Jeanette's grandfather, Henry Behr Wasserman, was a native of Russia who came to the United States during the late 1800s, a period of heavy Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe. We found his naturalization certificate at the Ancestry.com web site. We were unable to locate his wife's certificate. The birth dates of their children listed here vary greatly from the dates we obtained from family sources. The spelling of their names may reflect a clerk's attempt to understand Henry's accented English: