Flegeltaub, Fligeltaub, Fliegieltaub, Flegieltaub, Fligelstone, Fliegel, Flegeltobe, Flegg, Fleggson, Flohm are some that link ..

Ford, Vale, Rodd, Vaegan, Stone, Wing, Braun, Brown, Youdelev, .. These all link too - 1st generation & not by marriage ......

It researching Jews, do not apply an Anglo Saxon mentality to your logic. Otherwise you will find little for time spent!

To make a point, a Jew from Poland living in London could have three names .. one being his Jewish name; second one his Polish name which I accept he had little use for in London and then thirdly his anglized adopted English name. When you add some got in trouble with the law, many went bankrupt and then changed their names again. Then there were nicknames & then the record keeping [depending on the time in history you are researching] was either non-existant, badly done or thanks to Hitler & his mob, we lost it.

Thankfully only a few lead such a colourful life that necessatated name changes but if these people represent the hole in the tree, then I equate the frustration I and other researchers have like this .. You have just spent all weekend, no all week, no all month doing a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle only to find in the end you are missing 10 pieces. Sorry but there will be no framing of that picture to hang on the wall with glory for now, possibly ever. Given the effort, the holes annoy you.

So they had three names, some could become five or six [in records I am suggesting albeit all slight variations] but I was only talking about the first names. Time to add the surnames and you soon see that the 80/20 rule will apply ... 80% of your effort will be in trying to find 20% of the family and when Simeon becomes Cohen, or Moses becomes Beddington or Walford, or even Russell, then I hope you like effort.

Moving on and turn a long story, short, Napoleon in a decree of July 20, 1808 insisted upon the Jews adopting fixed names albeit his decree covered only the lands west of the Rhine. However many other parts of Germany required surname-adoption within a few years although such laws were not immediately taken seriously by the Jews with some adopting surnames many years later. By 1812 Napoleon had occupied most of Prussia which includes part of the Suwalki region. So picking a name was like a lottery you got to win, well if you didn't have one, then offcials in parts of Europe simply gave you one. So what of Flegeltaub? First and foremost, it is a unqiue name.

Flegeltaub can be translated as Wings of a Dove

For years now I have suggested to some family members that we were chicken farmers or budgie breeders. But alias, I was joking. We were in fact duvet manufacturers. Stop it. Jokes aside the term 'Wings of a Dove' has biblical connections and there are various books by numerous Jewish authors who have used this title for books they have written and as you may have guessed, there was a man known as Rabbi Fligeltaub who is listed as the author of a book called "Wings of the Dove". Howzat? Does this link to us? I believe quite possibly.

And there is other treasure to be found, well that's if I can find the people who have it but I can not give away all my secrets in one night so the rest as they say will have to wait. One last thing relating to 'names' and that is it is my 25 years experience in tracking this surname that convinces me that most people who have a varient of the name are related. Of course I can not prove this and few share my beliefs but thanks to Hitler and his mob we lost valuable records that may have given me the 'absolute' proof to prove this. My research on this is extensive and I have some clues that when coupled with other clues do point strongly to what I say. So with respect but making the point anyway, to my fellow researchers who have a problem that their surname was spelt with an 'i' instead of an 'e' or 'taub' became 'tobe', please keep an open mind. The biggest mistake people make in researching is that they put too much belief in what Aunt Mary said or that what records exist is it or what they say is gospel. I strongly campaign that all [most then] Flegeltaub family regardless of spelling variances in an area in the form of a triangle from Suwalki / Sejny in Poland to Vilnius in Lithuania over to Klaipeda, also in Lithuania are related!