A Mystery Solved! A few years ago, my siblings and I were going through a pile of pictures belonging to our grandmother, Rose Spiegel Lichtenthal. Included in the group was a picture of four women, two of whom were obviously our grandmother and her mother, Sophie Spiegel. But who were the other women? We didn’t […]
Read MoreToday would have been Hattie Kesner’s 135th birthday. Hattie was born on September 4, 1878 in New York. She would become the oldest of six children born to George Ralph Kesner and Jessie Davis. The Kesner’s second child, a son named Harry George, would eventually marry Estelle Byk becoming my paternal great-grandparents. That makes Hattie […]
Read MoreRene Mendel was born in Budapest, Hungary on September 3, 1883. She was the third and youngest child of Jacob Berger and the former Cecilie Schoen. Rene’s sister, Rosa (b. 1875) married Sigmund Lichtenthal in 1899, becoming my maternal great-grandmother. Rene’s brother Rudolph was born in 1872. Rene married Adolf Mendl. They had one son, […]
Read MoreI have so many projects started…I have so many family pictures…so many stories…so much history to share with my family… so many “good intentions”… Here is the current list of projects I have started: 1. “Who We Are and How We Got This Way” Volume One: Alan E. Samuel2. “Who We Are and How We […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 