Goldfoot Genealogy

Sara Goldfuss gave birth to Lea Goldfuss in 1890 in Lwow, Wojewodztwa, Ukraine.  This is actually a German form of the spelling.  Yiddish is usually as Goldfus, although some have preferred this spelling.  With the names of Sara and Lea, I can figure they are Jewish. 

Aryeh Goldfuss was born in 1903 and died September 4, 1993 in Rehovet, Israel.  He died at age 90.
His father was Chaim Goldfuss and mother was Elka.  I have several Chaims on our tree. 

Yechiel Goldfuss was born in 1914 and died November 28, 1997, also in Rehovet, Israel at age 82. 
Resource: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~jripllat2

Jews arrived in Poland during period of 1st Crusade in 1098. By 1550's 80% of world's Jews lived in Poland.

Poland was partitioned from 1772 to 1795 by Russia. 200,000 people after the 1772 partition were affected. Prior to the partition, Jews lived in Poland for centuries in relative freedom. Suwalki was one of the 10 provinces that was part of the Polish kingdom that became part of Russia. The number of Jews in Poland and Lithuania on the eve of the partitions amounted to 621,000 people according to the Polish census of 1764-66. In 1772, 1793 and 1795 Poland was divided among Russia, Prussia and Austria; Poland-Lithuania no longer existed. In 1772 Catherine II, Empress of Russia forced Jews to stay in "Pale of Settlement". By 1885 4 million + Jews lived in the Pale.

Last night our genealogy meeting had a speaker from NARA's office in Seattle.  They have information from Oregon, Washington and Idaho. 

 We brought up the 1910 census on Nathan Goldfoot (Goofoot on 1910 census) and found he was listed with PA.  PA means first papers, or the declaration of intention, had been filed!  I have not seen that on the monitor when I had brought it up beforre, but on this huge screen, the speaker saw it right away, and so did others!  I have the declaration of intent from his wife, Hattie, and some of her siblings, but didn't realize Nathan had also done this!  I hope they are right as he died in 1912.

•Declarations of Intention - First Papers

Prior to 1952, a two-step process was required before an immigrant could become a U.S. citizen. Filing a Declaration of Intention was the first step. Sometimes referred to as the "first papers," the Declaration of Intention could be filed anytime after the immigrant arrived. After 1862, those who were honorably discharged from the U.S. Army were excused from this first step in the naturalization process (added for the Navy & Marine Corps in 1894). In 1952, a Declaration of Intent was no longer required for anyone, although some immigrants filed them.

While the content found on the declaration of intention varies dramatically by time period and location, pre-1906 declarations rarely contain much in the way of biographical information. Post-1906 declarations are more useful to genealogists, however, generally containing the following information: name, address, occupation, birthplace, nationality, country from which emigrated, birth date or age, personal description, date of intention, marital status, last foreign residence, port of entry, name of ship, date of entry, and date of document. They sometimes include a picture of the applicant. From 1929 to 1941, the declaration of intention also asked for the spouse's name, marriage date and place, and birth information, plus names, dates, and places of birth and residence of each child. A separate Certificate of Arrival giving details of arrival was usually required for arrivals after 1906.

I'm hoping that the did fill this out and it was done after 1906 when they moved to Portland.  Nathan and Hattie married in Council, Idaho on November 20, 1905 and moved to Portland after Charlie was born  on September 22, 1906. 

A declaration of Intention can be filed in any courthouse, local, county, or federal.  I found the others here in the county courthouse in downtown Portland.  I can't even remember asking for a Goldfoot.  Hope he's not listed as a Goofoot.  I guess that Yiddish was hard to understand without an interpreter. 

Abe Goldfoos was born in 1879 and died in 1957 in West Virginia at the age of 78.  He is buried at Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens / Garden of the Ten Commandments / Fairmont Jewish Community Section  Morgantown / USA

Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens Cemetery. 36 burials total.
Tombstone readings were taken in June 2007 by Julian H. Preisler of Falling Waters, Berkeley County, West Virginia. For more information, please see: www.JPreisler.com

Resource: Jewishgen.org

Ann Goldfus was born on October 18, 1898 and died on Ocdtober 13, 1993.  She is buried in the Bnai Israel cemetery of Salt Lake city in plot West A-68  B.'nai Israel Cemetery, formerly owned by the Reform Temple B'nai Israel, is currently owned by Congregation Kol Ami; it is managed and operated by the Kol Ami Cemetery Association per an Irrevocable Trust. Located within the boundaries of the Salt Lake City Cemetery at 1021 4th Avenue, B'nai Israel had its first burial in 1869; it continues to serve the Reform members of the Utah Jewish community. Contact kolamicemetery@yahoo.com or 801-484-1501 x 25 for information.

Resource: Jewishgen.org

Sime Sene Goldfoos died June 23, 1901 She is buried in the Herring Run - Beth Israel Cemetery / Mikro Kodesh Beth Israel in Baltimore / USA at Section 3 Row 1 Lot 30.


Jacob T. Goldfoos died 26 April 1922.  He is also buried there at Sect 3A Row 1 Lot 2. 

Resource: Jewishgen.org

Marvin Goldfuss was buried on March 5, 1991 in the Pardes Shalom Cemetery on 10953 Dufferin St. of Beth David Bnai Israel Beth am Synagogue in Maple, Toronto, Ontario, Canada in section II Row D Grave 19.
The cemetery has 368 burials.   Established: 1975 Office: 4600 Bathurst St., 2nd Fl, Toronto, ON M2R 3V2 Tel: 416-635-2883 ext. 697 Fax: 416-635-1405 Provided by: Dr. Stephen Speisman, Executive Director of Pardes Shalom Submitted by: Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto)

Freda Goldfus was buried on November 5, 1977 in the Bloemfontein Memorial in plot 2A:286A. 
The oldest of the 3 cemeteries (The Old Cemetery), dating from 1871 is simply a small fenced off area of a public cemetery near the city centre. It includes a few graves of Jews several Jewish pioneers involved in the early days of the city who died serving on either side in the Boer War, 1899-1902. Each of the 30 or so tombstones of these pioneer families has been completely transcibed. Some of the gravestones are in poor condition and some graves are now unmarked. This database file was compiled by, and donated to JOWBR by Stan Hart of Durban, South Africa.

Research: Jewishgen.org

Aryeh Goldfuss was born in 1903  to Chaim and Elka Goldfuss.  He died September 4, 1993 at the age of 90 in the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, Israel.  He was buried on September 6, 1993 in plot 39.

Yechiel Goldfus was born in 1915 to Chaim and Hella Goldfuss.  He died November 28, 1997 at the age of 82 in the Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, Israel, also.  He ws buried on November 30, 1997 in Plot 26. 

Myer Goldfus (also listed as Gullfish) died on July 30, 1897 at the age of one year and is buried in Glasgow, Scotland in the Eastern Necropolis Janefield Cemetery, Jewish section at 1264 Gallowgate Street.  542 burials are here in the cemetery.  Cemetery records available on microfilm at Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow; Jewish records available at Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, Glasgow .

Resource: Jewishgen

 Salomea Goldfus was married to Leopold Goldstaub.  Their son was Bernard Goldstaub who was born July 21, 1929 in Krakow and died in June 1942 in Belzic. That would have been in WWII and he was only 13 years old.

In Lwow Wojewodztwa, Ukraine, there was Sara Goldfus.   She had a daughter, Lea who was born in 1890.

In Krakow, Wojewodztwa, krakow Province, I found Jocheta Goldfuss who was married to Joel Dintenfass.  Their son, Markus Dintenfass divorced his wife, Rozalea Pipes z Heim(O'W).  Rozalea's mother was Amalia and father was Izrael.  This one was a little hard to decipher.

Mindl Goldfus was found in the cemetery of Warsaw Gubernia. 

Josek Aron Janklowicz with the surname of Goldfus was found in Radom Gubernia, Kielce Province in 1845. 

Fiszel Goldfus was found there in 1863. 

Nachman Goldfus was found in 1865 in the Lublin Divorces list.  He was the son of Aron Szmul  Goldfus and wife Hena. 

Note:  There were no Goldfus/fuss people in Belarus on Jewishgen.  I checked this country out as I have several dna matches from people whose ancestors were from there.  The matches were not with Goldfus people. 

 Resource: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~jripllat2

Henry Goldfus, born 1876 in Lithuania was found on the 1930 census living in Coloma, Whiteside, Illinois.  He immigrated in 1907.  He was 54 years old.  His wife, Mame, was 46.  They had a son Harold, age 19 and Sol, 12. 

Anna Goldfus, born in 1872 in Lithuania was a widow at age 58 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota.  She had immigrated in 1884 at age 12.  She lived with her daughter, Rose Goldfus age 28 born in 1902 in Minneapolis.  Her aunt, Gertrude Leventhal, age 77 and also a widow lived with them. 

Being they were from Lithuania, I would guess that they were Jewish. 

Resource: familysearch  would not open the actual census. 

Nadene Goldfoot
I have been contacted by someone who has the Q1b1 haplogroup or clade just like my family.  The difference is that he is  a Jewish Berber from North Africa while my male paternal ancestors came from Telsiai, Lithuania.  How did this clade become so diverse in its travels?

Berber turns out to be a generic term for a similar people, most of which are  Muslims today.  Now I learn that Jews have lived in North Africa who had not become Jewish through conversion. 

I find that Judaic presence in the continent of Africa goes back to Abraham in the Nile Delta of Goshen where he and his family and herds of cattle waited to pass through during a drought in Canaan, where they had sought refuge after living in Ur, which is today's Iraq. 

Also, Joseph, who became the vizier to the Pharaoh, sent for his family to join him in Egypt.  Many Israelites followed as settlers, but then later became slaves captured in Canaan by the "Warrior Pharoahs."  That's when we were put to work building for 400 years as slaves which led to Moses freeing us in the Exodus. 

Much later after Jews had their state, it became divided into Israel and Judah.  This was a time when Judaic traders traveled westward along the African coast with the voyagers of Tyre and Sidon, the Canaanite sea-farers called "the Phoenicians" by the Greeks. Israel was referred to in Egyptian records in 1209 BCE.  It became a power in the 9th century BCE but fell in 722.  Judah fell in 486 BCE and then after being reborn again fell in 63 BCE from Pompey, and of course Jerusalem fell in 70 CE.  

Jews made up a major part of the population of the North African Canaanite settlement at Carthage, or "New City," which today is called Tunisia.  "There were Jews already living in Carthage before its destruction by the Romans."  Jewish presence has been well documented in other places along the coast during the Pre-Roman period.  The Romans called the Canaanite settlers the Peonicus Carthagenians,  translated as "Punic Peoples."

Carthage and Utica, the Canaanite city-states, were ruled by a Soffut, similar to the Israelite shoffet or judge.  The legend is that Jews settled in NW Africa before the destruction of the 2nd temple in 586 BCE, as discusssed by George Gilbert in "the Mellahs (the Jewish quarters) of Morocco.  To support this idea are Hebrew inscriptions on tombstones in the Roman town of Volubilis (west of modern Fez).

The Romans fought 3 Punic Wars with Carthage, and Carthage lost in the 3rd and final one in 146 BCE called "The battle of Carthage."  All people left alive were sold into slavery. 

Jews were always allowed to be in trades that other cultures deemed as unworthy for themselves.  Jews practiced their artisan trades in North Africa  under the Romans who considered manual trades base and inappropriate for themselves.  Finally, Emperor Hadrian Augustus complimented the industrious Jews of Alexandria in a report to his consul, Servianus.  He placed them among the proletariat of the city  and allowed them the revolutionary process of glassblowing.  However, it was also he who wouldn't allow Jews to circumcise their sons, leading to the Bar Kokba revolt in 133-135 CE which we lost.   

It was said that the Jews in Alexandria were prosperous, rich and fruitful, and in it no one was idle.  Some were blowers of glass, others makers of paper, all were weavers of linen or seem to belong to one craft or another. " The lame have occupations and the wounded have theirs as well as the blind as well as those with crippled hands (arthritis?).  None of the Jews were idle. "

My friend tells me that after Cathage was destroyed by the Romans, the Jews went West to the North African mountains where invaders wouldn't  find them as the mountains were dangerous.  So it seems that the Romans weren't able to sell them into slavery.   When the Muslims invaded in 600 CE the Jews stopped the progress of their invasion for about 4 years and were led by the Berber queen Kehana, which means Cohen.  She died in the last battle and the Islam Jihad continued onto Morocco and then Spain, and up to the middle of France before being forced out and into Spain in 732. 

His theory is that his line of Berber Jews "came from the 10 lost tribes and could have escaped  the Assyrian invasion of 732 BCE before the Babylonians invaded the kingdom of Judah and exiled the remaining Jewish tribes of Judah and Israel.  Jews were cohabitating with Phoenicians of southern Lebanon and were probably traveling with them for trade and commerce."

He went on to say that archaeologists have found a Jewish settlement and temple on Elephantine Island on the Nile River dating back from 500 BCE, showing that Jews traveled much more than we believed." 

Tunisia today is the 23rd largest populated state of Sunni Muslims, the state religion,  who amount to 98% of the population of about 10,383,577 people.  Before 1948 there were 110,000 Jews living there.  In the 50's half moved to Israel and the other half moved to France.  That left about 1,000 Jews there.  In January of this year riots were found to be chanting, Death to the Jews. 

The latest news is that on Friday, the President of Tunisia fled the country and widespread violence ensues.  Dozens of Jews are again faced with the same choice, France or Israel.  There is no security, food or work, they reported.  Their Muslim friends are fearful as well. 

Research: from Albert
http://www.hebrewhistory.org/factpapers/africa19-I.html  The Berbers and the Jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Berber.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_majority_countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Tunisia
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/tunisjews.html

He was a German palaeontologist and zoologist. George August Goldfuss was born April 18, 1782 and died October 2, 1848 at the age of 66.  He was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. This was the municipality in the district of Kulmbach, Germany.  It's possible that he was baptised at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St Laurentins, the church of Thurnau.   There was even a castle in Thurnau. 

Then he was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became professor of zoology in 1818.  He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and mineralogy at the University of Bonn.

 Count Georg zu Munster aided him to issue the important Petrefacta Germaniae (1826-44), a work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of Germany, but it ws left incomplete after the sponges, corals, crinoids, echinoderms and part of the mollusea had been figured.  He died at Bonn. 

Ludwig von Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770, and would have been 12 when Georg was born.  Bonn was sized by the French in 1794 but became part of Prussia in 1815.  It was Prussian when George died as it didn't get into German hands until 1871. 

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_August_Goldfuss, forwarded by Albert Benhamou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurnau

Our Ydna has been classified further as Q1b1a.  As more people test and familytreedna gets more information, this happens.  Also, I had added a further small test to be done.   Classifying takes time.  Mutations are found in testing SNP's.  As more are found, we may find that our origins were somewhere in the Middle East. 

Wikipedia tells us that "Q1b1 (M378) — It is widely distributed in Europe, South Asia, and West Asia. It is found among samples of Hazaras and Sindhis It is also found in the Uyghurs of North-Western China in two separate groups The Q-M378 subclade and specifically its Q-L245 subbranch is speculated to be the branch to which Q-M242 men in Jewish Diaspora populations belong.  Although published articles have not tested for M378 in Jewish populations, genetic genealogists from the Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, and Sephardi Jewish populations have tested positive for both M378 and L245.

We have the Q-M378 subclade and Q-L245 subbranch   So far we're still only about 5% of the Jewish population.

Resource: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ashkenazi-Q/message/1439
http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpQ.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q_(Y-DNA)