The Sherizen Family
From Itzko Sherayzin of Karolin near Mozyr, through Sholom of Mozyr and Toronto, Herman of Detroit, Paul and Howard, to David Kalman Sherizen today: eight generations on paper.
How solid each step is. Five generations, Sholom to David, stand on North American and family records. Three more, Leyba, Zelik and Itzko, come from one 1858 Karolin revision list; Instinct grades them confirmed, and they join Sholom through his stone’s “son of Yehuda Leib”, which David ruled proven. The record that would seal that join (the full 1874 census) has not been found. Itzko himself is known only from his son’s patronymic. Above him, the older Karolin households are candidates, not linked.
Tap any name to open the person’s page: dates, places, a timeline, documents, each with its source and a grade.
36 people with pages · 115 record images · 145 graded facts: 2 proven, 94 confirmed, 11 probable, 1 possible, 1 plausible, 30 unproven, 3 dismissed, 3 negative
Above Itzko: open · 5 candidate households, not linked ›
The older Karolin/Yelsk households of the same surname. They are candidates. None is linked to this line yet, and none is counted as a generation.
- Volf Serayzen a father by the 1790s
Tops the Yankel' household if Yankel' Meer of 1811 is the Yankel' of 1850 (probable). Not linked to Itzko.
link to the line above: probable as Yankel' Meer's father; link to our line unproven - Yankel' Meer son of Volf b. about 1773 · 1811 Karolin list
Omitted in 1795; son Mordukh b. about 1808. NHAB 333-9-216 p. 131 (typed extract).
link to the line above: confirmed (extract); link to our line unproven - Vol'ko son of Dovid b. about 1791, d. 1828 · 1834 Karolin list
Widow Rivka; sons Faibish, Zalman, Shimona (Shlioma); daughter Rokhlya. NHAB 333-9-585.
link to the line above: confirmed (extract); link to our line unproven - Zalman son of Vol'ko b. about 1812
Age fits the “Zelman” who fathers Abram (b. ~1839) and Shimna (b. ~1835) in 1850–51.
link to the line above: possible hook inside the cluster - Shlioma-Mendel son of Itsik 1816 Karolin missed-men register, row 27
A possible brother of Zelik, i.e. a second son of Itzko. Not in the 1834 typed extract.
link to the line above: plausible; soft negative 1834
Sholom’s later wife was probably Annie Sherizen (1890–1967) — unproven, parked.
- Leonard Grant Leof (1909–1986)
- Julius P. Leof (1896–1967)
- Zus Zelikov → Kalman, David-Moysha
- Harold L. Sherizen (1919–1994)
- Elaine Ruth (living)
- Sanford “Sandy” (living)
Other branches
Cousin lines and records of the same rare surname. Each page says how strong the link is.