Hosiason

Descendants of Samuel and Jette Hosiasson

Samuel Hosiason was born ca. 1815, and was registered as a trader and houseowner from Goldingen, Courland (now Kuldiga, Latvia) in 1877. His wife, Jette, was born ca. 1815 and died in 1877 in Zabeln, Courland (now Sabile, Latvia), where the family lived.

People

• Descendants of Samuel and Jette Hosiasson
• Ancestors of Samuel Hosiasson
• Descendants of Salamon and Chaie Hosiasson, including Samuel’s brothers, Abraham and Markus
• The Hosiassons of Sabile – blog post by Betsy Gephart
• Philippe Hosiasson (1898-1978) – artist biography from Bureau d’art Ecole de Paris

Posts

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  Remembering the HolocaustApril 27, 2022
  The photo above is Shlomo Thal, born in 1904 in Valdemarpils, Latvia. This photo is particularly powerful for me as it looks so much like my own grandfather, born the same year. Shlomo and my grandfather were second cousins. Shlomo was killed in Riga, Latvia, in 1941. He was 37. On this Yom HaShoah, I’d
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  Linking Up the BlumenthalsMarch 27, 2022
  Thirty-six years ago, in the winter of 1986, I took my very first genealogy “field trip.” I was a graduate student at the University of Michigan, and I found a wintry day to drive an hour-and-a-half or so north to Bay City. My destination was the Bay City Jewish Cemetery, to find the headstone of

Places

Latvia

• Courland
• JewishGen’s Latvia SIG
• Sabile, Latvia

Photographs

I can’t possibly share all of my family photographs here. Instead, I’ve chosen a select few favorites, mainly group photos. More pictures, particularly of individuals, can be found through my Thal-Gephart Family Tree accessible through my Ancestry profile. I am always looking for more pictures. If you have any to share, please contact me.

• Thal and Gettleson Family Mystery Photographs
• Clara Gettleson Thal Scrapbooks

The photo at left is possibly Taube Hoseason Gettleson, who passed away in Michigan in 1895. Identification has not been confirmed.

The photo at right comes from a postcard sent to Clara Gettleson Thal from Riga in 1910. Josef and Sigismund (Schaie) Hoseason were her first cousins. Adolf and Hanna Blumenthal were also visiting Riga at the time and are mentioned in the card. Adolf was also a cousin, who had previously emigrated to Michigan and was in Latvia to marry Hanna Bagg. They returned to the United States in 1911 and settled in Massachusetts. This is the last record we have of Sigismund. More information is included in The Hosiasons of Sabile, a blog from my Sabile website.