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Still looking for info. My email address has changed since this posting. Please use this message to reply.

Sheri hello, I just read your e-mail. I know that the name of my great granfather was yosef katz and he was born and died in piatra neamt. My father family and most of his children and their siblings live in Israel. I'll try to have more information from my family about yosef, so we could see if there is aconectipon. yosi

Yosi,
This is very interesting. Even if there is no connection, I have started trying to keep track of any Katz from Piatra Neamt.
Sheri

Sheri hello,

My great grandfather was Yosef katz from Piatra neamt. He died there before 1930. Yosef was married to Tzipora and had five sons: Shmil(shmuel), Melech, Shimon(born in 1901), Haim and Moses.They all lived in piatra neamtand naturally they are not among the living. All of their siblings live in israel.I have much more information about their siblings. I'll be happy if you can tell me if there any connection and help me to get more information about them.

Yosi

hello,
I typed in the name of my great great grandfather, shmil katz, and this conversation came up. I know he was around in the mid-late 1800s until 1920s around? He lived in piatra neamt, romania and his son was leon katz. I am not sure if your shmil is the same one.

I am trying to locate relatives of an Anna Leah Cohen b. Jan 1860 in Piatra Neamt, Romania. She married Simon Press in Romania about 1877/1878 and immigrated to America in 1885.

I do not know of a Shmil in my line unless he Americanized his name. Of course, he could be a cousin. I can go back only to Avram and Golda Katz in Piatra Neamt, whose children were born in the 1880s. They were Clara, Sol, Isidore, Harry, Annie, Rose, Josef and Louis. All but Josef came to the U.S. between 1900 and 1910. After Golda died, Avram went to Palestine. Josef and his family (wife and 2 boys) were lost in the holocaust--at least no one had contact with them after the late 1930s.

I do not know of that timing except my g-grandparents Avram & Golda Katz whose kids were born in the 1880s. One of their children was named Anna, but she would have been born later.

Thank you Sheri for the information. I will continue to search for them. I did find Annie Cohen Press on the 1930 census living with her daughter Gertrude who married Joseph Schneer but the name appears as Snyder on the census. They were living in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I found another record that shows that Annie died in 1937 in Norwalk, CN