A few years ago I got interested in my ancestry. I discovered a great great uncle, born in 1892, who immigrated to the U.S. from Romania in 1904 (aboard the RMS Carpathia, which would later become famous for rescuing the survivors of the Titanic in 1912 and was itself torpedoed and sunk in 1918).

His family likely left Romania due to the persecution Jews were experiencing in eastern Europe. Sadly, he died from the Flu in Denver, CO in 1918. :(