re: #95 marjoriemoon

Where they Jews? If you have names, you can check out jewishgen.org. They have a LOT of the history there. I don’t know if they have non-Jews. I don’t think so.

Most all my mother’s family got out of Europe by, say 1921. My father’s family, I know less about.

Non-Jews, my apologies for not clarifying that. I’ve long suspected using knowledge of geography that my maternal grandmother’s parents came from the part of Slovakia near the Ukraine border. Most Slovaks are Roman Catholics but there is a heavy concentration of Greek Catholics near the Ukrainian border and that’s what my grandmother was raised before she converted to marry my RCC grandfather. My dad’s family has long been rumored to be supposely Swiss-German but I also heard stories that they were from Dusseldorf which has a sizeable Catholic population. We know where his Irish ancestors came from and I even got to go there two yeras ago. Didn’t find any relatives and it would have been hard to find some bearing his grandmother’s maiden name since Joyce is a really common name in Galway.