I was recently surfing the internet - in websites with names like like `Shtedlseeker' and `JewishGen' - where obsessive family historians like me are trying to ferret out information. I spent a lot of time trying to research the Salits (or Sallitts) - on the ground that it would be easier to track down the name Salit than the name `Davidovitch' which was much more common (i.e. popular!).

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The only facts I found one Avram Haim Dawidowitz born in the Warsaw region in 1868. That was near enough (they were always fiddling the books one way or another because of the army service). So I sent off to Poland and got a copy of the birth certificate (or registration of birth).

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The story continues…..