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

My great-great-great Uncle, Solomon Hoffman
by randwass0977179
August 5, 2022
by Randy Wasserstrom, Cary, North Carolina In 2004, I went on a genealogical trip to Latvia. In Talsi, I discovered the gravestones of my maternal great great great uncle Solomon (Zalman) Hoffman (1829-1906) and his wife, Chasse (1832-1908). It wasContinue reading “My great-great-great Uncle, Solomon Hoffman”
My Family in Sassmacken
by btgephart
January 4, 2022
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
by btgephart
December 9, 2021
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
by btgephart
June 20, 2021
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”