RE: [Cz-L] Referred by Mechl Surkis...

[Plain text next time, please. . . .]

dear Sido...I hope you have more luck than I have had...I have posted my fa=
mily information here several times but it looks like nobody knows or knew =
of my family.
Good luck! Czernowitz is still a beautiful city=2C I visited in 2010.
Judy Meyers Baker

> From: ssurkis_at_lclac.org
> To: Czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: [Cz-L] Referred by Mechl Surkis...
> Date: Mon=2C 26 Aug 2013 08:32:14 -0700
>=20
> Hello=2C
> My name is Sidoni=E9 Surkis=2C and I am the grand-daughter of an emigr=
ant
> from around Zaleschiki at the turn of the last century. Mechl (Michael)
> Surkis suggested that I write to you to see if you had any information
> regarding any family connections that may still be there=2C or anywhere i=
n the
> world. I am hoping that you can help.
> This is the information that I have about my family: my grandfather
> Isadore Surkis came over at the age of 4 with his brother=2C Jacob=2C who=
 was
> about 20. They came without other family=2C and apparently migrated thro=
ugh
> Montreal. They must have come to the US illegally as I can find no recor=
d
> of either of them arriving. They came sometime between 1902 and 1905=2C I
> BELIEVE. Jacob married shortly after moving to NYC and my grandfather wa=
s
> raised with his children. Jacob had two sons=2C Joe=2C who died in an ic=
e
> skating accident=2C and Samuel=2C who had two daughters. They came from =
a town
> whose spelling I do not know but is something like Zaleschiki in Ukraine.=
=20
> According to my grandfather=92s Bronx death certificate=2C his mother=92s=
 name was
> Gitel=2C but there was no space for a father=92s name. There was a cousi=
n in NY
> named Arthur Schickler=2C probably close to my grandfather=92s age=85A Dr=
. Max
> Surkis in Montreal was the nephew of my grandfather. My father was Josep=
h=2C
> also known as George=2C Surkis=2C son of Isadore and Sabina (Kramer) Surk=
is=2C and
> was born and raised in the Bronx. This is all that I know of the Surkis
> side of my family=92s history. I have been searching for years for some=
one
> who might know more of my family and my family=92s history. =20
>=20
> Thank you so much=2C and with much hope=85
> Sido Surkis
>=20
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