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From: "H. Wyzansky" <>
Subject: Introduction
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 88 15:50:37 EDT

Well, I suppose that it is now my turn for the intro that Alf asked for.
My name is Harold Wyzansky and I am a Systems Programmer for CDC Cyber
mainframes. I also have a PC at home and have started to do something
with Genealogy on Display, but have been turned off by that package's slow
speed in interpreter Basic.

I have been interested in genealogy for some time, but more as a tool in
keeping track of my and my wife's families and who is related to whom how
rather than as ancestor searching. Part of the problem is that all eight
of our grandparents were born in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe
(Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, and Galicia (then Austro-Hun-
garian Empire, later Poland, now either Poland or Russia)) and I would not
even begin to know where to begin to look for records, nor, for that matter,
on which side of current borders they came from. It is also rather
doubtful that whatever records existed before the turn of the century
survived the two World Wars, particularly any which were Jewish community
records.

The main sources of information that I have used are asking family members
and taking info from tombstones if I know where people are buried. I have
read Rothenberg's book on Jewish genealogy and found it fascinating, but
not particularly helpful.

If anybody does have any information which could help me, it would be
greatly appreciated. The family names in which I am interested are
WYZANSKY (usually spelled WYZANSKI: I have no idea how my grandfather
got the Y, unless it was a quirk of Immigration), STEINBERG, MINTZ, and
FERRAR, for my family and PARNES, NEIMAN, FEUERWERGER, and HOROWITZ for
my wife's.

Thank you for any help,
Harold S. Wyzansky
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