Kreinik Kreinick Family

There are 374 descendants of Chaim Kreinik, http://www.geni.com/people/Chaim-Kreinik-0/6000000007823303734 and his wife, whose name we do not have.

Latest findings at [http://davelindastourdefrance.blogspot.com/2013/02/sedziszow-maopolski.html]

Some of the family comes from Sędziszów Małopolski -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%99dzisz%C3%B3w

Photos: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kolbuszowa/sedziszow/Sedziszow6.html

They live now mostly in the USA and France and have roots in Eastern Europe -- Galicia. Some were born in Siberia.

Andrew Kreinik, Richard Yospin, David Jacobowitz, Ida Kreinik Friedlander, Stanley Kreinik, Ruth Kreinik and Steve Maskell have contributed to this project. The best source has been Leah Kreinik Jacobowitz's memoir, "[As I Remember]," written in 1962.

http://davelindastourdefrance.blogspot.com/2013/03/as-i-remember-leah-kreinik-jacobowitz.html

Spelling variants: Kreinik, Kreinick, Krainik, Krienik, and Kreinig (soundex code 596500). Steve Maskell: " I suspect that what really mattered to them was that they no longer lived in southern Poland. The English spellings of the name are all just approximations, anyway. Sarah Kreinik's parents' names on their headstones are both spelled "Krainik." So, within that immediate family, the name is spelled three different ways. And on my Grandpa Isie's side, his name is spelled Kreinik, but his brother Maier's last name is customarily written "Kreinig. There is also the spelling Krienik, ostensibly a clerical error."

"Kreinik," "Kreinick," "Cranach," and lots of other spelling variants
are out there -- and unfortunately for people who are trying to sort
this out and decide who's related to whom, it's a pretty common name.

add "Kreinich" from the 1922 New York City directory.

The name may mean "Crane's Nest," or someone from Russia, or Horseradish. There is a Czech town named Křenek whose crest is a Horseradish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%99enek [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Armoracia_rusticana_03_ies.jpg]

Kreinik Mfg. uses a Crown in its logo, http://www.kreinik.com/, but that seems a bit misleading.

There is some ambiguity about how the various branches of the Kreinik family are related to each other. The name is fairly rare, and family know each other or have married cousins, so there is a good chance that we will find the connections eventually.

It's not likely that a father and son would have the same name. Not for Tuvye nor for Joseph.

Ted Kreinik wrote on 2/18/2011: "hi David,

i had heard many years ago that Isidore Kreinik's grandfather (http://www.geni.com/people/Tuyve-Tobias-Kreinik/6000000007823504313) came to the US in the 1850's and had arranged for family members to emigrate but returned to Austria Hungary when the civil war broke out. then his grandson Isidore my grandfather came to the US at age 16.

have you heard of anything like this and/or do you know how i could find out anything about this story? thanks best, ted "

The dates we have for Isidore/Isadore are b.1888 or 1889. He would have been 16-19 when he came to the US according to the ship manifest. http://www.geni.com/profile/6000000007823143796/events/6000000007979270983 I don't know about this, but I post it here in the hopes of getting back to it.

In March 2012 we found death certificates for S Josef Kreinik and for Salamon Kreinik. Both listed Harry Kreinik as father but different mothers. We suspected that Harry is Zvie Chaim Kreinik and that Salamon is Zalmon, who was listed in one of the trees that had been collected. This identification of Salamon ties together many of the branches of Kreiniks that we know about. David Jacobowitz.