02:00pm - 04:00pm  Discovering My Litvak Ancestry

Speaker: David Ellis In this presentation David Ellis will tell the story of how he traced the ancestry of his grandfather, Robert Ellis. David was curious about his ancestry and spoke with his grandfather when he was a teenager. The only ancestors whose names his grandfather knew were his parents, and he was not aware that his parents came from Lithuania. Through detailed and often painstaking research, David managed to identify by name 46 Litvak ancestors who had been completely forgotten. Bio: David Ellis grew up on Long Island and has been researching his ancestry for more than 50 years.  As a software engineer, ...