May 5, 2014
In December 2013, I had finally learned a lot about the family of R. Zwi Hirsch KALISCHER’s youngest daughter Auguste SCHEININ geb. KALISCHER (1851-1920). Auguste and […]
May 5, 2014
From Don’s review of the 1889-1910 Breslau Standesamt records indexed by JRI-Poland, he found the names of the parents of Franz KOHN. They were Samuel KOHN […]
January 24, 2014
Sharing the news about the remarkable appearance of fragments of the gravestone of Johanna FALK geb. KALISCHER (1845-1929) had the effect of bringing new cousins to […]
January 22, 2014
Today, Don and I received two amazing photographs from the head of the “Cemetery Art Museum”, a division of the Municipal Museums of Wroclaw (Muzeum Sztuki […]
January 19, 2014
The path to our WARSCHAWSKI ancestors had many steps. First, on 28 Nov 1997, there was learning that R. Moses Aron BACH (1809-1879) was married to […]
January 18, 2014
dcm — [introduction typed by Daxter Black, Cowboy Kitty Poet] Over the last 4 days, four serendipitous events led to identifying a new great great great […]
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 […]