tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529357822375798869.post1703815823544871436..comments2024-01-04T21:34:11.627-05:00Comments on Dead Guys In Suits: Dishonest AbePatrick Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01902465307670970335noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529357822375798869.post-79492715218361701532023-10-15T19:54:11.226-04:002023-10-15T19:54:11.226-04:00I have been doing some work on Waxey Gordon and it...I have been doing some work on Waxey Gordon and it is not at all clear that Abraham Volk was related to him. Walter Winchell said in one of this columns that Volk was no relation and didn't even know Waxey. Research on ancestry.com shows that Volk's parents and grandparents came from Russia, that is the pre-WWI Russian Empire which included much of Poland. Waxey's father, however, came from Austria or rather Austria-Hungary, most likely from the Tarnopol area of the province of Galicia. Waxey's mother was born in Romania, probably in or near Jassy.Terry Downehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975133119925006330noreply@blogger.com