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My husband=E2=80=99s family name from Czernowitz was Hite (or Chayet), =
but at some point it was changed to Walt. He believes his grandfather =
was a tailor and the sign was over the door, meaning both tailor and the =
family name. The name change was attributed to his grandfather having =
to serve on a jury where some fascists were convicted and wanting to not =
be so conspicuous, were were told. I did find his grandmother=E2=80=99s =
grave in the cemetery records, hand-written =E2=80=9CWalt=E2=80=9D on =
her headstone. But haven=E2=80=99t found much else in JewishGen in =
terms of family birth, marriage records with that name.
Thanks, Peggy
Peggy Walt, Owner/President
Cultural Affairs Consulting & Promotion
1240 Edward Street Halifax NS B3H 3H4
(902) 422-5403 office (902) 476-1096 cell
peggy_at_culturalaffairs.ca
> On Jan 15, 2018, at 12:37 PM, <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il> =
<lapidotm_at_inter.net.il> wrote:
>=20
> Hi all.=20
>=20
> A very common practice among East European religious Jews was to add a =
significant fore name to existing ones, such as Chaim (life) to a =
dangerously sick person, in the belief that this would contribute to his =
or her recovery. Thus could support the supposition that in certain rare =
cases the family name would be changed. in case some sickness would =
repeat in the family - because of genetic reasons (there were many =
marriages of cousins).or en environmental. It should be noted that the =
particular Yiddish pronunciation was chosen and not the German =
(Neugeborn).=20
>=20
> This type of spelling occurred also in our extended family - Lapidus =
(in Slavic areas) or Lapides (in Austro-Hungarian areas) for the Hebrew =
Lapidot chosen by our ancestors, at the end of the 18th or start of the =
19 th century. In my particular case, we were able to trace it back to =
the 1840-s (the grandfather of my father)=20
>=20
> Regards=20
>=20
> Mordecai Lapidot=20
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