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From: "Graham Dickason" <>
Subject: Re: Press Family enquiry
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:52:57 +0200

I am friendly with Berjulie Press with whom I spoke to earlier today. She is
the widow of Hubert Press.
Sydney, his brother passed away a few years ago. Berjulie will be able to
give you all the information about the Press family. I am away in the Cape
on holiday so do not have her exact physical address, but she lives in
Coronation Road, Sandhurst in Johannesburg. Her telephone number is
27-11-883-3265
Graham Dickason

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To: <>
Date: 03 January 1999 06:02
Subject: New Member here!

>Hello everyone,
>
>I just signed up on this program! I have been trying to make a large
family
>tree of my ancestors for the past couple of months. However, only recently
>have I started using the internet which I have found quite helpful. I am
>mainly interested in my Lithuanian descendants who came to South Africa in
the
>mid 1800's. The names include Press, Hoffman, Meisachowitz, and Bruck.
>
>Bruck: The farthest I know of is a man called Baruch which could well have
>been his first or last name, I'm not sure. He was born ~1825. He had 5
>children, Hannah Bruck, Mira, Chia Hinda, Bara, and Haskell Bruck. I have
no
>dates on any of these people nor their children, nor their children's
>children, but I do have the names. The one I am mainly concerned with is
>Hannah Bruck.
>
>Hannah Bruck married Benjamin Press who had 5 children, Fanny, Bara,
Phillp,
>Hatsa, and Soloman Lebe. Again I have no dates for these people. The two
I
>am mainly interested in are Fanny Press and Phillip Press.
>
>Fanny Press: married Elie (Elias) Meisachowitz who had 2 children, Boris
and
>Benjamin. Benjamin Meisachowitz who later changed his name to Miller is my
>Grandfather. He married Alma Wexer in 1946. They gave birth to Kenneth
>Miller and Frances Miller, my mother. She gave birth to me, Alexander
Merkler!
>
>Phillip Press: He married Annie Hoffman and had 4 children, Sidney,
Hubert,
>Basil, and Rhoda, all born around 1900, but again I have no exact dates.
They
>then married and had children, which I have info. on.
>
>Please let me know if anyone has any information at all on either of the
>people. Also if you wish to know more about my family and some of the
people
>I have here and alos how it ties in with my father's family, just let me
know.
>I have a tree with 1800 people so far.
>
>Thank you very much
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Alexander Merkler
>
>
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