From
Lengnau to New-York : the Guggenheim family
Jacques-Henri GOUGENHEIM
After
a series of papers by John Berkowitch about the genealogy of
the Guggenheim family, we publish a chronicle written by another
descendant of this family focused on the American Guggenheim
branch whose fate and huge wealth equal the Rothhschild’s
ones. The author locates the "founding couple” in
the Swiss family before following it in the United States. There
they beget a large offspring and demonstrate their sense of
business, their imagination and their talent; within some tens
of years they rise from small shopkeepers to industry tycoons.
They drop businesses that yield too little profit in order to
invest in new domains of international scale like mines or metallurgy.
The brothers, their sons and grandsons remain united, their
flair for high potential opportunities and their business flair
lead them to the top of finance and social life. They raise
to the climax of their wealth and power at the end of World
War I. (to be continued)
About
the changes of family names and first names in the Raynal family
from Bordeaux (France) in the XIXth century.
Georges GRANER
On
the specific example of the Raynal family from Bordeaux, Georges
Graner proves that the change of given name and surname recorded
in the 1808 registers (1808 Decree of Bordeaux by Napoleon)
have not immediately been respected, in the official records
as well as in the daily usage.
The name
Benitah in the Jewish population of Marnia (Algeria) in the
XIXthcentury
Charles BENITAH
The author has collected the vital records regarding the Benitah
families from the "Centre des Archives d'Outre Mer d'Aix
en Provence" (France) and details all the gathered information
in a table chart.
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MISCELLANEOUS
The Atlantic
"gap" in Jewish genealogy
Ernest KALLMANN
The survivors of the Holocaust and the dissemination of personal
data are frequent topics in Jewish genealogy. They are considered
and handled in quite different ways from either side of the
Atlantic. Such differing or opposed conceptions can result in
major consequences; the reader, duly informed, could avoid the
worst ones.
How to
obtain Polish vital records from Poland
José KLINGBEIL & Basile GINGER
Basile Ginger, author of the basic manual for Jewish Genealogy
in France, and José Klingbeil update the modus operandi
for the research and acquisition of Polish vital records according
to the most recent situation. The first step is to find the
location of the archive, the record number(s) through JewishGen.
The second step, ordering and paying the records, differs from
the procedure suggested by JewishGen and should minimize the
cost and the time needed.
The first
name "Gentille" : from Gente to Yentl
ELIANE ROOS-SCHUHL
In her Hebrew
chronicle, the author examines the avatars of the first name,
Gentille, through times and locations in Europe.
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