Dates of Prager Tagblatt Obituaries

Hi Jonathan,

Did you try www.anno.onb.ac.at yet? If not, then please go to that website !

Then click on

ANNO-Suche
Volltextsuche in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften

http://anno.onb.ac.at/anno-suche/#searchMode=simple&resultMode=...

In the upper right hand corner you can write a name that you are searching for.
For instance "Hugo Fleischer". You will find 93 results. If that is too much for you, you can filter only the Prager Tagblatt articles and you will find 20 results. Hopefully one of these 20 results will be an obituary. You can also filter by time spans etc.
An incredible (NEW) tool is also the "adjacent search" :
If you find too many names, then you can search for instance "fleischer gattin"~10 and then ANNO will search for you ALL the articles that have the words Fleischer and Gattin (=wife) within 10 words apart (or more if you chose 15 or 20 or whatever distances). Often these articles will be obituaries.
This way I found LOTS of interesting information, also about bankrupcies or shops etc. from my Fleischers for instance.
Kind regards from Vienna,
Barbara Kintaert ( barbara.kintaert@akwien.at )

Thanks. Looks interesting. I look forward to exploring this link.

Wow. I just found an add for my G Grandmother's clothing company.
A widow and a businesswoman.
20 year earlier my G Grandfather got 3 shipments of fine Jamaican rum.
Thank you so much!

Hi Jonathan,
an answer from Felix Gundacker (www.genteam.at):
Keine Frage: Personendaten (Geburt, Trauung, etc.) von noch lebenden Personen dürfen nur mit Einwilligung der betreffenden Personen veröffentlicht werden. Wenn das aus einer Gesamtdatei nicht löschbar ist – aus welchen Gründen auch immer – dann darf das gesamte Dokument nicht publiziert werden.

Thank you Andre. Good to know.
And thank you again Barbara. The direct link you provided is amazing.
I have found proof of my g grandparents marriage as well as lots of info about their business interests that also provide possible links to g grandmother's family in other parts of the world, additionally the entire Feig family of Bohemia (1780-1945) comes to life when I click on their names. Incredible! 😀😀😀

Yes, the searches in ANNO (from the Austrian National Library) are REALLY helpful.
Please forward to other researchers if you like !
Ahoj from Vienna,
Barbara Kintaert

Thanks to the info you put about ANNO, I have found that the French National Library in Paris, where I live, has a copy of a book written by my grandfather who I never got to meet. This Geni site is a real hive of interesting information!!!

I found, among other things, an announcement, in Prager Tagblatt, for the civil wedding, in Breslau, of my great grandparents Moritz and Anna Feig.
http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=ptb&datum=18841215&a...
There is an odd hypermobility and and a wondeful modernity in this. The announcement confirms info given to me by Geni researchers, -that g grandfather was from Deutschen Rust, that his parents were Abraham and Judith, (I wonder if my grandfather even knew the name of his grandfather, who died 50 years before he was born, and his father died when he was two) it also places my g grandmother as residing at the address in 1884 that is listed as the address of her father in a Breslau Addressebuch in 1887 , he is an otherwise shadowy figure who's existence in my family tree is otherwise only confirmed by my grandfather's birth record.
This is an amazing site. Yes!

Additionally my g grandfather and grandmother were both business people who each ran their own businesses, (as opposed to my g grandparents in Brooklyn same period, the woman stayed home) as can be confirmed by frequent ads placed in PT for the two businesses.

That's a coincidence. The book I mentioned was printed in Breslau!!!

Thanks, Barbara, for that marvellous new tool!

You're welcome Debbie !
True, in these old articles a whole new (old) world comes to life. And true, people were quite mobile then. Especially Jewish people, who had been pestered by the Familiantenlaws etc. for so long and who could only help themselves by being mobile.
E.g. I found that Benjamin Holländer from Bielsko Biala was in contact with his nephew Dr. Alexander Holländer, who was born in Segovce (Galsecz, Slovakia) but was a neurologist in Vienna. Such connections where no exceptions, they were the rule. There was no iron wall then and later the decades of the iron wall made us (in Austria) forget, that our ancestors where much more mobile than we ever thought (I think).
And as I said before, please forward the link to other researchers.
:o)
Barbara Kintaert