John Gerbic

John Gerbic had no issue from what I know

Born December 29, 1987

Rudolph Gerbitz

This is the oldest child of Frank Anton and Emma

Rudolph Gerbitz born April 12, 1895

The story is that when Rudy went to school they asked him how to spell his last name and he spelled it Gerbitz. And that is the way all his descendants have spelled it since.

Frank John Gerbic

Frank John Gerbic born April 10, 1901

Legally changed the birth certificate spelling on March 7, 1947

Anna Antonia Gerbic

Anna Antonia Gerbic born April 29, 1899

She is the only daughter of Frank and Emma




My father (AJG) told me that when he was a child his sister and her husband picked him up in a big car and took him to a birthday party. This must have been Anna as she is the only female child born to Frank. 

Emma Rebeck/Rebcik/Repcik/Reperik Gerbic

We know very little about Emma Rebeck. We have her death certificate that shows very little. Her parents names are not known, and where she is from is unreadable. The informant for her death certificate is her husband Frank

Emma was 33 when she died July 9, 1909 which means she was probably born in 1876.



Birth certificate for her oldest child Rudolph Gerbitz born April 12, 1895. Her name is spelled Reperik




John Gerbic born December 29, 1897






This birth certificate of her daughter Anna Antonia in April 29, 1899 spells Emma's name as Amalie Rejncik. But July 25, 1943 a legal document changed the birth certificate to spell Anna's mother's name as Emma Rebcik (and it is typewritten, so readable)



According to her son Frank John Gerbic's birth certificate we see that March 7, 1947 they officially changed the spelling on the document. This time (also typed) Emma's last name is Repcik.

 

Anthony John Gerbic "Tony Gerbic" AJG

This is the page for my father Anthony John Gerbic, always called Tony Gerbic. He used AJG and I will also to keep the genealogy from becoming so confusing.

Tony Gerbic early 20's

Frank Anton Gerbic & Emma Rebeck/Rebcik/Repcik/Reperik (First marriage)

I know very little about Emma Rebeck/Rebcik/Repcik/Reperik


Rudolph Gerbitz born April 12, 1895



John Gerbic born December 29, 1897









Daughter Anna Antonia Gerbic born April 29, 1899



Frank John Gerbic born April 10, 1901


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Frank Anton Gerbic and Mary Schufsa (Second marriage)

Frank and Mary (Schufsa) had two children. Victor Rudolph and Anthony John.

The story as told to me by my father Anthony John was that his father had married sisters and both came from the "old country". I can find no evidence of this, Emma's children tell the story that they didn't even know of Frank's second marriage, or that they knew almost nothing. The two women could have come from Slovenia, maybe they had known each other over there. I am under the impression that Mary Schufsa was "sent for". I don't know if we will ever know how this happened. But it was not uncommon for a younger sibling or close relation to live in the family, and when the wife died he would marry the younger woman who was already in the household. (I assume this was common as the same thing happened on my other family tree to my grandfather)

My father's older half siblings were much older than he was and he only met one Anna who picked him up and took him to a birthday party when he was young. Growing up, my father, Victor and Mary were dirt poor. They really could have used some help from these older siblings but my father understood that there was some family division between Mary (his mother) and these other children. He did not know what the cause of the tension was.

Note on Documents

When working with old documents it is really hard to read the print even on typewritten forms. SO thankfully the Internet gives us blank forms that we can see. If only it was easier to read the cursive writing that they insisted on using. ;-)

Here I'm including documents for use when reviewing these old documents.