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A ketubah (marriage document) names the groom as "Chaim Yaacov son of the Rabbi Reb Dovid the Levi" (no surname given on the document itself) and the bride as "Genesha Nechomah daughter of Shneur Zalmon Zelig". Place: "Valintza" (preserved as spelled). Date: independently read as 20 Adar 5650 = Wednesday, 12 March 1890 , confidence high.
Strunsky
The ketubah
A ketubah (marriage document) names the groom as "Chaim Yaacov son of the Rabbi Reb Dovid the Levi" (no surname given on the document itself) and the bride as "Genesha Nechomah daughter of Shneur Zalmon Zelig". Place: "Valintza" (preserved as spelled). Date: independently read as 20 Adar 5650 = Wednesday, 12 March 1890, confidence high.
A tension the confirmed date sharpens, not resolves
Open identity and place questions
- The groom's father's surname/place is not given on the ketubah itself.
- Samuel Ber Strunsky's birthplace is given by the paid compiled chart as "Polotsk, Chelyabinsk" — the registry itself calls this suspect, not confirmed.
- Mac (b.1901) and Max (b.1900) may be the same child under two spellings, or two children — unresolved.
Family-recollection sources
A 2010 family tree from Howard Kaston is relative-compiled, not independently verified. Amy Austin's Nov 2022 correction (Sam as great-grandfather, Joe his younger brother) is noted as "pending documentary proof," not settled. A shared paid ancestor-chart resource (identical file, also held in the Berman and Austin folders) is cited once here as a compilation, not proof.