Sambursky family from towns in the Poltava Guberniya (now Chernigov Oblast) in the Ukraine
	My relatives lived in large and small towns in the Poltava Gubernyia (district) of Russia in the late 18th century until the early 20th century. Part of that area is now the Chernigov Oblast of Ukraine. The towns included Zolotonosha in the Cherkasy Oblast, Srebnoye/Serbne (now Sribne), Lokhvitsa/Lachwitz (now Lochvycja), Ichnya (now Icnja) and Priluki. Information on Zolotonosha, Chernigov and other towns in region. Click on photo for enlargement and details about these family members.
The first person we have information about is Klonimus who may have lived in Sambor. (Sambor [49°31'/23°12'] in Eastern Galicia, Lwow Area was in Poland until 1772, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 to 1915, Poland again from 1915 to 1939 and currently is in Western Ukraine. The Sambor Yizkor Book has details about the history and people of the town.) Our family history says that Sara, the wife of Klonimus brought their teenage son Yoseph-Moshe from Sambor to the Ukraine so that he would not be drafted into the army. (A new law had been issued in Austria during the reign of the emperor Joseph II saying that the Jews too should be taken into the military.) Initially the family, which may have included Yoseph-Moshe's sister Yocheved, settled in the town of Zolotonasha on the Dnieper River. Later they moved to Priluki [50°36'/32°24]. In his old age, Yoseph-Moshe lived in Ichnya, with his son Simcha. He died in 1858 and was buried in Priluki. A September 1811 Zolotonosha, Ukraine census, (of males and heads of households only), recorded that Kalman Samborskiy, mechshanin (merchant), son of Shaya, died in 1809 and was 55 years old in 1806. Therefore, a written record exists showing that the family was in Zolotonosha Ukraine prior to 1806. It is more than 395 miles from Sambor to Zolotonosha. (See map.) Around 1800, the trip would have been made by foot or by horse-cart or by boat or a combination of all three. There are no connecting waterways. It was long before railroads. In 1797, there were a little over 1,000 Jews living in Chernigov province, (the region then north of Priluki, but now including Priluki). Fifty years later, there were 18,000 Jews living there. Jews were migrating in from both the west and the north (Belarus and Lithuania). Kalman Sambursky's children and grandchildren lived in the Ukraine. Records still exist of their names and ages in the 1811, 1835, 1850, 1858 Zolotonosha census.
Some family names of people who married into this Sambursky line in the Ukraine: Bechholtz, Belenichky, Belikov, Cohen, Finkelstein, Haft, Ipapa, Kabak, Kahan, Kahana, Karisik, Karminsky, Klimodilsky, Latinsky, Levi, Lifshitz, Mendelbaum, Ochman, Orinin, Polonsky, Rosenthal, Slutzky, Swiadoz, Toupelev, Walowitz, Warshansky, Yarowsky, and Zolotorofe.