The Research Journey
This is where the Genders lived in 221Pulaski Street Brooklyn New York
1911 UK Census just before the Silver’s emigrated to
New York ( click to enlarge)
Ancestry & Family search
were criticali in finding family
burial
Tracing the tribe on
Facebook helped
massively
Abraham Gender ( Israel & Bellas son ) U.S Registration
Israel Gender death certificate
This is the missing link it proves my grandmother Jenenette Silver and her children were living in her fathers Israel Gender house in New York in 1915 .
Although there is misspelling of the Gender name it is the correct document. My eternal and deepest thanks to Sherri Venditti from Tracing the Tribe
Israel Gender was the son of Goldie Vangerofsky
My Uncle Burly had the same Initials as his cousin Cecil
Daniel Zadek’s parents . We all knew his mother as Inge , but her
real name was Anne - Ruth Ingeborg. The other fact that showed up that Dani’s parents married in Berlin .
However Cologne became their home. After living in Tel Aviv during WW2.
I remember Inge’s amazing tea and cakes which was presented in a traditional
German way . Inge had a great love of German Operetta which is some of the finest Opera
you can listen to
Bella Gender ( nee Nashefsky ) parents Anna & Abraham
During my research of the Silver’s. I was stunned to find the family
had been researched already ! I was overwhelmed with information.
Which has led to a good degree of accuracy on the family tree
A passenger list showing the Wisbergs aboard
My great grandfather arrived from Russia
with $30 equivalent today $3000 in purchasing power.
Again the surname is spelt wrong
Goodman was my grand father Simon Silver’s brother
Benjamin Wisberg was my grand mother Gertrude Wisberg’s brother
We remember the tragic loss of Julia Ginsberg because of an awful fire in 1924.
Julia was Anne Bright’s daughter . My thanks to Graham Bright who found
these difficult to find records . My thanks to The Jewish Chronicle Archive for the page i found
Jewish Chronicle 31st October 1924
Mitchigan USA Census document
Bertha Knapp Bright is listed and family
(Click to view)
In 1916 Jeanette Silver and children returned from New York . Although the family had made the journey in 1911.
It was not the new life they had hoped for. Simon, my grandfather had already returned at was
conscripted in to the Durham Light Infantry to fight in WW1
Take me to 221 Pulaski Street
on Google Earth
