Dear family and friends,

I am happy to let you know that the Wall Street Journal has honored our family by displaying a historic photo of the Pat family on its cover. On June 22 2006 an article about MyHeritage was posted on the Wall Street Journal.

For the article, the reporter Jessica Vascellaro who interviewed me, kindly asked for some background materials. I readily provided her with the earliest known photo of our family from Bialystok, taken around 1905 and it was published in the article, appearing as a small image on the newspaper's front page as well.

The photo features my great-grandfather Eli Pat and his wife Esther Weller, in the center, with their children. The seated son in the bottom right is none other than Chaim Pat (Japhet), my grandfather, ...