Posted on: Columbia County NY. Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Columbia/1658 Surname: Stokler, Stocker, Kernerman, Feinberg, Rabinowitz, Ragoler ------------------------- I am looking for info on descendents or ancestors of Yankel (Yakov) Leib Stokler, b. 1829, from Shat (Seta), Lithuania, his wife Cherna d. 1892, and his daughters Chana Kernerman and Shayna Feinberg who came to London in the mid 1890s and then to Canada just before WWI. Background Info on Yankel Leib Stokler and his Shtetl, Shat: In Seta (Shat) archival documents Sources: http://home.att.net/~ada.greenblatt/ 1877 Seta Box Tax List 869. STOKLER Yankel Leyba son of Fishel, well-to-do, houseowner 1892 – List of Victims of 1892 Seta fire given financial aid: 130. STOKLER, Yankel Leiba, number of family members: 3 1898 Seta Rabbi's Elector's List: 61. STOKLER, Yankel Leib; (son of Fisel), Age 69 [b. 1829] Prenumerantum List for HaMeir L’Olam, by Rabbi Meir-Michel Rabinowitz, published in Vilna in 1903: STOKLER, Yakov Leib (Altogether 83 people from Shat subscribed for the publication of this book.) Research on Meir Michel Rabinowitz http://home.att.net/~ada.greenblatt/pages/rosin1.htm Appendix 1 Partial list of the Rabbis who served in Shat Eliahu ben Yakov Ragoler (1794-1849) who served as rabbi in 1821 and who also established the large yeshiva of Slobodka in Kovno; Meir-Mikhel Rabinowitz (1830-1901) who served in Shat for 20 years, author of the book HaMeir L'Olam, published in Vilnius, 1903, on the logic system of studying the Torah; Shlomo son of Meir-Mikhel Rabinovitz (served in Shat from 1903), died 15 July 1933 (15 Tamuz), age 63, as per entry in the metrical register of the Kedainiai Rabbinate, Central Metrical Archives, Vilnius;