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Ari’s earliest known Mendelsohn ancestor is Louis, his 5x great-grandfather. Louis was the father of Moses Mendelsohn (see Family...

I have told the story of my paternal grandparents’ marriage already (in this post). When the FamilySearch website added the collection...

Ari’s 5x great-grandfather Shaya Hatskelzon (or Khatskelzon) was born in Silale, Lithuania, some time in the 1820s, and we know that he...

Ari’s great-great-grandmother Rose Hurwitz was a very special person in my life. Rose was the daughter of Louis Koppel (LK) Hurwitz and...

The mother of Missing Minna was called Jennie, Janie or Gesa. How do we know this? On 29 May 1858 she appears in a Lithuanian Revision...

Ari’s great-great grandfather Louis (pronounced in the French way rather than the English) was born Ludwig Feinshtein on 28 Oct 1900 in...

Moses Mendelsohn was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather, born in 1856 in Memel. Memel is on the Baltic coast and was part of Prussia until 1923,...

One of the stories told by my grandmother Rose was about her father-in-law, Charles Feinstein, who was born on 3 Feb 1857 in Libau...

Minna Chaskelson was Ari’s 4x great-grandmother. She was born in 1852 in Silale, Lithuania, and died at the Carlington Nursing Home in...

One of Ari’s 3x great-grandfathers was Louis Koppel (known as LK) Hurwitz. He was born on 19 Nov 1873 in Svencionys, Lithuania and...