Lifshitz family from Poltava Guberniya and Chernigov Oblast in the Ukraine The Lifshitz name has been spelled in a variety of ways, including Lipshitz, Lipschitz, Lipschutz, Lifshuts in English. I do not know which spelling was used in the Ukraine, where the family lived. They wrote in Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew, and possibly in Ukrainian and Polish as well. Avraham Lifshitz and his wife Zlata may have lived in Slutzk (1), which was then in Lithuania, but is now in Belarus. The family history says that his son, Chaim Lifshitz (~1776 - ?) "came from Slutzk in Lithuania when he was still young, and settled in Itchneh, district of Chernigov" Ukraine. According to the same family history, later generations of this Lifshitz family lived in or near Priluki/Priluky, in the part of the Russian Empire known as the Ukraine, in shtetls such as Arkenowke, Torkenaten, Serbne/Sribne, Lissahar, Demitrovke/Dmytrivka, Lozoyo, Lachwitz/Lochvycja , and Ichnya/Icnja. (Second name in set is current spelling: 1900 Yiddish/2005 Ukranian. See below for town information.) Many of these towns are now in the Chernigov Oblast. Records of marriages, births and deaths have been found in microfilms from Priluki, Nezhin, Borzna, and Ichnya. Much of the early information on the family was provided by Menachem Sambursky, who left the Ukraine around the turn of the century. He started keeping a journal when his first son was born in 1900 in Königsberg, East Prussia. When his father, Nissan-Eliezer Sambursky, came for a visit, before leaving for America in 1906, he told his son all he knew of both sides of the family history. Menachem wrote down this information in the back of his journal and updated sections over the years. His granddaughter, Shlomit, translated the family history in 1999 and provided the photo below. Menachem, Shmuel and Nissan Eliezer Sambursky - 1906 Some family names of people who married into this Lipshitz line in the Ukraine: Barsak, Bechholtz, Belenichky, Bladnitzky, Bogbanov, Bricker, Doverasky, Dubravinsky, Finklestein, Haft, Ipapa (France), Kabak, Kahan, Kahana, Kahaner, Karminsky, Klimovitsky/Klimowitsky, Leopolsky, Lifshitz, Namikolsky, Neidess, Ochman/Orinin, Polonsky, Portnoi, Raivid (England), Rosenthal, Sambursky, Sambur, Sheinin (Argentina), Sheptzil, Slutzky, Sokolovsky, Supanitzke, Toupelev, Vetzerasny, Vlavik, Vorowsky, Walenwitz, Warshavsky, Yanpolsky, Zapadinsky/Sapadin, Zolotorofe/Zaletaruf. Many came to the United States, some went to England, some remained in the Ukraine, some went to Israel. One family went to France, one to England and two brothers went to Argentina. As you look at the tree below, you may see the same names repeated several times. Lifshitz family members married cousins in the Sambursky, Bricker, Zolotorofe and Polonsky families.