m: Mary Bankoff Nickname(s): S. (Sanel?) Hebrew name(s): Netanel b: 1836, Russia i: 1889 d: May 20, 1897, NY,NY Maiden name: Rosenstein,Buckstein,Burstein Middle name: Rachel |
b: c.1850 |
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b: 1855 i: February 14, 1904 |
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b: c.1861 i: 1895 Maiden name: Bankoff Nickname(s): Honey, Hadus |
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b: 1862, Russia i: 1903 d: August 14, 1922, Bronx,NY |
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b: c.1866, Minsk m: 1890 Henry Bloom i: c.1880 d: May 18, 1943, Pittsburgh,PA Maiden name: Bankoff |
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b: 1866, Minsk m: 1891 Isaak Goldberg i: 1888 d: October 1, 1942, Brooklyn,NY Maiden name: Bankoff |
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b: 1871, Minsk m: 1890 m2: 1911 d: November 24, 1937 Maiden name: Bankoff |
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b: c.1874 m: 1891 i: 1890 Maiden name: Bankoff |
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b: December 19, 1879, Russia m: January 26, 1897 NY,NY Jacob Wesoky i: c.1887 d: October 15, 1968 Maiden name: Bankoff Middle name: Zelda Hebrew name(s): Chana Zelda bat Netanel |
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Prior to May 2012 I knew very little about this family. I got their name from Annie's 1/26/1897 marriage cert. Looking for more Bankoffs on the LES (both in census records and Trow's NYC Directory) proved a dead end -- there were a couple Maxes from Minsk who may have been relatives, but no way to determine at that time based on the little info I had.
Later I found this picture from Grandma Hepps, which got me to the six sisters (and decided Max was not a brother). From there I found Sarah Bloom's obituary which led me to censuses that told me she is from Minsk, but otherwise up-ended everything I thought about their immigration story.
A breakthrough came on May 1, 2012, when I found the probate announcement for Ida Goldberg's will. The next day in Brooklyn Surrogate's Court I review the whole probate file and added fifty people to the Bankoff tree. I confirmed the identities of all 6 sisters and added another sister (maybe?) and two brothers (maybe???). It turns out one of those Maxes is the the son of the maybe-sister Frieda.
Poor Ida had no children of her own, and it appears a grandniece and step-granddaughter squabbled terribly over her estate, but 70 years after she died, her will is a major gift to me. It appears she was truly a devout woman, having left money to a number of Jewish charities, perpetual care for her mother's grave (in Washington Cemetery! what a find!), and a stipend for a rabbi if he said "the prayer known in Hebrew as 'kaddish' for the repose of [her] soul...for a period of one year persuant to the Jewish custom and religion."
11/29/2013: Janis Wesoky Oaks, granddaughter of Annie Bankoff Wesoky, says that Annie was the youngest of *16* children. Did the ones not mentioned in Ida's will not immigrate to the US?
Where in Minsk are they from? Nathan Bankoff, son of Mary and Netanel, was buried with the Korelitzer Society (fullname: Chevra Bnei Itzchock Ichiel Anshei Korelitz; incorporated 1904 (also this, but I think it's the other one))in Mt. Zion Cemetery! Does this mean that Korelichi/Korelitz is the town they are from????
Mary Bankoff and daughter Ida are buried with Minsker Independent Benevolent Association of the City of New York (also), incorporated 1902, though frame is dated 1901 and says 12/27/1892 at the top.
6/17/2012: Today Eve (ggd of Jennie) shared Jennie's deportation hearing transcript, which gives Jennie's birthplace as Lachovitch! Finally a shtetl with a real research community around it!
Page | Surname | Given name | Father | Relationship to Head of Household | Age on documents | Age on appearance | Date of revision | Place of registration | Place of residence | Houseowner | Mark about absence | Date | Town | uyezd (county) | Guberniya | Type of Record | Archive / Fond / Inventory / File |
420 | BANKOV | Samuel | Iosel | Head of Household | 46 | 46 | Lyakhovichi | Lyakhovichi, Shkolnaya street | Kunitsa Abram | 21.11.1874 | Lyakhovichi | Slutsk | Minsk | List of Jewish Males | NHAB/330/1/111 | ||
420 | BANKOV | Nevakh | Samuel | Son | 22 | Lyakhovichi | Lyakhovichi, Shkolnaya street | Kunitsa Abram | Kletsk | 21.11.1874 | Lyakhovichi | Slutsk | Minsk | List of Jewish Males | NHAB/330/1/111 | ||
477 | BANKOV | Iosel | Mendel | Head of Household | 70 | 70 | 1858 | Lyakhovichi | Lyakhovichi, Shkolnaya street | Jewish society | 22.11.1874 | Lyakhovichi | Slutsk | Minsk | List of Jewish Males | NHAB/330/1/111 |
Page # | Registration # | Surname | Given Name | Father | Relationship to Head of Household | Age | Age at Last Revision | Reason Left | Year Left | Comments | Former Reg # | Day | Month | Year | Town | Uyezd | Guberniya | Type of Record | Archive / Fond / Inventory / File | Microfilm # |
869. | 120 | BANKOV | Nevakh | San | Head of Household | 22 | 3 | November | 1874 | Lyakhovichi | Slutsk | Minsk | Additional Revision List | 333/9/910 |
63 | Bankov | Sanel' | Yoselev | 55 | 1884 Electors |
Year of records' check up | Name of homeowner | Street | |||
1874 | Bankov Yosel, son of Mendel (public house) | Shkolnaya |
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Can't find anything besides Annie? No censuses, nothing. | Ida Goldberg probate file filled in a lot! | |
Korelitz/Korelichi | Try RTR: http://www.rtrfoundation.org/results.php?rin=2806. Also YIVO landsmanschatn records! | |
Get records for each new branch of the family found from the probate file |
1836 | Birth of Mary (Rosenstein,Buckstein,Burstein) Bankoff |
c. 1850 | Birth of Freda Bankoff |
1855 | Birth of Noah Bankoff |
c. 1861 | Birth of Hoda (Bankoff) Epstein |
1862 | Birth of Nathan Bankoff |
c. 1866 | Birth of Sarah (Bankoff) Bloom |
1866 | Birth of Ida (Bankoff) Goldberg |
1871 | Birth of Jennie (Bankoff) Albert |
c. 1874 | Birth of Mollie (Bankoff) Levy |
1879-12 | Birth of Anna (Bankoff) Wesoky |
c. 1880 | Immigration of Sarah Bloom |
c. 1887 | Immigration of Anna Wesoky |
1888 | Immigration of Ida Goldberg |
1888-01 | Ida Goldberg immigration story |
1889 | Immigration of Mary Bankoff |
1890 | Marriage of Henry Bloom & Sarah Bloom |
1890 | Marriage of Jennie Albert & --- |
1890 | Immigration of Mollie Levy |
1891 | Marriage of Ida Goldberg & --- |
1891 | Marriage of Mollie Levy & --- |
1892-06 | Birth of Florence (Bloom) Roberts |
1894-09 | Birth of Sadie Bloom |
1895 | Immigration of Hoda Epstein |
1897-01 | Marriage of Jacob Wesoky & Anna Wesoky |
1897-05 | Death of Mary Bankoff |
1897-12 | Birth of Samuel Wesoky |
1899-11 | Birth of Mary (Bloom) Rosenberg |
1900-03 | Birth of Mary (Wesoky) Hepps |
1900-06 | Address of Bloom family |
1900-06 | Address of Kopasac |
1903 | Immigration of Nathan Bankoff |
1904 | Birth of Samuel Bloom |
1904-02 | Immigration of Noah Bankoff |
1905-05 | Birth of Maurice Wesoky |
1908 | Birth of Benjamin Bloom |
1908-11 | Birth of Esther (Wesoky) Silver |
1910-04 | Address of Jacob Wesoky family |
1910-04 | Address of Bloom family |
1910-04 | Address of Jennie Albert and family |
1910-04 | Address of Ida Goldberg with Shapankas |
1911 | Marriage of Jennie Albert & --- |
1912 | Birth of Joseph Bloom |
1912-12 | Birth of Helen (Wesoky) Charlson |
1915-06 | Address of Mollie Levy family |
1915-06 | Address of Nathan Bankoff family |
1915-11 | Birth of Joseph Wesoky |
1918-09 | WWI draft registration for Sam Wesoky |
1920-01 | Address of Jacob Wesoky family |
1920-01 | Address of Bloom family |
1920-01 | Address of Mollie Levy family |
1920-01 | Address of Nathan Bankoff family |
1921-10 | Marriage of Harry Rosenberg & Mary Rosenberg |
1922-08 | Death of Nathan Bankoff |
1923-03 | Court Records |
1925-06 | Address of Mollie Levy family |
1925-12 | Marriage of Rhea Wesoky & Samuel Wesoky |
1926-08 | Marriage of Mary Hepps & Jacob Hepps |
1926-10 | Birth |
1928-04 | Birth |
1928-06 | Marriage of Lena Nesvisky & Maurice Wesoky |
1928-12 | Birth of Jerome Wesoky |
1930-04 | Address of Ida Goldberg with Shapankas |
1930-04 | Address of Rebecca Berdow with married daughter |
1930-04 | Birth |
1930-04 | Address of Hepps and Wesokys |
1930-04 | Address of Bloom family |
1933-06 | Birth |
1936-03 | Marriage of Joseph Silver & Esther Silver |
1936-08 | Birth |
1937-11 | Death of Jennie Albert |
1939-03 | Marriage of Lena Wesoky & Joseph Wesoky |
1939-05 | Marriage of Raymond Charlson & Helen Charlson |
1940-02 | Birth |
1940-04 | Address of Ida Goldberg with Haskelkorns |
1940-04 | Address of Meyer Epstein |
1940-04 | Address of Jacob Hepps family |
1940-04 | Address of Ida Kean |
1940-04 | Address of Sarah Bloom and family |
1942-05 | Birth |
1942-10 | Death of Ida Goldberg |
1943-05 | Death of Sarah Bloom |
1944-12 | Birth |
1946-06 | Birth |
1947-05 | Birth |
1949-12 | Birth |
1957-02 | Death of Samuel Bloom |
1965-10 | Death of Samuel Wesoky |
1968-10 | Death of Anna Wesoky |
1971-05 | Death of Maurice Wesoky |
1978-07 | Death of Joseph Wesoky |
1979-11 | Death of Sadie Bloom |
1981-02 | Death of Esther Silver |
1986-02 | Death of Mary Hepps |