Which of the Voikhansky men fathered lots of children?

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Hi,
Can anyone explain to me which of the Voikhansky men fathered many children across many countries? And which VOIKHANSKY men went by many names?

From https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/vitsyebsk/Family_Stories/Voikhans...
it does not appear to be Chaiim Ber Voikhansky born 1828 (great grandfather of Dror) as he only had 16 children

From https://genealogy.org.il/2017/09/24/heshvan-event-2017-%D7%90%D7%99... it appears to be Solomon Haim-Bar VOIKHANSKY born 1832 but I can't tell his relationship to Chaim. Being born in 1832 he is either Chaim's brother or maybe a cousin, but not a son.

The facebook group also has Solomon VOIKHANSKY as the one with many wives. Described as Dror's grandpa's brother.

From the facebook site 23 November 2016

So Solomon was definitely not " politically correct" and had many wives, women and many children . I think by aspirations , he saw himself like King Solomon (with 1000 wives =and 1000 mothers in law lol). May be we can get a clue from some names which he chose for himself for example Dvoralisky and Dvorman. From Russian Dvor means a courtyard - also a royal court. And the same as Dvorman. So Solomon Dvoralisky can be : Solomon of the Royal courtyard ... He was strongly involved with the Ginzburg's Aristocracy and this is just another clue.

do you think that Solomon may have been "doing business". If the family had tanneries etc, maybe they used wives as a barter system?

I think that what would benefit here is the use of genealogy standards of proof and applying some mathematical, geographical and biological principals (ie a male is extremely unlikely to be a father at the age of 2)

you are right about that (parenting at age 2)!!!. I have learned that if there is only family tree evidence one has to watch out. I really appreciate your efforts Leanne M.

another question if you don't mind, why do some people have 19 surnames?

like Yagudin, Romm, Voikhansky, ......

I will send you a message

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