Wolfe Adelman

This is what I can contribute.  My great-grandfather Wolfe Adelman married to Sarah Braidlast came from a shtetle in Minsk Russia.  He had three children that I know of. Hyman, Morris and Lena.  My grandfather Hyman came to America some time at the end of 1890.  My grandfather Hyman married Rose Luria and the settled in Brooklyn, NY and latter in the Bronx, NY.  They had three children:  my father Emanuel, a brother Louis and a sister Pauline.   Morris lived in Highland Falls, NY.  He was married and had a daughter Mary who died when she was an infant and a son Sidney who was an attorney in Highland Falls. Lena was married to a man who's last name was Reich.  I'm not sure but his first name might have been Abraham.  They lived most of there lives  in Suffern, NY.  They had two daughters.  May & Jay.  One of them married a judge from Suffern,  I know the one that was married to the  judge had children.  I have tried everything possible to track one of these children down but have been unsuccessful.  That is all of the information I have about the Adelmans. Evelyn

Edelman - From Latvia

All these names are pretty common.  I think the important think would be to find the name of the town that they came from.  

The EDELMAN family that I am researching was from Latvia..  These are small countries and Jews were shuffled back and forth between countries frequently and had relatives all over the place.  I know that some of the family that I am researching was also in Lithuania... and the border between Lithuania and Poland changed during WWI and WWII.  In fact, there was no such place as Poland for almost two hundred years before WWI.  Part of it was in Austria-Hungary  called Galicia for example.  Part of that is in Poland now and part including the Capital of Galicia, Lemberg, now Lwow is in the Ukraine which was part of the Soviet Union.  There was a big chunk in Russia...before WWI and those people were said to be from Russ-Pole.  A large chunk was in Prussia.  See if you can find their birth place on documents like SS or passports or Naturalization documents or even Draft Registration records.

Philip

I Wish I Had Asked!

This has been a great and a productive week. For our first week and only putting out the word about the Blog to 1 Surname - Adelman/Edelman –so far, I have received more family information than I thought I would. A great problem to have! So I am recruiting my sister Clarisse to handle the daily Blog and I will handle the Family Group sheets and verification of information. So be patient the next couple of weeks while I get all the information validated and on line. 

Clare is a family therapist, so if she gets too wordy you will all understand! And speaking of family, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE inform your family members about this Blog. The more information we receive, the sooner we will all LINK together. 

If you are lucky enough to still have grandparents alive, great aunts and uncles, please take the time to interview them. Ask them questions because once they are gone – all the information they know, Stories, Dates, Times and Places will be gone. Take it from one who knows, I wish that I had written down all of my grandfathers stories. I wish that I had asked more questions – I wish he was still here to ask! Don’t miss this opportunity as I did.
 

My mother and father currently live in China and my mother teaches English at one of the factories. This language class is an incentive and a reward for those who perform well on the job. She decided that a language is best taught and better yet learned when it becomes personal. Each person was assigned to interview a family member and to get 1 story from their family member that they did not already know. The students would then have to present their story in English to the class. She was surprised at how many of the students were grateful more for the story and information they received from the family member than they were for the English lesson. 

If nothing else – take the assignment from my mother, ask a family member to tell you 1 story that you do not already know and see what you learn! Let me know what you find out – I live vicariously through your family stories!

Happy Linking! Your “Cousin”, Carole

Adelman family from Dinovits, Ukraine

Hershel Adelman b. 1880 d. 1909 married Hinda Chechaman b. 1885 d. 1959

Children - Ben b. 1906 d. 1971 married Bessie
Minnie b. 1909 d. 2003 married David Banikin

Hinda and her two children immigrated to Canada in 1923.

She lived in Montreal and Winnipeg.
Ben lived in Winnipeg.
Minnie lived in Montreal and Newfoundland. 
 
Clarice Shtrax

Dead End

As I have only been doing genealogy actively for about 3 years, I have noticed a trend called - DEAD END!

I have loved researching my ancestors and am completely addicted to this new hobby. My family does not get dinner and my husband goes to bed alone – sorry Dan –but I am completely addicted to researching my family tree! My father and grandfather have never spoken much about our extended family - okay – not at all. However, researching my family tree has had a weird impact on me, the more research I complete - the more family I want to know! I now have this deep desire to know an extended family!

I have however found one similar key element to all the other researchers I have contacted with the same Surnames as mine as I search for family ties, we are ALL at a DEAD END and none of us seem to link. I can wallpaper a room with the amount of email replies I have received that all ended with the same words - "no connection”.

Really - how could that be, we all have the same last name! Thinking logically - I have decided to STOP SAYING NO CONNECTION as we must have a connection somewhere! So I put together this Blog to allow people with the same Surnames that I am researching to Connect. Maybe if we all stop saying no connection and looking at our genealogy as half empty - and begin saying - "Where is the connection - there must be one somewhere", and looking at our genealogy as half FULL, then I believe the connection will be found! This idea may be naive - but I am sticking to it!!!
Happy Linking! Your “Cousin”, Carole

Adelman Line - What a Great Day!

Wow! For our first day on line - we had great response to adding information about the Adelman Line. LAO is working on proofing several family group sheets and we will have them posted soon. Please keep the information coming!
I am grateful to those of you who shared stories of their family. As I stated earlier, I do not have stories of my Adelman family, so I am so grateful to "adopt" your stories as part of my heritage. Thank you!
I got nothing else done today. I did have a meeting this morning with a woman's group I am associated with and one of the women in that group is an avid genealogist. I showed her the Blog and she got really excited about it and may begin one of her own.
I have to thank my daughter in law Alyson who showed me how to allow others to Post to the Blog - who would have known and I think I impressed my son Peter who is shocked that his mother is now a Blogger! I will show that younger generation - okay, I cannot even come close to their knowledge of technology - but I'm "not too bad for a mom"! Love you Pete!
Happy Linking! Your “Cousin”, Carole

Adelman - "Ver is dos?" "Who is this?" - Ida

Just in the last few years, I have found, via the Internet, members of two branches of our family that we did not think had survived the Holocaust. My grandmother had two brothers and several cousins who perished, but one child hid under leaves in the forest and was not discovered by the Einsatzgruppe who were eager to move on to shooting elsewhere. And on my grandfather's side, I found a host of relatives whom we had not known of, since the only link was a photo, clearly of a relative, among my grandfather's effects. On the back, my mother had written, "Ver is dos?" "Who is this?"


A distant cousin contacted me to say she would be in Paris, and didn't we have relatives there? I said that we had tried to find any survivors of that branch, but as far as I knew there was only one, and he was too traumatized to speak about family matters when I met him - he lost his wife and seven small children, while he was off fighting in the Maquis, the French underground. But a visit to the Yad Vashem website showed that a few days earlier, someone had posted information about our family, so I wrote to the poster, who turned out to be the son (by a second marriage) of the elderly man I had met years before. He himself knew nothing about his father's first marriage, but when his father died, he found a hidden compartment in his father's clothes closet, with a letter from his father's first wife, dated July, 1942. She wrote that a policeman had tipped her off that she and her children would be deported the next day, he did not know to where, and so to be sure that her husband could find her and the children, she had photos taken of each of them, together with identification papers, and she placed them in this secret compartment that only the two of them must have known about. She died, together with her seven children, at Auschwitz, probably later that week. Her husband came back to Paris when it was liberated in 1944, found her letter, and started making inquiries, but the war was still going on. Gradually it became clear that three siblings, their spouses, his mother, and all the children in the family had been murdered.


I called the man who had posted, and he floored me by saying that his father had two OTHER sibling who had gone with him to fight in the Maquis, and one, his Aunt Ida, was still alive. She had exactly the same name as my mother, who had just died recently, never knowing of this other Ida. I organized a group of cousins, and we flew to Paris to meet them a year and a half ago, and we remain in touch. When I saw this Ida, I was floored - she looked exactly like my mother. She, in turn, looking through the pictures I had brought, picked out a picture of my mother at age 5 and said, "Ver is dos?" "Who is this?" I told her it was my mother at 5, and she pulled out another, of my mother at 70. She said, "She looks just like me. She must have been a strong woman!" I pointed out that in our family the women have been not only strong, but highly educated and professionals for generations, as her three daughters are.


It was joy mixed with tears, not to be able to share this with my mom, who would have loved to meet them.