How we began

gravestone in South Africa

From: Trevor Uberstein <ubi@primus.com.au>
Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999
Subject: Search for Uberstein

Hi - I noticed upon doing a search on Cyndis list that you're searching the name Uberstein. Hooray! Have you found anything?

My great grandparents came from Haradok, Minsk, to Cape Town, South Africa, approx 1906 - Faiva(Philip) & wife Tzippora(Tzipa) Uberstein. I now live in Sydney, Australia & would be most interested (naturally) if you have any further details. Look forward to hearing from you!

Trevor Uberstein emigrated from South Africa to Australia. That's where he was when he went surfing on his computer and found his way to our listing, the Ubersteins of Gorodok, posted on the JewishGen Family Finder. He wrote to me (see above), and of course I answered.

Brother David to the rescue. The place to begin seemed the tombstone in South Africa. Trevor persuaded his brother, David Uberstein, who still lives in South Africa, to make an expedition to Pinelands to photograph their great grandparents handsome joint tombstone there.

Faiva, son of Dovid Shlomo: Our hasidic cousin, Douglas Isaacson of the Farberman branch, immediately translated the Hebrew inscription. We learned that Philip or Faiva was the son of Dovid Shlomo, and Chipa was the daughter of Aaron Heifitz.

That's how we began.