Thank you for the suggestion. It is my understanding they were Jewish. Detroit hosted a fairly large Jewish community around the turn of the century and was a common destination for peoples of Germany and Eastern Europe. Dave ========================================= Dave Kyle Austin, TX USA Email: dave@kyleusa.com -----Original Message----- From: DustiGen@aol.com [mailto:DustiGen@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:46 AM To: FINK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [FINK] Descendants of Moses FINK Dave Kyle, I noticed your Moses FINK and his wife were born in what is/was Vilna, RUSSIA. I don't know whether or not your FINKs are of the Jewish faith, but in doing my bosses' family tree [and their immigrating ancestors were also born in Vilna, Poland, Russia] I learned that the "old people" in the Jewish communities across Europe and Russia [after WWII] created a "Book of Memories". These Books of Memories [a Book for each town/city] are basically of various Jewish families living in the community prior to World War I. A set of these "Memories" [and Vilna is one of the communities with many volumes] is located in the library of Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass [outside Boston]. You might have your local library see if it can get it on interlibrary loan for you. I don't know whether the LDS might have a set or not. Hope this will be of help and/or interest to you and others on the list. Dusti ============================== Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi