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 A  man has discovered his family were branded “aliens”
 in New Zealand while his  uncle was fighting in World 
War I.  Lance corporal Arthur Koberstein was a Kiwi of 
German descent, killed in 1918 in  France on the 
Western Front.

Read article about Arthur and his nephew Gordon.

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The Koberstein Surname in two variations of German Script, little wonder it is spelled so many ways:

Here is a list of recent changes and information added (with links):

Date		Change
September 18th, 2025	Rod Koberstein	Rodney "Rod" Clifford Koberstein August 27th, 1943 - September 18th, 2025 Rod Koberstein, a proud Navy Vietnam veteran and devoted husband, father, grandfather, son, brother, uncle and friend, passed away due to complications stemming from his military service. He was 82 years old. Obituary.
September 15, 2025	Hilda (Carpenter) Koberstein	Hilda Koberstein, who departed this life on September 15, 2025 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Born on September 11, 1924. Obituary.
September 13, 2025	The Koberstein Film Company	This is a very interesting site with interesting or unusual topics in their film. Try this one about rats.
August 11, 2025	Lawrence Oliver "Kobe" Koberstein	Lawrence Oliver “Kobe” Koberstein passed away peacefully on August 11, 2025, at the age of 80. Born on September 3, 1944 to Ruby Helen McMaster and Virgil Luther Koberstein, he lived a life that felt far larger than the years he was given. Link to obituary. FamilySearch.
January 9, 2024	Jennifer L. Koberstein	Jennifer L. Koberstein passed away Tuesday, January 9, 2024 at Magruder Hospital, Port Clinton, OH surrounded by her family after a brief illness. She was 56. Jennifer was born in Toledo, OH to Donald and Normillie (Witherell) Koberstein. obituary FamilySearch
December 1, 2022	Kenneth Koberstien	We are sad to report the death of Kenneth "Ken" Koberstein entered the Lord's Kingdom on November 13, 2022 at Toledo Ohio.
December 1, 2022	Bruce G. Koberstein	We are sad to report that Bruce passed away on November 24, 2022, in Billings, Montana after a hard-fought battle with cancer.
July 22 2022	Jane Louise Koberstein nee Brindle	Jane Louise Koberstein 7/22/1945 - 1/24/2022 Janet Louise Koberstein, age 77, of Marshall, Michigan entered the Lord's Kingdom on December 24, 2022, joining her recently deceased husband of 55 years, Kenneth Koberstein. Obituary -- FamilySearch
July 15, 2022	Two Koberstein family lines connnected	Two major Koberstein families now connected: Martin Koberstein of Cznarikaw and Carl August Koberstein of the Buffalo, New York Koberstein Family. The common person between these two families is Ewald Koberstein. Since it is now connected only one link is given. However they had the same birth date (21 Feb 1806) and birth location (Glowitz, Stolp, Pomerania, Prussia. I was looking at the Ewald of the Buffalo Koberstein family which had a source document with the birth date of 21 Feb 1806. I noticed the birth location was not in FamilySearch. I decided to look closer at the actual document and noticed the birth place as Glowitz, Pomerania. I remembered that city and that it was in the Koberstein Genealogy book by Edith Schutte pages 89-122. Sure enough they had an Ewld that born on the same date and place. Thus a proven connnection.
July 15, 2022	Potential connection between Christoph Koberstein line and Carl August Koberstein line of Buffalo New York..	Through an in depth reading of exisiting records and a detailed reading of the passenger list of Carl August Koberstein I noticed that his contact person in German was his step-sister, Hulde Gulesdorf of Raumerswalde which is near to Landsberg and der Warthe. I recently found proof of another son of Christoph Koberstein named (Johann ) August Koberstein who is from Landsberg an der Warthe and has the same birth date as a known August Koberstein who was a Master Saddler in the area. It is highly probable since they both are from the same city they may be related. Stay tuned for more research on this.
September 25, 2021		Obituary: Taisa Koberstein (Kaplun), BORN: SEP 06, 1925, DATE OF PASSING: SEP 25, 2021
January 27, 2021		Evelyn Berdine Koberstein nee North passed away December 18, 2020 in Holyoke, Colorado. Here is the link to her obituary and in this web sites obituary section.
September 20, 2020	School Yearbook	I have just completed linking all High School and College Yearbook Pictures in the Ancestry collection for all Koberstein's in the United States. I have linked most of them to their respective families. If you see some you know that are not linked I would appreciate your information. Email me your information.
April 29, 2020		Came across a most interesting Doctoral Disertation about the relative experieces of immigrates from Ukraine (Russia) to Winnipeg, Manatoba, Canada and Bielefeld, Germany post World War II. Walter Koberstein experiences immigrating to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Walter Koberstein family immigrated from Puchawa, Poland to Winnipeg, Manatoba, Canada. The root person known is Adolf Koberstein and here is the decendancy on FamilySearch.
April 26, 2020		Raymond Arthur Koberstein was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on September 20, 1967 to Art and Irma Koberstein. He passed away April 23, 2020 at Health Sciences Centre after a long battle with cardiac issues.
April 3, 2020		Rose Marie Koberstein passed away at the Grossmont Hospital in San Diego, Calif. on March 20, 2020. Born on Oct. 27, 1922, in Milwaukee, Wis. to parents Joseph and Marie Waters. She resided in Milwaukee, Wis. until her marriage to Durlin Koberstein at which time she left the city life and her job as a AT&T telephone operator to a farmers wife outside of Baraboo, WI. It was only after her six children were born did she return to work as a AT&T telephone operator in Baraboo, Wis. Link to Obituary
Posted: May 6, 2018 10:37 PM Updated: December 21, 2019 12:54		Barbara Koberstein, age 85 of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin passed away Wednesday, May 2, 2018.
December 27, 2019		Timothy R. Koberstein, 58, of Princeton, passed away Thursday, December 26, 2019 at his home in Princeton. Here is the web site.
December 13, 2019		With sadness we note the passing of Genevieve Agnes “Genny “G” Koberstein, 74, of Port Clinton, who passed away Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Promedica Ebeid Hospice Residence in Sylvania. Here is the web site,
July 17, 2019		In January this year a Mr John Barry Koberstein has passed away in Auckland New Zealand. There was no death notice issued as no next of kin could be found. Mr John Barry Koberstein was born 1936 and has no children. His father was Clarence Leonard Koberstein born 1899 died 1977 and his mother Madge Koberstein nee Smith who passed away in 1994.
March 6, 2019		With sadness we note the passing of Kimberly Sue Koberstein (nee: Hagan) of Saint Charles, Missouri. She passed away Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at the age of 65. Cherished daughter of the late Kenneth and Lois Hagan; beloved wife of Cheryl Arendell; devoted mother of Kathryn (Joe) Booloodian and Koby (Jennifer) Koberstein; loving grandmother of Kirstyn and Justin Thompson; Makayla Nelson; Samantha Dobbs; Hannah, Kobe, and Kaya Koberstein; treasured great-grandmother of Landon; dear sister of Edward James “Jim” Hagan, half-sister Darlene Hurlbert, and sister-in-Law Mary Carol; loving cousin and friend to many.
December 9, 2018		It is with sadness we have learned of the death of Eleanor Wharton (nee Koberstein).
October 12, 2018		A DNA connection to possible common root person (Adam Friedrich Von Kopperstein) has been determined.
August 30, 2018		Koberstein Honored with Centennial Farm Designation
August 6, 2018		Patricia Ann "Patty" Koberstein (Nee Dornbach) Sadly, left us, surrounded by her family at her home, on August 6, 2018, at the age of 61.
May 8, 2018		We note with sadness that Kenneth "Chad" Koberstein passed away due to a motorcycle accident on May 7, 2018.
May 3, 2018		Just improved and connected the Christian Koberstein through Waclaw and Adolf starting in Massachusetts to Oregon and Adolf going on to California.
April 19, 2018		We just updated and improved our Poland/Prussia entry page, try it out.
April 15, 2018		A Biography of Frederick Wilhelm Koberstein and family in New Zealand has been put togther. We are fortunate that the newspaper archive for the “Feilding Star” has been digitized and indexed and provides an excellent insight into the day to day life of this family.  The time covered starts  January 1, 1882 (about 5 years after their arrival)  and continues to January 1, 1920. This and other information is included in this biography.
March 19, 2018		We have come to learn that JoAnn S (Clayton) Koberstein wife of Wayne Koberstein passed away March 16, 2018.
March 13, 2018		I have constructed a better tree for the Koberstein family located in New York, New York here: Anthony Koberstein descendants .
March 1, 2018		At Rootstech 2018 I had a one on one Brick Wall consultation with a Family Search representative. I was givne many ideas to break the brick wall of extending my Koberstein line back from Colonie Brinsk, but the best was a interpretation of the Hamburg Passenger list for Ludwig Koberstein that gave his birth place as Gorrizium, Prussia. Severl language experts proposed that the correct name for this phonetically spelling is Goraj-Zam(ek). This is near Czarnkow, Posen, where an number of Koberstein families are known of. Wish me luck on checking this out.
May 30, 2017		Received an email from Andreas Koberstein over a year ago on February 16, 2016 about the Koberstein's in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is interested in finding where his family originated before the wars. If anyone can help let me know.
February 10, 2017		A possible connection between the Koberstein families in Corvallis, Oregon and North Dakota with the Koberstein families in Nebraska and Colorado. they both originated from Sternberg, Brandenberg, Prussia.
September 29, 2015		Found a Koberstein family in the 1871 Ireland census.
June 17, 2015		Cecil L. Koberstein Jr., of North Bend, was born April 13, 1932 in Gaston, Ore. and passed away peacefully June 1, 2015, at his home.
March 31, 2015		Joseph Frederick Koberstein III, age 67, was born to Joe and Olga Koberstein on Nov. 27, 1947, in Madison, and died on March 28, 2015
February 28, 2015		Sterling, Alaska resident, Donald Stanley Koberstein, 77, died Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage.
February 15, 2015		With sadness we have learned of the passing of Linus L. Koberstein on November 14, 2014.
September 26, 2014		In September 2014, Kent Kobersteen was able to visit the town of Brynsk, Poland where the earliest Ludwig Koberstein family originated.  He even found two Koberstein graves in the Catholic Cemetery.
July 11, 2014		It is noted, with sadness that Harlan Koberstein passed away on July , 2014 in Madison Wisconsin.
July 4, 2014		With sadness we note the passing of Lorene A. Koberstein on Saturday, June 7, 2014.
February 21, 2014		Wilhelmine "Billie" K. Hannan, 94, of Fremont passed away Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014.  Billie was born April 27, 1919, on a ranch north of Lewellen to Ernest and Marie (Kuehne) Koberstein.  Billie married William T. Hannan on May 25, 1941, in Lincoln.  See obituary.
January 16, 2014		Robert Koberstein of Hinton, Alberta, Canada passed away on Thursday January 16th, 2014, he was born on Wednesday Mar. 1, 1922.
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