# József Goldfischer (b.1825) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **4x great-grandfather · also 5x great-grandfather *(2 ancestral lines)*** **Born** ~1825 **Died** bef 1906 **Parents** [[Yaakov Goldfischer (b.1800)]] · [[Rachel Jacobowitz]] **Spouse** [[Hinde Fischer (d.1906)]] **Children** [[Yitzchak Isaac Goldfischer (b.1840)]] · [[Yehuda Goldfischer (b.1845)]] · [[Zev Wolf Goldfischer (b.1845)]] · [[Beril Goldfischer (b.1849)]] · [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] · [[Chaim Goldfischer (b.1853)]] · [[Moshe Goldfischer (2)]] · [[Abraham Goldfischer]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **4x great-grandfather** — [[József Goldfischer (b.1825)]] → [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] → [[Yosef Goldfischer (b.1899)]] → [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **5x great-grandfather** — [[József Goldfischer (b.1825)]] → [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] → [[Shalom Goldfischer (b.1878)]] → [[Miriam Goldfischer (b.1902)]] → [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] → [[Chaya Goldfischer (b.1950)]] → [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I500091 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative József Goldfischer was born about 1825, a son of [[Yaakov Goldfischer (b.1800)]] and [[Rachel Jacobowitz]], and lived in the Stryj–Skole area of eastern Galicia. He married [[Hinde Fischer (d.1906)]] and had died before 1906 (the GEDCOM records his death as "bef 1906," the year of Hinde's own death). The couple raised a large family. Eight children are attached to him in the Bernstein tree: [[Yitzchak Isaac Goldfischer (b.1840)]], [[Yehuda Goldfischer (b.1845)]], [[Zev Wolf Goldfischer (b.1845)]], [[Beril Goldfischer (b.1849)]], [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]], [[Chaim Goldfischer (b.1853)]], [[Moshe Goldfischer (2)]] and [[Abraham Goldfischer]]. Through his son [[Jakob Goldfischer (b.1851)]] the line descends by two separate branches to [[William Bill Goldfischer (b.1923)]] and on to the present family, so József stands as both a 4x- and a 5x-great-grandfather of [[Avi Bernstein (b.1977)]]. The surname is recorded in the local registers in variant spellings — "Goldfiszer" as well as "Goldfischer." The MyHeritage biography attached to this profile notes two further Stryj births under the surname Goldfiszer whose parents are not named — Juda (b. 1844) and Itumer W. (b. 1842) — and raises the possibility that they too were his children; both remain unconfirmed leads rather than established facts.[?] The same biography flags a separate death record — a Josef Aron Goldfischer who died in Skole in 1904 at age 75, whose parents are given as Hersch and Sierka (record #119) — but because those parents' names do not match József's ([[Yaakov Goldfischer (b.1800)]] and [[Rachel Jacobowitz]]), that Skole man appears to be a different person, not this subject.[?] ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions - The agadd2 death scan for "Josef Aron Goldfischer, d. 1904 Skole, age 75, parents Hersch & Sierka, rec. #119" ([link](http://agadd2.home.net.pl/metrykalia/300_new/album/2469/#img=PL_1_300_2469_0032.jpg)) could not be fetched here (viewer-gated) — **needs browser pass** to confirm. Parents' names appear to differ from this József's, suggesting a different man. - Two unparented Stryj Goldfiszer births — Juda (b. 1844) and Itumer W. (b. 1842) — are candidate additional children; unconfirmed, needs a registry pass.