Our Clan

This site presents my effort at representing the genealogy of my family, in as much detail, and to the greatest extent, as I have been able to learn about it.

I am much indebted to those who have contributed information to the database that is behind this tree, who made much information available to me on parts of the family distant from those better known to me; I could never have compiled these trees without this help, and the product (except for blunders, which are mine) are the result of their efforts as much as mine. I hope that these people, on four continents, who have helped will forgive me for not listing them individually.

I also must apologize for the fragmentary nature of the tree. Some spouses are labeled "Partner" or some equivalent term, because I don't know their names; there are also a lot of offspring labeled e.g. "Child", for the same reason. Please, if you know any information that is not here, help us expand the tree by communicating it to us. Additional branches of the family, new children, and new spouses and their connections, will all be welcome. We also solicit dates and places of birth, marriage, and death.

Disclaimer (made necessary because of the suspicion of some persons that I will later ask them for money): I promise that I will not abuse any information in this tree or in the database behind it. This is not a means to build a list for solicitation for money for any purpose. I will not ask anyone for money, nor will I assist anyone else to do so. This is why addresses are not visible on the trees, nor do they exist anywhere in the database. There are now over 3500 persons in the trees. Please help by making it possible for us to include more persons and more detail.

The tree covers the following families, together with as many of their spousal connections as I have been able to find:

Hertanu, Abramovici, and Lauer, originating in and around Dorohoi, Romania, and their emigrants in the United States, Canada, Israel, England, and other countries bearing anglicized surnames such as Hertan and Abrams.
Grisaru, originating in Iasi, Romania, and their emigrants in the United States and Israel, some of whom bear the surname Gross.
Nejman, originating in Lomza Gubernia, Poland, and their emigrants in the United States, most of whom adopted the surname Newman, while a few are called Goodman.
Noachowicz/Neachowicz, originating in Lomza Gubernia, Poland, and their emigrants in the United States, most of whom have abbreviated the name to Nack.
Lawski, originating in Lomza Gubernia, and their emigrants in the United States and in Israel.
Ismach, originating in Lomza Gubernia and adjacent areas, of Poland and Western Ukraina.

I apologize for misspellings of names of some persons and places: the special characters of Romanian and Polish alphabets were not available to me, given that I want the pages to be readable on anybody's computer system. It should also be born in mind that the original records on which much of the trees is based are entirely in Russian, and are handwritten in Cyrillic script. The names as they were available to me, and as they appear here, are the product of Polish transcribers, who used the phonetics and transliteration system that they knew from their own language (influenced by their own personal predelictions); these are not always identical with those that an English speaker would have used.