What great messages to find! These messages are so old, though. Here it is 2006 and it looks to me like I'm replying to messages left in 2005 and before. I am a Tobias great granddaughter and found out just this year that my great grandmother Rebecca Tobias was "100%" Jewish. She was in born in Ohio (?) and married Silas M Bennett. They moved to the Pontiac, Livingston County, Illinois area. I am very curious about this. Her mother was Sarah ? Tobias. Her father was John Tobias. I haven't researched them enough to know much more than that. PA is in their backgound I think. Would like to know more. I think that it's not as simple as just saying that a name is "Jewish", isn't it?
These messages are fascinating. Glad I found them.