-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:28 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Genealogy (was: Apparently Arizona has its own Mullahs)
<snipped> I dont have a clue as to how > they got here...I haven't found any ship manifests with my grandfather or > great grandfather's name on it yet. > > My Polish ancestors were Jewish (more precisely, > Polish/Czechoslovakian/Lithuanian Jews). The problem is that they changed > their name to Lucas when they came to the US and we have no idea what their > name was in Poland. I also dont speak Polish, so that is another barrier. Isn't it great when that happens? I had that happen on my mother's side -- someone who is probably a third cousin through the woman my mother's grandfather married did a lot of the Ontario stuff. The stuff we do know matches her tree. According to that, we're descended from the first child born in Upper Canada, which does make me a bit suspicious. And... ***Yeah...just to throw a wrench in the gears, we dont know anything about her husband. She was either divorced (doubtfully), he died in Poland, or stayed behind. She came with my grandmothers father and uncle. As I said before, she had a sister in Montreal and I have 2 border crossing documents from 2 of her trips. One lists her sister's last name as Mimzender and the other as Misenberg. I was talking to a guy on the Montreal board on ancestry.com and he had an Mitzenbug in his family who lived at the same address in the 1920's and 30's when my ggrandmother went for the visits. My Great Uncle thinks it's yet another name...so I have 4 potential last names. I probably have family there to this day...it would be cool to get in touch with them. I need to find who to talk to in Montreal about property records and also contact some of the Synagogues up there to see if they may be able to shed some light on the subject. The house she lived in is no longer there. I google mapped it and looked at the street view...it's now a parking lot.**** If you google some of the names you come up with more ancestry.com trees, some of which say we're descended from a guy knighted by Anne Boleyn. But the same tree that mentions this also claims as an ancestor someone born in Main in 1503 or something. So...wait. In 1503... damn few Europeans weere being born in Maine and the Indians that *were* probably weren't keeping good track of the day and month of birth. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Just saying, there's a hole in the road there. ***a hole? Sounds more like an impact crater hhehehe*** <snipp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
