This has been quite a week in the world of Kornmehl kin and blogging. First, I wrote a post in memory of a twice-lost cousin, Gigi Michaels. It drew a lovely response from Gigi's daughter, Jodi Warshauer, who hadn't known about this blog before, as well as responses from previously discovered new cousins, who had. Then yesterday a comment appeared on an earlier post, The
Galitzianers vs Litvacks
Holy Rollers vs Persnickity Parsers: Unearthing My Jewish Roots, 2
Earlier this week, I discussed my surprise in learning that my mother's family home, the town of Tarnow, was defined as a shtetl on a Jewish genealogy site. I hadn't previously traced my ancestry beyond sophisticated Vienna, and the notion that my origins were Yiddish-speaking and roof-fiddling took some mental adjustment. I next decided to try to put Tarnow into a larger