Last night I watched a 2 hour program on The History Channel about Albert Einstein. He met his first wife Mileva while they were both studying physics. Einstein's mother didn't like Mileva, so she wasn't introduced to the family, but she and Einstein were madly in love at first. Einstein wrote her passionate love letters.

They had a daughter a year before they were married named LiserL, but this child is shrouded in mystery. She either died a year after birth, or was given up for adoption and died at age 58. LiserL was said to be blind at birth. Einstein and Mileva married and had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard.

Eduard had schizophrenia and died childless; Hans Albert fathered Bernhard Caesar--Bernhard had five children. Two of these great grandchildren of Albert are Paul and Thomas. Thomas is a surgeon in California. The g'grandchildren of Albert just want to be left alone; info on them is scant. The only public news of them lately is a lawsuit brought by other descendants of Albert.

It seems Thomas had been keeping some of Albert Einstein's papers and letters in a safety deposit box--the rest of the descendants wanted them sold to split the money they would bring.
Einstein could be hard--a grandson says that he went out in a boat with his grandfather once and Einstein spent the entire time talking about the properties of bubbles. When it became clear that whether relatives or not, when Einstein deemed someone unable to understand his talk of physics and esoteric topics they were shut out. Very interesting man and family.

Thanks to the History Channel, which went into much more detail about Einsteins' revelatory discoveries, and to Wikipedia and other sources. susil