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Tag Archives: Fleisman
Fleisman ‘industries’
Morris Fleisman (1852 – 1937) started a ‘hyde [sic] and wool’ business. The company bought animal hides from farmers and treated them for leather products such as shoes and purses. His son, Frank Samuel Fleisman (1892 – 1970), continued the … Continue reading
Where did our names come from?
In my post Who put the ‘h’ in Ghertner, I discussed the origin of that name, from ‘gardener’. I’ve just tackled some of the surnames of some of your Jewish ancestors. The fact they had Jewish names is a clue … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrahams, Abrams, Altschul, Baum, Berlin, Bissinger, Bloch, Block, Bloom, Cooper, Eisenkramer, Fleisman, Frankland, Gertner, Ghertner, Ginsburg, Gruber, Levy, Lipshitz, Loveman, Magid, Marks, Marx, Name Origin, Pfeifer, Picard, Rhine, Rosen, Scharf, Schwartz, Sonnenfeld, Strauss, Weil
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More stories …
“”my great grandmother Rachel (Abrams) Fleisman built a house on West End Avenue (corner West End and Wilson) in Nashville, Tennesse which is still standing. She was extremely smart,and was the type person who used to say that she was … Continue reading
Fleisman’s, Frankland’s, Weil’s et al
This mishpocha page of the tree has too many surnames to fit in the title. Jean Claire Fleisman (1915-2005) married my uncle Alven Simon Ghertner (1914-2012) and these are her ancestors. Nathan Fleisman married Bettie Loveman Kate Fleisman (1827 – … Continue reading
First names
Naming of children in the Block, Bloom, Gorden, Gruber, Scharff and Ghertner families (from Central and Eastern Europe) certainly seems to have followed a tradition of naming after an ancestor, although not necessarily one who had recently died as was … Continue reading
Tagged Block, Bloom, Fleisman, Ghertner, Levy, Name Origin, Scharff, Simon Ghertner, Solomon Block
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Ghertner
See 4 generations of Ghertner’s Recently found notes from Alven Ghertner trace these Ghertner siblings to their grandfather Shor Hezkel. Their father was Shor Abraham and it’s not known how this was changed to Abraham Ghertner.See this for origin of … Continue reading