Levin Family From Grodno Guberniya

This Project is to try and establish descendants of The Levin Family from Grodno, Gubernia.

Surnames include Levin, Levine, Lew, Lev, HaLevi, Lewin, Levy and many other related families...

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/grodno/towns.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/info_history_of_grodno.htm

Levin Name Meaning Jewish (mainly from Lithuania and Belarus): Slavicized form of Levy.Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German: from the personal name Levin, which was also used by German Christians as a derivative of Liebwin. As a Jewish name it sometimes represents a pet form of western Yiddish ‘lion’ (see Loewe 2).Russian: patronymic of Lëva, a pet form of the personal name Lev + the Russian possessive suffix -in.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

Help is requested in getting this group off the ground...