Posted by rose hoffman on February 03, 19103 at 13:47:06:
In Reply to: Hyman(Chaim) Hoffman posted by Rose Hoffman on November 05, 19100 at 23:20:11:
: am searching for my gfil who is a mystery and does not seem to want to be found.His first wife had six children-my fil Yankel(Louis)"Anna"Benjamin, Harry, Irving and Abraham and settled In either Manhattan, Bronx or Brooklyn for the rest of his life.
: On Yankels Manifest, it stated that he lllived at 20 Canal, Manhattan(wrong addresse) and that he was the payee of the fare.
: I thought that meant he came abt three or four years before his children or wife came over which would mean 1903.I check and had a look up check,no luck,I finally send away to the Allen Kibrary, Wayne, In for information.Three or four items stated the year as 1904. Yankel came in Sept.1, 1906
: The second problem that I'm having is finding his second family. I know that he had four children,two girls-two boys by her but that is all that I know. The story is that "Anna" told her brothers that if they had anything to do with their father-that she would disown him. A few saw him behind her back.
: The first wifes name was Fannie Seolin...Before they came here-they lived in Polotsk,Belarus.
: Any information will be apprecated.