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Dave Weil Family Tree
The following two family trees have been created to represent the descendants of Jacob Weil, Dave’s great-great grandfather (father’s side of the family) and Yerachmiel Janofsky (or Yanofsky), Dave’s great grandfather (mother’s side of the family).
Credit for the Weil family chart must be given to Charles Stanton of NY and Dan M. Barlev (derivative of Bruell) in Israel, who diligently researched information from the 1940’s to 1980’s. Apparently Charles (a member of the Bruell family) was in contact with Selma Weil Eisman and Dorothy Dreyfus Bloomfield, who are mentioned as sources on the original documents. Based on their work, David Robertson, Jr. who is a descendant of Jacob and Charles Weil continued the research on the Charles branch. He has input the information to www.ancestry.com and www.jewishgen.org. I have not included much of the information on the Charles Weil branch in the charts below since it is available in great detail on these web sites.
Subsequently, I have met with Lisa Lopez, who is a descendant of Jacob and Helene Weil. She provided some handwritten sheets with additional names of descendants. She believes that this could have been prepared by her great-aunt (one of the Kaffenburgh’s).
The posting to this website has led to contact by several other family members who have provided information on their specific branches of the Weil family tree. These specifically include Betty Weil Grossman, who updated a family tree chart in 1997 that had been initially prepared by her Grandfather, Martin Henry Weil, Sr. Martin was my Grandfather’s brother. Credit must be given to Andrew Cohn who was able to put me in contact with several family members of my generation. And Lisa Hession-Kunz initially did a family tree for the Martin J Weil branch in 1978, updated it and provided much information on family members in this branch.
Credit for the Janofsky (or Yanofsky) family chart must be given to my aunt Yetta (Loretta) Yanofsky, who together with my sister created a hand written chart during the 1990’s. Subsequently, my cousin Fred Goldberg, did further research on the family, including his father’s, which added to the completeness of the family tree. This portion of the tree has also been updated by Joan Weinreich.
My task was to use the power of the internet and prove names, dates, places, and add any that were missing from Charles Stanton’s original work. With a couple of exceptions, I was able to prove the information, and was quite successful in adding additional information on both families. In addition, the complete file includes some extended families that married into the Weil family. Of note, information after 1930 is quite scarce, so proof of recent generations will require living family members to come forth with that information. My complete file, which contains source information, will be posted on genealogy web sites on a regular basis so that it will be available to future family researchers. The files on the genealogy web sites would need to be accessed if anyone wanted to understand families that are related by marriage to the Weil’s.
Research will continue in three areas, as I have time, with family tree revisions as appropriate:
Charles Stanton completed research on the Bruell family as well as its connections with other families from Germany. His work has been posted on line at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. Some of this information is also contained on jewishgen.org and ancestry.com.
If you find your name on this chart and would like to add to the base of information, or would like further information, you can contact me at: dweil at cox dot net. For people who are living, I have eliminated middle names, dates of birth, and dates of marriage in this chart.
Revised January 2010
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