The Margulies Chronicles

A Family Chronicle about Hans Margulies

and his Ancestors, his Descendents,
and their Related Families

It all began with ... a briefcase !

When my grandmother(1), Minna Malecek-Margulies, died she left me a briefcase that had belonged to my grandfather, Hans Margulies (also known as Hanns Margulies, and even as Johann Margulies). The briefcase was full of documents, newspaper cuttings and photographs about my grandfather and his family.

And among these papers I found ... a Family Tree !

This web-site started out as an attempt to write a hypertext chronicle
about my grandfather's life, using these materials.

It rapidly became a mixture of biography, photo-album and scrapbook, including as it does(2), reminiscences, anecdotes, photos, charts, certificates, maps, relevant Internet links(3), census information, etc.

I then decided to expand this chronicle to include his ancestors, and the ancestors and
descendants of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

1. Strictly speaking (i.e. genealogically) she is my step-grandmother, but she is the only grandmother I knew,
   so for me she will always be my grandmother !
   
   
2. ... or will do (this is an on-going projekt !)
   
   
3. All links marked with indicate a hyperlink to an external website. [Disclaimer]
   Clicking on these links will open the destination page in a new browser window.
   
   
4. Out of respect for privacy, this website will contain no details of living people
   but will only include data from the root generation and the ancestor generations.
   Information about the descendant generations is published on a CD which is only available to family members.
   See Standards for Sharing Information with Others .
   

This is (mostly) an english-language website.
Some of the pages (mainly those about the Margulies Families) have also been translated into german. Such pages have a language flag in the top right-hand corner of the page ( ) .
This flag is also a switch to change the language.