Alice Josephs
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| Hello! I'm the 1960s' Brit fashion icon above. But I dropped out of the modelling catwalk circuit after overdosing on rosehip syrup and baby rusks! Are we by chance related? My family is from Germany and Poland. Herz is German for "heart", but here comes from Hirsch meaning "deer" - as in "doe, a deer, a female deer". Or to stretch the point in a quick diversion, is it all related to exclamation, "Doh!" given by well-known genealogical black sheep, Homer Simpson (religion never quite determined)? For a bit of extra-genealogical activity, slob out with Homer, Marge and kids at http://www.thesimpsons.com/ My Herz family lived in Kochendorf, now Bad Friedrichshall and Heilbronn, Baden Württemberg. Take a virtual visit to http://www.friedrichshall.de/. Herzes settled in "The Big Apple", NYC. Horse-breeder Emil Herz established the Kentucky Derby pre-race odds winter book. See the work of photographers Barbara Singer and late husband, Emil's son Nat, a poet and civil rights advocate, at http://www.barbarasinger.com. Stern means "star". Hop along via cyperspace to http://www.hessennet.de/heppenheim/ Stern home town of Heppenheim an der Bergstraße, Hesse. Enjoy Six Weeks at Heppenheim, courtesy of British writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Who knows, perhaps this short story was partly inspired by the hostelry of great great grandfather Feist (mother a Hochschild) and second wife, my ancestor, Jeanette born Mayerfeld, as well as other high-class establishments in Heppenheim - including the real hotel "Halben Mond"? Go to http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Heppenheim.html. Where is the gravestone of great grandfather, Leopold Stern, said to have died in North America, possibly Montreal, aged 37 in July 1901, after going there the same year? Can you help? My grandmother Paula's Markus family came from Otterstadt, Rheinland Pfalz and Hainchen, Hesse. Her Grün, Grünewald family came from Rödelheim, Hesse. Josephs/Yublo(f)sky/Yablofsky/Jablowski/Yablisky and Rosenberg families came from Ciechanõw and the Don/Dans from Pultusk, Poland to London's East End in 1904. Hear what London is thinking on http://www.lbc.co.uk, a news phone-in station. We may be related to a Belarus/Irish Josephs family of Grodno and Dublin. Will Jonson has written the splendid Starr Family Trails and Tales, ably assisted by the late Gene Starr. The late Rose Lowell, born Herz, is a tough genealogical act to follow. Cousin Werner Frank - http://home.pacbell.net/wlfrank/ - keeps Herz descendants informed with a polished newsletter. New-found cousins Bessie Grossman and Susie Mayerfeld have shown true genealogical grit in tracing relatives. Constant Hopkins, with professional German researcher Margit Göttert, has uncovered many Mayerfelds. Gisela Lorenzen has handed over a treasure trove of Markus information. Three books helped: Geschichte und Geschicke der Heppenheimer Juden by Wilhelm Metzendorf; Bad Friedrichshall edited by Lothar Hantsch and Juden in Ludwigshafen edited by Ulrike Minor and Peter Ruf. Thanks also to Hans Riexinger of Kochendorf. I run mailing lists open to researchers looking for families of any religion: Kochendorf http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kochendorf, Heppenheim http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Heppenheim, Herz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Herz and Josephs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Josephs. Also a genealogy Jewish Frankfurt am Main list, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/J-Frankfurt See also the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain at http://www.jgsgb.org.uk/, Jewishgen at http://www.jewishgen.org/ and the Anglo-German Family History Society at http://www.art-science.com/agfhs/. Apart from myself, I have tried only to display deceased family. Contact me with information, corrections or for help. Related or not, good luck in your research! This site is dedicated to the memory of those no longer with us... Remember Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of the future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve; For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830-1894 |
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