Just so—how the Rubys got their name
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
Dr. Kurt Blanke
Chief lawyer in the Nazi aryanization process in Paris
Louis Darquier de Pellapoix
French aryanization official
Marriage records on order from the UK General Register Office
For the past week or so, I have been zooming and tweeting with an international bunch of genealogists, including several from England.
This morning I tweeted a question to the UK experts about the London marriage mystery. I'm still trying to connect the double marriage of the Twiasschor siblings in 1911 to an an earlier marriage of an Augusta Twiasschor in the Manchester area.
I asked for suggestions and right away @HistoryLady2013 responded with a question. Had I ordered the marriage certificates from the GRO?
Twiasschor family in Berlin
The Twiasschors settled in Berlin in several waves from Kolomiya, Ukraine
Twiasschor roots in Kolomiya
I am trying to sort out the various Twiasschor lines and locations.
First, the correct spelling is with the German eszett, or double-ess, character. Thus, the real spelling is Twiasßchor. Many times, even in Germany, the eszett is not used, and thus the name is sometimes rendered Twiasschor (with two esses) and sometimes Twiaschor (with one ess).