According to his death certificate, his parents were Solomon SHENKOW (BUDNICHENKOW) and Rachel STIENBERG (STEINBERG?). He was a clothing manufacturer of 160 Vernon Ave., Brooklyn, and came to the US (and NYC) about 1891.
The stone reads something like "Pesah, son of Shlomo"
According to his great-granddaughter, Jean K., Ben had a sister Leika and a brother or cousin Louis. His wife was Elka/Elky BURSH (BURSHADSKY / BERSHADSKY)
SHENKOW. Ben and Elka reportedly had four daughters: JENNY,ANNA, FANNY AND MAY. Fanny (Jean's grandmother) married Max Meyer SALOFF / SALAFF (SASLAVSKY), son of Moses SALOFF and Chae SHAPOCHINOK, 1900 in Manhattan. Meyer and Ben/ Peicie
SHENKOW were first cousins, and Elka and Piecie/Ben may also have been related. All, like my Jewish ancestors, were from ELIZABETGRAD (Yelisabetgrad / Kirovograd, in Kherson prov., between Odessa and Kiev, Ukraine, though this was "Russia" at the time).
My POBEREZHSKY ancestor's sister married a BUNDICHENKOW from E-grad, but changed the name to CHANKO, not SHENKOW like Ben's side did.
The stone reads something like "Pesah, son of Shlomo"
According to his great-granddaughter, Jean K., Ben had a sister Leika and a brother or cousin Louis. His wife was Elka/Elky BURSH (BURSHADSKY / BERSHADSKY)
SHENKOW. Ben and Elka reportedly had four daughters: JENNY,ANNA, FANNY AND MAY. Fanny (Jean's grandmother) married Max Meyer SALOFF / SALAFF (SASLAVSKY), son of Moses SALOFF and Chae SHAPOCHINOK, 1900 in Manhattan. Meyer and Ben/ Peicie
SHENKOW were first cousins, and Elka and Piecie/Ben may also have been related. All, like my Jewish ancestors, were from ELIZABETGRAD (Yelisabetgrad / Kirovograd, in Kherson prov., between Odessa and Kiev, Ukraine, though this was "Russia" at the time).
My POBEREZHSKY ancestor's sister married a BUNDICHENKOW from E-grad, but changed the name to CHANKO, not SHENKOW like Ben's side did.
According to his death certificate, his parents were Solomon SHENKOW (BUDNICHENKOW) and Rachel STIENBERG (STEINBERG?). He was a clothing manufacturer of 160 Vernon Ave., Brooklyn, and came to the US (and NYC) about 1891.
The stone reads something like "Pesah, son of Shlomo"
According to his great-granddaughter, Jean K., Ben had a sister Leika and a brother or cousin Louis. His wife was Elka/Elky BURSH (BURSHADSKY / BERSHADSKY)
SHENKOW. Ben and Elka reportedly had four daughters: JENNY,ANNA, FANNY AND MAY. Fanny (Jean's grandmother) married Max Meyer SALOFF / SALAFF (SASLAVSKY), son of Moses SALOFF and Chae SHAPOCHINOK, 1900 in Manhattan. Meyer and Ben/ Peicie
SHENKOW were first cousins, and Elka and Piecie/Ben may also have been related. All, like my Jewish ancestors, were from ELIZABETGRAD (Yelisabetgrad / Kirovograd, in Kherson prov., between Odessa and Kiev, Ukraine, though this was "Russia" at the time).
My POBEREZHSKY ancestor's sister married a BUNDICHENKOW from E-grad, but changed the name to CHANKO, not SHENKOW like Ben's side did.
The stone reads something like "Pesah, son of Shlomo"
According to his great-granddaughter, Jean K., Ben had a sister Leika and a brother or cousin Louis. His wife was Elka/Elky BURSH (BURSHADSKY / BERSHADSKY)
SHENKOW. Ben and Elka reportedly had four daughters: JENNY,ANNA, FANNY AND MAY. Fanny (Jean's grandmother) married Max Meyer SALOFF / SALAFF (SASLAVSKY), son of Moses SALOFF and Chae SHAPOCHINOK, 1900 in Manhattan. Meyer and Ben/ Peicie
SHENKOW were first cousins, and Elka and Piecie/Ben may also have been related. All, like my Jewish ancestors, were from ELIZABETGRAD (Yelisabetgrad / Kirovograd, in Kherson prov., between Odessa and Kiev, Ukraine, though this was "Russia" at the time).
My POBEREZHSKY ancestor's sister married a BUNDICHENKOW from E-grad, but changed the name to CHANKO, not SHENKOW like Ben's side did.
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