John H. Bergmann Fellheim–Laupheim Einstein chapter and genealogy
- Repository
- Leo Baeck Institute / Internet Archive
- Reference
- reel16, scan n1159 (chapter p. 14); genealogy charts n1420–n1423
- Date
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- People
- Daniel Einstein of Fellheim, Leopold/Jehuda Einstein
- Places
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Reliability and limits
Source-cited historical reconstruction, not direct proof. The parenthetical citation on page 14 names Wilhelm Rapp, Die Geschichte des Dorfes Fellheim an der Iller (1960), and "Reichlin-Meldegg Protocols 1720-1780," but gives no repository, archival signature, protocol date, page, or folio for either population list. The original 1722 and 1747 entries remain uninspected.
Supported discoveries
Leopold’s Hebrew gravestone names his father Daniel; Bergmann independently places the family in Fellheim.
Bergmann explicitly reports a 1722 Fellheim population-list appearance for Daniel and a 1747 population-list description of Daniel's wife as a widow. Daniel's death before 1747 is an inference from the reported widow status, not wording verified in the original record. Archive staff now report a Daniel Einstein widow entry in A 401/7 (S-138); this supports the archival locator, but the uninspected report does not promote this claim.
Bergmann documented unsuccessful attempts to connect the Swabian branches. The 2026 Augsburg archive search did not recover Daniel Einstein's underlying 1722/1747 originals or identify his father. Independent Buchau evidence now establishes an early Baruch Moses Ainstein household and supports an early Moises line, making Baruch a testable candidate common ancestor, but no source-backed Daniel-to-Baruch parent-child link has been found. Repeated derivative pedigrees asserting that link are leads, not documentary proof.
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