I seek dead people

I've had so many successes lately research my family history, and histories for my friends. Some of the things I find are in the maybe, pretty sure, could be, I think that's right-category. I love when a record verifies theories of where a family is. It takes looking at many, many names and documents to reconstruct a life from the past but it's so worth the time and energy.

New Years day I visited with my neighbors. I used ancestry.com to find out when his father came to the United States, then I found a marriage record for him. His grandfather's name was Israel Plotnik and grandmother's name was Tova Fleichik. I was able to find a relative of my neighbor on facebook who told me that Israel and Tova were from Slonim, Belarus.

There are Plotniks who came to the US in the early part of the 20th century from Russia/Poland. There are 3 Plotnik entries for Slonim in a 1918 directory. One is for a Baker, one for a Confectioner, and another on a different street for comestibles. Foodies!

On the other side of the family, the surnames are Postarnikovs and Fleischik and they lived in Riga, Latvia.

Who are their parents? When were they born, when did they get married, when did they die? what did they do for a living, I wonder?

I am qualified to be a genealogist because I am nosey and a rabid researcher.