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Submitted by Karen Gramigna-Warren

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 7/14/2021 2:16 PM
Family Surname: Warshofsky
Country: Russia
Town: Motel
Date of Image: 1910
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We believe this is the passport issued by the Russian government to my husband's great grandfather, Mendel Warshofsky when he came to the US in 1910. He left his wife and some children in Russia while he went to the US to join his eldest son Isaac.

Thank you in advance.

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7/15/2021 2:01 PM 1 Jewish religion
2. 44 yo
3. Shoemaker
4. Married
7. Signature of the passport owner Mendel Vortsovitsky
right side

Issued from the town Motolya petty bourgeois' management
the bearer of this is the petty bourgeois of gubernia Grodno, district Kobrin, t. Motolya Mendel s/o Utsko VORONTSEVITSKY and is permitted to different towns and settlments of Russian Empire until July 5 1910.
Issued on July 5 1909

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