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Ari’s 3x great-grandparents, Raye Cohen and Maurice Katz, were married at the Great Synagogue in London on 28 December 1909. I have just...

I have written before about Ari’s 4x great-grandfather, Jacob Cohen. Yesterday I made two new discoveries about him. The first one was a...

I recently discovered a South African newspaper online. The Zionist Record is available as part of the University of Florida Digital...

Jacob Cohen was born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1850. He was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather. From his marriage certificate, we know that his...

One of Ari’s 4x great-grandmothers was Mindel or Millie Gross, the mother of Grandma Raye. Her Hebrew name was Mindel Bat [daughter of]...

Ari’s 3x great-grandmother Rachel Cohen was always known to me as Grandma Raye. She was born at 8 East Mount Street in Whitechapel on 5...