Gerson Kaufman

Posted: 28 Jul 2000 10:43AM Edited: 5 Sep 2001 7:34PM I do have one James HERZ, I believe, in my family but I only know the date of his birthday August 18 and no birth year.

I am looking for descendants of two brothers:

1) Descendants of Nathan HERZ (1833 Kochendorf-1905 Heilbronn) and Regine or Frederike HIRSCH (1838 Talheim/Laudenbach-1916 Heibronn).

They had 11 children.

Children

Herman (born and died 1863 Kochendorf) Hannchen (1864 Kochendorf-?New York?) married Max KAUFMANN Children: Carrie married Joseph KLEIN Lillian married Joel MANHEIMER Gerson married Tessie BACH Anna (1865 Kochendorf-?New York?) Emil (1867 Kochendorf-?New York?) Lina or Lena (1868 Kochendorf-?New York?) married Ignaz DEUTSCH Son Melvin (1901-February 5 1984) married Ethel STEINBERG Son Irwin DEUTSCH married Ingrid RINDFLEISCH Julie (1870 Kochendorf-1942 Theresienstadt) Emilie (aka Emilia or Amelia) (1872 Kochendorf-?New York?) married ? JENSEN Jakob (1873 Kochendorf-?New York?) Klara (1875 Kochendorf-?New York?) married Bernhard OPPENHEIMER (1872 Niederflorstadt, Germany-1958 New York City). Sponsored by their nephew Gerson KAUFMANN to come to New York in March 1940. Gerson lived at 320 Central Park West and had a garment company at 132 West 36th Street. Fanny (1877 Kochendorf-1939 Germany) married Ferdinand GRUMBACH Leopold (1881-1884 Kochendorf)

2) Descendants of Nathan's brother Aron (1843-1908 Kochendorf) married Sara SCHLESINGER (1846 Bonfeld-1893 Kochendorf)

They had eight children.

Children Hannchen (1872 Kochendorf-1943 Theresienstadt) Rudolf (Ruben) (1873 Kochendorf-? Stuttgart) married Bertha WERTHEIMER Children Fritz Julius HERZ (1907 Strasbourg-1984 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA) married Lieselotte ? (1909-1994 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA) Arno Bertha went to Cuba with her children and from there to New York City. Jakob (born and died 1876 Kochendorf) Marie (1878 Kochendorf-?New York?) Hedwig (1879 Kochendorf-?New York?) Anna (1881 Kochendorf-?New York?) Jakob (1882-1883 Kochendorf) Lina (1886 Kochendorf-?New York?)

Are we by chance connected?

Alice Josephs Researching STERN/STARR family of Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, Hesse (settled in Louisville, Kentucky and Portsmouth, Ohio, USA) and the HERZ family from Kochendorf, now Bad Friedrichshall, Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany (settled in New York City). JENSEN of New York City, USA. Also looking for LEVI family (France>Louisville, Kentucky>Portsmouth, Ohio), ATLAS and DAVIS family (Portsmouth, Ohio), SCHWARZSCHILD family (Hochheim am Main, Hesse, Germany), HOCHSCHILD family (Gross-Rohrheim, Hesse, Germany), MAIER-, MAYER-, MEIER or MEYERFELD family of Biebesheim, Gross Gerau, Hesse, GRUMBACH (Germany>New York City, USA), DEUTSCH (Germany>New York City, USA), OPPENHEIMER (Stuttgart>New York City, USA), KAUFMANN New York City, DON and JOSEPHS family from London, England, MARKUS from Hainchen, Kreis Buedingen, Hesse and GRUEN (GREEN) family from Roedelheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse.

My own websites, each with a full family tree, are at http://members.tripod.co.uk/AliceJosephs/index.HTM and http://www.genealogy.com/users/j/o/s/Alice-Josephs/ http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.herz/12.13/mb.ashx