This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CkC.2ACIB/1405 Message Board Post: Just blown away! Anything I though I new about the Baxter line I am related to was recently put in question. I went to a funeral over the weekend and met a Baxter relative I've never known. Was in formed that the Baxter line I was kin to was originaly, Bartholomew (sp) and migrated from Purshia (Russia) to Irland. At that point they changed their name to Baxter and migreted to the U.S.A. On top of all that I was in formed they were Jewish!!! Would anyone know of such a family. I truely hope they were blowing smoke............. However I do remember stories told by my mother which were passed on to her by her grandparents about elderly and sick in their home town were put on passing wagons to be turn into soap.That would be in Hitlers time I guess. I just put it off as wise tales. If someone could shine some light on this ............. before I blow my one brain cell!! --Puzzeled from, Nashville Tennessee--.