tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14930797631128257762024-03-14T00:20:44.718-07:00Genealogy for BeginnersSIMPLE IDEAS FOR STARTING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH AND BEGINNING GENEALOGY HINTS AND TIPS - WRAPPED IN STORIES OF HOW I STARTED AND FOUND MY ANCESTRYKenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-54489806420160392812013-08-13T15:39:00.000-07:002013-08-13T15:39:06.180-07:00Brand New Genealogy Books AvailableThese books are very useful in helping family history researchers. They include lots of tips and hints that you can use to assist you in discovering your ancestry. Beginning genealogy searchers as well as experienced genealogists can always benefit from these new ideas.<br />
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Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17083564419330086860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-68939628761304488472012-09-25T11:21:00.001-07:002012-09-25T11:21:21.877-07:00Useful Quicksheets to Assist in Your Research<br />
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Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-355824723650149552012-05-14T19:54:00.000-07:002012-05-14T19:54:29.358-07:00Use Newspaper Articles To Give Your Family Website "Color"I've seen many family history websites that have hundreds of words strung together to tell a story of a person or a family. I've even had posts like that myself.<br />
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But it is BORING! No one likes to read a blog post like they read a novel. How about a photo or two - or better yet - if the story is mostly represented by a newspaper article - then include the article.<br />
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See how these headlines get your attention?<br />
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C'mon - give it a try. You (and your readers) will like it!</div>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-12722423498990755382012-05-11T08:26:00.001-07:002012-05-11T08:26:03.793-07:00Using Facebook To Find RelativesI have been quite successful finding relatives using Facebook search. It is a bit more difficult with common last names such as Smith or Jones (thankfully I don't have those names in my family tree). <br />
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It is also difficult trying to find female relatives because they often change their last name when they get married, but thankfully many women use their maiden name or a combination of their maiden name and married surname for Facebook.<br />
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These are the steps that I take:<br />
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<li>Do a simple Facebook search for the name(s) that you have, and all combinations. </li>
<li>If that doesn't yield the result, then do a Google search for all the name combinations. If they are on Facebook, it should show up in your search results.</li>
<li>If that doesn't work and you know the name of a close family member of theirs, then you can use one of the commonly available people finding sites, such as Veromi, to find the person that you know. Your target person might show up as living with that person, which might give you some clues as to more details about their name and location. IMPORTANT NOTE: As a rule for myself - I never will pay a fee to use these sites to obtain details about the person that it is not freely available. I personally believe that it is an intrusion into their personal life and I will not do it.</li>
<li>If that still doesn't work, then I redo steps 1, 2 and 3, using either their parents names if you have them, or their siblings.</li>
<li>The <u>most important step</u> is to look at all of their Friends names. If the person is on Facebook and they are pretty active, then they are likely to have some of their relatives as Friends. Even if you aren't interested in all their relatives for your own tree, the last names might let you know that you have found the right person. For a woman, this is critically important. If you think you know their maiden name but not their married surname, then by looking at their Friends name, you are likely to find someone who have the target maiden name as their last name. This could clue you in that you have found your target person.</li>
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And the last step, after you have found your target, is to send them a private Facebook message. This will go to both their Facebook inbox as well as the inbox for the email address that is connected to Facebook.</div>
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In this message I write gingerly and respectfully, since some people may not be interested. I introduce myself, talk about connecting with relatives, that I am searching my family history, and then give them the hook. Tell them something in a nice way about how they might be connected, as well as what you know about their ancestors, and then I give them my family website url, as well as my personal email address. In this way they will see that I am likely a real person and not a scammer.</div>
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In all cases but one (in my experience), their interest has been piqued and they respond. And then, depending on their response and how eager they are to find out more, I will give them my phone number and ask them if they would prefer to talk or converse via email.</div>
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You know what to do after you have made the connection. Good luck!</div>
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<br />Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-6056657801567877252012-05-09T17:39:00.000-07:002012-05-09T17:42:43.929-07:00Why You Should Source Your Research ImmediatelyThis is an easy trap to fall into for all newbies (as well as those of us who are more experienced).<br />
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Because if you don't document where you found the information, you will do what I have done on more than one occasion:<br />
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Ask yourself - WHERE DID I GET THIS INFORMATION???.<br />
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And you will spend more time than you need to trying to find where you found the information in the first place. And with busy lives and sometimes not as much time as we would like trying to spend it on family research - why waste time?<br />
Now, even if I do not have time to write the specific citation the way it should be written, I at least document in my genealogy database the source of the material and if time is short - I write down the source and the word INCOMPLETE.<br />
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Then at the end of every month, I make time to go back to the INCOMPLETE citations and complete them. This is not ideal since it would be better to document the sources and citations at the time of "discovery", but it works for me.Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-36670269583825309802012-05-09T16:47:00.002-07:002012-05-09T16:47:21.452-07:00Even More Genealogy Books<b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">These books are very useful in helping family history researchers. They include lots of tips and hints that you can use to assist you in discovering your ancestry. Beginning genealogy searchers as well as experienced genealogists can always benefit from these new ideas.</b><br />
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IN MANY CASES THE INFORMATION IS WRONG!</div>
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Often the information has no source information or no citations. Many inexperienced family history researchers will go ahead and add the names to their own tree and post it online. This compounds the problem.<br />
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If one is serious about assuring that their own data is accurate, then they will not willy nilly add the newly found information to their own trees UNLESS they verify that the information is correct and adding sources and citations.<br />
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However, there are three big potential bonuses that can be achieved with these suspect family trees:<br />
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<li>Even if you can't connect with the author, you might discover some clues that will help you find names of relatives that you didn't know existed. Then using your own verifiable search techniques, you have the ability to source and cite the information that they provide, or it might lead you on a path to do so.</li>
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So as they used to say in the TV program Hill Street Blues, "Be careful out there"</div>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-32624869270972508242012-05-04T12:53:00.001-07:002012-05-04T12:53:55.275-07:00Another Reason To Create A Family History WebsiteIn a previous post, I had written about the reasons for creating a family history website, custom tailored to the stories of your ancestors and relatives. In my case, it was a way to document these stories, as well as keep my "known" relatives up to speed with all the findings of my research.<br />
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In addition it has been extremely helpful in "attracting" unknown relatives, those individuals, who via a Google or other search had found my site and reached out to me with the suspicion that we indeed were related. This has been the best benefit of the site, in my opinion.<br />
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Another reason, is that those who find the site may not be related, but can create a connection that might result in additional information that is not necessarily a new "named" ancestor or relative.<br />
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Let me share a recent example:<br />
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About a year ago, I had posted a story of "Four Generations of Bicycle Shops", which recalls the history of Carl Hart Bicycles. In the story I had written that Carl Braunhart, my first cousin three times removed, had started a bicycle shop in Schubin,Germany (now Szubin, Poland) around 1913. The history of that shop includes Carls' move of the shop to Berlin, and after he imnmigrated to New York City, he started the shop in Brooklyn. He changed his last name to Hart and the shop was passed down to his son and later his grandson. The shop now resides in Middle Island, New York, having been sold to a non-family member.<br />
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Included in the post were photos of the Schubin shop, as well as the Berlin, Brooklyn and the current Middle Island shop. Here is the photo of the original shop:<br />
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I recently received an email from a man who lives in Szubui, Poland, who happened to be doing a search for Szubin and saw the photo on my website. This gentleman was interested in Szubin history and more importantly, photos from "old" Szubin.
He shared with me a photo of that same building as it exists today:
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<br />In addition, he contacted the local Szubin Historical Society and library, and I am working with them to see if their is any historical data that may still exist regarding Schubin in the late 1800's up to the 1920's. That may be doubtful because of the war but its worth a try.<div>
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So simply posting seemingly innocuous photos may prove very fruitful to your search!<br /><br /></div>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-70946994516650362772012-05-03T10:10:00.001-07:002012-05-03T10:12:46.357-07:00More Genealogy Books To Read<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><b>These books are very useful in helping family history researchers. They include lots of tips and hints that you can use to assist you in discovering your ancestry. Beginning genealogy searchers as well as experienced genealogists can always benefit from these new ideas.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<li>By having it on the Internet, it is a terrific way to find other relatives.</li>
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For the last reason, let me provide you with an excellent example. In a previous post, I wrote how I had found several people with the last name of "Braunhart". At the time, I called them "stragglers", because I did not know how they were related to me. Because of placing their names on the website, in the past two years I have found two remote cousins who were able to connect the stragglers to my family.</div>
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The first, a woman who lives in New Jersey, is the great granddaughter of Alexander and Helene Braunhart. Alexander was the younger brother of my great great grandmother Sara Braunhart Bernstein. As it turns out - all of the "stragglers" were either sons, daughters or grandchildren of Alexander and Helene. The puzzle pieces now fit!</div>
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The second, who lives in Berlin, was the great granddaughter of Alexander and Helene, and her grandfather, Philipp, who stayed in Berlin while many of his brothers and sisters emigrated to America. All of his ancestors remained in Berlin. I now had a connection in Germany. What a great surprise!</div>
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This happened ONLY because I had created a family history website (<a href="http://www.marksology.com/">Marksology</a>) and they had Googled the name Braunhart and found the site. They submitted comments on one of the posts and I was able to connect with them.</div>
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They are now the most prolific providers of information to the family history, and I appreciate them both very much.</div>
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So start a family history website - it's easy and will produce many wonderful results, I guarantee it.</div>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-5468987257227836672012-04-26T18:10:00.000-07:002012-04-26T18:10:19.623-07:00How To Find Relatives In The 1940 Census Without An IndexOkay - the 1940 US Census is available at a number of different sites (ancestry.com, familysearch.org, the National Archives 1940 Census website, myheritage.com, familylink.com, etc.)<br />
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You can select a county and state of course and browse through all the images, but for larger cities, there are way too many Enumeration Districts (ED) and thus too many images to browse through - but that will work.<br />
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If you know the 1940 Enumeration District for the county of interest, then that will narrow the image browsing challenge immensely, but how many of us know the 1940 Enumeration Districts?<br />
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If you know the address, or are lucky enough to find a 1940 City Directory for the city of interest - that makes the job MUCH easier. If you have access to the subject City Directory for 1940 - then you are close to being in business.<br />
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Two VERY important tools that I have found are Steve Morse's website for searching the Census - <b>"Obtaining Streets Within EDs for the 1940 Census in One Step"</b>. Go to his website <a href="http://stevemorse.org/census/index.html?ed2street=1">http://stevemorse.org/census/index.html?ed2street=1</a>. You might want to peruse the 1940 Tutorial first, but definitely click on the "<b>Unified 1940 ED Tool</b>" button. Enter the state and the county - then the city. Enter the street address next. It will automatically show you the resulting EDs for that address. If it is a long street, then you might get several EDs where that street is located. If you think it is too many to browse, then you can look up the cross streets for the address on the map website of your choosing (e.g. Google Maps) and then you can enter the cross streets in the Unified Tool page. This will reduce the number of EDs to a manageable amount. You can add another cross street if you would like to narrow the number even more. Then browse away until you find the person(s) you are looking for.<br />
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I have found on many occasions that the address is skipped when I first browse. Make sure that you don't give up - at the end of the images for the ED are the "pickups" - those people/families who were not at home when the census taker first went to the property.<br />
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I also found cases where the EDs stated did NOT include the address that I was looking for. This was generally because the street went outside the city limits or was annexed after 1940 and the proper ED did not show up on Steve's site. In most of these cases that I found - I was too lazy to scan all the images for the entire county, in some cases were hundreds.<br />
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The second tool applies if your subject person(s) lived in New York City It can be found at this link <a href="http://directme.nypl.org/">http://directme.nypl.org/</a>. Just follow the instructions at the top part of the page. They have married the city directory for all five boroughs with the ED list to help you find the ED(s) for that address quite easily.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118104420/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&tag=geneforbegi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1118104420"><img border="0" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1118104420&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=geneforbegi-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" ></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=geneforbegi-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1118104420" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-55726367378502623332011-05-06T14:55:00.002-07:002011-06-04T11:42:46.690-07:00Try Ning for a Private Family History NetworkRecently I created a Ning network for the Braunhart family. It is a private family history network with many of the same features as Facebook. I left out the status updates, but have uploaded unidentified family photos, census records, naturalization records, immigration records, etc. Also German letters and their translations. This allows my relatives who have signed up to see the same artifacts that I have collected over the years.<br />
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Also there is a forum feature where we have put in family stories about long passed relatives as we discover them - so there is a discussion subject for each of the "primary ancestors"<br />
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It is set up to be a by invitation only network that is NOT searched by search engines and their bots so it is indeed private.<br />
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One can set it up to be public but I chose not to do so. There are a minority of relatives who tend to freak out when any info regarding the living is posted online and I certainly appreciate and understand that.<br />
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Details at <a href="http://www.ning.com/">www.ning.com</a>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-81298191423731390802010-11-28T11:03:00.016-07:002010-11-28T11:28:47.219-07:00OK So I Started A Blog (And Joined Facebook)<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">For some unknown reason I started a blog in late 2008.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used Google’s Blogger although there are many other choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I began to post articles and added posts every few weeks through the spring of 2009 when this creation of the blog really paid off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But more about that later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I posted family stories, newspaper articles, summaries of family trees, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I also purchased a domain name “marksology” which points to the blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This personalized things just a little bit more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When Blogger added fixed pages, I added family tree summaries, some maps, and a timeline for the Braunhart family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I researched several free web-based timelines and opted for xtimeline, which was not only easy to populate but also could be embedded in the blog quite easily.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">So what is the goal of family history research besides writing a bunch of facts down about ancestors and discovering family stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“IT IS TO CONNECT WITH RELATIVES YOU </span></i><st1:stockticker><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">DON</span></i></st1:stockticker><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">’T KNOW”, as well as those you do know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best thing that I did to find those unknowns and to connect people who I didn’t know how they were connected, was to start a blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many platforms to choose from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find one that you are comfortable with</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A few months after I started the blog, I joined Facebook – just for fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a lot of stuff about my Facebook friends that I don’t need to know – but Facebook provides another way for people to find you – and those people may be unknown relatives!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">So what is the goal of family history research besides writing a bunch of facts down about ancestors and discovering family stories?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“IT IS TO CONNECT WITH RELATIVES YOU </span></i><st1:stockticker><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">DON</span></i></st1:stockticker><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: maroon; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">’T KNOW”, as well as those you do know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using Facebook provides a mechanism for people to connect with you and it works!!!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-alt: triple windowtext 2.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In a later post I will prove that a blog and Facebook works to connect with new people.<o:p></o:p></span></div></span></div>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-29773417479719785222010-11-27T15:58:00.005-07:002010-11-27T16:02:53.446-07:00Spelling Issues Make It Difficult<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Whether it was the Braunharts on my father’s side or the Kreymborgs on my mother’s side – I was beset with spelling issues when searching databases.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Thanks to indexing issues as well as recording problems by people who wrote down these last names, or even my own relatives who provided a wide variety of spelling to those who recorded the info – this was a huge stumbling block.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">For example, in newspapers, death certificates, census records, immigration records, etc. – Braunhart was spelled Braunhart, Braundardt, Braunhardt, Bramhart, Brownhart and even more varieties.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Kreymborg was spelled, Kreyenborg, Kreymborg, Krymborg, Kreimberg, just to name a few.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">So trying to find the right person was and still is a huge challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon">TIP – BE PERSISTENT WITH SPELLING ISSUES</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">You MUST not give up when searching for names that have a variety of spellings.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Try all combinations that you can think of.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Use wildcard (*) searches with just the first few letters.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Try weird combinations of letters even though it doesn’t make sense.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Use Soundex searches as an alternative if the database allows it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>With persistence you will be rewarded – I guarantee it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It may take months or even years to find the right combination of letters in order to find the family name.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For census searches try searching with just the first names of both spouses , especially if you know the location.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This will enable you at least to not have hundreds and thousands of hits (results) to search through.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>DO NOT GIVE UP.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">This was the only way that I could find all the Braunhart records that I did.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And was the only way that I found my great grandmother Carolena Kreymborg and her sister Bertha’s immigration records.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Those records had different spellings that were far different than their “real names”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And trust me – their “real names” were not always the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-924928758259482272010-11-27T11:25:00.009-07:002010-11-27T12:16:31.553-07:00Meet The Parents<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">There was another Braunhart “straggler” for which I had no confirmed connection.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Through Google searches I had found references to an “LI Braunhart” and an “LJ Braunhart”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I did not know the connection although he had been included in several articles regarding the Reform Rabbi Moses Mielziner.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This Braunhart had run a Jewish school in Schubin, which just happened to be the birth place of all the Braunharts and Bernsteins that I had identified.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Through the purchase of my great great grandmother’s (Sara Braunhart Bernstein) death certificate, there was a reference to her parents – Jacob Braunhart and Minnie Zadek.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">So the question was – who was LJ Braunhart? Was he the same as Jacob Braunhart in Sara’s death certificate?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">On to another search technique that I stumbled upon – Google Books! By searching for “Braunhart” in Google Books, I found several mini biographies of “Levin Jacob Braunhart” and a mini biography of Samuel Braunhart – where lo and behold it stated that Sam was the son of the “renowned Jewish teacher” Levin Jacob Braunhart – so my 3<sup>rd</sup> great grandparents were found!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Yippee!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – TRY SEARCHING GOOGLE BOOKS</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">Google has many search databases besides the generic Google search.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Try Google Books and Google Scholar and if your ancestors were inventors (like some of mine) – Google Patents.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You may be surprised what you find – I was!</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-90281139674565218582010-11-27T09:04:00.005-07:002010-11-27T09:11:41.848-07:00Braunhart Mania - Part 3 - Immigration<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I began to flesh out Sara’s family – her husband Aaron Bernstein never appeared in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> – so the assumption was (and still is) that he most likely died before Sara immigrated.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And I found Sara’s children – Ernestine of course, and her siblings – Amalie and Cecelia and Hattie and brother Max.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sara had seven children in total and as of the 1900 census 5 were still living – the aforementioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I was interested in when they all immigrated and for most of them found that info, except for Max.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – SEARCH FOR IMMIGRATION INFO</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">Through ellissisland,org and castlegarden.org and ancestry.com, a mountain of information can be found regarding the travels of immigrants across the seas.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Where they are from including the city - who they were going to live with when they landed – their ages and traveling companions - even how much money they had in their pockets at the time of their voyage.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Lots of great information to tie people together.</span></i></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Over the next few years through various searches I found a Carl Gustav Braunhart and a Sara Selma Braunhart.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Martha and Jakob Braunhart arrived in 1904 and Anna Braunhart arrived in 1909.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And there was a Leslie B. Hart whose father’s last name was Braunhart.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There was a Lucie Braunhart who traveled to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And an Alex Braunhart who was mentioned as Anna’s father in her immigration manifest.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Yet another reference to an Alex Braunhart who traveled here twice – in 1881 and 1882.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Who were these people and were they related?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">So Carl, Lucie, Leslie B. Hart, Anna, Jakob, Martha, Alex and Sara Selma all became know to me as the Braunhart stragglers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I suspected that Samuel’s nephew Jacob, mentioned in his death notice might be the same as Jakob who immigrated in 1904 – but I had no proof!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – IF YOU DON'T HAVE PROOF - IT DOESN'T EXIST</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">I can’t say this more strongly – if you think it might be true but don’t have proof via some type of source material – IT ISN’T </span></i><st1:stockticker><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon; font-weight:normal">TRUE</span></i></st1:stockticker><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I have seen many a Family Tree in the trees available in ancestry.com where there is no source documentation.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Use that information to lead you to possibly do some research – but do not view it as gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There are many sloppy “genealogists” out there.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They aren’t really genealogists – but like you and me are interested in their family history.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And they are easily persuaded to accept fiction or innuendo as fact.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Do not believe them unless and until you have source material that backs up your assumptions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You will be glad you took a rigorous approach to this.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Wild goose chases are sometimes exciting but are never satisfying.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p></div>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-3164602498958000602010-11-27T08:46:00.007-07:002010-11-27T08:59:18.765-07:00Braunhart Mania - Part 2 - Newspapers<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">To discover more, I began to search newspaper databases.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I subscribed to newspaperarchive.com and found other websites where many other newspapers had been indexed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>These proved to be much more valuable in 2008 and 2009 as more newspapers from more cities were indexed but this was a start.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – SEARCH NEWSPAPERS</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">There are many newspaper sites now, some free, some subscription only, many indexed by name.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This will provide another dimension to the information that you are gathering.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Now not only will you find dates and names through marriage notices and obituaries, but now something about these people’s lives will emerge.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">So let’s summarize what I know at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There is a Samuel Braunhart, who immigrated in 1862 at the age of 14 and ended up in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-weight:normal">Santa Barbara</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, and later in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">San Francisco</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He was a “commercial traveler” - an 1800s name for a traveling salesman.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He later entered politics in the 1880s and was a State Assemblyman, State Senator, Port Warden, and lastly a San Francisco City Supervisor, where he served until his death one month after the Great Earthquake and Fire in 1906. I found hundreds of newspaper articles about him as details of mostly his political life emerged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">And in his death notice in the San Francisco Call emerges the first of what I began to signify as the Braunhart “stragglers”, his nephew Jacob.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>More about the “stragglers” later.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">And now I knew at least the name of my great great grandmother – Sara Braunhart Bernstein, Samuel’s older and only sister.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">And then I found the oldest Braunhart sibling – Bernhard, who was the first Braunhart to come to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-weight:normal">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> – at the age of 16 in 1857! <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I had found Bernhard in some census records and his marriage info in the San Francisco Call, but the confirmation of his relationship to his brother Samuel was via a newspaper account of Bernhard’s suicide, where it stated that he was Sam’s brother.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">There is one more Braunhart sibling to go – but that had to wait until 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span></p><p></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-19929177470524149852010-11-26T13:14:00.011-07:002010-11-26T14:24:17.441-07:00Braunhart Mania Begins<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">When I started this family research, I had never even heard the name Braunhart.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In fact the first time I even saw the name was in one of my relatives death certificates that I had purchased from the State of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight: normal">California Archives</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, where it was spelled Braundardt. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Subsequently, I was unable to find the name Braundardt anywhere, in free or subscription databases.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Some time in 2004, through familysearch.org, the LDS church free website – a reference to the marriage between my great grandfather Isidore Heyman and his bride Ernestine Bernstein was found in a database of weddings in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Manhattan</span></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">New York</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I had now found another great grandmother!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The database also mentioned the names of their parents – so now I knew the names of 4 more great great grandparents.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This is getting awesome!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">This was my inspiration then to purchase Ernestine’s death certificate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – <span style="text-transform: uppercase">Buy Selected Death Certificates</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon; font-weight:normal">As I have found out since, the quality of the data on the death certificate is limited to the memory of the mourning relative providing the information; yet death certificates do provide a lot of information.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>One can spend hundreds and thousands of dollars buying these, but if you are selective – you can get a lot of data with less investment.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Contact your county or state to get them.</span></i></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">It was here that the Braundardt name first appeared in print.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>As I had written earlier – I had received an article about Samuel Braunhart, and coupling that information with the marriage information for my great grandmother Ernestine along with her death certificate yielded my next great great grandmother – Sara Braunhart Bernstein.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My dad’s cousin Gloria recalled a couple of stories about her during my visit to her, but now I knew her EXACT name.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 19px; "><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Using the name “Braunhart” as a guide, I now began searching everything in sight to find more about this family.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">It is still 2004, and I am beginning to feel an obsession with this family – maybe because there was a feeling of impending “riches” of information – maybe something else.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Maybe a connection that I could not understand at the time.</span></p><p></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-75028369128212661032010-11-26T12:31:00.007-07:002010-11-26T13:21:53.730-07:00Let's Start Contacting Everybody<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I contacted my cousins Judy and Diane on my mother’s side, and we began to share information and photos and documents that we each had.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They introduced me to their Aunt Pauline who was also interested in genealogy – she remembered me, unfortunately I didn’t remember her, but she was helpful as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "><br /></span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon">TIP – <span style="text-transform: uppercase">Keep in Touch with </span></span><st1:personname><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;text-transform:uppercase">Everyone</span></st1:personname></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><b><st1:personname><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;text-transform:uppercase"></span></st1:personname></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">Share your information with all your relatives who have helped you and provided you with information, by phone calls, emails and the like.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s not only fun, but the information might trigger a memory in them that will be helpful.</span></i></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I kept in contact with my Uncle Merv, and sent him some photos with unidentified people in them and he responded with who he thought the people were – so I was able to see what people I had only heard about looked like – people I had never met (or at least didn’t remember meeting).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I called my dad’s cousin Gloria, who had been a magician and a movie actress – mostly bit parts and serials.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She was excited to hear from me after 50 years and have a connection with someone in the family since she had no children and no siblings.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>She was in her 80s and I subsequently visited her in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Las Vegas</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, where she shared a few photos and some family stories.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Great fun!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"> </span></span></p><div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – <span style="text-transform: uppercase">Ask Relatives to Identify PhotoS</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><span style="text-transform: uppercase"></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">More about techniques to accomplish this later – but make copies if you have to and mail them to people who don’t use email (many people in their 80s don’t).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Ask them to identify people if they can.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This is important!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Once people with visual memory are gone there is no way to identify relatives in photos.</span></i> </p> </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">So now 2003 and the first half of 2004 are over.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s time to try some new things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p></span><p></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-45783905496420115622010-11-26T12:13:00.009-07:002010-11-26T13:22:34.479-07:00Let's Try Another Branch<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Next I turned my attention to the Marks family – my grandfather’s father and his ancestors.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I found through the San Francisco Call Index that Mollie Raphael had married a Joseph Marks – now I knew another great grandparent! – Joseph, (which by the way is my father’s middle name – now I know why).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">This is getting exciting! I found through the census Joseph’s brothers and his parents Louis Marks and wife Caroline and his brother’s families.</span><span style="font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-weight:normal">Back to the San Francisco Call Index to find out their spouses and dates of their marriages. So now I had not only found a great grandfather and great grandmother (Joseph and Mollie) - but also a great great grandfather and grandmother - Louis and Caroline!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I thought it was time to take a breath and try to connect with some more people.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I placed an item in both the ancestry.com or rootsweb.com forums and asked if anyone had any information about a Raphael family who had lived in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1800s. A short time later, I received an email from a woman named Kit Crawford, a new name to me, EXCEPT that I remember a distant cousin from when I was a child who was named Kit.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We emailed and voila – Kit the cousin was found.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Through emails and phone calls we connected, and have been in touch since.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I subsequently made a business trip to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">San Diego</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> and stopped by to visit her and her husband, as well as her mother Elisabeth Repp, </span><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Stafford</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">’s sister.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Elisabeth was a hoot and Kit was very helpful as we shared notes. Sadly Elisabeth passed a few years later, but I was able to have her connect with my Uncle Merv (they were first cousins and hadn't talked in over 50 years!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: maroon; "><b>TIP – ASK QUESTIONS IN GENEALOGY FORUMS</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">You never know who will answer.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sometimes no one, sometimes relatives that you know of, sometimes new relatives, and many times “would be” relatives – people who think they might be related but turn out not to be.</span></i></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; ">This is getting cooler and cooler!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I am actually finding people!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Amazing!</span></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-72368635225939385242010-11-26T11:54:00.013-07:002010-11-26T13:23:00.727-07:00Time to Dive In<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">So, in 2003 I began the search in earnest.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I invested my hard earned cash in ancestry.com and genealogy.com subscriptions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This was before they were merged – at that time neither had all the census data digitized so I used both.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My initial focus was on my father’s grandmother on his father’s side.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My grandfather’s full name was Mervyn Raphael Marks (middle name pronounced “ray-full”).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>According to my Uncle Merv (his son) the middle name was actually his mother’s maiden name.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So now I was armed with at least my great grandmother’s last name.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My grandfather had a sister named Carol.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>And I knew that she had married a man named Repp.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This I knew because Carol’s son was Stafford Repp.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Stafford</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> had been an actor in some films but mostly early television with his most famous role as Chief O’Hara on the campy Batman series with Adam West as the Caped Crusader in the mid-1960s.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">After much searching, I found the Repp family in the 1930 Federal Census.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They were living in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Oakland</span></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">California</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> and there were 5 in the family – the husband and wife – Herbert and Carol Repp, the son </span><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Stafford</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> and the daughter Betty (who actually used the name Elisabeth later in life).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But the most fantastic find so far was the discovery of the mother-in-law – “Mollie Marks”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I had found my first great grandmother!</span></b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; "><b><span style="font-weight: normal; "></span></b></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – THE FEDERAL CENSUS IS AMAZING</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">Next to family history obtained through personal interviews, the federal census will provide you with family members that you didn’t know you had.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In the past family members tended to stick together and older aunts and uncles and grandparents often lived with younger relatives.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Search them – you will be amazed at what you can find!</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">From this find – I rapidly began to fill out that side of the family.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I found Mollie and her sisters and her parents in the 1870, 1880, and 1900 censuses, so now I had found my first great great grandparents – Marks Raphael and Pauline Saloman.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Through the San Francisco Call Index I found lots of other dates and information.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Through the Yuba County, California Genealogy website I found where Marks and Pauline were married in 1863, along with the burial information for two of their infant children.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was now on a roll!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – RESEARCH FREE STATE AND COUNTY GENEALOGY WEBSITES</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">There are hundreds if not thousands of these free websites, many with searchable databases. Search for them. Use them. For example, sfgenealogy.com has been extremely helpful as many of my ancestors lived in San Francisco during the 1800s and early 1900s.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "></span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I rapidly filled out approximately 60% of the Raphael information that I now have back in 2004, through this variety of databases.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>On a vacation to </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Yosemite</span></st1:placename><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">National Park</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, I stopped in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Marysville</span></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">California</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, where my Mollie Raphael Marks was born along with all of her siblings, and where her father was a tailor, during the 1860s and 1870s – the gold rush years and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">I found Marks Raphael’s brother Aaron, who also immigrated to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> in the 1850s and spent time in Marysville, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-weight:normal">San Francisco</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, and </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Oakland</span></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">California</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I fleshed out Aaron’s family and his children and grandchildren and their families.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">So now I had an excellent start to the Raphael line. On to other branches!</span></p></div>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-74397651393363574052010-11-24T17:05:00.009-07:002010-11-26T11:46:45.857-07:00A Family Interview Yields the Best Info So Far<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Not necessarily next in order was connecting with my Dad’s youngest cousin, Clyde.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> He </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">was a musician and about 13 years younger than my father.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So I figured that </span><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Clyde</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> was still around.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">So I Googled his full name</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> and I found that he had spent some time in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-weight:normal">Hawaii</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> making music.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I discovered that he was a member of the musician’s union in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-weight:normal">Honolulu</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>His email address wasn’t available – so I emailed the secretary of the union and asked him to forward my “introductory” email to </span><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Clyde</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">, which he thankfully did.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Clyde</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> emailed me back in about a week and was ecstatic that I had reached out to him.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He had me confused with someone else, but after a phone call we got that straightened out.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></p><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – USE INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">Internet Search Engines are your friend.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> S</span>ubscription genealogy services such as ancestry.com and footnote.com are incredibly useful, but you can also discover a great deal with simple Internet searches.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Try it – you will like it!</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><br /></span></st1:place></p><p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Clyde</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> and I shared a few stories and began sending information back and forth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He told me a few things about his grandfather (and my great grandfather) Isidore Heyman and some of his inventions, including a clip-on tie that he made in the 1940s (Isidore had other more useful inventions, some of which he had patented – not the greatest businessman – he didn’t get rich from his creativity).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The best thing that </span><st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Clyde</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"> did for me (other than emailing me back) was to send me an article about a State Senator in the family named Samuel Braunhart, who was his mother’s great uncle.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Feisty old Sam was the first Braunhart I had ever heard of.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; ">And finding more about the Braunharts became my obsession for the next 7 years!</span></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1493079763112825776.post-68312615414738798362010-11-24T15:54:00.009-07:002010-11-24T16:02:35.388-07:00My First Interview<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">And so I trudged on.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I remember first calling my Uncle Merv – my Dad’s brother.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He was over 80 at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I don’t believe that I had spoken to him for at least 20 or maybe even 30 years.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He and my dad had split somewhat after he and my father had ended their partnership in the family company, California Optical Leather Company – a company that manufactured eyeglass cases – a company that was started by my grandfather, Mervyn Marks, Sr. in the late 1930s. He had started making key cases out of leather and had the good fortune to get a contract during the Second World War to manufacture eyeglass cases for Ray-Ban, who was providing sunglasses to the Air Force.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>More about that later.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal">Uncle Merv was probably my first “older relative” contact.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All of my Mother’s “blood” relatives had passed. And I seemed to have more of an interest in my Father’s side of the family – probably because I knew so little about them.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was closer to my Father’s family anyway – since I had worked at the “Shop” as we called the company since I was little.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br /></span> <div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon"><b>TIP – EVERYTHING THAT SOMEONE TELLS YOU MIGHT BE WRONG</b><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">When you talk to your relatives, especially your older relatives, you need to keep in mind that they are likely to get names and facts wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Regardless, write this stuff down, because even though they might tell you that Maxine was Al’s daughter, when Maxine and Al were married to each other, or that Uncle Max was skinny when he was fat, the names and memories matter – you can always link things up later – if you are lucky!</span></i></p></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br /></span></p><div style="border:double windowtext 2.5pt;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none; mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal"><o:p><b>TIP – RELATIVES MAY NOT WANT TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING</b> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:triple windowtext 2.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:6.0pt 4.0pt 6.0pt 4.0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:maroon;font-weight:normal">Remember that many people, including your relatives, have things in their past that they do not want to divulge, not necessarily because they are ashamed of it, but more so because it may be a painful memory.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>So ask, but push gently.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Maybe some day they will let you know, maybe not.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The relationship is more important than the information; don’t let your zeal to get at the information ruin the relationship.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; "> </span></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Kenneth R Markshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04400304978312375414noreply@blogger.com0