I have hit a wall w/Abram Werdenschlag (b.1868) and Elizabeth Werdenschlag (b. 1871). After 1900 they disappeared. Any info?

Locations for births? marriage? residence? children's births?

Thank you. All the info on them is in my family tree (Kerr Family-my name is Patricia Gill). I have been trying to solve this mystery for 6 years. I can trace the entire family except their death and burial. After 1905 they vanished from all records in New York City. They are my great grandparents and I want to find out what happened to them. They were married in NY and lived and raised a family there. The whole family appears in the 1900 census...then, gone!

I just tried a search at http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html for Werdenschlag and all sorts of articles (bankruptcy, marriage, death) came up for various relatives, children...I haven't found Abram and his wife yet, but maybe you'll have better luck.

The search is free.

(I was getting an error message when viewing the articles, but I just kept zooming in and it went away.)

Thanks, I will give it a try. NO ONE in this side of the family knows anything. It seems to be the "great family mystery" and I am determined to solve it.

From the few references I saw, I believe the family was Jewish. You may find info at the Jewish Genealogical Society www.jgsny.org.

I found these two deaths:

Surname Given Name Age Month Day Year
Certificate Number County Born FHL roll number

Werdenschlag Abraham 81 y Dec 20 1921 28867 (1921) Manhattan 1839 - 1840 2027767

Werdenschlag Abraham 52 y Jan 19 1922 2088 (1922) Manhattan 1869 - 1870 2027788

source: http://www.stevemorse.org/vital/nydeath.html

Note: "Born" year is just an estimate

Here are all the Werdenschlag deaths (spelled exactly) from that source:

Surname Given Name Age Month Day Year Cert. # County Born FHL roll number
Werdenschlag Abraham 81 y Dec 20 1921 28867 (1921) Manhattan 1839 - 1840 2027767
Werdenschlag Abraham 52 y Jan 19 1922 2088 (1922) Manhattan 1869 - 1870 2027788
Werdenschlag David 74 y May 7 1928 13046 (1928) Manhattan 1853 - 1854 2056326
Werdenschlag Ernestine 51 y May 10 1904 18148 (1904) Manhattan 1852 - 1853 1323051
Werdenschlag Evelyn 5 d Jul 18 1905 23128 (1905) Manhattan 1904 - 1905 1323092
Werdenschlag Gertrude 73 y Aug 19 1919 24079 (1919) Manhattan 1845 - 1846 1322452
Werdenschlag Mathild 20 y Aug 30 1868 17574 (1868) Manhattan 1847 - 1848 1324528
Werdenschlag Salmon 50 y Mar 1 1928 5988 (1928) Manhattan 1877 - 1878 2056275
Werdenschlag Sara 73 y Dec 15 1921 28505 (1921) Manhattan 1847 - 1848 2027767
Werdenschlag Solomon 62 y Jan 29 1900 3268 (1900) Manhattan 1837 - 1838 1322970

This is almost certainly Elizabeth's death info (mis-transcribed or mis-typed)

Surname Given Name Age Month Day Year Certificate Number County Born FHL roll number
Wesdenschlag Elizabeth 35 y Feb 11 1905 5193 (1905) Manhattan 1869 - 1870 1323078

You should order her death certificate. That should have enough info for you to confirm whether it's her.

Update: This IS the correct woman, based on the newspaper death notice I found.

I found 219 Werdenschlag "hits" at hathitrust.org. One set was in a butchers' magazine/journal. (Several family members were butchers.)

Search full text (with full text access) at:
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?a=page&page=advanced