About the Silberstein Family
This is the family of Karl Adolph Silberstein from Markisch, Friedland and Auguste Louise Henke from Anklam, Pommern, Germany. Karl and Auguste were married in Anklam on October 31, 1843. They had twelve children, six boys and six girls, all born in Anklam. Their son Carl Adolph August Silberstein, known as CAA, was the first of their children to immigrate to America, arriving in New York in 1869. Three daughters also came to the USA, Alma and Marie together in 1885 and Luise in 1924. 
Karl was the owner of a dry goods store in Anklam and active in the local government. In 1884 he was honored with a 50th anniversary celebration of his citizenship and business. Politically he served on the town council and school board, was an assemblyman from his province, organized a savings bank and the volunteer fire department. and served as an elder of the church.    
The Silberstein family history was recorded by Luise Auguste Silberstein shortly after she arrived in the United States of America in 1932. Her paper serves as the basis for my research. My grandmother, Mabel Waughtel Turner, honored and respected her Silberstein lineage and passed on her love for our family history to her descendants. This website is dedicated to her memory. This is an ongoing project with more information and photos to be added.

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                                            Thoughts Which Have Kept Me Awake at Nights

No book is entirely perfect
For errors will creep in.
Sometimes wrong information is sent
By someone’s nearest kin.

And even printers make mistakes
For which they tear their hair.
Sometimes two people disagree
On Who or What or When or Where.

It might have been a person 
Who wrote the history.
It might have been the typist,
Or blame can fall on me.

So, if you are dead before you are born
Or married when you are three,
Or I have omitted anyone 
Who sent themselves to me,

Or your last name is not your own,
Your picture not too good,
I ask you – Please forgive me
I did the best I could.

Anonymous

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