Shaya Hatskelzon
Ari’s 5x great-grandfather Shaya Hatskelzon (or Khatskelzon) was born in Silale, Lithuania, some time in the 1820s, and we know that he was still there in 1896 when he was recorded as a tax-payer. What else do we know about him? The main evidence is the Lithuanian tax and voter lists on JewishGen: This shows us Shaya in Silale in 1877, 1885, 1892 and 1896. Shaya had married Jennie in about 1843. The fourth record is obviously a relation, and it turns out that Basia Ziv (or Si