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 PREFACE

• Introduction
• Chayt Family Time-Line

PART 1

FAMILY HISTORY

The Places - the Trek

• Life in Russia
• Getting Out of Russia - Escape to Paris
• Life in Paris
• Welcome to America
  

PART 2

THE PEOPLE

Bubba and Zaida

• Clara Golub
• Simcha Chayt
• Simcha Chayt's Kin - the Chaits - and Their Descendants
• Married Life - a Brief Chronology
  

PART 3

GENERATIONS

THE FIRST GENERATION

Maurice (Moishe Ber)
Jacques (Yankel)
Anna (Channa)
Sarah
Berthe (Bassy)
Marie (Manya)
David
Harry (Hershel)
Estelle (Esther)
Jules Israel (Isrul)
Yvette (Riva)
Pauline (Perel)

FAMILIES OF THE FIRST GENERATION
Important Note: many of the references to people
and what they are doing may be relative to the date
the original manuscript was written.
CORRECTIONS ARE SOLICITED

Jacques And Jeanne Chayt
Anna And Solomon Schulman
Sarah And Abraham
(Abram) Mendelowitz
Berthe And Charles Alpert
Marie And Albert Goldstein
David And Ethel Chayt
Harry And Claire Chayt
Estelle And Morris Spaiser
Jules And Sylvia Chayt
Jules and Rose Chayt
Yvette And Joseph Levine
Pauline And William Shernicoff

FAMILIES OF THE SECOND GENERATION

Mark Shernicoff
Leslie Spaiser

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The Chayt - Chait Connection
A description of the origins and connection between the families.

Appendices (caution - this is a very large file - it will take a long time to load on a dial-up connection)
Contains reference material including the complete manuscripts of the transcribed recollections of Yvette (Chayt) Levine, Jules Chayt, and Dave Chayt and from which sections have excerpted and used in various parts of this document.