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Lizzie Kunde
My name is Lizzie Kunde and I am the newest member of the AncientFaces Support team!
See more info about me here: Lizzie - Community Support and I look forward to getting to know our wonderful members. Feel free to reach out with any questions, happy to help :)
My mom's side of the family is Swedish (and still lives in Sweden) and she instilled in me lots of Swedish heritage and traditions which has made me who I am today. My dad's side of the family is German and Irish and the most likely the side of the family I get all my freckles from. Family is so important, and welcome everyone to discover more about them, their history, and share about their loved ones who make up the history of who we are!
My mom's side of the family is Swedish (and still lives in Sweden) and she instilled in me lots of Swedish heritage and traditions which has made me who I am today. My dad's side of the family is German and Irish and the most likely the side of the family I get all my freckles from. Family is so important, and welcome everyone to discover more about them, their history, and share about their loved ones who make up the history of who we are!
Daniel Pinna
I want to build a place where my son can meet his great-grandparents. My grandmother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch always wanted to meet her great-grandchildren, but she died just a handful of years before my son's birth.
So while she didn't have the opportunity to meet him, at least he will be able to know her.
For more information about what we're building see About AncientFaces. For information on the folks who build and support the community see Daniel - Founder & Creator.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
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I remember my grandpa as an active, funny guy. When he started going to Miami in the late 1950s to get away from New York in wintertime he took up shuffleboard (the pickleball of its time) and became a champion shuffleboard player. I remember when he would come back from his winter in Florida he always brought several trophies, one for each grandchild.
He also was a prolific writer. He wrote a relatively short memoir of his arrival in the US and his early years in this country. He wrote a travelogue of a trip to Israel he made in the early 1960s. He kept a collection of speeches he made as an officer of his synagogue. And he kept all his correspondence with his wife-apparently he had the Spanish flu in 1918 and was told to go upstate New York for his health, so he wrote to his wife just about every day.
He also liked being outside, and for decades he rented a small tent and then a bungalow on the Rockaway shoreline, in Queens New York. His wife and children would spend the summers in Rockaway, at the shore, and he would take the subway on the weekends to be with his family.
As an old man, a grandfather, I remember that he always had time for his grandchildren, and that he always had the beginnings of a smile.
Benjamin Keilson
Benjamin Keilson
May was born in Ivye, then in Russia but now in Belarus. She was one of 12 children born to Joseph David Berger. Her mother was Rachel Bakst. Her birth name was Mirian Devora or Merke, but she changed it to May when she came to the US in 1907, to be more American. She married Ben Keilson and had three children.
May was a very strong minded and tough person, engaged in politics, well read and a believer in women's rights.
I met Sidney only once or twice, as part of my own genealogical and family history search, probably in the mid to late 1980s. Sidney had an office in a building on Wisconsin Ave, just over the border between DC and Maryland. I met him and his wife Marilyn, who was a therapist and, if I recall correctly, worked in the same office building.
I remember two things about Sidney. I was not sure at the time whether we were related, but he swore that I looked like one of his siblings and showed me a photo to 'prove' the point. I wasn't sure there was a resemblance, but he said there was.
The second thing is that Sidney was the brother of Julian Keilson, a famous mathematician who taught at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Many years later, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of civil records in Poland and Lithuania I learned that Sidney's ancestors came from a town called Szaki, which was about 15 miles from the town I knew my family to be from.
Sidney Keilson
Sidney Keilson
Sidney Keilson of Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, MD was born on June 15, 1920, and died at age 87 years old on February 27, 2008.
Daniel Pinna
I want to build a place where my son can meet his great-grandparents. My grandmother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch always wanted to meet her great-grandchildren, but she died just a handful of years before my son's birth.
So while she didn't have the opportunity to meet him, at least he will be able to know her.
For more information about what we're building see About AncientFaces. For information on the folks who build and support the community see Daniel - Founder & Creator.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
My father's side is full blood Sicilian and my mother's side is a combination of Welsh, Scottish, German and a few other European cultures. One of my more colorful (ahem black sheep) family members came over on the Mayflower. He was among the first to be hanged in the New World for a criminal offense he made while onboard the ship.
Etta Zlotta (Sachs) Keilson of Vilnius, Vilnius County Lithuania was born in 1854. She was in a relationship with Chaim Keilson, and had a child Benjamin Keilson. Etta Keilson died at age 81 years old in January 1936.
Chaim and Etta Zlotta Keilson
This formal portrait was probably taken early in the 1900s, in New York.
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Julian Keilson of Rochester, Monroe County, NY was born on November 19, 1924, and died at age 74 years old on March 8, 1999.
Matthew Keilson of Patchogue, Suffolk County, NY was born on August 31, 1910, and died at age 92 years old on September 29, 2002.
Matthew's son, Herbert Keilson (there were several Herbert Keilsons born in the 1920s, named after their grandfather Chaim (Hyman) Keilson (1850-1915) enlisted in the Marines in early 1940. He was stationed in American Samoa, was killed in action early in 1942, and was one of the first casualties repatriated to the US for burial. The loss of his son devastated Matthew, who never stopped mourning his son.
Matthew Keilson
Matthew Keilson
Estelle E (Steinberg) Keilson of Baltimore, Maryland United States was born in December 1929 in NY, and died at age 85 years old in February 2015 in Baltimore, MD.
Jerrold Ira Keilson of Maryland United States was born in December 1953 in NY. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jerrold Keilson.
Sheldon was born in Brooklyn in 1927, and for his entire life he thought that Brooklyn was the best place in the world to live, even after he moved to Baltimore to be closer to his children. He never forgave the Dodgers moving from Brooklyn.
From his earliest years he knew he wanted to study electrical engineering, and ended up spending his career in the field, first as an engineer with the Redstone Rocket program, then in the defense industry, and finally with the New York phone company.
He enlisted in the Navy while still in high school, during World War Two, and entered the service in 1944 immediately after graduating high school. He went to basic training in Michigan, was posted to Treasure Island near San Francisco, and was scheduled to ship out for the invasion of Japan before the war ended.
He was a very smart, logical, and consistent person, who always tried to do the right thing, loved his family, made the effort to stay in touch with friends and cousins for his entire life.
Herbert C Keilson of Kings County, New York United States was born on January 4, 1923 in New York, and died at age 99 years old in July 2022 in Worcester, Worcester County, MA.
May (Berger) Keilson of New York United States was born in April 1888 in Hrodna Region Belarus, and died at age 78 years old in April 1966 in New York United States.
Chaim Keilson was born in Sereje, in present day Lithuania, in 1850. His parents were Shimon Leib Keilson and Chana Riva. The married in 1849, according to Lithuania Archives civil records. Chaim was the first of many children, 7 of whom lived into adulthood, and all of whom emigrated to the US in the late 1800s-early 1900s.
Chaim worked as a kosher butcher. He married Etta Zlotta (Sachs) who was originally from Vilnius, Lithuania. They moved to Kybartai, a border town between then Russia and East Prussia, on the Neiman River. They had 9 children, all of whom came to the US.
In addition to his formal job, Chaim worked as a people smuggler, bringing Jews from Russia across the border into East Prussia/Germany, then to the Netherlands, where he would help them book passage to the UK or the US to escape religious persecution, pogroms, and economic poverty.
Finally, in September 1899 the entire family arrived in New York.
