Weiss Family Genealogy (Use Edit/find for a particular name)

G0.0 Smelig Byelacherkevski (Samuel) b 1825 Married Freda Minna (Mani( Chudarofsky. He owned fruit boats on the Dniper River and a mill(Sons David and Morris, who was the father of Meyer Weis,.)
1.0 David Byelacherkovsky b 1852-1916. Kaniev, Ukraine married his Ist cousin Reva Chudarofsky. (Brothers: Morris , Moe and Joseph) Occ: accountant. cashier in a lumber mill.

Kaniev is a small town near Kiev (beyond the pale where Jews were allowed to live as they were forbidden to live in large cities such as Kiev). It is near Chernobel where the nuclear energy plant melted down contaminating residents and near Babi Yar where the Nazis machine gunned down the Jews of Kiev and vicinity into a ravine in 1942. A yahrzeit list of the area lists several Byelacherkevsky's among the victims. (The name Belaya Cherkov translated means White Church but Jews called it Black Church because of the rampant antisemitism there during czarist Russia)


Some of the Chudarofsky family emigrated to Philadelphia and changed their name to Ivker. Milton Ivker was a Phildelphia urologist in the 1960's. He had children Richard Ivker and Sharon.
G2.0 G2.1 Jacob Weiss b 8/4/77-1957 He took the name Weiss because his cousin Meyer Weiss was already established in Milwaukee. Immigrated 1904 b +/- 1875 m Dora Wolinsky (see Dora Wolinsky Weiss (Dvossi) for their children } Dora’s mother was a Baronofsky (see below) from Berezevka. Russia., who married Joseph Wolinski, who died young of Tuberculosis. A sister of her mother Hadassah Wolinsky (Edassi) raised Dora after her mother was killed in a fire.

When Jacob came to Ellis Island he gave his name as Weiss , rather than Byelacherkevski , since his cousin Meyer Weiss who immigrated earlier could not spell Byelacherkevski so he translated and shortened the Russian (White Church) to Yiddish for White.
He married Devorah (Dora) Wolinsky, Nahama Byealacherchevsky introduced her bro in law Jacob to her sister Dora. Jacob emigrated through the port of Philadelphia in 1907. (Siblings Edasi Chakass, Eta Benn. Ethel Zion,, Rachel, Mani ,and Pearl ,who lived in Kiev)
As was the frequent custom, Dora and the children followed several years later after he had earned the money for their passage. That's why the old tin type family portraits had no men in them. They were taken to send to the US for the fathers to see the children's growth. Nowadays the same thing happens because the father is taking the picture.

Birthdates are far from exact because it was not a Jewish custom to celebrate birthdays and there were no birth certificates. Children's ages were calculated by whether they were born close to a holiday such as Pesach or Rosh Hashonah and often the year was not recorded. Keeping records made for problems with the government concerning taxes and conscription.

Jacob quipped that his accountant father was ambidextrous as he could keep books for his employer with one of his hands and books for the government with the other.

G3.1 Marion (Meriam in Hebrew, Merka in Russian) Shulkin .11/10/ 1902 1997.
Named after her aunt, Merka Wolinski, who raised Marion's mother Dora after Dora's mother was killed in a fire) Married Joseph Shulkin a pharmacist in 1924 A Chicago Rabbi, a Baronofsky cousin., performed the service.
An oldest child and a buffer for her parents (who didn't speak fluent English) with the New world, she was programmed early on to be a caretaker. She was the matriarch for much of the Milwaukee peripheral family.
She kept a "knippel" in postal savings, (small sums of money her husband didn't know about.) After 40-50 years, the knippel had grown to tens of thousands of dollars. When she finally told him about it, his annoyance was dissipated by having the extra money.
G4.1 Richard Shulkin b. 9/19/25 (Yidel David Baer after Edassi Wolinski,and great g.f. David, ) married Sydelle Landfield.
Email: Quizkid1000@aol.com because Sydelle had been a Quiz kid on a radio show as a child.

During the depression Marion Shulkin worked 8am to 10pm 7 days a week in Joe's neighborhood drugstore. She delegated child care to unmarried pregnant women from the House of the Good Shepherd who worked for room and board. They came at about 5 months of pregnacy and left, going into labor often during the night, when the children were asleep so they couldn't say goodbye. They were loving good women born to soon into a rigid society. Richard and Mark (a child of abandonment) think of them fondly.
. G5.1 Dara Aronoff 11/15/52 Named after Dora Weiss, Married psychiatrist Michael Aronoff. She has 2 stepdaughters .

A very productive person Dara does an early morning newscast, then goes to a second job as PR person for Jet Blue Airlines. She and Michael are silent owners of a fashionable NY restaurant.

G5.2 Robert Shulkin (Shea Feible )Named after his mother's side of the family, differing from the custom of the ist child being named after the mother's dide since Dara was the first child born into the familyafter her gr g.m's death and Sydelle honored the need to remember Dora) b. 5/30/55 (Married Mari Lou Herron Children:Emily, (named after Ethel Borkon)Rebecca, Sarh and Mallory(named after gr g.m Marion Shulkin)
Mari Lous's sister Shawna is an actress who played the mother on the Major Dad TV show.
G5.3 James Shulkin b. 10/10/57 (Eliezer Itzhak-- after his materal great g.f. and after Malach Shulkin's grandfather respecively) Married Denise Cariski. children: Jeremy and Leanna)

He lives in Madison Wisconsin and he has inherited season tickets to U.Of W. football . Trained as a vocational counselor, he's a health care company executive.
James was not circumcised in a ritual briss. Because there had been a deception in brother Robert's briss when he also was not circumcized in the ritual ceremony, the family got a ruling from the very pious Rabbi Twerski that James could be circumcised by any Jewish Doctor who was of good character. Robert was mistakenly circumcised with the Gentile infants before his Briss and the hospital planned to covered up the error by substituting another baby for him at the Briss ceremony.
G5..4 Lisa Sattell 12/1/ 58 (Masha Hinda named after Malach Shulkin gr g.f. G and Hinda after a friend's, Fran Kessler"s, relative since Fran had no children) Married Michael Sattell (children Jessica and Martin}
Lisa is a linguist, currently teaching English as a second language in a multicultural charter school.
G4.2 Mark Weiss Shulkin b. 8/31/29 (Mayer Schmelig, named after each of his two great great g.f's) Married Sunny Edelman 7/11/54 (children Nedra Fetterman and David Shulkin)
They do marriage counseling workshops and couples therapy.
Mark and /Sunny renewed their own marriage vows on Thanksgiving 1998 with grandaughter Jennifer as flower girl, grandson Daniel, the ring bearer who also gave away the bride, and grandson Benjamin who took time out from his Bar Mitzvah studies to officiate as Rabbi.
G5.1 Nedra Jean Fetterman 5/21/55 ( Merka named after Merka Wolinski}A clinical psychologist , she married Joseph Fetterman. Child: Benjamin Fetterman.
G5.2 David Jonathan Shulkin 6/22/59 (Malach Esser named after his two gr G.f/s.) Married Merle Mindy Bari., a medical school classmate. (Children: Daniel Bari Shulkin and Jennifer.) Occ: CEO Beth Israel Hospital, NYc
Jennifer. at 12, is the top seed for 16 year olds in the Penna. State Tennis Association,
G3.2 Joseph Weiss B 12/28/04 dec Hodgkins Disease about 1959. dentist, married Bertha Chudakoff
G4.1 Daniel Weiss 9/19/ 1933, Attorney married Carol Peterson divorced and since remarried
5.1 Michael Daniel Weiss (A real estate developer along with his brother David Jeffrey Weiss in Milwaukee)
5.2 David Jeffrey Weiss
5.3 Stephanie
G 4.2 Naomi Beller, teacher. married Herbert Beller, an Architecht. They live in Yardley, Pa
5.1 Beth Ann b. 1962
5.2 Michael Jonathan Beller (electrical engineer)
5.3 Joshua David Beller b. 1969
G3.3 Ethel Borkon 12/ 20/ 09 - ?1990. Teacher, married Harry Borkon, a pharmacist, about 1935.
Ethel had to keep her marriage secret for many years because the Milwaukee School Board refused to employ married women during the depression because jobs were saved for others who did not have husbands to support them. Some thought the rule had to do with married women transmitting carnal knowledge to the children.
G4.1 Rona Jean Elaine Gahr 12/ 30/1940 -(Riva (Ruth) Shoshana(Rose) Real estate agent and successor to Marion Shulkin as the Milwaukee family matriarch. Married Samuel Gahr b. 1928, a dentist
G5.1 Gailya Joan Paliga b 4/ /63 named after g.granfather Jacob Weiss, Computer designer turned teacher of English as a second language. .m. Robert Paliga, electrica engineer.
6.1 Elise Helen b 11/1/98 named after g. grand parents thel and Harry Borkon and grandmother Helen Paliga
G 5.3 Steven Brian Gahr b 1965, Contract Manager at Quad Graphics Inc. m.Debra Ann Arnold, CPA and Accounting Instructor
6.1 Julia Danielle b 1999 named after Daniel Borkon
6.2 Jason Warren Gahr b. 2002

G5.2 Deborah Maxine ( after her paternal g. grandfather Max Gahr and g. grandmother Dora Weiss). b 1967 m. John M. Barrett manager at Metavante
6.1 Rebecca Sydney b. 2000 (named after Rose Gahr Stein) 6.2 Mia Jollie ( named after Marion Shulkin) 3/13/03
G. 4.2 Daniel Martin Borkon b. 4/ 16/ 43 (named after grandmother Dora Weiss)dec 1998 . Accountant. M, Susan Wernick 1968 . Remarried Diane Allschwang in 1987
G5.1 Laurie Borkon 1982 m. Victoria Rutter
G5.2 Julie Meyers b 1984 (named after Jacob Weiss)m. David Myers
6.1 Ayai Daniel b. 2003 (named after Daniel Borkon)
G3.4 Isadore Weiss, 6/10/06 Married Esther Berlowitz . Worked aa a boxing promoter, candle factory owner and real estate salesman.
The Berlowitzes were German Jews (reformed Jews) who had immigrated a generation earlier. German Jews were already middle class when the Russian Jews came and were embarrassed by the immigrants' lack of sophistication. This estranged Esther from the family until later years when she became a loyal friend and close companion to Marion.
G4.1 Benjamin Weiss, married Suzanne Harris. He's an engineer in Chicago turned real estate developer.
5.1 Ellyn Elizabeth
5.2 Victoria
5.3 Eric Ross Weiss
G4.2 David Weiss m. Sandy Stedman
5.1Jeffrey Weiss
5.2 Stacy
G2.2 Eta )Benn 1891--1980 (Yetta)/married Abraham Bendetsky. Their ship the Freizland arrived at the port of Phila. from Liverpool in 1907.
If a ship sailed from Liverpool that usually meant that the immigrant left Russia legally, having paid any owed taxes and not dodging military conscription. If leaving clandestinely, one traveled overland (at night} east to Germany where one got the ship at Bremerhaven.
Abraham was an established carpenter when Jacob Weiss arrived in 1910 but couldn't find work for his bro. in law, who was too embarrassed to peddle fruit from a pushcart. so he went to Milwaukee where his cousin Meyer Weis who was in the furniture business. Eventually became a junk peddler.
G3.1 Gertrude Sherman, Married Louis Sherman an attorney and Pa. State legislator.
4.1 Wiliam David Sherman b 1940 Occ: poet, writer
G3.2 Ethel Vinikoor b 1913 . maried Samuel Vinikoor an accountant
4.1 Robert, an immigration judge in Chicago, m. Cheryl rose
5.1 Micheal Jeffrey Vinakoor
5.2 Jordan Andrew Vinakoor
4.2 Henry Morris Vinakoor b.1947 m., Gail Hershfield
5.1Lisa
5.2 Carolyn
4.3 Nancy Heather Vinakoor b 1958 Occ: physician
G3.3Mina Benn (Mani/Minnie) ?1920-1970
G2.3 Edasi (Hadassah) married Josesph Wolinski, her first cousin (parents to Dora Weiss} died in a fire ..
Edasi was Yiddish for the Hebrew Haddassah. It was a family tradition to add "si" to all female names so Edass is Edassi and Dora or Devorah became Dwasi . Risa was Risi.

G2.5 Mani dec during the Russian revolution in 1917
G2.6 Pearl
G2.7 Ethel Zion (Zioncheck} b. 1885 Married Isadore (Isaac) Zion who came from Katerinslav, about 50 miles from Kaniev. (Children Abrahm, Samuel, Anna, Lawrence.
They settled in Milwaukee where Isadore had been Jacob Weiss' partner in the furniture business. Isadore had a heart attack so he sought relief from harsh Wisconsin winters and moved to New Orleans, where he had cousins. he opened a dry goods store. . Ann, who had a son Paul, was active in what became Bagelman's Department Store. 3.1 Abraham Zion
3.2 Samuel Zion
5.1 Sharon Zion Zindler m. Sterling Zindler Houston Tx, had 2 sons.,
3.3 Anna Bagelman
4.1 Paul Bagelman
2.8 Rachel