I have been an amatuer genealogist for over 20 years and have been collecting relatives around the globe to track down the vaious branches and stories of my family. Our two biggest challenges, as Jews from Lithuania, are that (1)people changed names when they immigrated to a country making tracking sometimes less than obvious and (2) Old World records were often destroyed when the Nazis and Lithuanian torched the synagogues and murdered the residents.

I have been an amatuer genealogist for over 20 years and have been collecting relatives around the globe to track down the vaious branches and stories of my family. Our two biggest challenges, as Jews from Lithuania, are that (1)people changed names when they immigrated to a country making tracking sometimes less than obvious and (2) Old World records were often destroyed when the Nazis and Lithuanian torched the synagogues and murdered the residents.