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Surnames: Rachelefsky/Cohen or Cohn/Cole
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kUJ.2ACIB/107
Message Board Post:
I am looking for information on my maternal great grandfather Sam Rachelofsky (once they landed in the USA they became Cohn or Cohen) who is from Russia. He married my great grandmother Anna Zeldon prior to coming to the US near the turn of the 20th century. They had seven children:
Ida
Benny
Sophie
Rose
Philip
Gertrude (Gussie)
Sidney (my grandfather)
During WWII they changed their name from Cohn to Cole.
Sam had a brother as the story goes. Also Sam wasn't the best father or husband according to my grandfather. They had lived in New York for a short period around 1920 where Sam owned a small grocery store. They moved back to Chicago and Sam and Anna had a restaurant for a short time before he abandoned the family.
If anyone has any information at all on Sam or Anna, please contact me at horwitzzz_2000(a)yahoo.com
Thanks and good luck.