Like all families, the Nemenoffs have a long history and a complicated family tree. On one side there are the Glick, Epel, Neipris and Nachemson families that originated in Lithuania and Latvia, principally in the small border town of Latskova. One of the Glicks, Rachel, married a Nemenoff named Ben, who was from a town called Dashkofski in Belarus. The Nemenoffs (or Nemerovs) lived primarily in Belarus and probably Ukraine. Ben and Rachel met and married after immigrating to Montreal and ultimately settled in Chicago, where they raised their family. Other national and ethnic lines married into the Nemenoff family over the years, including the Greenholtzes of Tomashev, Poland (near Lodz) and the Pickings and Burrells of England, Scotland, and Canada.
Much research has been conducted on the Glick, Epel, Neipris and Nachemson families, mainly by extended family members Judith Diamond (of London) and John Drayman (Los Angeles). Much of the information they have gathered was used in this site. The true mystery man is Ben Nemenoff and research into his life has ultimately led to the development of this site. The details of his life were, and largely still are, unknown. He died in 1929 when many of his children were too young to have many memories of him. Details that have been gathered are largely from American documents such as his death certificate and from the memories that do exist in the mind of his youngest son David. Efforts are currently underway to acquire whatever data is available in the national archives of Canada and Belarus, as well as from the many genealogical societies that focus on research like this.
The purpose of this site is to detail as much as possible the people who comprise the Nemenoff line. The family story can be dated back to the early 19th century with Selig Glick and David Nachemson. Selig’s grandson Hirsch married David’s daughter Pesche. Their daughter Rachel married Ben Nemenoff, and started that line in America.
Theirs are stories of our past, and our past is prologue. Today, there are descendents of this Nemenoff line living all over the United States including Chicago, Kansas City, New York City, Florida, California, and Reno, NV, among other places.
Nemenoff Family History 