As time and generations passed, marriages and emigration occurred, countries of residence changed, and names were modernized, the last names of family members changed.
If your last name is . . .
. . . you may be part of The Sokolov Family.
This list is not complete and no intention is made or implied that it is complete. If a surname has been omitted, the omission was not intentional and the web site manager apologizes for the oversight. If you are a relative of The Sokolov Family through direct lineage or marriage and you would like to have your surname included here, send it by e-mail to The Sokolov Family via the e-mail link on our "Welcome" (Home) page.
Inquiries about your possibly being related to The Sokolov Family are invited, and you are encouraged to provide any information and artificats you have about The Sokolov Family.
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* The "Sokoloff" variation of the name Sokolov may have occurred when the name was translated into
English. In Yiddish, Sokolov is written . When asked how to spell the family name in Yiddish,
relatives who were fluent in Yiddish would say that it ended in "tzvei voven." In Yiddish, this means with
two "vovs" (the Hebrew letter that has a "v" sound). Notice that "ff" in Sokoloff looks similar to the two
"vovs" at the end of the name in Yiddish.
What is Yiddish?
The Yiddish language is a member of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. Although it is not a national language, Yiddish is spoken by about 4 million Jews all over the world, especially in Argentina, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico, Romania, and the United States. Before the annihilation of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, Yiddish was the tongue of more than 11 million people.
Yiddish, a blend of a number of German dialects, began in about 1100 C.E. in the ghettos of Central Europe. From there it spread to other parts of the world. Phonetically, Yiddish is closer to Middle High German than is modern German. Its vocabulary is basically German, but it has been enlarged by borrowing words from Hebrew, Slavic, the Romance languages [i.e., languages derived from Latin (Roman) Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, and Romanian], and English.
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