If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that I've done quite a bit of research on my Zubkis/Supkoff family. The various branches of the Zubkis family moved quite a bit, generation by generation, and my particular branch ended up in what's now Shpikov, Ukraine, before coming to America. In 1908, my great-great grandparents came to America, but I knew both from oral tradition and from records that my great-great grandfather had a brother Yosef/Yossel who had stayed in Shpikov. Yossel had three sons who came to America in the 1920s, but we knew there were sisters who stayed behind in Russia and were killed in the Holocaust. In fact, I mention in a post that I did in 2019 after discovering a 1902 Households List that the daughter Rivka that was mentioned was killed in the Holocaust. Except I recently discovered that she wasn't. And that I have living relatives in Ukraine (and England and America) who are her descendants. So how did this happen?
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