Teweles Family from Prague

I am very proud that I was able to connect every single Teweles profile on Geni into one single tree. See https://www.geni.com/list/descendants/6000000059999640954#10

If you were in Prague around 1800, you would have found dozens of people with this name. I spent the weekend tying them all together on one single tree.

Ordinarily it is pretty tough to connect the families identified in the 1792-93 Prague census with the ones who are listed as living there in 1748. But this time everything matched up very nicely. So the tree traces back to people who were born around 1670.
If you are connected to a Teweles, any Teweles, you should be part of this family. I managed to connected every single one I could find on Geni (all 489 of them, added by dozens of different collaborators).

I made a few half-educated guesses along the way, which I can highlight below in case anyone wants to check them. As always, I am sure there are some mistakes. The hard part is finding them!

I also want to describe my methodology, because it is contrary to what many old-school, pedantic genealogists will tell you is the "right" way to do genealogy. What I have been doing with these old Prague families on Geni is stitching them together at the tree-tops when I find someone with the same surname (usually under a profile called "Placeholder [Surname]"). This allows me to collect all of the puzzle pieces in one place so I can later sort them out. If I were not using this method, creating such a large tree would be simply impossible.

When I decide to work out a collection of families, I have a great number of resources at my disposal, including the 1748, 1792 and 1794 censuses, the Familianten records available on Badatelna and indexed on GenTeam, the birth, marriage and death records on Badatelna, the new index of marriages that I have developed (partly available on JewishGen), the 19th century Prague conscriptions database and Prague city census, the Prague cemetery book online at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Prague cemetery records on JewishGen's JOWBR, as well as other resources for those families who emigrated from Prague (as many of them did), especially to Vienna and the United States.

You can find a directory of Prague families and links to many of these resources from the Geni project at https://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Families-from-Prague/7995

This type of work has been done for Frankfurt (by Shlomo Ettlinger) and Krakow (by Dan Hirschberg). We (my friends and I on Geni) are doing a similarly comprehensive job on Prague. I hope that others will do the same with other towns and cities. It is hard work, but with persistence, it can be done.