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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8214763, member: 110350"]Wow! That's completely amazing. The closest thing I have that's analogous to your find is a copy I purchased some years ago on Ebay of a very scarce book published in the 1960s on the history of the Jewish community of the village in Baden where my maternal grandmother was born and her family had lived from 1724-1940. It was a great stroke of luck just to be able to acquire a copy of this book. It also turned out, completely by coincidence, that it was the personal copy, chock-full of handwritten notes and corrections, of a man who was not only the greatest expert during his lifetime on Jewish genealogy in Baden, but in his old age was my own personal mentor in learning about that subject, and was my third and more distant cousin in a half-dozen different ways. After his death, his family must have sold it on Ebay for essentially a few dollars because -- like many of our own families regarding our coin collections and libraries -- they had no interest in the subject of genealogy and didn't realize its importance.[/QUOTE]