I think not likely to be a relation, although there are some interesting coincidences. My Sarah Lillie Cohen, born 1896 in Pennsylvania, married Isadore Cooper in Northern California. Her brother, Harry Cohen, was a musician and did appear in the Silent Movies as well as on stage! But he was the only son of and only son and we are not likely to be related to your Cohens unless their surname was originally Kaplansky, from Germany or Prussia. Family name was changed to Cohen in the late 1880's. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~thecohens/cohen.html On 12/13/08, Kathryn McKee <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks - Lillie was born perhaps in Illinois in 1900. Which is interesting > because Sadie, her mother, was in NYC in 1900, so who knows if I found the > right Sadie Weiss - there were many with the same name in NYC in that > census. > > Sadie had three cousins, Sam, Jules and Jack - all of whom changed their > name to White, and produced not only the Jack White Comedies (silent films), > but the Three stooges as well - I have not had time to start to find them, > but when I do it might give me a clue about when they all came from Hungary, > and how all of them migrated to California in the early 1900's. just for > grins, these men had a niece whose married name is Charlene Cooper-Cohen, > and she lives in the San Fernando Valley. Any relation? > > It is truly a needle in a haystack, isn't it! > > Kathy McKee