David FIndling

Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:49:05 +1100

From: Toni Platus <pplatus@bigpond.net.au>

Subject: Descendants of FINDLINGs from eastern Galicia

Hi,

My great great grandfather Yitzhak Leib FINDLING (born app 1868)

had 2 brothers, David FINDLING and Mordechai/Marcus FINDLING, whose

families went to the US in the early 1900s. Presumably the

descendants of these 2 brothers still live in the US but I have not

had any luck in making contact either with the JGFF or by randomly

calling FINDLINGs listed in the White Pages. And I am unable to

trace the descendants of the female FINDLINGs as they would have

married and taken their husband's surnames.

My FINDLING ancestors came from various towns in eastern Galicia

(Ukraine today) such as Tarnopol, Podwoloczyska, Zbaraz, Lwow. Using

a combination of JRI-Poland, Ellis Island Records, the US Census

Records and the memoirs of a cousin, I have managed to gather some

details about the FINDLINGs I am looking for.

David FINDLING (born app 1859) arrived in the US in 1902 accompanied

(I think) by his niece Beatrice FINDLING (daughter of

Mordechai/Marcus and Deborah FINDLING). David FINDLING was going to

his brother-in-law Isaac HIRSCHEL at 202 E Houston St, NYC. David

FINDLING's wife, Ester Reisel FINDLING nee HERSCHEL, arrived with

their 5 children in 1905. Their children were Maly/Malke (14 yrs),

Saly/Sadie (11 yrs), Max/Marcus (10 yrs), Frida (7 yrs) and

Elsie/Elsa (3 yrs). On the 1910 Census they had another son Jack

FINDLING (3 yrs) and they were living at 430 East 2nd St, NY. By

1920 they were living in Fallsburg Village in Sullivan County, NY

and were still there in 1930.

The other brother, Mordechai/Marcus FINDLING died in app 1897-1900

in Tarnopol. His daughter Beatrice FINDLING emigrated to the US in

1902. His wife Deborah FINDLING nee DREIBLATT emigrated to the US

in 1904 with their other 3 children, names unknown, but I think 2

daughters and a son. Beatrice FINDLING married Joseph SAMUELS and

they had 2 daughters, Mildred (b. 1914) and Muriel (b. 1918). I

don't know if there were any other children. In 1920 they were

living at 19 Cook Ave, Mount Vernon, Westchester County, NY.

Mildred SAMUELS was married twice and her second husband was a ship

captain but I don't know his name. Muriel SAMUELS was married and

had a daughter in the 1940s and lived in San Francisco - I don't

know her married name. Joseph SAMUELS worked in the garment industry

and they spent some years living in Venezuela in the 1930s.

Please contact me if you know the descendants of these families.

Thanks

Toni Platus

Melbourne, Australia

email: pplatus@bigpond.net.au

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:34:53 -0800

From: "Debbie Raff" <seraff@sprintmail.com>

Subject: Re: History

You may want to check out our Zmigrod Nowy / Dukla site on JewishGen.

http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetLinks/zmigrod/zmigrod.htm. Our researcher

wrote a charming report of her trip there in March of 1998. It is the third

item listed in the Table of Contents and is under the title, "A Travelogue".

Sad to say that I was there in the summer of 1998 and her description was

dead on. This is a rural area near Gorlice, which is the area Len was

describing in his earlier post. For info. about the "good (bad) old days"

check out the information provided by Max Findling.

Debbie