Eisfelder Family Genealogy
We have about 12000 names on our family tree. This is a
list
of
some
of the families that we are descended from or related to. For
privacy
reasons, no family trees are provided here. If you think you
may
be
connected to us, please contact
Rodney Eisfelder
- Eisfelder (from Bamberg
and
Burgpreppach)
- Adlerstein (from Bamberg)
- Süßlein (Suesslein) (from Frensdorf)
- Wittkower / Wittkowski (from Berlin, also London,
Manchester,
Edinburgh & New York)
- Itzig (from Berlin?)
- Lichtenstetter / Lichtenstaedter (from Kunreuth,
Baiersdorf,
Fürth and Prague)
- Morgenstern (from Büchenbach and Fürth)
- Liebermann (from Fürth or Prague?)
- Hirsch (from Acholshausen)
- Brüll (from Bamberg and Kunreuth)
- Katschinski / Katschinsky (from Sohrau (now
Zory, Poland)
then Beuthen,
Silesia (now Bytom, Poland) and later Hagenau (now Haguenau),
Alsace, France)
- Levy (from Wollstein, Posen now Wolsztyn, Poland and later
Trier (1860s) and Hagenau (1870s-))
- Levi / Levy (from Blieskastel,
Saarland, Germany but earlier from Steinbach)
- Hesse (from Metzervisse, Moselle, France - previously from
from
Puttelange-aux-Lacs) (Metzerwiese)
- Picard (from Metzervisse - previously from Boulay (Bolchen))
- Goldschmidt and Hameln from Hannover, Hameln and Hamburg,
descended from Jobst
Goldschmidt etc
- Kahn / Cahn (from Bliesbruck, Moselle,
France) (Bliesbrücken) [related to Pierre
Mendes-France and descended from Gluckel
von
Hameln]
- Emmerich from Metz [descended from Gluckel
von
Hameln ]
- Leib (from Hellimer,
Moselle, France - descendants of Joseph
Salomon and Alexandre Moyse)
- Families from Hellimer related to Leib including Joseph,
Polack,
Nora, Levy, Lambert, Guerchen, Reberg...
- Silberschmitt (from Montenach) - also related to the
Hellimer
familes
- Ruff or Rouff from Zillesheim
- Schloss (from Trier)
- Dahn (or perhaps Daun or Dann) (from Kosten, Posen now
Koscian,
Poland)
- Lambertz (from the Rhineland, esp St Hubert, Kempen and
Krefeld)
- Schieren (sometimes Schiren, Scherath etc) (from
Linnich,
Hülchrath and Neuss)
- Sasserath (from Odenkirchen and Neuss. Later in the UK and
New York? A branch of the Schieren family)
- Voos (from Rheinbach) some descendants took the name
"Kaufmann"
- Kaufmann (from Geldern,
Rhineland, later branches in Hamm, Westfalen and San
Francisco,
USA)
- Politz or Pollitz or Poliz (from Goch in the Rhineland,
branches
in Düsseldorf)
- Rath (originally from Schelsen, one branch later in
Geldern,
Straelen and Horde, Rhineland, later still in Kempen)
- Marcks (from Geldern and Moers, Rhineland)
- Jonas (from Dorstfeld, then Kamen, Westphalia)
- Hertz (from Kamen?)
- Cohen (from Kamen, descended from Jonas family, Cohen
ancestors
came from Geseke)
- Aronheim (from Kamen, Westphalia, descendants of the Cohen
family in Kamen)
- Sender (from Lüxheim,
Rhineland and earlier from Muffendorf,
Rhineland, near Bad Godesberg)
- Marx (from Gladbach,
Rhineland and earlier from Müddersheim,
Rhineland)
- Rotschild or Rothschild (from Blumenthal
and Hellenthal)
- Rubino (from Fritzlar)
- Pfingst (from Dobrzyn and Bischofsburg/Biskupiec Poland)
- Gabriel (perhaps from Flatow (now Zlotow, Poland) )
- Zacharias (from Ortelsburg (now Szczytno Poland) )
- Friedländer (from Flatow/Zlotow and later
Berlin)
- Jaraslawski / Jaruslawski / Jaruslawsky (originally from
Flatow/Zlotow, but later in Rastenburg)
- Spandau (from Berlin to South America. Argentina?)
- Jastrow (from Berlin to South America. Uruguay?)
- Lewitt (from Berlin to South America. Uruguay?)
- Arnheim (from Berlin, Beeskow and Mysliborz (Soldin) in
Poland)
- Levin (from Prenzlau)
- Wundermacher (from Flatow/Zlotow, Danzig/Gdansk
and
Königsberg/Kaliningrad)
- Michel or Michaelsohn (from Danzig)
- Szwarc / Schwarz (later Sharp / Black) (from Choroszcz and
Bialystok,
Poland)
- Sodol (from Volchina
(near Brest), Belarus)
- Rappaport (from Bialystok?)
- Cohen (from London 1830s-1860s)
- Lyons (from London till 1830s)
- Levy (from London? till 1830s)
- Rudin or variations such as Rudnoy,
Roudner etc
(from Dubrovna,
Belarus)
- Tchernookin/Schwartz (later Sharpe/Shaw) (from Dubrovna,
Belarus)
- Bloom - originally Zastenker (from Lyady, Belarus - on the
border with Russia)
- Polack (from Raczki
or
Suwalki, Poland, branches known as
Pollock in New York and Hokitika, New Zealand)
- Cohen (from Raczki or Suwalki, Poland)
- Rosenberg (from Kishinev, Moldova - now Chisinau)
- Rosenberg (from Zychlin, Poland)
- Rosenberg (from Büchenbach near Erlangen,
Bavaria) [None of
these Rosenbergs are related to one another]
- Feldman (from Kishinev?)
- Copolov or Copolevich (from Kishinev)
- Moser (from Glehn and Gereshein)
- Snyder (originally Sznajder from Bialystok)
Of course, this list is incomplete and will be updated from time to
time
as new information comes to light.
Useful Links
This
site has
several mentions
of Rodney's Great-Great Uncle, William Eisfelder from the pages of a
San
Francisco Newspaper.
The Victorian Public Records Office Digitized
Records
includes a Migration
Index that
records the arrival of the "Pollack" family to Australia in 1858.
The
Berliner
Adressbuch 1799-1943 documents the addresses and occupations
of the
Eisfelder, Wittkower, Friedländer, Spandau, Katschinski, Levy
etc
families
in Berlin.
This
is probably a reference to my ggg-gf, who died in Berlin in 1853.
This
site documents Holocaust victims who passed through Theresienstadt
(Terezin). Includes mention of one of my paternal
great-grandfathers and one of my maternal
great-grandmothers and many other relatives.
The German Gedenkbuch documents the fate of dozens of members of my family including my great-uncle, my great-grandfather, my great-grandmother, the brother of my great-grandfather and many more, but it is not complete...
The Baden-Württemberg State
Archvies has documented my great-great-grandmother's
grave in Baden-Baden
Stolpersteine
in Lübeck, including one for my great-grandfather
laid in August 2013
Stolpersteine in Kempen
French
and German town names in Alsace and Lorraine
German
and Polish
town names in Poland
A
comprehensive list of places in Germany 1871-1990
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