It’s time for the latest update on the Family History. As usual the focus has been on the Salits – Grandma Davidson’s family. Since I started checking, the JewishGen website has added more data, and there is now a lot more information about Uncle Tuvye (Grandma’s brother in Vilna) and also about her sister, Sorretel’s family (the Lantsmans) in Kovno. More intriguing there seems to have been another brother we’ve never heard of – Berko Salit. The most interesting finding regarded Tuvye’s son, Solomon.
The new data also reveals that the father of Tuvye (and thus father of Grandma, Sorretel, Melach and Jack) was a man called Ruvel (sometimes written as Ruvel or Ruven Yosef) – a family name that often reappears. (According to Sophie he died very young).
But first to recap. Grandma (Annie/Anna/Hannah) Davidson had three brothers, Melach, Tuvye (Tevel) and Jack, and a sister Sorretel (who married Tsodik Lantsman).
In the 1890s, Melach, Grandma and Jack came to Hull, but Tuvye and Sorretel remained in Lithuania, Tuvye in Vilna (part of Poland between 1922 and 1939) and Sorretel in Kaunas (Kovno). So basically I have been researching Tuvye and Sorretel’s families.
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