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SeligmanOnline
Genealogy
I have been
working on my various family trees for
more than two decades, and have traced ancestors
as far back as the 18th century and
found living relatives as far afield as
sixth cousins in North and South
America, Eastern and Western Europe, the
former Soviet Union, the Middle East and
even in Asia. The Internet has heralded
the age of digitized records accessible
from any computer, and it has also made
it easier to catch up with the living.
The
Seligman Family.
I've traced my Seligman family back
to 1730 in three towns in Belarus:
Bobruisk, Parichi and Shchedrin. It
includes folks who spell it
Seligman, Zeligman, Zelikman,
Saligman and even Selig as well as
those with many other surnames. Write me if you
think we may be related, and I'll be
glad to share an 86-page tree with
you! Click on the image to view
my website about the first six
generations of the Seligman family.
 The
Sternreichs. The
Sternreich family originated in
Galicia in a region that was once in Austria-Hungary but
is now part of Poland. Few people bear
this name today; virtually all are
my relatives. The New Jersey branch
dropped the second "e" and became Sternriches. A handful emigrated to
the U.S. and a few live in Israel
and the U.K., but most died in the Holocaust.
Click on the image of Jacob
Sternrich to enlarge it.
 Liebmans
and Lovemans.
My New Jersey Liebmans, among
the earliest to emigrate, are part
of a much larger family who
Anglicized the name as Loveman and
spread out across the U.S., and
especially the American south.
They originated in Zemplén County, a
part of Austria-Hungary that today
is located in Slovakia. The extended
family includes
several famous authors and
successful merchants, and one
military hero. Click on
the image at right to view my Liebman-Loveman family website.
 The
Abrahamowitzes. Like
the Liebmans, the Abrahamowitzes
arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s
from what is now eastern Slovakia.
All settled in the greater New York
area. One branch of the family
(mine) shortened the surname to
Abrams; another chose to spell it
Abrahams and a third adopted the
name Ambrose. Click on the image
of Jacob and Katy Abrams to enlarge
it.
 Rudbarts
and Milskys.
My paternal grandmother was a
Rudbart; her sister maintained the
original surname had been changed
from Rudy. Her mother, who had seven
siblings, was a Milsky before
marriage. They all came from Porozow,
a small town now in
Belarus that once was part of
Poland. You can read about her life
here,
and learn the awe-inspiring story of
how I located her relatives in
Argentina
here. Click on the image at
right to see the website I developed
about the Jewish community of
Porozow.
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