September 9, 2012
After finding the JACOBSOHN family tree in Berlin in late October 2011, I tried to trace the various new lines of the family — without much […]
July 28, 2012
29 July 2012 R. Eleasar ZUELZ and Brainchen ZUELZ geb. LATZ [Originally written 20 August 2005] Hirsch FREUND’s wife Rosalie ZÜLZ (ca.1800-1849) was the daughter of […]
July 28, 2012
29 July 2012 [This was written 14 August 2005.] According to family sources, Eloesser ZÜLZ was a rabbi and teacher, and was from Posen (town or […]
May 13, 2012
Don has just been visiting with second cousin Gale outside Chicago. Gale's father Lutz had photographs of the gravestone of Ida RAPHAELSOHN geb. JACOBSOHN in his […]
May 12, 2012
In August 1991, my uncle Andreas FREUND (1925, Breslau – 1996, Paris) finished the original version of his “Chronique Familiale”, a family history of the FREUND, […]
March 31, 2012
“Stammbaum der Familie Falk”, Paul Dobrin (Breslau 1937) A crucial element behind much of my genealogy research has been the “Stammbaum der Familie Falk”, a small, […]
March 25, 2012
25 March 2012 In November 1996, thanks to Simon S. in Berlin, I learned about an entirely “new” branch of my family — the SCHREIBER family […]
March 21, 2012
20 March 2012 Sometime in the 1990s, the German electronics company Siemens AG, or its US subsidiary Siemens Corporation, started to advertise using the slogan “That […]
February 3, 2012
Today would be Max Borinski's 89th birthday — the first anniversary of his birth since learning his fate, his emigration to Palestine and his early death […]
November 3, 2011
Berlin 1939 / Berlin 2011 2 November 2011 Having inherited a great RAPHAELSOHN family tree from the work of Dr. Richard (Dick) PLOTZ, I had not […]
October 3, 2011
2 October 2011 At the start of 1999, my closest missing relative was Renate BACH, my mother’s first cousin. The last direct contact between my mother […]
June 10, 2011
9 June 2011 (I hope MyHeritage.com and Family Tree Magazine will select me to win a family reunion with my long-lost French cousins.) My IMMERWAHR […]