Sassmacken Families
Do you have Jewish ancestors from Valdemarpils/Sassmacken? Please contact me if you have information, queries, or photographs to share.
Trees
- Blumberg – Descendants of Behr and Levin Blumberg, sons of Yankel, from Talsi and Valdemarpils
- Hoffman – Post from Randy Wasserstrom
- Levinson – Geni tree
- Michaelson/Michelsohn – Post from Randy Wasserstrom
- Thal – There are three large Thal families that have ties to Valdemarpils. Through Y-DNA testing, there has been no connection found between the families of Moses and Sara and Auzer Jankel. Other connections have yet to be checked.
- Weinberg – Geni tree
- JewishGen Family Finder for Valdemarpils – list of researchers with families from Valdemarpils
- Sassmacken private Facebook group – managed by Phillip Seeberg
Posts
- My Family in Sassmacken
The following post was generously contributed by Randy Wasserstrom. The Michaelson/Michelsohn family photo above, taken in 1893, includes the following from left to right: Sam, Louis, Yetta, Harry, John, Aaron and Rose. My great grandmother, Yetta Hoffman, (1861-1916), was bornContinue reading “My Family in Sassmacken” - Leaving Courland
Among my collection of interviews is this story, told by Paula Thal Aminoff in 1974, of her brother Jacob, from Talsen, and his efforts to leave Courland (now Latvia) before being drafted into the Russian Army. Ted: You know aboutContinue reading “Leaving Courland” - The Thals of Sassmacken
From a 1981 interview between Rabbi Lennard Thal and my great-grandfather’s sister, Paula Thal Aminoff, I have this quote: “Sassmacken. There was full of Jews. And there were a bunch of Thals there – not related, another family, very fineContinue reading “The Thals of Sassmacken”
Queries
- Who Was Ivan Teryokin? – a mystery from the Blumberg family
Photos
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