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    A family newsletter for the Duksin-Solnit-Rimmon families has not been written up till now for two reasons:
    1. I didn't think anyone would be interested or would need an English language paper; and
    2. I didn't have anything to say.

As some of you may know I have been researching my maternal and paternal lines since 1986. There was little help from my husband's side of the family to establish a tree, until ...

In 1988 Sam & Joan Rimmon went to Buenos Aires and met Miguel Kaplansky. Miguel had a Solnitze family tree. That began the quest for information about the Solnits. This past January we were again in Buenos Aires and we met again with Miguel and his family. This time we met his brother and sister-in-law Isaac and Berta.

Miguel gave me the name of a man who had lived in Kamenetz-Litovsk, the town where the Solnitze family had lived before WW2. Upon our return to the U.S., I called him and he told me of another family from Kamenetz whose name was Solnica. That was the way the name was spelled in the language of the country in which it was situated. [I'm not sure whether it was Poland, Lithuania or Belarus at that time. Now it is Belarus.] This family lives in New York, Canada and Israel. We are now pursuing the possible relationship of this family with ours. All I really need is some DNA samples, but no one wants to do it.

In 1990 Danny Duksin, of Holon, called Sam to tell him that he had received a letter from a woman in Russia named Shulamit Duksina, a cousin who had survived WW2 and had been living in Karkov all these years. It was only after the fall of the Berlin Wall and Glasnost that she felt secure in contacting the family in Israel. She was the only survivor of all of the Duksin family that had remained in Zhabinka. Fortunately some members of the Duksin family had emigrated to Israel in the early years of the 1900s.

This is a very sketchy way of introducing the family to my research. I look forward to stories from all of you to help me re-build the family trees of the Duksin, Solnitze and Rimmon families. Please go to the family tree pages to see what I have found until now. Any corrections and additional information will be most welcomed.

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