Regina Magaziner, b. 1877

I think I've finally figured out how Regina Magaziner links up to my family tree!  I am confident that she is the daughter of Adolf Magaziner.  Now all I have to do is prove it...


Regina is one of the many Other Magaziners I've found, people who are named Magaziner in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but who aren't yet connected directly to anyone on the tree.  I first came across Regina years ago in a 1907 Ellis Island passenger list.  She was 30 years old and most recently lived in Homonna, my Magaziner family's home town, but she said she was born in Vienna.  That was weird.  But I kept her on my list, just in case I could figure out how she connected up.

In March, I connected Regina to another of the Other Magaziners: Johanna Magaziner.  The passenger list had Regina's contact in the United States as an uncle named Rosenberg and gave his address.  He apparently never met her at the port, because she was detained and later released to an Emma Rosenberg, identified as Regina's cousin, at the same address.  Now, I had an Emma Grun Rosenberg among my Other Magaziners: Emma was the daughter of Johanna Magaziner Grun, but I don't know how Johanna connects to the rest of the family.  Could this cousin Emma Rosenberg be Johanna's daughter, and therefore Johanna the sister of Regina's Magaziner father? 

I found an Emma Rosenberg in the 1900 census as the wife at the address from the passenger list, and the same household had a mother-in-law Johanna Grun!  So Regina's cousin Emma was definitely the daughter of Johanna Magaziner, who married Leopold Grun.  But are they connected to my Magaziners?

I have a theory: I recently found proof that Adolf Magaziner is the son of Samuel.  Adolf married in Budapest in late 1865, then fathered a child every 13 months or so from 1867 to 1874, then nothing... There is no record of him or his family after that time until the death record of one of his teenaged daughters in Vienna in 1887.  Adolf and several of his children are buried in a cemetery in Vienna between 1887 and 1923.  I have found no other records of Magaziners in Vienna, though admittedly, there are not many Austrian records online right now.

So Adolf and his family moved from Budapest to Vienna some time between 1874 and 1887.  Regina's passenger list says she was born in Vienna in around 1877.  There are no other Magaziners in Vienna.  Regina has to be Adolf's daughter!  If so, then Johanna should be Adolf's sister, and also Samuel's daughter.

My next step: obtain the Vienna Jewish registry for her birth.  That should be on LDS Film #1175370 or #1175371.  I'll be ordering that soon.