Dumes.Net
A website dedicated to the family of Chaim and Sadie Silk Dumes from Viski, Latvia
Dumes.Net
At the top of the tree are brothers Chaim (A), Jossel-Leib (B) and Schender (C). Each generation adds a letter; the letter represents your birth order, A for the 1st, B for the 2nd, etc.
So Sarah, first child of Chaim, is AA. Her husband, Jacob Kaplan, is Aa, the lower-case a indicating that he married into the Dumes family.
I've also used the lower-case letter for my two step-sons to indicate a non-bloodline Dumes relationship.
Sarah's father
Chaim Dumes
b. 30 Nov 1859
d. 10 Feb 1904
Sarah's mother
Sadie Silk Nowoselok
b. 04 Jul 1861
d. 06 Aug 1933
Born Sora-Tzipa in Viski. Sarah traveled to the US with her first son, whose birth name is as yet unknown. We do not yet know the details of her trip to the US, but her husband Jacob Kaplan was waiting to meet them, having arrived here in 1903. They probably came in 1905 or 1906.
Born 1st nite Rosh Hashanah
Died 1st nite Rosh Hashanah
Cause of Death: Stroke