The Death Record of my 3rd Great Grandfather, Mandel Marzhibovsky

This weekend I found the death record for my third great grandfather, Mandel Marzhibovsky.

I found this in a search at JewishGen

• I am unable to read Cyrillic, but the website does have an English index.
• I am also able to upload the image to Google Translate, which isn't perfect, but does add some information to the index.

Book for the records of deceased Jews for 1915

Part IV. Volume of the Deceased

The first two columns indicate whether Male or Female, and Male is selected

The third column is Where did he die? and buried. Abbreviations are used. The index says Yekaterinoslav, which is now called Dnipro, about 245 miles from Kyiv.

The next two columns provide a date. Actually two dates. January 1, and Tevet 28.

So I naturally plugged January 1, 1915 into the converter at HebCal to check the Hebrew date. January 1, 1915 was Tevet 15. 13 days difference. Which means January 1 is a Julian calendar date. (Which it should be, since it's prior to 1918.)

Then we have an age - 98. (There are some marriage records for Mandel as well, and the ages he provides aren't consistent, so it's unclear when he was really born.)

The cause of death, according to Google Translate, is Senility/Exhaustion

The final column provides locations and names. The first word is Kanevsky which is either a surname, or "From Kanev." My guess is that it's From Kanev indicating that's where Mandel was originally born. Kyiv appears later in the section, and that's where all the birth records for his children are from. It closes with his name Mendel son of Tevel Marzhibovsky.

This is my first time seeing a name for his father. Tevel is a Hebrew name, related to the Yiddish name Tevye. It is wonderful to see a potential Tevye in my family tree, though I am unsure if he ever went by the Yiddish name.