[Cz-L] New to List

I have recently signed up to the Czernowitz List and would like to
introduce myself.

I am the designated amateur genealogist in my family and have been
tracing the roots of mine and my wife's ancestry. The connection with
Czernowitz is my wife's. Her mother was born in Czernowitz in 1910 and
came to the US with her parents in 1914. They lived in the Bronx, NY.
Actually, her grandfather came in June, 1913 and her grandmother, with
her mother and her aunt, in January, 1914. I have found their records in
the Ellis Island database. We also have copies of my wife's mother's
birth certificate from Czernowitz and the official marriage certificate
of her grandparents from 1904.

Her grandfather entered the US under the name Moses (Morris) GERINGER,
and this is the name on both certificates. He is listed on both of the
certificates, however, as the illegitimate son of Hinda Geringer, born
in Czernowitz in 1879. I assume that his parents had a religious
marriage, but it was not registered by the state. Hence, the name
Geringer was probably his mother's maiden name and not his father's
name, which I think was SCHARFSTEIN.

Her grandmother entered the US under the name of Vittel Scharfstein
along with her two daughters Rosa (Rose) and Perl. Perl (Pearl) is my
mother-in-law, who is now 95 years old and regrettably suffering from
Alzheimer's Disease. The family kept the name Geringer in the US, and my
mother-in-law was Pearl Geringer until she was married. Her husband
(Harry Brass/Bresloff) came from a different part of the Ukraine - Gaisin.

In the 1905 marriage certificate Vittel BILDNER is listed as the
illegitimate daughter of Fiege Bildner and was born in Suchowerchow,
Kotzman District, now living in Czernowitz. Her family was apparently
actually SEIDMAN, since this is the name used by her siblings who
immigrated to the US. I have located Suchowerchow as being a few miles
NW of Czernowitz.

The marriage certificate lists the name of Rabbi Benjamin Weiss, as
performing the ceremony, and Cantor Ichael Schrager and Rabbi Elias
Bernstein as witnesses. It is from the Book of Jewish Marriages in
Tchernowitz, Austria-Hungarian Monarchy (Dominion of Bukowina). The
birth certificate shows Papi(?) Scheer as the midwife and Chaim Meier
Eisinowitz as the Godfather. It also states it is from Vol. XXII, page
200, of the Birth Certificate Book, Jewish Department in Tchernowitz.

I have not been able to track down any of these names any further,
although the name Seidman does show up once or twice. Perhaps some other
reader of this list might recognize one of them.

Henry Chadwick - hdchad_at_ieee.org
Received on 2006-01-09 13:59:23