- 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)
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Learned (from research)
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Mom's dad
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
