Every now and again I go over the gaps in the family tree and try different combinations of names and places when searching.  This week I was looking for the Nisman family in Parichi, Belarus, and stumbled upon a Revision List for the town, dated 25 May 1858. “The Reviska Skazka (Revision Lists) were conducted in territories ruled by the Russian Czar in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Revision Lists enumerated only those individuals subject to taxation. The data was also uti

Earlier this week I was contacted by someone who found me through the JewishGen Family Finder. This is a wonderful resource that allows you to list the names and places that you’re interested in, so other researchers can find you to share notes. Her query was “I am searching for Nisman family from Parichi. I can go back to my 4 time G grandfather Haim Nisman.” I was pretty sure from this that we were related, and there is a Hayim Nisman in our tree. He was married to Haya Nis

Sarah Volfson was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. This photo shows Sarah with her husband David Nisman and son Chaim (Hymie), who was born in 1888. According to Sarah’s daughter, My perents acquired a smal part of land, my mother and father worked very hard, and also my brothers were working on the land. After about two years we were ordered out of that vilage as Jewish we could not live in a village and we must not possess any land. So, at this time that small town being rebuld,

Another of Ari’s ancestors was his 3x great-grandmother Freida (Fannie) Dovidova Nisman, who was born in Parichi, Babruysk, Minsk, Belarus on 22 Apr 1887. She had an eventful life, described in her own words in a little notebook. The photo below was taken in 1909. Below is her birth certificate (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Settlement Parichi, Babruysk Region, Minsk Province, dated 6 June 1907, certifies that in the Book of Records of Jews born in Settlement Parichi, for the