Today I had the great pleasure of speaking to my first cousin twice removed. His name is Richard Moses KAHN and he lives in France, where within the next few days he will celebrate his 96th birthday. Richard was one of five siblings born in Merzig between 1906 and 1915, and his parents were Gabriel KAHN (1871-1945) and Rose KAHN nee SCHEUER who was born in Michelfeld in Baden (1882-1966). I am connected to Richard via his SCHEUER family and he and I have shared a great deal of information with him about them. Indeed SCHEUER researchers on the Gersig list will be interested to hear that I hold an unpublished personal copy of Richard Kahn's memoirs (written in French) entitled "Quelques Episodes de ma Vie". The memoirs contain a fascinating account of his life up to about age 89 and fascinating descriptions of his family and stories about them.
Richard is currently interested in finding out more about his paternal genealogy and has asked for my assistance. Richard says that the KAHN family may have lived in the Merzig area for a long time. >from brief research in the Gersig archives I know that there are several Merzig researchers in our membership and I wondered if any of them had any information that might be useful to me. Ideally Richard was hoping to have found out more information before a planned visit to Merzig later this month.
I hope that maybe one of the Merzig researchers has information that might be useful and look forward to hearing >from them.
with very kind regards
Jeanette Rosenberg in London UK email 106503.3561@...
MODERATOR COMMENT - As a fellow SCHEUER (Michelfeld Kr. Sinsheim) researcher I welcome this news and send thanks and greetings to cousin Janet, a leader of the UK GerSig group.
I wonder what members think about this idea: Adding a list of name of known (FAMILY) researchers within the SIG to an announcement like this.
The list would be short and composed so as to preserve privacy - no email address and maybe not full names. Or maybe use JGID numbers instead of names. Alternate plan - cc such a message to the family research group privately. MOD1
