Justin, great news! I now have photos of Colman and Sarah's headstones, courtesy of Ken Bolton of Genpals. Great lead you provided, so thanks again. The inscriptions are all in Hebrew so I"m in the process of getting them translated.
One thing though: the records for Skierniewice lists the marriage of Colman (Kalman) and Sarah and the birth of most of the kids, but not Colman and Sarah's births. I expanded the search at JRI-Poland to all of Poland, but still came up zilch. Which got me to thinking that perhaps they were born elsewhere. Then I ran across this: the U. S. Naturalization application for one of the kids, Abram aka Sam Gold (born around 1895 or 1896). He states on the app that he was born in Soroki, Russia, which looks to be in present day Maldova. First I've heard of this, and I don't think he could have just pulled this out of the air, so maybe there's something to it. Which then got me thinking that this might be where Kalman and Sarah are originally from. Not sure if the headstone inscriptions would indicate this or not, but regardless, is there a way to search for records in Soroki (seems to also be spelled Soroka) similar to JRI-Poland?
thx,
Mark
