DOLOVITZ - LAST NAME; NEVER SEEN IN AMERICA

HELLO: I HAVE NOT SEEN MY LAST NAME IN AMERICA

DOLOVITZ

THANX

Dolowitz is a pretty popular Jewish name.

Hi, Just looking on the Ellis Island web site:

ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp

the various spellings of the name give differant results.
Dolovitz 0 hits
Dolowicz 3 hits
Dolowitz 10 hits.
It gives you a number of alternatives to search for.

Another web site: moikrewni.pl/mapa/

which shows the modern day distribution of surnames in Poland, shows the name Dolotov (only picks up five people in Poland with this surname).
This site doesn't have any other similar spellings of this name.

Richard.

DO£OWICZ: is the Polish version used by nearly 100 people in Poland today.

Thank you to answer, and now Iam very confussed, because my Grand FATHER was Jewish, and always my mother , my uncle write the last name DOLOVITZ, and now i have a question? Could my Grand Father change the name when arrived to Colombia?

I want to know the real version name of jewish polish DOLOVITZ.
THANX

There is no one real version, and there’s nothing to be confused about. In the vast east-central European multi-ethnic cauldron that was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Muscovy, Austria, Bohemia, Germany, etc. many of the same names were used by different ethnic groups and were only spelt differently. In this case it could have been Dolovitch, Dolovich, Dolowitsch, Dołowicz, Долович, Doloviè, Dolovièius, etc. I’m not sure how that would have been in Hungarian and Hebrew.

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It might just be a simple matter of a clerk writing the name down incorrectly and he was stuck with it.

Looking through old record books I often see a name spelt different ways when a different person writes it.

My wife had a case in her own family when 2 brothers ended up with different family names because the priest spelt the same name differently.

[b]thanks to everybody [/bto answer my questions, so i am going to find the immigration card of my grand father.

It should be something like that, I suppose:
Hungarian: Dolovics, Dolovicz
Hebrew: דלבץ
Yiddish: דאלאװיץ

I am not sure if this will help you but my grandfather's name was Jacob Dolovitz.
He was born in Rajgrod, Poland about 1873 and came to the UK at the turn of the century - he was a cabinet maker. His wife's name (my grandmother) was Fega Rifka Cohen.

I was once told that we do have Dolovitz/ Dolowitz relatives in the USA but I have never been able to locate them.
Regards
R

Hello from the US. I have ancestors from Rajgrod with the surname Dolowitz.