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Sam Schmulick came from Shishlovitch, Minsk, Russia around 1910 and naturalized in Montreal 1913 under the name Sam Shmulik, tailor, 40 years old, living at 14 Divine Str. He signed his certificate "in Jewish". He was married to Sarah Seltzer, or maybe it was Setzer, or something close. They had six children: Annie (Sam Resman, 1915), Lena (Abraham Rock, 1920? & Isaac Rappaport, 1938), Rachel 'Rae' (Max Levinson, 1940s?), Reuben (Lilian Victor, 1929), Irving (Rachel Leah Weiner, 1935), and Louis (Jean Engel, 1940).

Although Sam and Sarah are buried with the Schmulick name on their gravestones, Sam naturalized in 1913 using the name Shmulik, and the three sons eventually adopted the name Small. Shmulik and Schmulick are probably simply two different transliterations of the Yiddish, supported by Sam's signature on his 1913 naturalization.

1. Annie naturalized in 1930 using the name Shmulik, claiming birth in Swislovitch, Minsk, Russia.
2. Lena naturalized in 1938, using the name Shmulik, claiming birth in Schwislovitz, Minsk, Russia. Lena was married to Abraham Rock, who died in Russia in 1925. Lena married Isaac Rappaport, a widower, in 1938, with whom she naturalized a second time in 1942, this time using the name Schmulick.
3. Rachel 'Rae' Schmulick immigrated in 1913 from Swislovitch, Minsk, Russia. She naturalized in 1943, based on her father's 1913 naturalization. Rae moved to New Haven, but the rest of the family stayed in Montreal.
4. Reuben was born in Borisov, Minsk, Russia in 1906, immigrated in 1913, and naturalized as Reuben Schmulick, in 1926, based on his father's 1913 naturalization. In 1929, he married Lilian Victor as Reuben Small, son of Sam Small, and one of the witnesses was his brother, Issie Schmulick (alias Irving Small). Reuben and Lily's first child was named Malca, who rejected that name and went by Marcia, but when Quebec required birth names on medicare cards, she went from Marcia Perlman to Malca Schmulick, while her sister's card read Sheila Small.
5. Irving was born in 1907 and naturalized in 1929 with the name Issie Schmulick.
6. Louis was born in Montreal in 1914, the only natural-born Canadian, and his name on his 1940 record of marriage is Schmulick-Small.

JewishGen.org has several matches for Shishlovitch/Swislovitch/Schwislovitz in what is now Belarus. Svetilovichi (eastern Belarus), Svislach (western Belarus), Svislach (central Belarus). I think the last one is the most promising because it is the closest to Reuben's birthplace, Borisov, which is now Barysaw (central Belarus), and it is close to Babruysk (central Belarus), which is mentioned in Lena's naturalization file (as Babroisk).

Names on gravestones (Sam is Schneur Zalman bar Yosef):

1. Annie Resman - Elka bat Schneur Zalman
2. Lena Rock Rappaport - Liba bat Meir Zalman
3. Rachel 'Rae' Levinson - no Hebrew on stone
4. Reuben Small - Reuben bar Schneur Zalman
5. Irving Small - Yitzhak bar Zalman
6. Louis Small - Eliezer bar Zalman