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I have added the new speculative tree for Ellen Appleberg’s paternal grandmother to the Appleberg tree page and updated the main tree with information from the new birth record.

The new records have just been translated. I have listed the key points of interest below.

GITELMAN - Confirmation of another child Elia for Zelig and Tauba Malka. He may have died as a young child. This record tells us that Zelig was illiterate

WINTERMAN - 3 new records. Meyer died aged 50 in 1848, he had a wife Ester and a son Shoma(?). Moszko also died in 1848, this record helps confirm information about his family.  Berko Winterman died in 1848 aged 20. Berko is a previously unknown son of a Moszko and Chaia but the information suggests that there may have been two Moszko Wintermans living in Miedzyrzec at the same time. 1848 was a year when a cholera pandemic killed 3 million.

APPLEBERG - A brother for Aaron Levy born in Miedzyrzec in 1867/8, it maybe that he died as a teenager. This record is interesting as it gives a possible maiden name for the baby’s mother, Korenblum. This word is very hard to read, see what you think (below) but if this is right it may take this line back a couple of generations.


I’m still hoping for a better copy of the photo (left) kindly provided by Barbara Held.  The seated woman is probably Malka Geetleman, the younger of the standing women is Rebecca Geetleman.  I think the third woman may be Malka’s sister Chana, they certainly look similar, if so this is the only known picture of Chana

Information on school admission records on Ancestry has provided extra information on where and when various family members were living in the late 1800’s early 1900’s.  The most important information places Leon Lewis then calling himself Levy Lewis in England in 1887 some five years earlier than previously known.  It is also interesting to see Rebecca Geetleman attending school in 1890 shown as unable to speak English

Wolf Fefererkraut’s birth record from Warsaw has just been indexed on JRI Poland.  It gives his birth date as 17th December 1856 and his parents as Judah Lejb and Ruchla Liba.  Both parents were 38. Ruchla’s father was Izaac Lejb who was previously unknown.  I am hoping to obtain a copy of the record and get it translated.

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I have had these two unlabelled photos for a while, (thanks to Jeff Goldstein and Sally Roman), but have only just been able to identify them. The man is Solly Needlestitcher the oldest son of Simon and Fanny. He married twice, the photo left is with his first wife Sarah, nee Barnett; the marriage was in 1907. This has been confirmed by their granddaughter Julia Clement. The photographer’s name on the photo above narrows the date down to 1892-1909, I think Solly looks younger in this photo, I wonder if the woman could be his mother Fanny who was about 18 when she had Solly? Solly’s second wife Rose was Sarah’s younger sister, Rose and Sarah’s great niece Hilary Vogler has been instrumental in identifying these pictures.