This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: schifter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/RRB.2ACE/2493.2713 Message Board Post: my fathers name is michael schifter. i don't know who his father was, and my father michael schifter passed away in 1999. i am named after him and i also know that he was born in new york.