Rubin Family Tree.

Abraham Rebe Family

Note: This family research began during the late 20th century when Fannie Rubin Sniper's adult granddaughter, Marjorie, became interested in placing the members of Fannie's immigrant family from their origins in Lithuania into their settlement in the Boston area.

Placed in a social history context, from the analysis of public documents, it reveals United States entry points from Europe, demographic residency patterns of Yiddish Russians in the Boston area, the immigrant acclimation to life in the United States with the gradual Americanization of surname and first names, the livelihoods open to non-English speaking immigrant breadwinners, the support of family for temporary housing. It reveals the growth and movement of social institutions clustered in neighborhoods with the formation of houses of worship, the creation of burial grounds, and the marriage of children rooted in their common European geographic heritage and/or artisan associations.

The research began from using the original naturalization papers of Fannie Sniper. This led to her passenger manifest which revealed the name Freida Rebe. The inscription on gravestones proved to be a challenge as they were carved in Hebrew. According to Jewish tradition, the Hebrew name of the deceased and the name of that person's father appears on the gravestone. At that time in history, the family usually knew the person by their Hebrew name. Later generations searching public documents would be following the English name. The two might not match.

A search of the birth, death, and marriage records of her parents and relatives, the inscriptions on gravestones, census information, precinct books, city directories, and wedding and obituaries from local newspapers. Reasonable genealogical research places the family of ABRAHAM REBE who married Freida CBL in Lithuania. During the formative years of Fannie Rubin's life, her branch of the family lived in Kovno guberniya in the shtetl of Rakishok [current map (Rokiskis) ].
From gravestones at the Anshe Libavitz Cemetery in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, near the resting place of Jacob Rubin, it appears that Samuel, and Morris Rubin were brothers.
From a jewishgen.org data in the Lithuania SIG, Freeda died in Birzhai in 1892.
In 1899, Freida Rebe (Fannie Rubin Sniper) was the first child born to Joseph Rubin and Minnie Kark.

Yaakov Rubin married Hannah Molke Snyder
Shneur Zalman Rubin married Etta (Naomi) Silverman.
Moishe Rubin married Bessie Rosenberg.

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