Sunday, November 01, 2009
Note on Surname: Jermulowske, Goldfoot
Jermulowske is the name of Hattie, who married Nathan Goldfoot. On the 1910 census she said she was from Poland, and her sisters have said this also. At one time the area was called the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Poland evidently had taken over Lithuania.
The surname originally was spelled with an ski ending. This denotes nobility. People not of nobility liked to add this on. It looked good. It's a masculine suffix.
Hattie said she was from Suwalki. This could be the name of a large area like a county or it could be the name of a town. We don't know. At least we have a name found on her declaration of intent.
Now I'm wondering if the root word is Jerm and would be from Germany. I'm guessing. The word "Gold" in her husband's surname denotes German origins and European origins.
Also, we now know through dna that our real origins as a branch of the human race is Q1b which was in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey before migrating to Russia. Altai means "Gold". It's possible that our family took that and used it as a surname in Europe. Sounds possible to me!
The surname originally was spelled with an ski ending. This denotes nobility. People not of nobility liked to add this on. It looked good. It's a masculine suffix.
Hattie said she was from Suwalki. This could be the name of a large area like a county or it could be the name of a town. We don't know. At least we have a name found on her declaration of intent.
Now I'm wondering if the root word is Jerm and would be from Germany. I'm guessing. The word "Gold" in her husband's surname denotes German origins and European origins.
Also, we now know through dna that our real origins as a branch of the human race is Q1b which was in the Altai Mountains of Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey before migrating to Russia. Altai means "Gold". It's possible that our family took that and used it as a surname in Europe. Sounds possible to me!
