Dear Heidi, I find your email very interesting. I've been told that we were the only Gamarels in this country. If I put Gameral in the ancesrty,(spelled differently) I find that there are many others and I know that we are not related. Now your email, and i find there may be another way of spelling my name. Perhaps long ago and moving from one country toi another the sdpellings have changed. Perhaps we are all related down the line. Samuel Gamarel is my great grandfather and he had a brewery in Padulla Gerbava( no idea how to spell it) Russia. He died in Brooklyn in 1936. My grandfather Harry Gamarel came from Russia with two cousins Schweitzer. Have you found out much about your family on line? Thanks for writing. Judi Goldmann