I have received a few inquiries from various "Salkins" and people related to Salkins wondering if we are related and/or if I can help them find relatives. I am posting these inquiries here and will add new ones as they come in. I have not done much of a family tree myself, but I will try to add one here, or if someone in my family is interested in doing so, please let me know. These are in no particular order. I am including email addresses, but will try to make them unpickupable by harvesters with tricky typography. --- Allen (originally started this page 9-8-06)

Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:46:27 -0400 From: "Kaften, Mitch" Hi Allen, I just stumbled upon your web site, and by extension, your mother's. I don't mean to bother you, but to make it short: I wanted to know if we were somehow related. My grandmother was Rose Salkin, the sister of Philip and Harry Salkin. They all grew up in New York, and Rose married Edward Kaften. Rose and Edward Kaften had two children, Douglas and Audrey. Douglas, who died about a year ago, was my father. Audrey is my aunt. Aunt Audrey asked me to see if I can dig up any information on her cousins, Martin and Donald Salkin, who she lost touch with years ago. So I'm Googling and writing to various Salkins. Hope you don't mind. If you have any information or clues, please respond. Otherwise, thanks for your time. Sincerely, Mitch Kaften

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Hi Allen,

Thanks for the quick response...I didn't expect that! Please do ask around and forward the information. FYI, Harry died in 1960 and Philip died in 1975. If you need any other information from my end, I'd be happy to provide it if I have it. Best regards, Mitch

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Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:43:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Allen Salkin" Subject: Re: salkins on parade To: "Anneli Rufus" Anneli,

Thanks for writing. I attended Cal and I'm pretty sure I read the Express back then. Give me your mailing address at work and I'll have a book sent to you. Yours sounds fascinating. Interestingly, at least one other Salkin has written to me regarding geneaology, a guy from Australia. Also Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin's son wrote me after reading some of my writing in Heeb magazine. I will try to forward you their emails. (see below, sean and sam) My understanding of my Salkin roots is that the name was changed by either my grandfather or great grandfather, that it was probably salkofsky or salkowsky and it goes back to a village around kiev. My grandfather's name was Irving Salkin -- he died about three years ago. And his father's name was Benjamin. There was some falling out between Benjamin and his sons in New York in the 20s or 30s and Irving and his bro Harry supposedly threw Benjamin out of the house. Harry moved to LA way back and started a furniture upholstery business. He has since died, perhaps 15 years ago.

That's most of what I know. Can I put your email on my website along with the other salkin emails? My site has a way of collecting subgroups of people in a fascinating way and I'd love to have a Long Lost Salkins page.

Allen Salkin

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From: sam ^AT^ salkinmail.com Subject: RE: Hey from another Salkin Date: February 24, 2004 12:32:23 AM EST

Yeah... Jeff Salkin is my papa... We were going to buy Salkin.net but it was available one day and not the next.... go figure --Sam

-----Original Message----- From: Allen Salkin Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:25 AM To: Sam Salkin Subject: Re: Hey from another Salkin

salkinmail.com, huh? I once contacted the guy who owns salkin.com, but he wasn't interested in selling. I think the name is from Kiev. Salkofsky or salkewiez or various possibilities.

There's also Lori Salkin who wrote a sex book or something. And some big Rabbi on the east coast jeffrey salkin, i think.

anyway, good luck at gw. do stay in touch. and check out www.allensalkin.com! a

--- Sam Salkin wrote: Just finished reading your article in Heeb and I really dug it. I never knew that Kapler was Jewish so I'm glad there is a Jew doing his part and fighting against the Yankees (the Sodomites of baseball). Just wanted to drop you a line and reach out to a fellow Salkin. Something about us Salkins. we do pretty well in the Jew-niverse. My father is a Rabbi at the largest shul in Atlanta and some guy with the same name as me was the head of Jewish Federation out in San Fran. I am going to be attending George Washington University next year as an undergrad and will be studying Political Communications. however if I ever move back to New York and take J classes at NYU, I'll drop you a line.

Take care, --Sam

-------------------------------- Sam Salkin Atlanta, GA

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Thanks for your reply. Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:09:36 +1100 To: "Allen Salkin" From: "Sean Salkin"

Dear Allen, Great to hear from you and thanks for the very interesting information. Yes, I am very proud of my Jewish heritage even though I cannot really consider myself Jewish as my father "married out". Thanks also for the kind offer of a link on your webpage, and I will give this some thought. All the very best wishes, Sean.

Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:19:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Allen Salkin" Subject: Re: Greetings from Australia! To: "Sean Salkin" Sean,

Thanks for writing. First, my grandfather's original last name, we think, was salkofsky. It may have been salkowski or even salkewitz. Second, he had said that his parents were from vilnius and kiev. I think the salk... name was from a village near kiev. My grandfather's father's name was benjamim salkofsky - best guess right now. My grandfather changed it to salkin. (he was born Israel Salkowsky, and changed it to Irving Salkin -- i don't know why someone would choose irving as a name.

If you find out more history of the Salkin name, please do write. Also, if you have a website or anything you'd like me to put on mine -- a photo, even -- I am probably going to add a "OTHER SALKINS" section to my site and would appreciate it. I'm sure you have figured out already that Salkin is a Jewish name. Are you of The Tribe?

I was in Melbourne once in 1990 and had a lovely time. I even played guitar in the main square there, near a trolley stop. best Allen Salkin

--- Sean Salkin wrote:

> Dear Allen, >

> Greetings fellow Salkin! >

> I came across your site on the internet. My name is Sean Salkin > and I > live in Melbourne, Australia. My father was born in Manchester, > England. His father was born in Ireland, and his father was born > in > Eastern Europe/Russia, nobody seems to be quite sure exactly where. > > Do you have any information on your family history? > > Very best wishes, > Sean. >

> -- > Sean Salkin

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From: "Anneli Rufus" Subject: salkins on parade Allen,

In my ongoing search for the missing Salkin branch of my family, I don't write to every single Salkin I hear about, but finding a Salkin who is a journalist and author -- as I am too -- well, who could resist? No joke. My maternal grandmother was Anna Salkin. She had nine siblings. Her father was Louis Salkin, who had a fight with his brother and business partner, whose first name I don't know, in Massachusetts early in the last century. The brother/business partner had a large number of children as well. Thanks to that fight, the families parted and lost all contact thenceforth. Last year I located a Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, who is also a journalist and author -- as are you and I -- and who knew the whole story of the fight, as he is descended from said brother/business partner. Anyway, that's the weird world of estrangement. Noticing that you come from the Valley -- and hey, I come from San Pedro, at the far end of LA -- well, dropping you a line to say hello at least seemed worth a try. It's also nice to read what your mom has to say. My mom is the volunteer buyer for a UNICEF charity gift shop in 'Pedro. She meets a lot of old longshoremen and nativity-set collectors there, and one of her favorite customers was (and I think still is) the bass-player for Jethro Tull.

Your book sounds intriguing. As I am the literary editor of a weekly paper in the San Francisco area (http:www.eastbayexpress.com), I'd love to have a look at it. Curiously, I too once wrote a book about holidays -- The World Holiday Book, published by Harper in 1994.

I have a new book this month. It's about death and all the OTHER ways we feel after experiencing a loss BESIDES the standard sorrow and grief: The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death gets into how sometimes you feel relief, or regret, or apathy, or paralysis, or guilt ... or sometimes, scariest of all, a strange stab of joy. I hope you are lucky enough not to have experienced a major loss in your life, but for more about my book, look at http://www.annelirufus.com/thefarewellchronicles/

Cheers, anneli rufus

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:27:17 -0700 From: "Kristan Lawson & Anneli Rufus" Subject: Re: salkins on parade

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2004-05-19/news/feature_print.html

Anneli Rufus, Books Editor East Bay Express >Yours sounds fascinating. Interestingly, at least >one other Salkin has written to me regarding geneaology, a guy from >Australia. Also Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin's son wrote me after reading >some of my writing in Heeb magazine.

What a small world. >There was some falling out >between Benjamin and his sons in New York in the 20s or 30s and >Irving and his bro Harry supposedly threw Benjamin out of the house.

Now, see, that's a whole different bunch of Salkins than my family's bunch of Salkins -- but isn't it intriguing that yours also involved a family feud and long-term estrangement?

>Harry moved to LA way back and started a furniture upholstery >business. He has since died, perhaps 15 years ago. > >That's most of what I know. Can I put your email on my website along >with the other salkin emails?

Sure! I've never gotten anywhere with researching the paternal side of my family. At this point I'm quite certain that every other Rufus in the USA is African American. Probably it was Ravitz or Rubin pre: Ellis Island is all I can figure.

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I received the following information from Steve Franklin in November 2006.

"Steve Franklin" Subject: Salkin Tree

Hi Allen,

If the Jeff Salkin mentioned on your Salkin page is the one who does an interview show in Maryland, this is his tree: http://www.lordbalto.com/Franklin/202.htm Jeff's great-great-grandmother, Sarah Salkin, was my great-grandfather Hersh Frenkel's sister. I'm not sure where or whether you and the others fit in. This branch derived their name from Zavalkov and came from Kiev. Jacob Salkin was actually in the Russian army at Kiev. The common ancestor was Moshe Nisan Frenkel, who had at least 4 sons and one daughter, all of whom except my great-grandfather came to America. They all settled in Maryland except my grandfather, who lived in Philadelphia.

Steve Franklin