Dear everyone, I'm new on this site, and amazed to see how much help you all offer each other. So far I've had nothing to offer - but I am hoping that someone can help with my search for David and ?Rachel Rosenberg. They seem to have moved to London with several children in the 1880's. David was apparently a rabbi of some kind, and died around 1932 in London. The census for 1891 and 1901 shows them as coming from Rezito, variously in Russia or Poland. These are my grandfather Nathan Rosenberg's paternal grandparents. Nathan's father, also Nathan, was also born in Rezito, and died in 1906 before my grandfather was born at the start of 1907. This has created a hiatus of knowledge. My grandfather thought his grandparents came from Lithuania. However, I can't find a record of any town called Rezito in Lithuania or in that border area. Has anyone else come across this name? - or does anyone know the current name of the town? David Rosenberg had other children, but as Nathan was cut-off for making a marriage he didn't approve of, to Annie Benjamin, I know nothing about them. Are any of you descendents of David and ?Rachael Rosenberg of London? I would love to have more information, as I have come up against a complete blank. Many thanks, Naomi Hamilton Edinburgh

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Naomi Hamilton <[email protected]>wrote: > David and ?Rachel ROSENBERG... coming from Rezito, > variously in Russia or Poland... > Naomi, I looked in JewishGen for Rezito. The closest was Resita/Ricita/Resicza, etc., which was in Romania, Hungary, then Romania. Sometimes people lied about their places of birth on the Census to protect their relatives still in the Old Country. Is it possible they were saying "Rossiny" or similar? That would be Raseiniai, which is now part of Lithuania. Here is the link to search: http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/shtetls/lithuania.htm Linda Wolfe Kelley California