This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.goldberg/316/mb.ashx Message Board Post: my goldbergs came from bialystok or bielsk to nyc in 1891. there original name sounded like bialystoski...i have found it spelled many different ways on census and birth records. there was a brother who returned to russia between 1910 and 1920. trying to find a link. also my granmother, was mazie hoffman goldberg, she married sam in 1920 and dies at 35 in brooklyn. looking for hoffmans who might be related. her parents were louis and ida.