At 11:14 PM 01/11/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Who was your Mom and who was the fink she was married to and where and when? >Gerrie Fink Perna >Chickadee2@aol.com Why don't we all list our Finks. I'll start it off My stepchildren Glory Agnes-Alexander (Living) Albert Thomas-Breakwell Fink (Living) Laili Martha-Root Fink (living) Her Parents Albert Fink (living) Lynda Carol Phillips (living) Her Grandparents Albert Fink 1905-1980 Martha Hickam ? - 1998 dau of Horace Meek Hickam (1885-5 Nov 1934) & Helen Bamber (1887-1957) Other children Rudolf Fink (living) Wife- Susan (living) Son - Rudolf Fink (Living) Louis Alex Phillips (7 Aug 1912 - 3 Mar 1983) son of Morris Phillips (1877-1927) & Gussie Schwartz (1890-?) Marion M Steinberg (24 Dec 1912 - 16 Oct 1981) dau of Louis Steinberg (? - 1943) & Esther Passer Other Children Mark Phillips All 4 of the g-grand parents on the mother's side are Jews born in Eastern Europe, immigrating to the US around the turn of the 20th century. The Fink information is very sparse. I have found more through research than I was able to get from family members. The first Finks of this line were 3 German brothers, Albert, Rudolf and Heinrich. They were born in the 1820s and immigrated to the USA. Heinrich returned to Germany. Albert was an Railroad Engineer and designed railroad bridges of a particular type in the 1850s. The last remaining example of his work is the Fink Overhead Truss Bridge in Zoarville OH. The two brother's started a peculiar family custom. They only named their sons Albert or Rudolf, no middle names. I have found several famous Alberts but don't know if they are related. One is Albert Fink, railroad detective. He sent spies into the Union camp. These spies told management of the doings of the Unions. These spies came to be known as Finks, and the term passed into popular slang for a tattle-tale. Another famous Albert Fink that I have found was a lawyer in the Alaska Territory. He set up the formal rules of dog-sled racing. All of these famous Alberts around and I'm told ours are descended from Rudolf. BTW, you may have noticed that the children's mother has a maiden name of Phillips. We are not related. I'm from solid Scotch-Irish Roots and she is of course 100% Jewish. Her Grandfather Phillips' name was Anglicized when he came in the country from Latvia. Gene Phillips