Some 60 descendants of an 18th-century Jewish fur trader met for a family reunion in Michigan. The event was organized by Thom Smith, a Franciscan friar in Indian River, Mich., who discovered four years ago that Ezekiel Solomons was his fifth-great-grandfather.
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