Re: [Cz-L] Seeking Genealogical Info about Leopold, Betti and Hendrich Friedmann of Czernowitz

Dear Noreen,

I see that you live in the Boston area. Do you know the Jewish Genealogical
Society of Greater Boston? If not, definitely get in touch with them - they
can help you a great deal: http://www.jgsgb.org/

Merle

Merle Kastner
Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, VP & Programming
merlek_at_videotron.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noreen" <noreenf_at_verizon.net>
To: <czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 12:05 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Seeking Genealogical Info about Leopold, Betti and Hendrich
Friedmann of Czernowitz

> Title: Seeking Genealogical Info about my Great Grandfather Friedmann of
> Czernowitz
>
>
>
> Good morning! I am seeking genealogical information or Vital Statistic
> Records for my great-grandfather originally from the Czernowitz/Chernivtsi
> area date range 1870-1910. Through DNA testing we found out that our
> great-grandfather most likely changed his identity when as a young boy he
> ran away to New York City, USA sometime between 1896-1905. His original
> identity most likely was; Heinrich or Hendrick Friedmann, baker, born
> about
> 13 March 1878-88, son of Leopold Friedman and Betti Piasetski Friedmann
> from
> Czernowitz, Radautz, Bukovina, Austria (now Chernivtsi Ukraine, I believe)
> the family may have moved to Vienna around 1915. My great grandfather was
> 5'6" tall, 156 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes, with fair vision (needed
> glasses).
>
>
>
> We found more information and family lore from our DNA cousin: If we are
> related through a Ggrandfather, it has to be through the maternal side, as
> far as the names go.(I am 97% Ashkenazi.) My Grandmother, who came from
> Vienna and moved to New York in about 1905, had two or three sisters, but
> only one brother:
>
> Hendrick Friedmann, who for some unknown reason, was kicked out of his
> home
> in Vienna by his father, Leopold. Hendrick promptly left for New York.
> According to my mother, the family never heard from him again. However,
> since his sisters, Bobbie and Sally also moved to New York, it is possible
> that he had some contact with one or both of his sisters, but not my
> grandmother, Dora. The parents never came to the United States from
> Vienna,
> and my grandmother never saw them after she left Austria, but we know the
> father corresponded with his daughters (which is how we know they were
> living in Czernowitz, Austria in 1910 by the return address of
> Czernowitz).
> My grandmother (who, by the way, to this day was the best baker I have
> ever
> met: coffee cake; strudel, apple pie, etc.) Hendrick and Dora were close
> in
> age, my mother is not sure if it was by a year or three. So if Dora was
> born in 1888, Hendrick could not have been born until 1889...if he got
> kicked out when he was 16, then it was about 1905....if he was born in
> 1890, it could have been 1906 before he came to the U.S. Hendrick was
> kicked out at 16 or 17 and my mother does not have any clue why, and she
> doesn't think he was given any money. She claims he was never heard from
> again, as far as she recalls from my Grandma. (But since his sister Bobby
> was in the Bronx already, it is possible Hendrick stayed with her for a
> while until he got on his feet...just a conjecture on my part.) The Girls:
> Bobbie, Sally, Amelia and Dora. Only one moved to New York, and that was
> Bobbie. One stayed in Vienna (and had her ear cut off to acquire a diamond
> earring by a Nazi) and that was Sally, and one who moved to Argentina:
> Amelia. Bobbie lived in the Bronx with her husband and they had three
> children: (As far as my Mom knows, all three children stayed in New
> York.)
> Sally stayed in Vienna and married and had children. Amelia moved to
> Argentina, married and had children.
>
>
>
> I have searched online and found a few New York City immigration or
> passenger Records for the Friedmann's from Czernowitz. But, cannot find
> any
> birth, marriage, death, or census records of them in Austria now Ukraine.
> I
> would very much appreciate any suggestions of where to start my research.
> Thank you in advance for considering my request. Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Noreen
>
> Boston, MA, USA
>
> noreenf_at_verizon.net
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