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Re: Spinners Jewish?

1_ladycs — 2012-05-01 22:56:51Z

Maybe he did live on Lydig. Will contact you if I connect with him.
good luck!!!

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2012-05-01 02:48:17Z

Any Jacob Nathan's in your family tree. Or Meyer Spinner??? Elias Spinner?

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2012-05-01 02:46:45Z

Do you know if any member of the family was named Jacob Nathan Sessler. That's my father's grandfather.....Who was your father's father???? or grandmother.
We grew up in the Bronx in the 1950s...my dad was Adolph Spinner.

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2012-05-01 02:44:03Z

My husband's family lived in the Pelham Parkway area on Lydig Avenue. He lived on Waring Avenue near Allerton. Funny world. I think there was a Spinner relative over there. If Howard ever communicates with you, give him my email.....

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Re: Spinners Jewish?

1_ladycs — 2012-04-30 23:11:00Z

Oh, sorry but the Howard I was friends with in the 50's lived on Wallace Ave. in the Pelham Parkway area. He is Jewish and I would love to reconnect with him. We graduated from elementary school in 1955.

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2012-04-30 18:12:54Z

I don';t remember seeing this post.
My father was Adolph Spinner (Rafuel Avraham was his Jewish name). He immigrated from Tluste, Austria which was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and now is in Ukraine. He immigrated in 1922. His father was Meyer Spinner and his father was Eli Kneizer. We think Meyer used his mother's name since many married only religiously not through the civil system. We know Eli had a brother Hersh. Meyer had a brother Joseph. My father had a brother Eli, and sisters Bessie and Fannie. We lived in the Bronx. My father lived in the lower East Side when he first arrived. He was a furrier. No Benjamins....If your family is from either Tluste or Czernowitz, perhaps there is a relationship.

Paula Spinner Schwartz
Avon, CT

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2012-04-30 18:04:48Z

Sorry, there is no Howard in our Spinner family. Are you a Spinner with a Jewish background. We lived in the Bronx, but near Southern Blvd. Graduated Monroe HS in 1962.

Paula Spinner Schwartz
Avon, CT

Re: Spinners Jewish?

1_ladycs — 2012-04-29 02:07:06Z

Howard,
Remember me from barnes Ave? We were childhood friends. Remember the cat you named "Irish"?
Carol (Rochman)

Re: Spinner relatives

L_Este — 2012-03-14 14:40:14Z

Hi, I am not sure my family came here in the 1800's from Germany..my grandfather was born in Michigan, so I am not sure if they were Germans or Jewish.. I can only go back to my grand father & maybe greatgrand father..which I still have questions about..or you Polish or Jewish? I have heard the the Spinner name is Jewish, that it had been shortened ...Baumwolspinner..to just Spinner..but any way good luck on your quest..My Ggrandfather William Spinner
my grandfather Charley(charlie) Eugene Spinner..don't sound to German..

Re: Spinner relatives

tamrynspin — 2012-03-14 09:52:43Z

My family also comes from poland and russia. my father was born in poland in 1949, but he left poland in the 1950s with my grandmother and grandfather to escape communism .leaving behind cousins and other family members.our Surname is Spinner but i was told it was once spinnerovic or something close to that.I am trying to search our family history and find any other european family members , maybe we are related somehow?

Spinner Surname Spelling Variation

RandallMcDaniel44 — 2012-01-10 03:21:13Z

I am currently researching some Spinner German ancestors. I heard that this surname may have variations in the spelling. Can someone please help me with that information? Thanks much!

Randy
Webster, Texas

Allen and Adaline of Franklin County

thewingznut — 2011-11-22 22:46:27Z

Anyone find out anything more on Allen and Adaline of Franklin County. I know it's been a while and I'm hoping someone has something to share.

Re: Spinner's in Brooklyn, New york area

pschwartz99 — 2011-08-22 12:23:44Z

We have Spinner relatives who lived in Brooklyn but I do not know of anyone named Milton (Robert). Interestingly, my brother is Milton Leon Spinner and I had an aunt Fanny Spinner. My brother lives in California, but our aunt Fanny died years ago. She'd be about 100 right now if she was alive, but she did live in Brooklyn. Wonder if there's any connection going back another generation. Do you know your grandfather's parents or what town they came from? Where they are buried? Good luck on your search.

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Re: Spinner's in Brooklyn, New york area

sjbond64 — 2011-08-21 14:29:25Z

I am new to this so forgive the lack of detail. My grandfather, Milton (Robert) Spinner, was from Brooklyn. I had heard he was of Romanian decent. Definitely Jewish. He met my grandmother while serving in the army in WWII in England. I believe his sister's name is Fannie but I have not seen her since I was an infant.

Sjbond64@yahoo.com

Re: lineage of Meinrad Spinner, born 31 Dec 1897 in Brooklyn needed

pschwartz99 — 2011-08-03 13:18:35Z

I met another Spinner in CT and he traced his roots to the Catholic lineage.

Interestingly, my uncle was named Elias Spinner. My father and his siblings came from the town of Tluste which at various times was Poland or Austrian Empire. It is now part of the Ukraine and is called Tovste. Their father was Meyer Spinner whose father was Elias Kneizer. We think the family took the mother's name because there was no civil marriage only religious. Unfortunately, can't seem to trace back any further at this point.

Good luck on your search.

Paula Spinner Schwartz
Avon, CT

Re: lineage of Meinrad Spinner, born 31 Dec 1897 in Brooklyn needed

Frederick_Finger — 2011-08-03 12:41:13Z

Paula,
Thank you for such a quich reply. I have the Francis Elias Spinner family now back to a Peter Spinner, age 13 in Surich, Switzerland. He paid a business tax as a salesman of sorts. As I understand it, the family was Jewish at that time, as was my family (Finger). It was around 1550 when Pope Clement V issued a decree to either convert to Catholism or be killed. My direct family converted to Luthernism while the Spinners from Zurich converted to Catholism and migrated afrom Switzerland to Bavaria and into Werbach. Religious freedom has been an issue since time began, and still is.

Re: lineage of Meinrad Spinner, born 31 Dec 1897 in Brooklyn needed

pschwartz99 — 2011-08-03 12:26:43Z

There appear to be two different Spinner families. One consists of both your relatives from Germany. The other is my family which has Jewish roots and comes from Poland and the Austrian empire. Good luck on your search.

Paula Schwartz

lineage of Meinrad Spinner, born 31 Dec 1897 in Brooklyn needed

Frederick_Finger — 2011-08-02 21:45:01Z

I have two Spinner families that are related , but I cannot tie them together. One is the lineage of Francis Elias Spinner, born 1802 in Greman Flats, New York. The other is that of Meinrad Spinner born in 1863 in Werbach, Germany and immigrated to the U.S. in 1888. Both of these Spinner families come from Werbach, Germany. Meinrads father was Nikolous Spinner born about 1840 in Werbach. These two families should come together somewhere in the 1700's in Werbach

Re: Frank Spinner and other related Montgomery Co. Illinois Spinners

EricLichtenberger — 2011-04-13 03:51:13Z

Check out the Lichtenberger Family tree (it is public). Let me know if you have any questions.Eric

Re: Spinner's in Eastern Pennsylvania

confer6986 — 2011-04-07 01:54:16Z

I know that this is a really old post, but I wondered if you had made any progress on this line, I think we are probably looking for the same Spinners.
My 4th great grandfather John Brown (1766-1838) married a Barbara Spinner (1772-1871) in Northampton county, PA around 1791. I have never been able to find out the names of her parents or where her family may have come from. It has been said in our family that their is Native American blood in that part of the family somewhere.
Thanks!

Re: Frank Spinner and other related Montgomery Co. Illinois Spinners

tsendel — 2011-03-31 03:50:36Z

Is there any way you could send me those attachments as well?
Frank Cyriak Spinner is my Great-Great-Grandfather. Anything you send will be greatly appreciated.

Re: Spinners Jewish?

gmkatz — 2011-02-28 02:26:24Z

Hi Paula,

It looks like you may have ended up in the middle of a message exchange between Sandy Katz Spinner and me. I think you and I have exchanged info in the past. According to JewishGen, Starry Sambor is 122.7 miles WNW of Tovste. So, not very close but not so far that there couldn't have been a relationship between your branch and mine going back 3-4 generations before our great or great great grandparents.

All the best,

Gary

Re: Spinners Jewish?

cincisandy — 2011-02-27 16:22:00Z

The family history says they were Kohanim. Yakov Kopel's name is listed as Ya K ha Kohen Spinner. He married Hentsha Eress whose mother's maiden name was Grasow. Anything sound familiar?

I can't imagine that my husband's grandfather, Yakov Kopel, did not have any siblings. His father was Yitzhak. -Might Yitzhak = Izick? By my estimate, Yakov Kopel who was said to be born in 1860 would have had parents born in 1830-40. Does this time frame coincide?

I'd also be interested in the Katz side of your family.

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz999 — 2011-02-27 14:28:03Z

There must be another Spinner contacting you. My Spinner relatives are from Tluster (Tovste, Ukraine). I'm not certain it is near your family location-Starry Sambor or Przemysl. If you know they are near, perhaps there is a relationship. So far the names you mentioned are unfamiliar to me. Good luck.

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Re: Spinners Jewish?

gmkatz — 2011-02-27 06:58:12Z

I presume your message was directed to me, since my mother's maiden name was Spinner, my last name is Katz and my wife's maiden name is Rosen.

Starry Sambor, where my Spinner ancestors were from, is just 26.0 miles SSE of Przemysl.

Given both your husband's and my Spinners are Cohanim, the naming traditions are similar, and the distance apart is relatively close, I'd venture to say we're from the same Spinner family.

My GGF Spinner had an uncle named Koppel, a brother named Izick (first born) and a great uncle named Issak.

Has your husband done any DNA testing? My mom, Shirley Spinner Katz, has been tested on 23andMe, as have I. We also have a male Spinner cousin in Texas, who has indicated a willingness to be tested. We could find out approximately how recently your husband and I (or my mom) are related through DNA testing, which might help us tie the two families directly together.

All the best,

Gary Katz

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz999 — 2011-02-26 20:50:08Z

My father was named Ralph Abraham Spinner but called Adolph in the USA. His father was Meier Spinner. His mother's maiden name was Spinner, but his father was Eli Kneizer Typically Jewish marriages were not "official" so children were named after mother's surnames. Meier or Meyer was born in 1876 and my father in 1898. They came from Tluste(now Tovste, Ukraine) in what was Austrian Empire and now the Ukraine. Meier Spinner died in 1946 had a brother, Joseph(Yosef ben Eliyahu) Spinner who died in 1930. They lived in New York City with my father eventually in the Bronx and his siblings in Brooklyn. My dad died in 1972.
I'm unfamiliar with the town Przemysl. Wondering if it was nearby. Let's keep trying for a connection. What did you mean three out of four names?

Paula Spinner Schwartz
Avon, CT

Re: Spinners Jewish?

cincisandy — 2011-02-26 17:44:42Z

My husband's family are Jewish Spinners (kohenim) from Przemysl, Ukraine. His grandfather Yaakov Koppel Spinner was born around 1860 in Przemysl. He was the son of Yizhak and Chana Spinner who had 16 children together. Do we have any relatives in common?

Also, my maiden name is Katz. My mother's maiden name is Rosen. All born in NYC.

How strange that we have three out of four names connected.

Re: Spinner relatives

L_Este — 2011-02-12 23:28:02Z

Michigan, New York

Re: Spinner relatives

kimjxn — 2011-02-12 17:37:31Z

Well when I found some it saidgerman/poland and I know I have both in me. Expecally the germad part..LOL

Re: Spinner relatives

pschwartz999 — 2011-02-12 14:45:31Z

It's Jewishgen.org

sorry for the error.

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Re: Spinner relatives

pschwartz999 — 2011-02-12 14:42:31Z

There appear to be two different Spinner groups

One is from Germany and has Christian roots

The other is from Austria/Poland and has Jewish roots. I'm from this group.

There are many posts for the first group on Ancestry.com
The posts for the second are mainly on Jewishgen.com
Good luck.
Paula Spinner Schwartsz

Re: Spinner relatives

kimjxn — 2011-02-12 01:12:44Z

I have family that came from German/Poland, and also Wisconsin USA.
I am just getting into this and still searching.
Kim

Re: Spinner relatives

kimjxn — 2011-02-12 01:11:07Z

Wisconsin I believe. I am just figuring all this out.
Kim

Re: Spinner relatives

pschwartz999 — 2011-02-11 23:06:47Z

My family is from Tluste in what was the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (It is now the Ukraine) My father Adolph had a brother Al and sisters Fanny and Bessie. They arrived in 1922 to NYC.

And your family?

Paula

Re: Spinner relatives

tcutre — 2011-02-10 23:30:47Z

From where are your Spinner relations from?

Re: Spinner relatives

kimjxn — 2011-02-04 04:08:57Z

Vernon Spinner Sr. was my grandfather. He was married to my grandmother Della first and they had 8 kids. They all have passed away now. My dad, Harold W. Spinner Sr was their youngest. I would love some more information on Vernon. I never knew him. My dad said he left them before he was born.

SPINNER Alfred W - Vietnam Wall section 26W

t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX — 2011-01-05 20:34:47Z

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Re: Spinner's in Brooklyn, New york area

southard97 — 2010-08-25 19:14:14Z

My Grandfather was born in Brooklyn New York around 1880
He was from Bavaria Germany and owned a steel manufacturing company called berkshire steel.

Re: Wendell (Wendelin) Spinner

MissySpinner — 2010-08-09 23:54:33Z

I don't think I can be of any help, but I wanted to say Hi. Wendell was also my Gr Gr Grandfather. My Gr Grandfather Edward Paul Spinner was his son from his second marriage to Anna Mary (also went my Mary Ann). My parents still live in the Coopersville area. Actually on land that was the Spinner Family farm on 84th. My grandpa was Alfred Charles Spinner.

Missy Spinner

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2010-08-06 13:38:34Z

I checked Google maps and your town Stary Sambor is about 4 hours (present day travel) from my Spinner family in Tluste (presently Tovste, Ukraine). As much as I'd like to see a connection, most of the names are not familiar to me. My father was Ralph Abraham Spinner (known as Adolph when he immigrated to NYC in 1921). He was the son of Meyer Spinner(Meier ben Eliah) and his father was Eli Kneizer (Eliah ben ?). Meyer took his mother's name since many of these marriages were not in the civil courts and they retained mother's name. Meyer married Simi Shiller and they had four children: Ralph Abraham, Fannie, Bessie and Al (Eliah). He immigrated prior to my father coming with his mother and siblings. They settled in Manhattan, Brooklyn and my family in the Bronx. My father married Esther Siebenberg whose family also came from Tluste and also Buchach, just north of Tluste. Other names in the family are Langholtz, Sessler.....

Have you checked JewishGen site? Perhaps there is a connection so stay in touch and let me know what you've found. I just attended the Jewish Genealogy convention in LA and found many new sources of information. Who knows?

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Re: Spinners Jewish?

gmkatz — 2010-08-05 08:59:29Z

My mom is a Spinner descendent of Jewish Ashkenazi ancestry. Her grandfather, Chaskel (Charles in the US) was born in Stary Sambor (formerly Galicia/Austria, now Ukraine), which is also close to Lviv. Chaskel Spinner was the son of Yehuda Leib, who was the son of Yehoshua Zev (Osias), who was the son of Moshe Aron. Other common given names in the family were Koppel, Aron, Abraham, Isak, Itte, Malka and Gittel. Associated families include Schneider, Teitelbaum, Adolf, Klein, Schulberg, Silberg, Finkelstein, Kessler, Weingarten, Weidinger,Gottesman, Holzmann and Fink.

Gary Katz

Re: Wendell (Wendelin) Spinner/ charles roty

judithslr — 2010-07-30 21:30:18Z

I have been looking for information about Charles Roty, probably living in Bufffalo, New York in the 1950's. He may have had an interior design business, called Roty Interiors.My father Lee St. Ledger-Roty, deceased since 1981, added the Roty to St. Ledger and viewed him as his foster or adoptive father. If anyone has information that might lead to that family, I would greatly appreciate it.

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2010-06-20 23:51:53Z

My father was Adolph Spinner and his father was Meyer Spinner. They came from a town called Tluste which is now Tovste, Ukraine. Lviv is nearby and perhaps there is a connection. My fathr was trained as a furrier and came to this country in 1922. For a time they lived in Czernowitz where his grandmother Raisel was a caterer. I'd be interested in hearing about the Spinners and their prominence in the town. I'm not certain but I think my father and his father took their mother's name which was Spinner.

Re: Katherine Spinner

pschwartz99 — 2010-05-23 20:56:28Z

I am not sure why I received this message. We are not related to either Katherine Spinner or anyone in Pa. We are connected to the Jewish Spinner family with origins in Poland. sorry.

Re: Catherine Spinner/ Elias Kuder

Mom2Chloe — 2010-05-22 02:11:37Z

Hello...

I saw your post on Ancestry.com and you stated your mother had documentation of the Kuder family history. I am composing books for my daughter, neice, and nephew about our heritage and would like to talk with you about possibily obtaining some information. I am a decendent of Elias Kuder. I would appreciate any information you may have. Thanks so much....

Cherilyn Haworth

Re: Spinner/Stamm-Alsace

pschwartz99 — 2010-05-08 20:59:50Z

Our family is from Poland in an area now in the Ukraine. I've seen many postings on ancestry.com for family in Baden, but that is not our family. Our family is Jewish. Thanks for the help and thoughtfulness.

Re: Spinner/Stamm-Alsace

matthewkmiller — 2010-05-07 18:32:19Z

There a quite a number of Spinners in the Achern, Ulm and Mösbach areas of Baden near the Black Forest. I'm looking at microfilms of the church records of the area and can look for you if you think they may be in this area. Do you have the first name and birth year of the person you're looking for?

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2010-03-26 20:00:54Z

Do you know anything about your Spinner family? Our family came from a town in what is now Ukraine (was Poland, was Austria) called Tluste (in Yiddish) and is now called Tovste. My dad's name was Adolph Spinner and he had two sisters, Bessie and Fanny and a brother Al. We lived in the Bronx. My father was a furrier. Does anything ring a bell? My father arrived in 1922, but his father Meier Spinner came much earlier. Meier had some brothers and I do seem to remember other Spinners but we've lost touch.

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Paula Spinner Schwartz

Re: Spinners Jewish?

bonnieklein_1 — 2010-03-25 14:21:53Z

I know this message is a response to your posting of nine years ago, however I just read it. I am Lauri Spinners first cousin. Her father and my mother were brother and sister. And yes, we are Jewish. I live in Manhattan. I have a sister Arlene who lives in Upper Grandview NY. I know this doesn't respond to your Spinner family question, but as far as I know Bruce Spinner was Jewish.
Hope this helps you.

Bonnie Klein

Re: Spinners Jewish?

pschwartz99 — 2010-03-21 14:44:06Z

I am a Spinner of Jewish descent. They came from Tluste, Poland (now Tovste, Ukraine). My grandfather was Meier Spinner (born in 1870) immigrated in 1902. His wife Simi and her children Adolph, Bessie, Fanny and Al came in 1922. At various times they lived in NYC, Brooklyn and the Bronx. My brother is Milt Spinner (dr. on LI, retired to California) and my sister is Phyllis Spinner Tenenbaum. I (Paula Spinner) live in CT with my husband, Roy Schwartz. We lived in the Bronx on West Farms Road.