Waterfall Family Research

After my grandfather died in 2004, I inherited all the family papers and photographs.  While I was sorting through the papers I came across a series of letter that had been written by my grandmother Ilse, her mother Hulda and her grandmother Gisella.  These letters were written during World War 2 when the three women were living apart in England, France and Austria respectively and document how they were surviving during WW2.  Before finding these letters, I very little idea of my grandmother's early life as I had never thought to ask her, but the thing that I got from the letters, was that she was a strong woman and this carried her through her later life. If you are interested in the book it is called Escape to Auschwitz by Sonia Ann Waterfall and you can find it at  http://www.feedaread.com/books/Escape-to-Auschwitz-9781782996811.aspx

During 2013 I managed to undertake some research into my AustroHungarian side of the family, all from the comfort of my sofa.  My Aunt, +Sonia Waterfall  , had been writing a book about Hulda Frankenbusch nee Kohn (my gt grandmother) and had sent me a link to  Ed Zwieback's website.  From here I used some of the sources he used and managed to research my tree further. For the Austrian side of my family research I used FamilySearch and the records of Vienna's Jewish Community.  Here I finally found the birth of Hulda's brother Felix as we knew he had died during WWI of typhoid fever aged about 18years.  I now have to find his death record. Another website that I used was  http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/search.asp?lang=en:  This is a cemetery database for the Jewish section of the Friedhof Cemetery in Vienna.  I found the Huldas father, Rudolf is buried here, along with her mothers parents and some of her siblings. F...

Over the past 15 years I have been researching my Family History, and in that time I have collected a lot of information on all branches of my tree, especially my paternal line.  I intend to use this blog to publish some of my research in the hope that I can connect with others researching the same family names that I am researching. I am currently researching Frankenbusch - from the Czech Republic Lowenstein - from Vienna, Austria and Hungary Waterfall - I am undertaking a One-Name Study into the name.  My own line so far originate from Coventry, Warwickshire, UK. So far I have information on some Waterfall's from Lincolnshire and those from London who emigrated to Salt Lake City. I have not undertaken much research on those Waterfall's from Derbyshire as yet. If you wish to help with my One-Name Study, I look forward to hearing from you.