Sunday, May 11, 2014

Research recap: where today, vs. where started

"Lost in 3 generations" ... vs. how much lost in 1 generation, in my family
      - both my parents youngest, with siblings 9 - 18 years older
      - like their parents, busy being Americans - especially during WW1 / 2, German & Jewish
      - not generation when kids asked parents what they hadn't been told 
             - I asked my parents, but not my aunts / uncles, even when in my 20's
      - tiny NYC apts. meant not much kept



 Given (from parents)
 Learned (from research)
 Mom's dad
 Herman Storck









 d. 1949 Jan 1
 buried @ Beth David    
 Chaim Storch
 b. 1881, Gorlice, Galicia, Austria 
 father Samuel Storch
 mother Sime Solomon 
 8th? of 11 children 
 a. 1891 Nov 23, NYC
    w/ mother, 3 siblings
 naturalized 1903 Jan 26
 m. 1905 Jan 1
 Mom's mom   
 Sarah Schwartz(...)      




 a. age 16, from Vienna
 6 kids, 1st died age 2

 buried @ Mt Hebron
 Sarah Schwartz 
 b. 1884, "Wolhein", Austria 
 father Abraham Schwartz
 mother Beile Reich
    widowed, remarried > Kukel
 a. 1900 Jul 1, NYC

 d. 1940 Feb 15 when my mom 16   
 Dad's dad
 William Paul Schlegel
 b. Kolmar, Germany

 mother Emma 








 buried @ Greenwood
 Paul William Schlegel
 b. 1874, Kolmar, Posen, Prussia
 father Georg Burchart Schlegel
 mother Emma Pauline Vogelsang
   widowed, remarried > Schultz
 2nd of 4 children, 2 step siblings
 a. 1891 Aug, NYC
 sister arrived 1894, NYC
 enlist army 1898 Nov 28, 3 yrs
 m. 1902 Oct 22
 naturalized 1903 Aug 17
 d. 1929 Jan 23
 buried on my dad's 7th birthday
 Dad's mom
 Mary Decker
 b. NYC
 father John Decker

 mother Louisa


 d. 1953 Aug 13
 buried @ Greenwood
 Mary Augusta Decker
 b. 1883 Oct 17, NYC
 father
    widowed, raised kids w/MIL
 mother Louisa Koester
 4 GPs all German immigrants
 had 4 kids, 1st died age 4 mo.