Genealogists’ Lament: Yesteryear Is Gone
Mendel Mokotoff was born in Manhattan in 1911. During the early 1930’s, he owned a butter-and-egg business in Coney Island, according to an old Brooklyn directory. But Gary Mokotoff, a distant relation, who is compiling a family tree, knows nothing else about the man —not the names of Mendel’s parents, nor how many siblings he had. for more click here