Info on Edwin Bardach, with references
From a technology perspective, geneology is fascinating. So many indices and records are getting linked in and uploaded; data I couldn’t find a few years ago is now available! I’m going to make a note about the data I have from Mom. Lots of what she told me happened before she was born and was family lore, which was aged for years before she told me. And my memory is not perfect either. From familysearch.org (LDS), I find a scan of a record of Edwin’s first marriage in June 1899 to Regine Wasserberger in VIenna. https://www.familysearch.org/ ark:/61903/1:1:QGJT-W8VW From that doc, I see Edwin’s birthdate is 4/24/1874; his parents are Jakob Bardach and Rosa Hoenigsman. Looks like he was born in Lemberg. Mom had said he was Polish (I assume Galicia) but a Google search of Lemberg shows it’s the German name for Lviv (Ukraine). There was a lot of interchange between Ukrainian and Polish Jewish populations so Polish could have been his language. He certainly spoke German as well, and I