The Taufin Registerd.5 does not clearly show a Wilhelm but there is an unreadable name in the appropriate time period. At the time the Taufin Register was microfilmed, the specific birth information was not copied due to privacy laws in effect. That index entry is shown below.
The 1900 Kings County census shows a William was born on March 1887, 13 years old, German-born as were his parents, and working as a Telegraph Messenger with no breaks in employment in the prior year. j.10
Wilhelm's brother George's son, George Jr., and daughter Violet, remember an Uncle Wilhelm. In fact, George thought it was Wilhelm who brought the family over from Germany.a.3 He also thought Wilhelm had 17 children but Alma Gebert's family tree has an 'S' by his name where others had indications of male and female children.k.3
Loretta "Pat" McGuire of the Danbury Henry Geberts remembers an Uncle "Willum", as his name was pronounced, who never married. Luckily, his neices and nephews were old enough to remember him as he lived until the 1930s.
There was no Wilhelm resembling the above descriptions in the 1920 New York or Connecticut census soundexesj.1,j.4,j.6. He was also not found in the New York State, New Jersey or Connecticut soundexes for the NARA Immigration and Naturalization Records.h.1,h.2,h.3 A William Gebert was, however, recently found in a Kings County Naturalization Index Dec. Vol. 226, Dec. Page 364, Year 1920, Pet. Vol. 309, Pet. Page 22. The record should be ordered soon.
The Librarian at the Queensborough Library found a listing in the 1933-34 Polk's Brooklyn directory for a William Gebert, machinist, living at 146 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg with no wife listed.g.25 These directories are based on research performed the previous year. Indeed, this sounds very much like Wilhelm.
Tom Furlong was able to locate grave site information from Holy Trinity Cemetery's
office. That record shows that in Block 80, Row 9, Grave 14 three people were
buried: