Mendels Child
by Cherie Smith
Category: History

Cherie Steiman Smith is the daughter of Iser Steiman (1898-1981) and Laura Shatsky. She was born in Kamsack, Saskatchewan. Steiman ancestry is traced to Mendel Steiman (1846-1924) who married (1) Dova (2) Hannah Zelda Friedman. Mendel was born near Rezhitse, Latvia. He and his family joined his son, Robert, in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1905. Laura Shatsky was the daughter of Samuel Shatsky (1879-1954) and Elizabeth Finn (1882-1950). The Shatsky and Finn families came to Canada in 1882. David (Fayn) Finn (1847-1949) was born in Vilna, Lithuania. He and his wife, Sheindel Shane (1845-1914), immigrated to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1882.