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[quote=Anonymous]I can trace to great-grandparents on both sides as they were the ones who emigrated to this country, around WWI. But we don't know what villages they were from, and those villages likely wouldn't be there anymore either - destroyed in the Holocaust. Luckily most of the great-grandparents' siblings came over too but there hasn't been a great push to stay in touch. I know a few names of what must be 3rd or 4th cousins but not where they live or how old they are.

DH's family, same story, except in his case it only goes back to grandparents on one side and great-grandparents on the other. For one grandparent, he knows the city he came from. But unlike my family, his relatives came over without their siblings, and most of those siblings perished in the Holocaust.

So basically we can trace back to about 1910-1920 - about 100 years. Pretty typical, I think, of refugee-type immigrants of all religions and nationalities. If you fled your home country and came here with almost nothing, there aren't likely to be great records.[/quote]

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