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Ask the Experts, Fall 2010

Filed Under Ask the Experts By Contributing Editors on October 1, 2010

The following message was sent to AVOTAYNU editor, Sallyann Amdur Sack-Pikus—Ed. I am seeking information about Radute or Redutka, a small community just outside of Rokiskis, Lithuania. Did all the families who lived in Redutka share something in common? A […]

Ask the Experts: Winter 2009

Filed Under Ask the Experts By Contributing Editors on December 1, 2009

by Randy Daitch and Eileen Polakoff      My great-grandfather, Meshullem Yankov ben Yitzkok Gottesman, married Rachel Fleischer (b. circa 1860, died 1918 USA), in the town of Sniatyn, Ukraine, and died there circa 1891–1901. He had a sister, Belima, […]

Avotaynu Ask the Experts: Fall 2008

Filed Under Ask the Experts By Randy Daitch and Eileen Polakoff on October 1, 2008

My maternal grandparents, Isaac Kolnik and Sarah Karp, emigrated to New York City around the beginning of the 20th century. They do not appear in the U.S. census for 1900, and I have not been able to locate their arrival […]

Ask the Experts: Summer 2008

Filed Under Ask the Experts By Randy Daitch and Eileen Polakoff on July 1, 2008

I need help finding more information about my father’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Sinberg (possibly Zinberg originally). Most of all, we would like to know where he is buried, where he was born, when he immigrated to the United States, and […]

Ask the Experts: Spring 2008, by Randy Daitch and Eileen Polakoff

Filed Under Ask the Experts By Randy Daitch and Eileen Polakoff on April 1, 2008

I have hit a wall and hope you can help. My mother’s parents, Leib (Louis) Klukovsky and Beila (Bella) Aronin, both came to the U.S. in 1914. Each came to a brother-in-law, my grandfather to Benjamin Lieberman and my grandmother […]

Ask the Experts: Spring 2007

Filed Under Ask the Experts By Contributing Editors on April 1, 2007

by Randy Daitch & Eileen Polakoff My great-grandmother’s maiden name was Lena Asher. I have managed to accumulate copies of many records for her, but all indicate that her place of birth was “Galicia,” “Austria” or “Poland”— with no town […]

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