From: Barry Rubin <profbarryrubin@yahoo.com>

I have been doing extensive research into the history of
Dolhinov's Jews and especially into that of the , and Hefetz families.
In cooperation with Harold Rhode and Leon Rubin, who has done so much
for the Dolhinov community, we are setting up a Dolhinov Research
Project and invite you to participate and to share your information.
This includes the following efforts:
--A survey of documents on Dolhinov in Vilna, Vileika, and
Minsk with the aim of copying as many as possible.
--Recording the inscriptions of the 400 gravestones in the
Jewish cemetery.
--Creating an email list of Dolhinov descendants to exchange
information. Please send me your email if you would like to be
included..
--Trying to build a Rubin and Grossbein family trees which will
obviously include a lot of other people as well.
--DNA testing of Rubin family members.
I hope that we can report to you on progress and to get your help.
Let me start with the DNA testing which is still going on.
Evidence from a few tests seems to indicate the following:
1. All Dolhinov Rubins come from a single family, taking that
name in the early 1700s.
2. The original location of the family was in eastern Anatolia
which coincides with the origins of Abraham's tribe in Ur.
We will know more as additional people are tested and more detailed
tests are done.

Please feel free to write me at profbarryrubin@yahoo.com.

Here is my family tree of Rubins as best as I can reconstruct it:

Yermiya Rubin born before 1743 (the first known Rubin)
\
Gabriel Rubin (1763- )
\
Yankel Rubin (1791-1833)
+Sora ? (1805- )
\
Zalman Rubin (1820s?-after 1870)
\
Yankel (1838-1889 or after) and Chaya Rubin (1837 or
1839-1889 or after) (daughter of Itzko ____). They had three sons:

1.Leib (March 15, 1865-January 10, 1949)
Married Sarah ((November 25, 1872-November 9, 1944)
A. Philip 1890
B. David 1895
C. Bessie 1897
D. Anna 1899
E. Alexander 1901
F. Ida 1903
G. Evelyn 1909

2. Haim Shimon (1867- 1920 or after?)
Ma: Faiga Rivka Heifetz (daughter of Tankhel Heifetz; sister of Natan
Heifetz). They had two children:

A. Yaakov Yeramiyahu (1890-1933)
Ma. Chaya Grossbein
David (1913-1974) married Helene: Barry Rubin
Lillian: (1921- ) married Melvin Kramer: Joan, Richard, Susan,

B.
C. Chaya Doba (1906-1942)
Ma: Aharon Perlmutter
Haim
Yaakov

C and D: there were two other sons but I cannot find their names. I
would be grateful for help here.

3.. Zalman-Ber Rubin (1860-?), drafted into the Czarist army in 1879,
fate unknown.