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November 2000/Kislev 5761 Volume 13

This will be the last issue for 2000, so we wish you a HAPPY HANUKKAH and a peaceful 2001/5761.

       It has been 100 years since 1900, and whether this is the first year of the new millennium or the last of the old, there are so many new events, and a few of the old, to record on these pages.
    We hope that this year will see peace in the world, wonderful medical accomplishments, and a return to sensible and saner lifestyles.
    As I go to print there is an historical event: the non-election of a president. Hopefully we will see the resolution of this colossal mismanagement of an election's results in the near future.
    To appraise you of the genealogy conferences for the next few years: the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies will be meeting in London, July 8 - 13, 2001, and Dearborn, MI, July of 2002, Washington, DC 2003. If you are interested in attending, contact the IAJGS at www.Jewishgen.org. Hope to see you there.

Your faithful editor, Joan Glanz Rimmon

        Inside the 2000 Relatively Speaking
            Page One -- Family Websites to Visit
                               Major Breakthroughs in Family Research
            Page Two -- Joan's Mail Bag
            Page Three -- Life Cycles
            Page Four -- Our families on the pages of history

Some family web sites to visit:
    http://www.operaforeveryone.com Ira Ross's Opera for Everyone new and improved page.
    www.annapolis-real-estate.com and www.montgomerycollege.com Tom Rose, see what's happening in Annapolis.
    http://spigel.com is the Adam Spigel website, where he has a wonderful picture album.
    http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/s/h/i/Stephen-L-Shiman/index.html Stephen Shiman's family trees.
    http://www.newday.com/films/Nana_Mom_and_Me.html Amalie Rothschild's site about a film she produced.

And from my paternal side, here are a couple of good sites as well:
http://www.lowrateonline.com/index.cfm Harry Glanz’s Capital Mortgage Funding, Southfield, MI
http://griefandrecovery.com/index.html Gary & Kathy Natelson Young’s - Grief Support for Young Widows and Widowers.

If you haven't had the chance to see the film "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" it is truly a wonderfully produced movie. If I were a film critic, I'd give it a "10." And it is a trip down memory lane for all Detroiters.

Please don't forget to contact your editor if one of your children or grandchildren need help with a family tree project at school.

MAJOR BREAK-THROUGHS
    §    In the September 1990 issue of Relatively Speaking (Vol. 3 No. 2) I wrote about our visit in St. Louis to meet the extended Langsdorf family living there. In addition to meeting people I spent some time at cemeteries and the city hall archives. I found the will of David Langsdorf, dated 1866. In it he stated that he had a daughter Johanna, a product of a first marriage in Germany. He left his gold watch to this daughter’s husband, Isaac Bachenheimer. Since then I have often wondered whatever became of this daughter. Did she have a family? Did anyone survive the Holocaust?
    The last week in February a long-time friend of mine connected me with someone who has been researching the Bachenheimer family. He had traced the family of David Langsdorf’s daughter Johanna, some of whose children had emigrated to the USA. I, immediately emailed him and the new family tree branch under the Langsdorf Tree is a result of this contact. Please be sure to check it out. Then on the last week-end in March we went to Milwaukee for a [paternal] family celebration. One of Johanna's descendents, Larry Golding, lives there with his wife and two little babies. Larry's mother and father, James and Marion Golding happened to come up from the Chicago area, so we all got to meet and exchange family hugs.
    I've also been in touch with Betty Joseph Abeles and Julius Stern, all descendants of Johanna Langsdorf Bachenheimer.

   §    The most exciting development in the family research was the exchange of e-mails with J. J. Gordon. J.J. and his wife Monica live in Berlin, Germany. He was seeking information about his forefathers in the Langsdorf family.His sister Lysa Gordon Walton and his cousin Suzie Hayes Wilde suggested to him to contact me as a resource. Little did he know when he emailed me that I had the family tree back to the early 1700s.
    During our correspondence a village was mentioned and I said that I thought someone in my Weinberg family might have been from there. He very kindly contacted the archivist of that village and this is what he sent me "We received from Storndorf today the following:
    1) the marriage certificate dated 13 October 1842 of Joseph Weinberg of Storndorf & Rosa Stern of Nieder-Ohmen.
    2) the birth certificates of their seven children, Moses, Sarah, Seligmann, Nathan, Isaak, Salomon & Michael.
    On the wedding certificate, it states that Rosa Stern comes from Nieder-Ohmen, another village in Oberhessen. It also says something to the effect that they showed a wedding certificate approved by the Archduke of Alsfeld of 12 October which is certified by the Rabbi and that they have been "copulated" (old-fashioned German for "married") in Nieder-Ohmen."
    Needless to say the above gives us more than the village, it mentions a child Seligmann, who has never shown up before on any census or passenger ship’s records. This child was named for Rose’s father Seligmann Stern, and died before they emigrated to the US. I found Rose’s father’s name on the marriage record. It didn’t state Joseph’s father’s name.
    This is a major break-through, as in my 14 years of research I have never been able to find the towns from which they emigrated. All previous records stated: Hessen Darmstadt. Now I have a starting point for further research. Hooray!!!

   § E-mail correspondence with some members of the Marx/Neuburger families put me in touch with Raanan Bar-Tuvia in Israel and Lisa Oppenheimer in Montevideo, Uruguay. Raanan and Anita exchanged some e-mails with important family information.
    "Hello Raanan, thanks a lot for your mail dated Nov.29. I know that our daughter Anita also received a message from you. Please excuse the delay but Walter was in hospital for 9 days and just came home yesterday. He seems to be quite alright, and we hope that this will not change in the near future.
    I am all too glad to give you all the information you want about our family. As you know I am Lisa Freudenthal and your grandmother Betty Freudenthal was my father’s sister and my beloved aunt., She was same age as my mother and the two sisters-in-law were intimate friends in spite of the fact that we lived in Berlin and your grandparents and their three boys Heins, Kurt and Horst (Harry) lived in Salzwedel a town halfway between Berlin and Hamburg. Heinz was your father, Kurt was my first love and we met a lot of times before he passed away. Kurt became very friendly with my husband Walter.
   As a matter of fact, we met you in Bersheba in l961 or l962 when your parents lived there; and I believe that you also met Anita and Eduardo who lived in Israel from Oct. l973 to Feb. l976.
    My brother Hans - who married a Brazilian girl and passed away more than ten years ago - and myself spent many, many minor holidays in Salzwedel with your grandparents and our cousins, especially Pesach, and we had a wonderful time and I cherish those memories from my adolescent years.
    Your father was the eldest son, Kurt was my age and Horst-Harry my brother's age. The boys taught me to ride a bicycle because my parents would not allow me to do so in Berlin on account of the traffic. Salzwedel was a town of about 20,000/30,000 inhabitants and life was almost rural. Your grannies had a medium size department store where both worked together. At home, the boys had to help a lot and Tante Betty was quite a severe educator. Your grandfather Onkel Theo had been hurt during the First World War and he had a scar on his bald head. He was a very kind man whom everybody loved.
    Both the Freudenthals and the Bachenheimers used to live in the center part of Germany where they must have met and then moved to the North after marriage. I have photos from the whole family and shall be very glad to send you some copies if you don’t have any."

§ Jim Horvitz is a very actively pursuing his wife’s family (our Levistein ancestors) on the Internet and sent me the following:
Joan, I find that Solomon Rosenstock knew both sides of Bobbe's family. He vouched for her paternal’s naturalization and he attended her maternal grandparents’ wedding. We never knew how Bobbe's parents met but it appears that Sol Rosenstock knew them both. [FACT: He was Abraham Levistein's first cousin.] Just recently, while surfing on the 'net', I entered the name Birkenwald [Sol's brother-in-law] and there was one reference to Carrollton, MO. On further search it was from a history of the businesses in 1886 in Carrollton. Among the employees listed at Birkenwald and Rosenstock Dry Goods was Abe Levistein.

A VISIT IN MARTHA'S VINEYARD, SEPTEMBER 24, 2000

Your editor and hubby visited the Northeastern US for the fall colors. Despite the horrible traffic problems in Boston we managed a lovely evening dining in Brookline with Stan and Kathy Kessler.
The next day we were in Martha's Vineyard and had lunch and a tour with Sid and Helen Rothschild.

Sid, Helen Rothschild, Sam Rimmon

Every chance we had we visited the local libraries to do some research and were quite successful in Portland, ME. Sorry we couldn't visit the First Lady of Maine, Mary Herman, she was performing her motherly obligations at son Ben's school.

Please keep your letters coming with information to share with the family.
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