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Robert R. Fenichel |
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Family Matters I have for several years maintained a small database to keep track of who is who in our old photographs, many of them showing remote members of my family or that of my late wife, Emily S. Fenichel. In September 2005, I heard from the first time from Ronald James Rosenthal, who turns out to be my second cousin once removed. He has been zealously collecting a genealogy of our family, and he called to obtain a little information and, graciously, to provide a great deal more. He continues to provide additional information from time to time. Around the same time, Emily and I came upon a genealogical chart that Julian Berman, her former husband's second cousin, had prepared around 1978, covering scores of persons over six generations. It seemed like a good time to merge these data into one database. Shortly after Emily's death, I came upon another genealogical chart, probably prepared around 2000 by Emily's cousin Ron Killian. The database itself now includes a variety of anecdotes, competing date estimates, and so forth, but what will be maintained on-line are only a few non-annotated charts of ancestors and descendants. I am happy to accept related data with which to expand/amend the database, but I will not myself be digging (as the cousins have) into old census records, passenger-ship manifests, and so on. Some known Fenichels do not appear here. Every Fenichel I've ever met has said that he or she was related to the ur-Freudian Otto Fenichel (1897-1946), but I've not met one who is sure just how he or she was related to Otto. Michael Fenichel is a clinical psychologist in New York, and I don't know whether I'm related to Michael either. He is accumulating a list of Web-accessible Fenichels. No single chart contains all of the kinship data available in my current database. Each chart extends only to the ancestors or descendants of a single person or couple, with incidental spouses included non-recursively. For example, no single chart includes both my sister's sons and my sister-in-law's daughter. Some of the data (e.g., most of the data obtained from the Berman charts) will not be represented here, but I'd be happy to exchange the data with interested people, and/or to install links to charts that they may choose to maintain on their own pages. The charts now available are
There are hyperlinks between them, and, as noted above, these charts may come to include links to interlocking charts that others may choose to maintain elsewhere. Page revised: 04/13/2008 13:53
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