Dear Genners, I have to generally agree with what Sherry has written. Although I've basically stopped looking, I have over 550 "announcements" or notices from all the various families I am researching who are all part of my all-embracing mishpocheh. As a rule of thumb on my father's side the Frankels and Koenigsbergs, who were business owners, were always placing family notices, or there were events which mentioned them. On the other hand my mother's families, the Gold(raths) and Levys were in the schmatter trade and generally somewhat poor. The only item of interest was when my great aunt Dora Levy was one of 134 people who drowned when an overnight mail ship sunk off the Netherlands coast . Whilst there were many international and national newspaper reports, it was only the Jewish Chronicle which published the sad story of her demise and the family she left behind, which I might add was chock-full of genealogical information. -- Jeremy G Frankel ex-London, England now Folsom, CA Searching for: FRANKEL: Plock, Poland; London, England GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland; London, England KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania; London, England; NY, USA LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland; London, England Pinkus, Poland; London, England PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland; London, England; NY, USA