It turns out that she is my father's first cousin and I found her
through the JewishGen Family Finder.
So if anyone is looking for Jewish relatives, try:
www.jewishgen.org
Sylvia has several old variants of the spelling of the family name,
research back to my great-grandmother (thinks she found her birth
certificate), a picture of my grandfather, a picture of the family home
in Poland.
Until this contact, I had no idea where the family came from and was
getting nowhere with Passenger lists, etc, because I didn't know the
older spellings.
I will be visiting her sometime in the next few months. She lives
about two hours away!
I'm still floating!!
Joy