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.

Hoviss

Hi, great quote! Did you look at the 1890 census or passenger list for ca. 1890 Castle Garden or if it was closer to 1892, Ellis Island?
You can also look at JRI-Poland for the Hoviss surname first or Hoviss and Bernstein in same search to see if there is any information there.
From a long-time researcher, Yvette

Adelman - Lithuania/Galis

You don't say where they came from originally. My family is from Lithuania and the original name was GALIS.

Jackye

Adelman - Abe is Searching

Hi Carole: In researching my fathers records and mail, I found the name Adelman who lived in the New York area and instructions on his planned trip to Brookilyn to visit his brother Max. he should plan on visiting several cousins. That name was amount the names of cousins. I have been searching ever since to no avail because of the time lapse between the date of the letter and when I was privileged to see the letter. If you feel that it is in your interest to learn of additional names of cousin in the New York area I will be pleased to write you with the addresses that I have. Abe

Adelman& Edelman - Great Information - Everyone Should Read This!!

The name Adelman is a pronunciation/spelling variant of Edelman or Edelmann.


Adelman is probably the closest spelling to the original sound.


edel in German or Yiddish means "fine," hence Edelweiss flowers are fine, white (weiss) flowers.


When Jews were assigned or took last names in the censuses of the late 18th / early 19th centuries, kohanim (people from the Tribe of Levi who also had the distinction of being descended from ancient priests from the time of the Temple) were given a variety of specialized names to indicate their status. They have the honor of being called to the Torah first in Orthodox or some Conservative synagogues; they perform other ceremonial functions that were integrated into synagogue services after the Temple was destroyed. Some of these functions may date back to the time of the Babylonian exile (587/586 - 540s BCE), when we know that a question was raised as to whether there could be sacrifices outside of the destroyed (First) Temple. Some authorities said yes, and there were sacrifices in some sanctuaries throughout the Diaspora; others said no, and other functions were found.


For instance, kohanim offer the priestly blessing in Orthodox synagogues, the familiar text being:
May YHWH bless you and guard you – יְבָרֶכְךָ יְהוָה, וְיִשְׁמְרֶךָ
May YHWH make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you – יָאֵר יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וִיחֻנֶּךָּ
May YHWH lift up his face onto you and give you peace – יִשָּׂא יְהוָה פָּנָיו אֵלֶיךָ, וְיָשֵׂם לְךָ שָׁלוֹם


Christian scholars insist on using YHWH, and some Jewish scholars have adopted it. It is the name of God that we do not pronounce, that was pronounced only once a year in the Temple, on Yom Kippur, and only by the High Priest.


If you don't see the Hebrew text, you can find more at www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestly_Blessing


Anyway, some of the names assigned to Kohanim were:


Kohen or variants Cohen or Cohan.


Kogen or Cogen, because most Russian dialects other than Ukrainian do not have the letter "h;" when I worked with the Jewish community in Ukraine in the 1990s, one heard the former head of the USSR referred to as Horbachov; when Vladimir Horowitz performed in Russia, his name was listed on posters as "Gorowitz," because "h" is customarily transcribed and pronounced with a hard "g."


Elena Kagan, the new Supreme Court justice, provides another variant. Among Jews who use the Litvak or Litvish pronunciation of Yiddish, the vowel long "o" is pronounced as long "a." This is actually a very ancient variant that can be traced to Biblical pronunciation, as can the Litvak/Litvish pronunciation of "s" and "sh" identically, as a kind of mixed sound.


Another name that was assigned to kohanim was "Katz," or "Catz," the Hebrew abbreviation for "kohen tzedek," or "priest of righteousness."


And another was Adelman / Edelman (Edelmann with the doubled "n" at the end conforms more to German spelling, and is less common among Jews, but is found). This designated them as "fine" people.


My own family use the spelling "Edelman," and I have many Edelman cousins. My mother's maiden name was Edelman. I am very close with the Edelman family.


However, since there were kohanim in virtually every Jewish community, the names Cohen, Kohen, Kogen, Kogon, Katz, Catz, Adelman, and Edelman and several others are quite common and do not indicate a close family relationship.


However, a Professor Tudor Parfitt from England did some interesting DNA research on kohanim and Levites in the 1990s, and he showed that they do have certain markers that indicate a consistent lineage for at least 2-3,000 years back.


I hope this information is of help.


Peter A. Stark, son of Ida C. Edelman Stark, of blessed memory, who died at 93 in 1996.

Adelman - Lithuania

Dear Carole,

My Adelman family is from North Eastern Lithuania. They spelled their
last name as Eidelman or Edelman on Lithuanian documents.

Kind Regareds,

Saul J. Adelman

Edelman - Lithuania

Dear Carole,

My Adelman family is from North Eastern Lithuania. They spelled their
last name as Eidelman or Edelman on Lithuanian documents.

Kind Regareds,

Saul J. Adelman

Adelman - looking for Ottynia, Ukraine or Lvov areas

Hi Carole!
Could you tell me if your Adelman Family comes from Ottynia, Ukraine, or in the surrounding area (near Lvov)?


Looking forward to hearing back,
Jeff
Brooklyn, NY

Adelman - William and Eva Babchin

Hi Carole! I was stunned to see some of these names we have in common. My knowledge is very incomplete, but here's what I have: My great grandparents, William (1855-1930) and Eva Babchin Adelman came to the US to Hoboken in the 1890's from St. Petersburg, Russia. They opened a large jewelry store on Washington Street, the main drag through Hoboken, called Adelman's, and it was known as "the Tiffany's west of the Hudson." The only siblings I know of William's were Charles and some number of sisters who were killed in Russia. William's children were Fanny (known as Flora)(1898-1989), Abraham (1895-1980?), and Sadie, known as Sonia, b. 1891, death date unknown. Charles Adelman also had a son Abraham, 1893-1918. Sadie had two children Amy and Bob Miller. Amy, a psychiatrist, had two children, David Shapero, a singer and linguist, and Elizabeth, both born in the 1950's. Fanny Adelman (Flora), my grandmother, married Jessie Arkin, a dentist, and had 2 children: my mother Judith (1930-2004) and her brother William (1925-1958), an oral surgeon. My mother was a musician, as am I. My grandmother, Flora Adelman Arkin was a painter and sculptor and musician and they lived in New Rochelle, NY. I don't have any names earlier than my great-grandparents, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were a connection between us!

Adelman - History

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

Edelman History

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

Edelman

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.

Adelman - Esther Malkah

Hi Carole,

Kudos (yasher koach) to you for creating a blog to search for ADELMAN links. Let me tell you my ADELMAN story.

My maternal grandfather's mother was born ESTHER MALKAH ADELMAN. She had a brother names ISRAEL (SRUL) ADELMAN. As far as I know they hailed from Krasilov, Ukraine. I'm assuming there were other siblings. Their father's name was YIRZCHAK.

ESTHER MALKAH and ISRAEL were born in the 1870s. ISRAEL immigrated to the US around 1898 and settled in New Haven, CT but I don't remember if he went there immediately. ESTHER MALKAH arrived in NYC in 1905 with 5 children in tow (YITZCAH, MOSHE, CHANAH. DAVID, and CHAIM. They lived in NYC for several months (along with my great grandfather PINCHAS MANELSTEIN who was a bagel baker). By the end of 1905 they moved to Newark, NJ and 4 move children were born. Family lore has it that ESTHER MALKAH gave birth to a set of twins who didn't survive.

No other ADELMAN relatives were ever identified but that doesn't mean that they didn't exist, either back in Ukraine or in th US.

Interestingly, I have a 2nd cousin who married an ADELMAN but I don't know anything about his ADELMAN branch.

Maybe this is helpful., Evan Fishman

Adelman - Jacob and Fanny

Albert (Abraham) Alden (Adelman) (1901-1995)						Jacob Adelman (1873-1923)
William Adelman (1903-)
Joseph Adelman (1905-)						Marriage: about 1899 New York Edit Marriage: 1899 New York CIty, New York, New York Edit
Esther Adelman (1907-)						Fanny Dinowitz (1881-1960)

Traditions

My family research began with a simple Family Bible page given to me by my father Paul Prince Adelman. This was the Family page from his mother’s family, the Max Meyer family. I was so excited and worked with a German translator to know every word on these pages. You have to understand that my father had 1 sister who had 2 sons – that was the entirety of my extended family. I would see my 2 cousins now and then, but we did not have family dinners or holidays together, and soon we became adults and had no contact with each other.

 I now held in my hands 3 generations of family names and the “bug” to find more. Even better than the names on the pages I now had, I began to feel “connected” to these names, as if I knew them, which just made me WANT to know more!

So I purchased a genealogy database management system and began entering all the information that I had. Then I noticed a SOURCE button and wondered what that was. So I took an online class for beginning genealogists.  What – you are supposed to REASERCH your ancestors. You mean this family bible page could be wrong! Okay – well I like a challenge and better yet – I love a puzzle. So my long nights and endless days of sitting in front of computers – flying to New York for days on end and pages of notes began. 

What began as a search to validate the Max Meyer family bible page, turned into a search for all my ancestor’s.  So I began with my father of course, added his father and thought – this is going to be easy, I will just ask my dad what his grandfathers name was and his aunts and uncles names and I would just call them and this would be a piece of cake! Right? Wrong! Remember the lack of family dinners and link to my cousins and aunt and uncle – well come to find out that this did not begin with my father and mother. My father did not know the name of his aunts or uncles or even his grandparents. WHAT?!? How do you not know the names of your family?                 Game On!!

I am proud to say that my brothers and sisters and I have changed this family “tradition”. We see each other as often as possible, and my only brother that lived far from us, just moved within 30 miles of all of us in order to allow his son to grow up knowing his cousins, aunts and uncles. We truly love each other and cherish the relationships we have with each other – even if it is just this generation! My parents still live far from their children, but with the miracle of technology such as computers, airplanes and phones – we see them as often as possible. However, this generation, we are proud to say, knows each other and our children know each other – and a new family tradition has been established! 
Happy Linking! Your “Cousin”, Carole