Hi, everyone!
I am Joaquin Gefaell, son of Tony and Teresa Gefaell. Tony in turn son of Willhem (Willy) Gefaell, in turn son of Joseph Vicktor Gefaell. Willy was the brother of the Hans (John) Gefaell who moved to the States and married Anette Gladwin, and had 3 children: Jonh (Jack), Patricia and Robert. Willy was born in Vienna and came to Spain to marry Pilar Goróstegui. We are now, as cousing Camino was saying in a previous message, over 57 Gefaells in Spain. And yes, from all the exchanges I have seen in this web page, we are all related to you folks in the USA and in the UK!!
You may wish to have a look at our blog, as we are organising a big family reunion in Spain in July 2010. There you will find lots of info, including a family tree put together by our cousin Pablo Gefaell. Find the address below:
http://gefaelada2010.blogspot.com just type it in the search bar of your internet browser and you will be able to connect.
Feel free to contact me at
jgefaellp@twov.com, and we can share all the info, the history, the pictures...
It would be great if some of you could come to the reunion.
I am specially interested in resuming contacts with the descendants of Patricia Gefaell, married to Sandy Maxwell. They lived in Princeton, NJ, and had one daughter Linda and 3 other adopted children. Linda is married to Tony Stefanelli and has 3 kids (well, no so kids anymore...) and live in Pennington, NJ.
I spent two years visiting them in Princeton for the weekends as I was going through my MBA at Columbia University in NY, so I specially love this part of the family but I lost phones, emails and addresses when my computer just died on me a couple of years ago. Can you help?
I look forward to hearing from any of you, it will be great!
With lots of Gefaell love,
Joaquin