by trade. The shop was on Belmont and Damen in Chicago. He worked there the rest of his life.

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Jenny came from Vilna, Lithuania. Her father was considered a successful maker of combs. When Jenny was 16 she and her girlfriends were walking along a country road. As they passed a tavern some of the czar's soldiers came out drunk and chased them down. Jenny was slashed with a sword and carried scars across her forehead and chest for life. Her father was already in America and he read of the incident in an American newspaper and sent for her.

Then they sent for a brother and sister and she took them in.

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Asher and Raisel had 5 known children. In addition there may have been 2 boys who died at birth and a girl, Haika, who lived to the age of 1 year. Asher brought the 5 children with him to America but Raisel was sickly and couldn't come with Asher. She died soon after Asher left Lithuania. It is believed that the baby girl Haika stayed in Lithuania with her.

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Asher (Sam) Yore's name was changed to Asher (Sam) Jaffe at Ellis Island when he immigrated to America. He was a maker of combs, and settled in Chicago. He didn't live long after he came to America.

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Raisel is actually the second child.

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Aryeh was born in a suburb of Vilna, Anixt. He had two cousins that we know of, Menachem Mann and Sheine Kamaiko. About 1820 a romance without benefit of a matchmaker (shadchen) sprang up between Aryeh and Sheine (meaning literally the beauty). They got married.

It is their children who constitute the Tabachowitz line and those of Menachem and his bride Esther who are the Kamaiko line. In a sense therefore we are all double cousins.

The name Tabachowitz means "son of a shochete" a highly respected calling reserved for religious and learned men. It was around this time that the government of Lithuania decreed the use of surnames. Whether Aryeh or his father was the first to use the surname, we don't know. We don't know anything about his parents or his brothers or sisters.

(from Marsha Levine's notes)