Dumes.Net

A website dedicated to the family of Chaim and Sadie Silk Dumes from Viski, Latvia

Dumes.Net

William Jacob Dumes


Nick name: Bill
Hebrew name: Yaacov Zev ben Chaim Y'hoshuah
Dumes Key: AG The 'Dumes Key' is an easy way to determine someone's place in the family tree.

At the top of the tree are brothers Chaim (A), Jossel-Leib (B) and Schender (C). Each generation adds a letter; the letter represents your birth order, A for the 1st, B for the 2nd, etc.

So Sarah, first child of Chaim, is AA. Her husband, Jacob Kaplan, is Aa, the lower-case a indicating that he married into the Dumes family.

I've also used the lower-case letter for my two step-sons to indicate a non-bloodline Dumes relationship.


b. 17 Mar 1902 Viski, Russia (now Latvia)
d. 08 Sep 1969 Vincennes, IN

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Freda Fialco
Bill married Freda Fialco
b. 02 Jan 1904 d. 04 Mar 1981.

They were married 15 Apr 1923 in Cincinnati,Ohio.

Children

Born Wulf in Viski, William traveled to the US with his mother, his brother Arthur and his sister Anna, arriving in Philadelphia on August 19, 1912. From Philly, they traveled to Champaign, IL to meet the rest of the family.

William applied for naturalization on May 4, 1921 and it was granted on November 25, 1925.

In 1925, he described himself as:
height: 5' 3"
hair: light
eyes: blue

Cause of Death: MONOSYLLIC LEUKEMIA

Witnesses at wedding:
Avraham bar Yitzhak Pinz (?)
Akiba bar Yonah couldn't read the second name