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Fellman/Bloch siblings 1900's

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brigid

brigid Report 12 Jul 2015 01:14

not sure why need to include this link ;w e're researching into DESCENDENTS here .hope that doesn't sound rude ; I was excited to have new post
+ thenit was just a link .

Another disappointment ; the birth cert of the Rachel Fellman didb't state if married or sg or Parents names , and she died in the workhouse !

ahh ....can't type much cos of eye probs .

JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 13 Jul 2015 00:56

because brigid as I said in your other thread, some people reading will not know of all the posts about these families ....... and the fact is that some of them are virtually impossible for any outsider to the family and anyone who has not made a study of all of the threads to understand even minimally (I have tried in a couple of cases)

I and others who are interested in helping on these boards very much appreciate it when other members bring it to our attention that there are existing multiple threads about a family so we do not waste time reinventing the wheel

at this point I don't know what 'more info' any outsider could hope to find for you!

brigid

brigid Report 14 Jul 2015 06:13

; look what a member on roots chat sent me ;

"You’re right that there is no surviving birth record for George Jacob Fellman.
However, I nonetheless suspect that he had the double-name Gershon-Jankel in memory of his parents’ paternal grandfathers.

We know that Mendel’s paternal grandfather was called Jankel. Further research of the tax records leads me to conclude that Gesa-Eida was the granddaughter of Gershon Landmann, her father was most probably Marcus (son of) Gershon Landmann (1816-1880). Marcus is the standard secular name used by men with the Hebrew name Mordechai, whose Yiddish nickname is Mottel. Remember that Mendel and Gesa-Eida gave the name Aron-Mottel to their son born in 1883. Marcus Gershon Landmann and his wife, Ester-Leah, had children between 1833 and 1852. In fact, Mendel’s second wife, Sheina, was the daughter of one of Marcus’ sons.

I have also established that David Fellman (b. 1886), the watch maker, also emigrated to New York in 1905. However, he didn’t travel with his parents and siblings on the Oceanic in March, but on the Haverford in January. He too stated he was heading to B Fellman at 478 Myrtle Avenue. At some point he married a Bohemian Jewess named Sadie. They do not appear to have had any children. Strangely, in his 1926 petition for US naturalisation, David insisted that he had been born in Manchester on 20 October 1886.

Bessie (b. 1882) married Ely Ness (b. c1880 Jakobstadt) in 1913 in New York. Originally called Ely Nissse, he was recorded in the 1911 UK census in Manchester. He and Bessie settled in Savannah, Georgia and had at least four children. Significantly, they named a daughter Jennie/Jeanette in 1918, meaning that Bessie’s mother had died shortly before. They family moved back to New York and had 71-year-old Samuel with them for the 1925 New York census.

This family could keep us occupied for years to come. "


He obviously enjoys this story
+ the whole journey Latvia ,Manchester + Liverpoool to USA will interest other GR searchers when they reach brick walls


.I would never have guessed to go back to Russia or forwards to USA from the info we got ...


JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 14 Jul 2015 14:09

well there we are, it also helps to know that you are seeking help elsewhere, and people at this site have no idea what people at other sites have found for you :-D

I obviously enjoy other people's family histories as well or I (and many others) would not be here

but when the stories are spread over many threads and the threads contain information that to an outsider is indecipherable without being familiar with what is in all the other threads ... well, you said it! --- it 'could deflate someone less tenacious' ... there are not many more tenacious than me and after reading two of your and Alisoun's threads recently I was completely deflated :-)

I do have to commend that rootschat member for providing such a clear summary of that set of facts.

JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 16 Jul 2015 07:57

Oh, for pity's sake, brigid.

You've been around the block a while here, although maybe not a lot outside your own family threads ...

this site provides zero accessible information/instructions for newcomers, and it sometimes seems that every single one of them, if they manage or bother to make their way back to their threads and read messages, completely disregards the 'reply' box and the fac that everyone else has posted messages in the thread, and clicks on other members' names and sends private messages ... sometimes just to reply to info or questions, sometimes assuming everyone in a thread is one big happy family and we must all be related and want to see one another's trees.

in addition is the stupid 'marked as answered' function that, again, every single newcomer uses to check off someone else's post if they think they have answered it, thus tagging their entire thread as answered, with the result that people don't bother reading it to offer more help

some people, myself included, hope that newcomers will see our 'Researching' comments as 'sig lines' the way other sites have, and that those comments will help them use the boards effectively and avoid time-consuming explanations from the rest of us

none of it has the first thing to do with you

you might want to expand your horizons a little and just familiarize yourself more with the goings on on the boards and the people making them go! :-)

brigid

brigid Report 20 Jul 2015 07:11

Edit ; I go on other threads +

I have some probs looking at screens + only had minimum membership + come on here sporadically. there are things on here i cant do.

I'm trying to find a solution to having huge threads
.. i AM REFERING TO dESCENDENTS HERE ....


tHEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW WHO THERE ANCESTORS ARE


btw ONLY THE AUTHOR OF A THREAD CAN SIGN IT AS ANSWERED ....surely

AND ADDING A COMMENT NUDGES A THREAD UP + SHOWS PPL THAT THERE IS INTEREST IN THEIR THREAD

apologies for capitals not meant to me shouting just typing blind
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JoonieCloonie

JoonieCloonie Report 20 Jul 2015 08:25

brigid, if you follow your own thread

I was replying to your remark to Jacqueline which was

'your researching profile is very confusing jacq ..when there is no other message i think it is a direct instruction to me
or an accusation ...can't remember clicking on yr name ; I've thought that several times would u like help re-wording it .'

there was NO direct instruction to you and there was NO accusation made

(and your comment about 're-wording' was rather patronizing)

if you read my 'rant' again as a clear reply to what YOU said, you should understand it