December 7, 2013
Two years ago, from information sent to me by Anna Bieniaszewska, the local expert on the old Torun / Thorn Jewish community in general, and the […]
December 7, 2013
In the KALISCHER family tree, there was one sister of my great grandmother Johanna FALK geb. KALISCHER (1845-1929) about whom very little was known. That little […]
March 27, 2013
The children of Eva ROSENTHAL geb. CANTORSON (1820-1897) and Caspar ROSENTHAL include the son Bruno (1854-1909). From the Hebrew on his gravestone (online on Ralph SALINGER’s […]
March 24, 2013
Two days ago, as a result of some more CANTORSON websurfing, I ran across another possible sibling of my great great great grandmother Rahel LAUDON geb. […]
March 21, 2013
(Written at the Philadelphia International Airport waiting for US 1084 to fly to the Raleigh-Durham airport for the 2013 (or belated 2012) annual Hans L. Falk […]
March 21, 2013
It was only 6 weeks ago, but the series of events is already a little fuzzy. I think I went to look at the Elbing Jewish […]
March 11, 2013
This really is the blog entry I was going to write when circumstances, briefly, intervened and led to the previous two entries (all about daughters named […]
March 10, 2013
This is the blog entry I was going to write when circumstances, briefly, intervened and led to the previous entry (care of daughters named “Aurelie”). Actually, […]
March 10, 2013
Learning from my blog. In my last entry, I included the list of children of Sara HAMMERSTEIN geb. KANTORSOHN because I had wanted to see whether […]
January 19, 2013
“Other than checking to see whether Sara HAMMERSTEIN geb. KANTORSOHN happened to name a son Baer or Bernhard (or Issachar), I will have to wait for […]
January 19, 2013
On the flight from Philadelphia to Seattle (en route to Point Roberts, WA), I identified a possible new ancestor. He was Baer KANTERSON of Schloß Kyschau […]
January 18, 2013
The unintentional part of the LEUBUSCHER discoveries came from reviewing all the LEUBUSCHER “hits”, under various spellings and misspellings, in the Ancestry.com databases. I had seen […]