In my previous post, I reviewed the immigration of my great-grandparents, the OCHOROWICZs (OCHOWITZ, starting about 1911) in 1904. Abe OCHOROWICZ's mother, Rachel CHAJKOWICZ OCHOROWICZ, immigrated in 1906 and stayed with her son and daughter-in-law until her death in 1917. I also wrote how I had found Rachel's brother, Chaim Ruven, and begun investigating his branch. In this entry, I will cover from a high level Chaim Ruven's six children who immigrated to the US, each a first cousin to great-grandfather Abe.

Taking a short break from the LENETSKY series, I talk today about how families intertwine. I see this a LOT on my maternal side, especially with the JACOBOWSKY / WOLFF group and other families that came from Sandberg, Prussia. This post will be about two families on my paternal side, DAVIS and RANSOM (a.k.a. REFSON / REVSON / RANSON). They are neither are related to me directly, but play important interconnected roles with my family.

In Part 1 of this series, I talked about genetic cousins descended from Boris LENETSKY, their origin in modern Ukraine (Kremenchuk and Krylov) and a little of their history in Canada and Philadelphia. Part 2 covered Boris's likely parents, Joseph and Schendel, who died in Montreal. I also covered the man I strongly believe to be Boris's brother, Louis.