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I wanted to write a bit more about the Feinstein family’s connection to New Jersey, having recently discovered some interesting newspaper...

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

Schlaum Levin Feinstein is Ari’s 6x great-grandfather, born in about 1760 in Palanga, Lithuania. The only record we have for him is the...

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

Abram was Ari’s 5x great-grandfather, born in 1808 in Palanga, on the Baltic Sea, in north-west Lithuania. At the time, Palanga was in...

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...

Hinda Hirshfeld was Ari’s 3x great-grandmother from Liepaja (Libau), Latvia. She must have been born in about 1865 (based on her age at...

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

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...

Isaac Abram Feinstein was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather. He was born in about 1827 in Polangen (now Palanga), on the Baltic coast of...