Welcome!
Posted by: udrt on: November 16, 2008
This is what I remember, even if it didn’t happen
— Mark Twain
Welcome to Under The Dining Room Table, a family memoir and genealogy blog for the Caplan, Genstein, Gibbons, and Helf families. Join in! Explore, or read our Help Page to learn how to contribute.
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Easy ways to explore Under The Dining Room Table
1. Start at the beginning or Start at the end. The articles (posts) in UDRT, like most blogs, are organized in REVERSE chronological order; scroll down to see older articles and click the Older Entries link to see the rest. To read in CHRONOLOGICAL order from the beginning, start with this article about the Mother of Sarah Lederman Caplan, the earliest ancestor about whom we have information. From there you can click the links at the top of the article to see the Previous or Next article.
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2. Click on the Category links on the right-hand side of any page. Our contributors place their articles into one or more categories, like “Caplan”, etc. To see summaries of the articles in a category, just click the appropriate link over there on the right, under the title “Categories”.
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3. Explore the family tree. Find somebody and click!
Morris Moishe Yitzchak Caplan == Sarah Kleban Caplan
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Aaron Caplan == Sarah Lederman Caplan
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Sam Caplan == Florence
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Linda
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Myrna
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Ken
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Samra
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Isadore Caplan == Thelma
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Aaron Caplan == Janet
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Martin Caplan == Debbie
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Terry Caplan
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Sandy Caplan
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Minnie (Caplan) Bleckman == Hyman Bleckman
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Arna
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Paula
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Lynn
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Ian
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Abe Caplan == Betty Ruth (Gibbons) Caplan
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Andrew Robert Caplan == Linda (Jaffee) Caplan
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Emily Caplan
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Aiden Asher Caplan
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Martin William Caplan
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Edward Yitzchak Mayer Gibbons Caplan== Barbara Grace Hays
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Benjamin Felts Caplan
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Noah Sebastian Caplan
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Eric Jacob Caplan
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Nancy FredelSarah (Caplan) Shapiro == Ross Shapiro
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Emma Shapiro
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Sam Caplan == Pearl (Perlman) Caplan [See Perlman family, below]
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Louis Caplan
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Jerry Caplan
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Rose Caplan
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Willie Caplan
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== Rose (1st wife)
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Hilda (Caplan) Lipsman == Chuck Lipsman
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Minnie (Caplan) Klein == Gene Klein
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Clara (Caplan) Goldstein == Irv Goldstein
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Morry Goldstein
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Howard Goldstein
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== Esther (2nd wife after Rose died)
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Marcia (Caplan) Uram == Sid Uram
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Randy Uram
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Lisa Uram
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Brunsie (Caplan) Zeidenstein == Hyman Zeidenstein
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Caroline Zeidenstein (adopted)
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Baruchie "Bertha" (Caplan) Silverman == Willie (Motell) Silverman
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Rose (Caplan) Gerber == Joe Gerber
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Abe Gerber
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Ethel (Caplan) Kottler == Benny Kottler
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Saul
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Jennette
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Perlman Family
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Pearl (Perlman) Caplan == Sam Caplan
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Oscar Perlman
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Sam Perlman
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Izzie Perlman
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Hershel Perlman
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Zeidenstein Family
* Max Zeidenstein
** George Zeidenstein
* Willie Zeidenstein
* Oskar Zeidenstein
** George “Sonny” Zeidenstein
** Diana “Dinsy” Zeidenstein
** Gertrude “Trudy” Zeidenstein
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Geni.com genealogy website
Posted by: udrt on: July 10, 2011
Geni.com is a free Wikipedia-like genealogy site. I’ve begun adding family tree information there and cousins have already started to add in their genealogy information. Please join us there and help us flesh out the family’s tree.
For a preview: Geni.com genealogy tree (read only)
Bubbe Caplan, Wheelchair Demon
Posted by: udrt on: January 1, 1970
- In: Caplan | Lederman
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When Bubbe Caplan (Sarah Lederman Caplan) was 85 years old, she was in the hospital. When we arrived to visit, she asked us to please talk to the nurse because they took her wheelchair away from her. When we went to the nurse, she was very angry. She said she would not give the wheelchair back because Bubbe was speeding through the halls with it, and was a danger to everyone in the halls.
We finally got the wheelchair back for her, but only after she promised that she would not speed.
Esther & William Caplan Anniversary – Around the Dining Room Table
Posted by: udrt on: January 1, 1960
- In: Caplan | Dickter | Gerber | Goldstein | Kottler | Perlman | Zeidenstein
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Esther & William Caplan, and family -- click to enlarge
Esther & William Caplan, and family w/Captions -- click to enlarge
Around the dining room table
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Ethel (Caplan) Kottler, Ben Kottler, Joe Gerber, Rose (Caplan) Gerber
Pearl (Perlman) Caplan, Brunsie (Caplan) Zeidenstein, Hyman Zeidenstein
Esther & William Caplan
Morry Goldstein, Irv Goldstein, Clara Goldstein, Howard Goldstein
Joe Dickter, Dickter
My Mother-In-Law, Sarah Lederman Caplan
Posted by: udrt on: January 1, 1955
- In: Caplan | Lederman
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by Betty Ruth Gibbons Caplan
When I was in the early years of my marriage I always used to tell myself to remember what kind of a mother-in-law I had, because she would be my role model. I had three sons and I was afraid that I would not be a good mother-in-law myself. I knew that my daughter would “be my daughter all of her life.” But I worried about daughters-in-laws. So I told myself to remember my mother-in-law.
Sarah Caplan was a gentle woman. She never said a bad word about anyone. She never imposed herself. When we lived on her third floor and she lived alone downstairs I never thought to invite her up. But sometimes she would call on the phone. She’d say, “How are you?” And sometimes I would say, “Come on up.” She would come running. In 2 seconds she would be there.
But if I did not say “Come on up” she would never ask to come up. She would remain pleasant and soon say goodnight.
I would dress the baby warmly and put him in his buggy on the porch so he would get air. She would sit beside him while he napped, just looking at him. I never understood that until I became a Grandmother myself. She never said, “He’s too warm, he’s too cold.” She never criticized anything I did. She always appeared happy and quite satisfied with whatever I did. In other words, she kept her opinions to herself.
It wasn’t until I was naming my third son when she asked me if maybe I would give just a middle name for her brother. I said yes of course. But I was mortified at myself that I had never thought to ask her before if there was a name she wanted us to use. I did not know that her brother had died in the holocaust. But still, I had never thought to ask. It must have taken a lot for her to finally ask, because that is the kind of woman she was. She always was aware of other people’s feelings, but never asked for anything for herself.
Her children got that sensitivity from her, and our children did too, I’m happy to say.
Now that I’m a mother-in-law I think I manage to remember these things pretty well. But I have to give the credit to my mother-in-law, who taught me by just doing the job well herself.
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