Margaret & Anton Trendler

Grandpa Anton was born in 1887 to Mathias and Anna (Volk) Trendler in the small village of Gyertyamos, Hungary.
He was the second of their four surviving sons.
His father died when 41 years old. Anna then married Josef Lahm.
This couple and all four Trendler sons (Josef, Anton, Franz and Johann) immigrated to the United States between 1902 and 1910.

During WWII the name of the village changed due to German occupation to Gertianosch.
It changed again after the war to Gertjanosch.
Today the village name is officially Carpinis.
And, following some border changes, the village is now within Romania.
Grandpa's WW1 draft card lists his birthplace as Gyertyamos, Hungary.

To locate Carpinis on today's map, it is in far western Romania at the junction of highways 59A (east-west) and 59B (north-south).
Google Earth does a good job of showing the village map, satellite view, and street level views traveling along these two major roads.

Grandpa was sixteen when he traveled alone on the SS Oldenburg, arriving in Baltimore in December, 1903.
He was sponsored and his ticket was bought by his stepfather Josef Lahm.

Grandpa had apprenticed when nine years old as a metal worker in Hungary.
The ship's passenger list states his occupation as a brazer (welder).
The 1907 U.S. Directory shows Grandpa still in Cincinnati and working as a tinner.
In 1910 the Census has him in Chicago - Occupation: metal worker.
In 1912 he married Rose Klein, our Grandmother.