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New Feuerstein and Hoffman Family Trees

Shmuel Zanvil Feuerstein

Thanks to many photos that made their way to me in the last few days, I’ve been able to begin illustrating the Feuerstein and Hoffman family trees.  These photos show up alongside a person’s name and biographical information in the graphical version of the family tree.

You can see them here: Feuerstein Graphical Family Tree and Hoffman Graphical Family Tree.  The same information is in a different layout, known as a text tree.  Those are here: Feuerstein Text Family Tree and Hoffman Text Family Tree.

SO WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

There are actually many, but the text tree is a straight list of who’s who, indented by generation.  It is pages long.  Its advantages are that you can readily see all the data, you can print the pages and get a coherent output, and the text pages can be read and indexed by search engines.

The graphical tree has a much nicer layout.  It looks like a tree, with one generation arrayed beneath its parents.  Pictures are displayed for the people we have pictures of.  It’s easier to see who’s connected to whom, and how we’re all connected together.  The drawbacks to the graphical tree are also pretty substantial.  You control magnification by clicking on the tree or by a menu at the bottom, and that’s difficult for some visitors to deal with.  The graphical tree is based on a computer system called Adobe Flash, which means it can’t be seen on iPads, iPhones, or Blackberries.  And the graphical tree, because it’s basically a picture, can’t be indexed by the search engines.

SO WHAT’S SO NEW?

Well, for visitors to the Feuerstein pages, I’ve added photos to the graphical tree for much of the BRAUN family.  (Avruhum Feuerstein > Shmuel Zanvil Feuerstein > Abraham “Abe” Feuerstein > Sylvia (Feuerstein) Braun.)  I was able to grab many of the faces from a photo Sylvia’s son, Robert Braun, emailed to me late last week of a family get-together on the south shore of Long Island last spring.

Etel (Maulbeer) Feuerstein

And for visitors to the Hoffman pages, I’ve added photos of the newest member of the family, Lucas Jake Salzman, born in August.  (Avruhum Feuerstein > Shmuel Zanvil Feuerstein > Mary Feuerstein > Milton Hoffman > Marilyn (Hoffman) Apostolico > Andrew Katz > Lindsay (Katz) Salzman > Lucas Jake Salzman.)  That’s eight generations — an impressive feat!

LIKE TO SEE YOUR PICTURE?  YOUR GRANDKIDS’ PICTURES?  WE CAN DO THAT!

All you have to do is make the picture available.  Is it on Facebook?  Friend me and I’ll be able to grab it.  Is it on your computer?  Email it to me and I’ll add it.  Is it on paper?  Scan it, have it scanned, or send it to me and I’ll scan it for you.

In the days to come, I hope to be adding more photo galleries — collections of pictures — to the blog.  You’ll be able to enjoy the pictures in a larger format than you can now see in a post, and the captions will give them some context.