>>>>>>I have a 1920 census record which says a specific man was born in >>>>>>Russia/Poland and emigrated in 1905. His parents were both also >>>>>>born in Russia/Poland, and the native language of both is Hebrew. >>>>>>His wife was born in Pa, her father in Russia/Poland native language >>>>>>Hebrew and her mother born in Hungary native language Hungarian >>>>>>(struck-through and Magyar written above). >>>>>> >>>>>>Cheryl Singhals <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>>As usual for me, I'm not sure what exactly you are asking, >>>>> >>>>>Lisa Lepore >>>> >>>>I was hoping for an itemized list of the things that could deduced >>>>from the information quoted. >>>> >>>>Cheryl Singhals <[email protected]> >>> >>>Cheryl, why don't you list what you think could be deduced and let >>>us critique. >>> >>>bob gillis >> >>I wanted to know where others came out independently without the >>influence of my thoughts. >> >>I see several have mentioned the conclusion I drew -- that the >>family is Jewish -- and so the next opinion wanted is: >> >>How credible is it that this family is *descended* from German >>Lutherans who arrived in Philadelphia in the early 1740s? >> >>It's immaterial to my research whether they are *related*, only >>whether they are DESCENDED. >> >>Cheryl Singhals <[email protected]> > > What I see is a family who was reported as being recent immigrants > and were probably of Jewish religion orgins. The wife's mother was > Hungarian so it is possible she was not of Jewish origin especially > as she did not speak Hebrew. It is possible that by Hebrew they > meant Yiddish. I would have to look up whether Hebrew was actually > spoken in Russian. > > However, if someone has entered any of these people as having had > ancestors that settled in Pennsylvania in the early 1700s I would > have to see how it went. I have seen a few who move back to Europe > for various reason. I have a women of early PA descent who had a > society marriage in Washington in 1905 to a Jewish diplomat and then > had a son born in Iran before probably dying in the death camps with > her husband during WWII. > > So how does the website think it happened? > > You know a lot of the stuff on line is done by people with no basis > in reality. I have a site that consistantly talks about a son born > in 1781 to a father who died in 1759. There must be over 30 > messages discussing the son's family. They all parrot the > connection to the father and not one of them said wait a minute > something is wrong here. The son was born 22 years after the father > died. > > Julia <[email protected]> Hi. No, it's straight out of a census record, not someone's webpage. It is my "gut feeling" that these folks are NOT descendants and so do NOT need to be documented in my database of descendants of Johannes Whozit. I just thought a little support from other experienced researchers wouldn't hurt before I said Plonk and marked the family off. I know whatchamean about odd-ball listings. I carried on a 3 week argument with someone over the issue of the info he supplied me in which a 100-year-old woman gave birth to an infant. I couldn't penetrate his tunnel-vision about 1874-1773 = 101 and 101 yr old women DO NOT GET PREGNANT! Cheryl singhals <[email protected]>