A few years ago I met someone with the same surname as my grandfather (Brosgol) through the JewishGen Family Finder. But my grandfather was from Latvia and the ancestor of the Brosgol I connected with was from the Ukraine. Although we were able to come up with several hypotheses that could explain how his father could have ended up in Dniepropetrovk, we had no paper trail at all. We knew there was one Brosgol on a list of Jewish agricultural settlers who went to the Ukraine from Latvia in the mid 1800's, but we had no documents to verify that the agricultural settler was an ancestor of the person I found through JGFF. There was another hint that he might be: his paternal aunt remembers that her grandmother used to make a particular dessert (taiglach) that was local to Latvian and Lithuanian Jews. Again, this was a hint, not proof. I suggested to this possible Brosgol cousin that he get his Y-DNA tested and I would try to convince my only male cousin who is a direct male descendant of my Brosgol grandfather (who changed his name to Gold) to get his Y-DNA tested. Fortunately, my known cousin was interested. Their results came back as a match! My new-found cousin and I are planning a celebratory brunch
Judy

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