Lebensold Family

'''This article is designed to ...

:*(1) establish a central clearinghouse for genealogical information AbOUT this family,

:*(2) make more likely the discovery of new branches and family-members, and

:*(3) facilitate communication between the various members of the family.'''

Those that remain:
There are currently (2010) some dozen or so male representatives of the Lebensold Family alive today - in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany (formerly in Russia), Israel, and the United States - and female descendents of this family in many of these countries as well, but every individual is able (working backwards to the beginning of the 20th century) to trace his or her family to Warsaw, Poland.

While there has been - as yet - no definitive link made between these various (presumed) "branches" of the common family tree ...

(1) The ancestors of most of today's branches lived within a few blocks of each other in late-19th century and early-20th century Warsaw, and
(2) representatives from the Brazilian, Canadian, French German/Russian and U.S. branches of the family have had their Y-DNA tested (by Family Tree DNA) and prove to be a precise match on 37 markers, meaning that those branches have a better than 50% chance of sharing an ancestor in common in the past 4-5 generations.

An early Lebensold?
There is a Lebenssold family (note the double "s") listed in the online database of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("LDS"): Georg Lebenssold (born about 1665, died January 18, 1713, both in Kleinsussen, Donau, Wuerttemberg, Germany) at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=17877256&lds=0&region=-. But no link to any of the "Polish" Lebensolds has yet been established - and (considering that most Jewish families in Eastern Europe only began using surnames in the early 19th Century1) there may not be one.

Major branches of the Lebensold family:

NOTE: For security's sake - and to protect against identity theft - precise birthdates for living individuals have been omitted. Specific details about any living individual must be added by that individual him- or herself.

Argentina

Brazil

Canada

Fred (David Froim) Lebensold, 1917-1985, well-known architect (see National Arts Centre and Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, among others), and his sons (with wife Ruth Szafir) -- publisher, filmmaker Peter Lebensold (see Take One and Heavy Metal) and computer scientist, prominent Baha'i Julian Lebensold (see 2). Additionally, Julian's son Jonathan (3), a web-site developer and technologist.

:* Fred Lebensold in The Canadian Encyclopedia

:* ARCOP in The Canadian Encyclopedia

:* Fred Lebensold obituary in The Montreal Gazette

:* Fred Lebensold on renewing Old Montreal

:* New York Times: Fred Lebensold takes a bow at the opening of the City Center Theater

:* "I Try to Look After the Spirit": Fred Lebensold interviewed in the Sun-Sentinel about Tampa Bay`s new Performing Arts Center

:* Full credits for Heavy Metal

France

Germany

Israel

United States

Bob and Ken Lebensold, sons of Henry Lebensold (1907-2002) and Hannah Bialon.
NOTE: See Lebensohl: The "Lebensold" contract (in bridge) is not named after Ken Lebensold.