Blog Purpose - Linking Family
Throughout my research I have hit many dead ends. So in an attempt to continue the research I have emailed hundreds of people and posted so many Surname boards with the hope that there would be a link, ALWAYS to no avail!
Feeling frustrated that I have not found ANY links to date; I created this Blog in order to provide ONE location for ALL "cousins" with the following Surnames to post their information, with confidence that someday a Link will be found!
(Please note that ALL Surnames on this Blog are Jewish)
ADELMAN, PRINCE, MEYER, DINOWITZ,
SAMUEL, HOVISS, COHEN, WILANOWICZ
TIENEMANN, STOCKHAUSEN, ELKAN-JUDA,
BAER, BOSSON, SIMON, LUKS
WALLACH, KULIES, BOSSON,
Instructions: Email your family information along with how this information was qualified. (i.e. birth certificate, personal knowledge, Census etc.) to linkabrahamsoffspring@gmail.com
Verification: LAO will create a family group sheet and a Pedigree Chart with your information and will email it back to you to proof.
Linking: Once proofed and returned to LAO, your information will be entered into our database and proofed for Links. If a Link is found - you will be notified immediately.
Information: All Pedigree Charts and Family Group sheets will remain in the system for future reference.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Wolfe Adelman
Friday, October 29, 2010
Edelman - From Latvia
I Wish I Had Asked!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Adelman family from Dinovits, Ukraine
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
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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!
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
Monday, October 25, 2010
Adelman Line - What a Great Day!
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
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.