Eisfelder Family Genealogy

We have well over 10000 names on our family tree.  This is a list of some of the families that we are descended from or related to.  For privacy reasons, no family trees are provided here.  If you think you may be connected to us, please contact Rodney Eisfelder at eisfelder@acsmail.net.au

• Eisfelder (from Bamberg and Burgpreppach)
• Adlerstein (from Bamberg)
• Süßlein (Suesslein) (from Frensdorf)
• Wittkower / Wittkowski (from Berlin, also London, Manchester, Edinburgh & New York)
• Itzig (from Berlin?)
• Lichtenstetter / Lichtenstaedter (from Kunreuth, Baiersdorf, Fürth and Prague)
• Morgenstern (from Büchenbach and Fürth)
• Liebermann (from Fürth or Prague?)
• Hirsch (from Acholshausen)
• Brüll (from Bamberg and Kunreuth)
• Katschinski  / Katschinsky (from Sohrau (now Zory, Poland) then Beuthen, Silesia (now Bytom, Poland) and later Hagenau (now Haguenau), Alsace, France)
• Levy (from Wollstein, Posen now Wolsztyn, Poland and later  Trier (1860s) and Hagenau (1870s-))
• Levi / Levy (from Blieskastel, Saarland, Germany but earlier from Steinbach)
• Hesse (from Metzervisse, Moselle, France - previously from from Puttelange-aux-Lacs) (Metzerwiese)
• Picard (from Metzervisse - previously from Boulay (Bolchen))
  
• Kahn / Cahn (from Bliesbruck, Moselle, France) (Bliesbrücken) [related to Pierre Mendes-France and descended from Gluckel von Hameln]
• Emmerich from Metz [descended from Gluckel von Hameln ]
  
• Leib (from Hellimer, Moselle, France - descendants of Joseph Salomon and Alexandre Moyse)
• Families from Hellimer related to Leib including Joseph, Polack, Nora, Levy, Lambert, Guerchen, Reberg...
  
• Silberschmitt (from Montenach) - also related to the Hellimer familes
• Ruff or Rouff from Zillesheim
  
• Schloss (from Trier)
• Dahn (or perhaps Daun or Dann) (from Kosten, Posen now Koscian, Poland)
• Lambertz (from the Rhineland, esp St Hubert, Kempen and Krefeld)
• Schieren (sometimes Schiren, Scherath etc) (from Linnich, Hülchrath and Neuss)
• Voos (from Rheinbach) some descendants took the name "Kaufmann"
• Kaufmann (from Geldern, Rhineland, later branches in Hamm, Westfalen and  San Francisco, USA)
• Politz or Pollitz or Poliz (from Goch in the Rhineland, branches in Düsseldorf)
• Rath (originally from Schelsen, one branch later in Geldern, Straelen and Horde, Rhineland, later still in Kempen)
• Marcks (from Geldern and Moers, Rhineland)
• Jonas (from Dorstfeld, then Kamen, Westphalia)
• Hertz (from Kamen?)
• Cohen (from Kamen, descended from Jonas family, Cohen ancestors came from Geseke)
• Sender (from Lüxheim, Rhineland and earlier from Muffendorf, Rhineland, near Bad Godesberg)
• Marx (from Gladbach, Rhineland and earlier from Müddersheim, Rhineland)
  
• Rotschild (from Blumenthal?)
• Rubino (from Fritzlar)
• Pfingst (from Dobrzyn and Bischofsburg/Biskupiec Poland)
• Grabriel (from Flatow (now Zlotow, Poland) )
• Zacharias (from Ortelsburg (now Szczytno Poland)
• Friedländer (from Flatow/Zlotow and later Berlin)
• Jaraslawski / Jaruslawski / Jaruslawsky (originally from Flatow/Zlotow, but later in Rastenburg)
  
• Spandau (from Berlin to South America. Argentina?)
• Jastrow (from Berlin to South America. Uruguay?)
• Lewitt (from Berlin to South America. Uruguay?)
• Arnheim (from Berlin, Beeskow and Mysliborz (Soldin) in Poland)
• Levin (from Prenzlau)
• Wundermacher (from Flatow/Zlotow, Danzig/Gdansk and Königsberg/Kaliningrad)
• Michel (from Danzig?)
• Szwarc / Schwarz (later Sharp / Black) (from Choroszcz and Bialystok, Poland)
• Sodol (from Volchina (near Brest), Belarus)
• Rappaport (from Bialystok?)
• Cohen (from London 1830s-1860s)
• Lyons (from London till 1830s)
• Levy (from London? till 1830s)
• Rudin or variations such as Rudnoy, Roudner etc  (from Dubrovna, Belarus)
• Tchernookin/Schwartz (later Sharpe/Shaw) (from Dubrovna, Belarus)
• Bloom - originally Zastenker (from Lyady, Belarus - on the border with Russia)
• Polack (from Raczki or Suwalki, Poland, branches known as Pollock in New York and Hokitika, New Zealand)
• Cohen (from Raczki or Suwalki, Poland)
• Rosenberg (from Kishinev, Moldova - now Chisinau)
• Rosenberg (from Zychlin, Poland)
• Rosenberg (from Büchenbach near Erlangen, Bavaria) [None of these Rosenbergs are related to one another]
• Feldman (from Kishinev?)
• Copolov or Copolevich (from Kishinev)
• Moser (from Glehn and Gereshein)
• Snyder (originally Sznajder from Bialystok)

Of course, this list is incomplete and will be updated from time to time as new information comes to light.

Useful Links

This site has several mentions of Rodney's Great-Great Uncle, William Eisfelder from the pages of a San Francisco Newspaper.

The Victorian Public Records Office Migration Index records the arrival of the "Pollack" family to Australia in 1858.

The Berliner Adressbuch 1799-1943 documents the addresses and occupations of the Eisfelder, Wittkower, Friedländer, Spandau, Katschinski, Levy etc families in Berlin.

Is this a reference to my ggg-gf, who died in Berlin before about 1855?

French and German town names in Alsace and Lorraine 
German and Polish town names in Poland
A comprehensive list of places in Germany 1871-1990

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