Hirsch Wartelski

Hi Brian,
I ran into a Wartelski descendant at the August 2013 Jewish genealogy conference in Boston.

My great grandparents were from Przerosl and in fact my family made up around 1/5 of the total Jewish population. I visited there in 2012 and can share photos with you.

I will see what else I can find about the Wartelski family. Most likely my sources were Jewish Gen and the Yad vaShem database. Or possibly Ancestry, if someone mentioned Przerosl but of course it can be spelled so many way in English that I didn't count on Ancestry.

My great grandparents were Harry Frankel and Hattie Frankel. They left Przerosl around 1890 and settled in Peoria where Harry's brothers all settled although one ended up in Iowa.

Cool. Sorry, I just saw this now. Do you happen to know which Wartelski you ran into? I've been doing research for years and would love to find out more about my Family in Przerosl and how to connect them with the many other Wartelski branches I have.

I'll see if I can remember. Marlene Silverman might know. She's the editor of Landsmen, a journal devoted to Suwalki / Lomza communities and genealogy.

http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/poland/jeleniewo.html has a Wartelski by the way.

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/gb_archive_031806to022807.html Search on Wartelski in this page.

Another Wartelski in Suwalki - http://www.kirkuty.xip.pl/jeleniewoang.htm