Tag Archives: Bloom

First names

Posted on December 7, 2011 by gsghert01

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 →

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Block’s from Bohemia 1820s to ..

Posted on December 5, 2011 by gsghert01

Solomon Block and Mary (Levinson) Block were my 2X great grandparents. Block. In the page header are L-R, Samuel A. Block (1893-1981), unk (?), Lee (?), Lewis Block  (1898-1983) and Pappy (Lynton L. Scharff 1897-1985). Solomon Block (1826-1886) married Mary Levinson … Continue reading →

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Rhine (my mom’s grandmother)

Posted on November 23, 2011 by gsghert01

Solomon G. Rhine (1829-1875) and Fredrika Rhine (1846-??) were the maternal grandparents of my grandfather, John Ryan Rhine Bloom. Solomon Rhine was born in Germany , emigrated to America in 1845 and became a naturalized US citizen 31 Jan 1851..  Fredrika was … Continue reading →

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Charles A Bloom and Grace Rhine, my great grandparents

Posted on September 4, 2011 by gsghert01

Beginning with the 1920 US Census for Pine Bluff, Grace M. Bloom, enumerated as ‘widowed mother’ or the ‘head-of household’ with my grandparents, John R. Bloom and Emma Marie (Block) Bloom. Later, I found my grandfather, John Ryan Rhine Bloom, … Continue reading →

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Bloom

Posted on May 16, 2011 by gsghert01

See 4 generations of Bloom’s The Bloom family from Germany was prominent in Pine Bluff, Arkansas from the mid-1850s to the 1930s in business and politics. John Bloom (b. 1832 in Germany-1883) and his brother David (1824-1889) first arrived in … Continue reading →

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My grandfather John R Bloom 1884 to 1935 and his ancestors

Posted on April 17, 2011 by gsghert01

When I became interested in my family’s genealogy a decade ago, there was no  living relative who remembered anything about my maternal grandfather except his, name … John Bloom.  With the resources of Ancestry.com and Familysearch.org (the Mormon Church genealogy … Continue reading →

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Ghertner

Posted on February 3, 2011 by gsghert01

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 →

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