JEROME POSNER AND SONIA GREBSTEIN (IRMA PEVZNER AND SPRINTSA GROBSHTEIN) - MARRIAGE - APRIL 2, 1913 - MOGILEV, BELARUS

SEARCH RESULTS FROM THE JEWISHGEN BELARUS MARRIAGES DATBASES: posner-jerome-and-sonia-marriage-1913-04-02.pdf (look at the third marriage listed)

NOTES:

• Although this isn't an actual document—it's just search results from the JewishGen Belarus Marriages Database—it contains valuable information!
• I searched for the surname Grebstein and the region Mogilev Gubernia.
• The third result is for Jerome and Sonia; it shows they were married in the town of Mogilev on April 2, 1913 (which was just a few months before they emigrated).
• Jerome's name is transcribed as "Irma Pevzner." One of his grandsons remembers being told that the family's surname was originally something like "Pevsner"; this record confirms that.
• Here is some info about what may be Jerome's original Jewish given name, and its variations, found by searching for Belarus names in the Given Names Data Bases (GNDBs), available on the JewishGen website:

  Legal/Hebrew: Yirmiyahu / Yirmiya    Gender: M    Legal Origin: Jeremiah 1:1	 
  Yiddish: Yermiye / Yirmiye / Yirmiyahi / Yirmiyahu
  Yiddish Nickname: Eremiye / Ermash / Ieremyash / Irke / Irle / Irme / Irmiye / Yerme / Yermye
  Local Secular Nickname: Yerma
  

• Sonia's name is transcribed as Sprintsa Grobshtein. (This is similar to the name recorded for her in the passenger manifest, "Sprinca," later the same year.) So apparently her original Jewish given name was Sprintsa. Here is some info about this name and its varations, found by searching for Belarus names in the GNDBs:

  Legal/Hebrew: Shprintsa / Sprintsa    Gender: F    Legal Origin: < Esperenza, 'Hope'
  Yiddish: Shprintsa / Shprintse / Sprintsa / Sprintse / Sprinze / Srintsa / Srintse
  Yiddish Origin: < GermanName Sprinze, 13 cent
  Yiddish Nickname: Shprints / Shprintsl / Shprintsak / Sprints / Sprintse / Sprintsl / Shprinya
  

• The groom's age is 27 and the bride's is 22.
• The rabbi's name is Kagan; the witnesses are Simkha Bruk and Mikhel' Krasil'shchikov.
• The groom's father's given name is Afroim; the groom's mother's name is omitted. "Afroim" is also the name for Jerome's father recorded in Jerome and Sonia's 1913 passenger manifest. (A 1998 Rosenthal-Posner family tree lists his name as "Yessen.")
• Here's some information about the name "Afroim" and its variations, from the GNDBs:

  Legal/Hebrew: Efrayim    Gender: M    Legal Origin: Genesis 41:52	 
  Yiddish: Afroym / Efraym / Efroym
  Yiddish Nickname: Afrash / Efroyka / Fima / Frayka / Fraym / Frayme / Freyml / Froyka / Froym
  European Secular: AFROIM
  

• The bride's father's name is given as Sholom; the bride's mother's name is omitted. The name "Sholom" corresponds to the name given for Jerome's father in a 1998 Rosenthal-Posner family tree: "Solomon."
• Here's some information about the name "Sholom" and its variations from the GNDBs:

  Legal/Hebrew: Shalom    Gender: M    Legal Origin: Yerushalmi Demai 12:4	 
  Yiddish: Shilem / Sholem / Sholeym / Sholim / SHOLOM / Sholum / Shulaym / Shulem / Shulim / Shuloym / Solom
  Yiddish Nickname: Sholeme / SHOLOMa / SHOLOMets / Shoylem
  Local Secular: Szolom
  European Secular: Scholem
  

• Both the groom's place and the bride's place are listed as "Chereia." For info about this place, please see Places in Belarus where the Jerome and Sonia lived.
• Although the following seems to imply there might be a microfilm image, I don't think there is one? (for the reasons below):

  Microfilm # / Item #
  Image#
  Archive / Fond
  
  - / -
  458
  NHABMinsk/3410/1/10
  

  According to the Belarus Marriages and Divorces Database page on JewishGen:

  "Database Fields
  The Register of Marriage and Divorce records typically contain the following information:
       Microfilm # - The microfilm number from LDS Family History Library (if these records were microfilmed).
       Microfilm Item # - The microfilm item number on the microfilm.
       Image # - Image number on microfilm, if available, or the page number located at the top right on the record itself (this will enable you to locate the record on the film)."
  

  Given that "Microfilm #" is blank, and given that a search by name at familysearch.org doesn't find this marriage record, I think the number might be just a page number from the original document at the NHAB i.e. the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk?