All too true Terry. Was in Vilnius briefly some years ago before my interest in genealogy and visited the museum. The statistics on size of community before WW2 and after is shocking Jerry Yankowitz

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Is malat/moletai part of this LitvakSIG's Vilnius District Research Group (DRG) work? If so how to know which records refer to people living in this shtetl? Thanks so much Jerome Yankowitz

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Love to hear more about this topic as my grandfather "Schocat" or Shochet or Shochat or other came from Moletai/Malat Lithuania. He came as a child but his father was killed in Lithuania in the 1910s

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Is there a way to access the Malat records to peruse rather than doing various searches in ALD?

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Love to know if someone local who is interested in this stuff

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Not sure if my reply went thru but would love to see your tree also Efraim since other Lithuania ancestors of mine wandered to Ukraine, etc so many some of my Schocat ancestors did too

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Have Siegels in the USA who were Segals in Lithuania. While I always think Moletai, there seemed to be a record that for a bit lived in Salakas, Zarasai, Kaunas in earlier generations. Also the last a

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JoAnne can we "chat" offline and compare families? jerome-yankowitz@...

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Terry Ashton, love to know if you have a tree I could look at someplace. I was pretty sure the present day Siegels were Segal in Lithuania but who knows.....

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I had Segal's from Malate/Moletai. Any chance there is a relation? Interestingly, several are in the Pennsylvania area but are now Siegel's

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Love to hear about this as well as my ancestors are from Malate/Moletai

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I have a Lena Leibowitz on my tree but she married Jack Leibowitz and I have her originally as Lena Markowitz. I don't have other info about her.

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