Jeanie and Lena's birth cerificates give mother's maiden name as PRESMAN. I think that it may have been PRESMA or PREZMA which was Michel's mother's maiden name and that Michel and Fanny were cousins.
Bruce Goldsmith in an e-mail dated 24 July ?? said that his grandmother, when she was young, lived in a home with a dirt floor and that she was responsible for bringing the cow(s) in.