And we found the passenger list of the ship that brought him here, giving Lizzie a glimpse of her ancestor at that crucial moment "Name in full, Abram Miodownik.

Nationality, Russia.

Race, or people, Hebrew.

Whether in possession of $50 and if less, how much?

$3.

Whether going to join a relative, sister, Anna Miodownik.

New York, 16th East, 118th Street."

That is Abraham arriving in the United States of America.

So does this say he had $3?

Yep.

It says, "Do you have at least $50?"

The answer is, "No."

"How much do you have?"

"I have $3."

He came here with three bucks.

Unreal.

I mean, yeah.

I don't even... Like, how do you even you make this decision because you have no other choice, I suppose, in many situations.

But that, I mean... Just the idea that he was coming to join his sister, who I've never heard of.

And even just the correspondence that would be required to make those plans and how long that would take and how... I mean, it's crazy.

I keep saying that, but it's crazy.

It's crazy.

We now set out to learn about Abraham's life before he immigrated.

Lizzie had long been told that her mother's ancestors were Russian Jews, but that was not exactly true.

At the time of Abraham's birth, Russia was a vast empire covering much of eastern Europe.

And Abraham's hometown was a village called Zawiercie.

It lies on land that we no longer consider to be Russian.

Have you ever heard of this place?

No.

That is your family home.

It's located in the south of modern day Poland.

Huh?

So, you've thought of yourself as Russian?

Yeah.

Did you ever think of yourself as Polish?

No.

You're Polish.

Yeah.

You gonna visit?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm booking my flight.

You got deep roots there.

I know.

When Lizzie visits Abraham's hometown, she will likely find few traces of the world he knew, as it was almost completely obliterated by wars in the first half of the 20th century.

But in the Polish State archives, we found documents that help bring Abraham's world briefly back to life.

"On the 24th of August 1890, Cayman Benjamin Miodownik, baker from the village of Zawiercie, 33 years old, and presented a male infant stating that he was born in Zawiercie on August 17th of this year to his lawful wife, Dobra Zisla.

The child was circumcised and given the name Abram Lijb."

That is your great-grandfather's birth certificate.

1890, crazy.

Yep.

And Benjamin and Dobra are your great-great-grandparents.

You have DNA from these people.

Yeah.

This is your biological kin.

And we're back in Poland over 130 years ago.

What's it like to see that?

Yeah, I mean, look, I'm sure he'd be thrilled to share the information that he was circumcised on television 130 years later.

Yeah, it's like I... Yeah, in a village, he was a baker.

It's just, this is like- Did you know you had any bakers in the family?

No, although, probably could've guessed.

Can you bake?

Yeah, of course.

Oh, okay.