Genealogy Blog

Part 6 of 6 — Haskel LANDAU Revisited Coming back to the story of Haskel LANDAU, two new supportive pieces of information came to my attention […]

Part 5 of 6 — Amalie LANDAU Revisited Through that period of discovery, and the preceding decade of stasis, I had been operating on the assumption […]

Part 4 of 6 — R. Isaac (Jitzhak) LANDAU of Wlodawa As I was reviewing the LANDAU family tree in “The Unbroken Chain” in January 2008, […]

Part 3 of 6 — R. Loebel Jonas (Arjeh Jehuda Leib) LANDAU I think I made no real progress on my LANDAU research from 1998 to […]

Part 2 of 6 — Haskel LANDAU & Nesche LANDAU In 1996 when I first learned about my great great grandmother Amalie LANDAU, I had known […]

Part 1 of 6 — Amalie LANDAU At the beginning of the modern history of genealogy when my brother Don was starting to gather information and […]

In August 2015, a search for BACH on a very useful online database “Juden im nördlichen Teil des ehemaligen Deutschen Reiches” introduced me to a man […]

[11 Jan 15 – started on the return ferry ride from Swartz Bay, Vancouver Island, BC to Tsawwassen] I think it was in early 1998 that […]

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 […]

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 […]