The Ukrainian records for Brody births only go up to 1860. Therefore, Bertha probably had other siblings that we have not discovered yet.
When her children were growing up, Bertha would show them pictures of her family and say “This one was an opera singer. That was a doctor to the Emperor. “ So far, these stories have not been verified.
Bertha’s son, Abe, told one of his nephews that some of his mother’s family settled in the United States, but others went to Brazil.
Could Rosa ( see below) be one of her siblings that did? More research is required to confirm this. Note that she was born about 1866 which is the time period we do not have records for yet.
According to the ship manifest below, in 1898 she was living in Rio de Janeiro and traveling back home. The ship docked in Portugal. The manifest shows that she was of Austrian origin, was 32 years old and single.
Source
- Ship Manifest for Rosa Charipper, 1898 :
Staatsarchiv Hamburg; Hamburg, Deutschland; Hamburger Passagierlisten; Volume: 373-7 I, VIII A 1 Band 100; Page: 918; Microfilm No.: K_1759
Staatsarchiv Hamburg. Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008.
Original data: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Bestand: 373-7 I, VIII (Auswanderungsamt I). Mikrofilmrollen K 1701 – K 2008, S 17363 – S 17383, 13116 – 13183.