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Irene Newhouse's Web Pages

The Lida District & Lida city sites  on Shtetlinks
Lida District Home Page
 
Does your child need something t chew on?  Here's how to make a chew necklace.

Lida area name lists that  ShtetLinks won't
  I'm in the = process (7/06) of donating these to Jewishgen databases. But for those of you who  prefer to browse lists rather than being forced to search them, I'm also keeping  them here.

Voter lists

Transcriptions of name lists from Soviet Extraordinary Commission reports
Lida
Radun
Vasilishki 

Family trees of Lida families
descendants of Khonon Pupko - by Fred Cutter

Reuven Poupko has asked me to post this family history by his maternal grandfather

German Jewish Family Trees -Family trees of Bavarian Jewish families of Middle Franconia

 Dietenhoefer, Selke, Kirschbaum, Neuburger, Rothschild,Schönwalter, Gutmann, Gerstle, Heidecker, Hessdorfer, Bauernfreund, Landau, Bär, and Neumark

Compiled by R’ Meyer Schuster, teacher in Ellingen (1898-1981)

In order to meet 0catch file size limitations, I had to remove several images of hand-drawn trees. The material has been transcribed just below the pictures. If these are your families, and you want scans of the hand-written trees, I'll email them directly

Dela Lipinskaja was a cabaret star in Weimar Germany. Now she's all but forgotten. Can you contribute any information?

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Looking for relatives surnamed Caspari/Caspary. Three sons of Caspar  Levin of Schlochau settled in Berlin in the early 1800s. Two of them married  cousins in the Goldschmidt family.  Click for their  & grandchildren; surnames include Tuerkheim, Joachimsthal, Kauffmann

Can you read the inscription on this picture?  It's probably one of the obsolete forms of German  shorthand.

My maternal grandmother's grandfather was from Kempen in Posen, now Kepno, Poznan, Poland.  I've collected some of my material on him and on Jewish life in Kempen.

My maternal grandmother's grandmother's family, the Bauers, were from Breslau. [Under construction!]
 

 Famous descendants of Jente Hameln  Under construction
 

Breslau  --under construction -- updated 7/01

 Links to other sites on the Web
Jewishgen Home Page
 All kinds of links to German genealogical sites:  name dictionaries, genealogy word lists,  on-line translators
Cross-reference of German and Polish town names in Posen
A list of towns in Poland by German name
Need help getting  started?  Look in the left frame  for links to lessons

Other Family Web Pages
Chris Schueler's Pages 
Honorary cousin Will Yancey's Silesian Family History Site

Links to sites of family interest
History of Jews in Hamburg
Dr. Markus Brann
A list of all the books & articles he wrote
Gross Breesen
Gut Winkel 
Martin Gerson, director of the Auswanderlehrgut Paderborn  
A book on Gut Winkel was published in 2007 -search amazon.de with the name
Dachau web  site (there's no record of our father's imprisonment, though)
George Landecker & Gross Breesen  
Sosua  history
The beach  at Sosua today
Interview with Barbara Honigmann