Relatively Speaking 1988

    It is with a great deal of pleasure and love that I submit to you the first issue of Relatively Speaking. I sincerely hope you will enjoy reading it and you will want to be a part of it. If you are absolutely not interested in receiving a newsletter, please let me know, as my postage costs are quite high now (please note voluntary subscription rate).
    I am inviting everyone to send me articles about the family, its joys, its simchas, and even its sadness, which I will publish -- unedited except for space -- in every detail. We all look forward to as many items you wish to share with us.
    One of my columns will be a "lost and found" for the cousins we have lost or I just don't have their addresses. If anyone knows of the "missing persons", I would appreciate a postcard with information. I am most grateful to everyone who has aided me in my research and enabled me to go as far as I have. There is much more to do, as there are people to find and family connections to make.
    Sam and I will be attending a Jewish genealogy seminar in Washington, d. C. this summer. If anyone knows the names of the ships your families sailed on to come to the u.s., the dates they arrived, or the ports through which they entered. Please forward that information to me before June 1. If you have a passport or passenger ticket, please make a Xerox for me. It will be of great help to me in researching.
    My great delight is meeting "new" cousins, and to this end Sam and I are traveling when- and wherever we can. We were in Florida in January and caught up with quite a few people: Mae Weinberg and her daughters, Joyce Weisman, Sandee Fixler; and grandchildren, the newly-weds Lisa and Chris Abrams and Jeremy and Brian Fixler, who all live in the Miami area; Bob and June Netter, , who were looking for a place to retire to in Lake Worth; Jean and David Herman, who found a delightful place to retire to in the Sarasota area; Helene and Ira Ross; on Treasure Island (Tampa), who are so busy in their retirement that they are more busy than when they weren't retired. I guess a lot of our family has reached the age of having a good time and have decided on the sunshine state.
    Included in this newsletter will be a Nusbaum-Birkenwald-Frank or Weinberg-Birkenwald-Rosenstock or Langsdorf-Katz family chart. They take in a lot of families. If I have made any mistakes, please send me the corrections for the next publication (fall) if you have any information on people who I have missed, please send me their names and addresses. There is also an address list of all the people I have been able to locate. If you know someone whom you would like to receive this newsletter, send me their names and addresses (and relationship). Please let me hear from you. I hope to publish every spring and every fall, and with your help the stories will be interesting.
    We hope to meet some of you during our expedition this summer. Joan Glanz Rimmon

lost & found
    Who told me about someone being married to Alvin Tresselt? Please tell me who it is again!!!! Would you believe I received an advertisement from his company just a few days ago.
Where are the descendants of:
        Elias Katz of Chicago.
            Hannah Katz Berkman of New York.
                Abraham Katz of Philadelphia.
                    Minnie Katz DaCosta.
                        Samuel D. Katz, last known residence: Atlanta.
                            Myer A. Nusbaum of Baltimore.
                                Samuel and Myrtle Birkenwald Iseman.

Albert Weitzman Recuperating From Arterial Surgery
To Al and Florence (Katz) our best wishes for a speedy and complete return to full strength and vigor.

Monday, November 9^th

From Sea to Shining Sea:
Researching in the Good Old USA,
Lecture, Joan Glanz Rimmon,
Jewish Genealogical Society,
at 6505 Wilshire, Board Room 7:15 p.m.

Your Editor a Guest Lecturer
After our wonderful journey last summer, I was invited to speak before the Los Angeles Jewish Genealogy Society last November. It was a lot of fun, but I am really just a novice at this.