Baruch Leib Ziants/Zayats

There probably is not a definite answer to this without further evidence, and that is whether any of the following record set indexes from Jewishgen refer to Baruch Leib in this profile. Update: we already have further evidence concerning 1897 census as the name of at least two grandsons of Baruch Leib's was Moshe. Also we know that the family were from Bielsk.

1) Extracts of the Jewish Records in the 1897 All Russian Census Last Updated December 2015

Grodno Gubernia Surname Other Surname Givenname Age Father Relationship Street House of Born Registered Living Comments Town Volost District

ZAYATS Borukh 55 Moshka head of the family Branska Zayats Borukh Moshka 1 Bransk Bransk Botski carpenter Botski Belsk

ZAYATS Gitla 28 Ovsei wife Branska Zayats Borukh Moshka 1 Belsk Bransk Botski man mainttenance Botski Belsk

ZAYATS Leya 22 Borukh daughter Branska Zayats Borukh Moshka 1 Belsk Bransk Botski with parents Botski Belsk (The age of the wife does not resonate with that of daughter and this is possibly a mis-transcription of the wife's age.)

2) From Polish records in Bialystok, we found marriage of Elija son of Baruch Leib, and am comfortable in ascertaining that that he is brother of Mordechai. They called their son like Mordechai called his son Moshe (the paternal grandfather of David Ziants who is writing this) . This very much gives evidence that Moshe was named after a family member.

We also know from oral family history that family were originally from Bielsk, and although this was understood in conjunction to the family of Mordechai's wives (two sisters - he married Alka after Keila Raizel died), it was said in a way that the ZIANTS family were originally from there as well. This gives credence that the 1897 census family is this family and the dates of birth correlate with the timeline.

3) There is probably either a son Moshe or nephew Moshe and grandson or great-nephew Gavriel:-
Surname Given Name Year Type Akta Father
ZAIONC Gawryjel 1899 B 35 Mowsza

4) This could very much be our Baruch Leib son of Moshe who in 1907 lives in Gombin,Warsaw:-
Warszawa Gubernia Duma Voters Lists, 1907 Surname, Given Name Father Year Voter Status Number on List Town Gubernia
ZAJONC, Baruch Mojzes 1907 Owner 251 Gombin Warszawa

5) And maybe this is him mentioned in Gabin Yizkor book, page 251:-

Name                 	Town	Page(s)	Comments

ZAJONC, Baruch	Gabin	251      	Father: Mojzes

6) The below obviously could not be the Baruch who was registered in 1897 census (also father Moshe) as he died 1855
Surname Given Name Year Type Akta District Father

ZAJONC 	Jdzk 	 1852 	B      	2 	 	 	 	Kupiski  (birth)  	 	Berek Moszkowicz

ZAJONC 	Berek       1855 	D      	233 	 	 	 	 Kupiski   	 	 	Moszk  	 	 	 	 	  ZAJANC 	       Leja 	        1859 	D     	25 	 	 	 	 Kupiski                            Berek 

Here, for Isaac (b 1852), this seems to be marriage:-
Surname Given Name Year Type Akta House # Sex Age / Born Date of: Birth Marriage/Divorce Death Registration Town of: Birth Marriage Death Residence Father Mother Father Father Mother Father ZAJĄC Ick 1884 M 14 35 1884 Kupiski Czarnia Berek Leja

Szajowna BRZEZIAK 	Estera 	1884 	M 	14 	 39	 1884 Czarnia Czarnia	Lejba Gitla Aronowna 

KUŹNIK Ryfka 1903 D 11 70 N N Berek Leja ZAJĄC

Both the above 2 record groups could resonate with an unknown descendent or cousin because grandson Morris (Moshe) ZIANTS could very well have been named after the father of Borukh in either of the above record indexes. The time line of the second seems to match better.

Since, according to what is on the gravestone of Baruch Leib's father, Moshe - that the family was originally from Brisk, we have the following marriage from jewishgen.org:-
Belarus Marriages Database; Run on Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:48:25 -0700

Marriage Place; Town/ /Uyezd / Guberniya; Marriage Date (DD/MM/CCYY)
Brest; Brest; Grodno; 5/2/1897

Groom Name; Groom Father; Place; Groom Age
EIDELMAN, Yechiel-Miсhel; Shimon; Zhitomir; 24

Bride Name; Bride Father; Place ; Bride Age
ZAIONTZ, Sora-Rivka; Boruch; Brest 22

Comments: Groom: petty bourgeois
Rabbi: representatives of Rabbi
Witness 1: BAGON Yankel
Witness 2: SHIFMAN David
Place Recorded; Year Recorded; Record Type; Record # Microfilm # / Item # Image# Archive / Fond
Brest; 1897; marriage; 44 Not Microfilmed ; /- - NHABGrodno/1870/1/6

7) See the following profile:-
Berek Zajac
Baruch and Leib run down this family, but our Baruch Leib is not one of them. This could hint that these were cousins through an earlier generation.

8) From 1 above, we have Gittlel's father as Ovsei. So Baruch and Gitel might have had a son, whom they named after her father, and died as a baby:-

Belarus Deaths Database
Searching for Surname (phonetically like) : ZAJAC AND Givenname (DM soundex) : OVSEI
1 matching record found.
Run on Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:28:53 -0600
Name Father Residence Comments Date of Death (Day/Month/Year)
ZAIONTS, Ovsey Borukh Brest boy 21/11/1906

Hebrew calendar Age Cause of Death Town Uyezd Guberniya
17 Kislev 1/3 year meningitis Brest Litovsk Brest Grodno

Place Recorded Year Recorded Record #
Brest Litovsk 1906 M259

Source: Archive / Fond / List / Item Page #
NHABGrodno/1870/1/22 92v-93