What information do we have about Leah "Alte" (Finkelstein?) Siegel?
What do we know about her and how? Where do the birth and death dates come from? Where does her maiden name Finkelstein come from?
From my perspective, it looks like there might be two different families associated with her:
1. A husband Ben-sion “Bernard” Siegel and children from Bialystok.
2. A husband Arye Abba Siegel and children from Kovno.
I am wondering if these families might have been merged in error and should be split apart again. The dates of birth of the children span overlapping time periods. Bialystok is about 250km from Kovno. It seems unlikely that one woman was married to two different men and was having different children in two places at the same time.
Meanwhile, I found Arye Abba Siegel's gravestone. He's buried with a Rachel Leah Siegel whose death record gives her maiden name as Pearlman. This is consistent with the ship manifest for the Albano (mentioned in Philip Siegel's naturalization record) showing Artzik, Rochel, and Feiwel Siegel traveling together. I have created a profile for that woman here: Rachel Leah Siegel in order to keep track of documents.
Any information about the Leah married to/partnered with Ben-sion "Bernard" Siegel or additional information about these two immediate families would be most helpful.
Thanks in advance for any relevant input!
