Minden Family and Stories: Photos: Max and Sophie Minden and Their 10 Children

Starting from Max and Sophie ...

Something happened that scattered the branches of Max and Sophie Minden's family. It was partly the war, partly the Shoa, partly the urge to emigrate and its counterweight, the urge to stay in one safe place. As of the time when this blog is beginning, November 2014, many of their descendants live in the United States yet have never met in person; some of us have met those in France, in England, in Israel, in Australia ... and Canada, South America, and who knows where else we are. This is a space for sharing who we are and what we know about our past, as well as our present and future as a Global Family.

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Photos: Max and Sophie Minden and Their 10 Children

Many thanks to Judi (Novice) Roth for providing these wonderful photos! Here are Max Jechiel Minden (1859-1914) and Sophie (Feitler) Minden (1867-1949) (Generation A by our counting here). Max was born in Hamburg, Germany, and Sophie in Oppenheim, Germany; their first child, Henry, was born in 1890, so at a guess, they may have married around 1888.

Sophie gave birth to 11 children, but one, Siegmond, died at age 8 or 9 (1894-1903).
Here are the remaining 10 children:

The boys are (from oldest) Henry, Robert, Ernest, Hans, and Alfred.
The girls are (from oldest) Anna, Frances, Babette, Lizzy, and for the fifth daughter I have two names, without dates of birth: Claire and Sophie -- Judi or Ruth, can you help on this, please?

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A Common Language

This is Beth writing from Vermont (USA). I call Max and Sophie Generation A -- and their 11 children, grandparents of many of us who'll write here, are Generation 1. Ernest Minden (1898-1972) is part of Generation 1 and is my grandfather; his younger son Walter Minden (1925-1998) is my father and is part of Generation 2. I am part of Generation 3, and my sons are in Generation 4.

Working backward, Max Jechiel Minden (1859-1914) and Sophie (Feitler) Minden (1867-1949) are Generation A; Max's parents, Hertz Simon Minden and Sophia (Behrens) Minden, are in Generation B. And so on.

The point of using this blog, for now, is that I anticipate that we'll get to know each other through the stories we tell of our family -- and we can index them using the blog's keyword (tagging) functions, so we'll be able to look things up, gather stories together, and such. It's a workspace, intended for enjoyment, and not too formal, but also a research space where it's helpful to know the full names and dates as we go along.

So ... let us meet and share our stories!