Von Saltiel 10th Annual Reunion - Caraá Brazil
One of our most exciting discoveries has been the “von” Saltiels of Southern Brazil. Founded by a single ancestor in the 1870s, they were unknown to us until Vibeke Sealtiël Olsen of Amsterdam found Liege Saltiel Webber of Porto Alegre on the Internet. After many emotional preliminaries involving the family in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, the US and Venezuela, we finally got together in Porto Alegre in November 2003.
| Please click here for a larger version of this picture of the founder of the Brazilian family |  |
 | Please click here to see a larger version of this picture of our Brazilian cousins. (This is just a tiny part of the 200-strong clan.) |
Please click to read Ed Motola's diary of our November 2003 meeting.
Please click to read Helga Heilbut's account of the rediscovery of their genealogy in the Leipzig archive.