I’m searching for Jewish ancestry in my family (Kozuch), what is your advice?
got curious and decided to Google my surname, Kozuch, and I ended up on Jewish geneology sites and holocaust articles and documents where my surname came up frequently. Kozuch apparently is a Polish-Ukrainian Jewish name from the looks of it. What is the best way to discover my ancestry? My grandfather’s mother was Polish and his father was Russian, I believe (he passed on Kozuch to my father and then me). I don’t know when his parents immigrated here. I’m still yet to get in touch with them to ask… talking about family is very painful for them for various reasons. If anyone has advice or ideas, or know anything about Kozuch, please let me know. Answers from Jewish people are especially appreciated. THANK YOU!
You could try joining ancestry.com at least for a while. They might or might not have any of your ancestors in their regular areas but they do give you access to their immigration records if you are a member. I have ancestors that came here around 1910 and you can see the ship record of their names and ages and city of origin and even see pictures of the ships once you find out the ship name.
Another thing to try is to go to a genealogy site that has people leaving messages about this or that name. If you’re a member, you can leave such a message and someday, someone may write you a note.
As the person above me said, get anyone who is elderly to tell you at least all the names and years born that they know. Women’s maiden names are difficult but just as important as the men’s names. 
Get any and all pictures you can get. Borrow them if you can, and use a computer to scan them all! Use a photo editor to make a better copy and return that with the original to encourage people to lend you the pictures.
You might also try to find online white pages from eastern European countries.
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