Woke up this morning and knew that I had to get this central european geography figured out. Where are all these places in relationship to each other.
One problem is there seems to be two Schmeiheims in Germany, one north of Nuremberg in Baden and one near the French border. I seem to remember something about the Black Forest which makes me think that it's the one near the French border (where I've marked it).
My main story is about the Zunder family, they lived in Furth just north of Nuremberg (marked). The Roesenthal family which contributes 3 great grandmothers is some miles northeast in Hittenbach (marked). Paul Weil, another great grandfather, came from Berlin (marked). Samuel Lederer and his wife Maria Abeles came from different towns in the Czech Republic.
Moving to my father's side, the Ginsburghs came from Poznan (a city and district now in Poland) (marked). Edward Cohen came from Odessa and his wife Sonia Roytenburg came from Kiev in Ukraine (off the map to the east). According to my aunt, they had married in the Ukraine and had posed as brother and sister coming into the US on a Canadian passport of a visitor to an ancestral village. His name was not Cohen, he changed it to Cohen because it was short and Jewish.
Not sure I have the dates of immigration
Zunder 1848
Baumann 1883
Cohen/Roytenburg 1890
Weil 1856
Ginsburgh 1887
Lederer 1850
Hervitz 1875
Weil, Johanna 1860
All pretty close to the second wave of immigration. 1820-1880 or a little after
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