Goldfoot Genealogy

Itsyk "Itzhak" Goldfus was born about 1786. He died September 13, 1854 of Cholera in Varniai, Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania. He could be my ancestor, as my ggrandfather was a Chaim Itzhak Goldfus b: about 1850 in that area. Itsyk's father was Mark Goldfus, and he may have been born about 1761 in Lithuania.

Reference: Jewishgen

September 4, 1859 Gute Golda Goldfus, daughter of Nokhim Goldfus, married Iontaf Opengeim, son of Sender Opengeim. Both were 20 years old. This was in Telsiai, Kaunas, Lithuania.

December 3, 1863 Rivka Mera Goldfus, age 18, daughter of Borukh Goldfus, married Gershon Peri, age 25, son of Luoke Peri. This was in Telsiai, Telsiai, Lithuania.

May 31, 1874 Khana Mina Goldfus, age 25, daughter of Mark Alzyk Goldfus, married Leib Tavirinski, age 35, son of Nokhim Tavirinski. Both were widowers. This was in Telsiai, Telsiai, Lithuania.

April 12, 1876 Josel Goldfus age 70 married Khaia Esterman age 45. Josel was the son of Yankel Goldfus of Telsiai and Khaia was the daughter of Abel Esterman. Both the bride and groom were widowers.

April 3, 1885 Ginda Mira Goldfus age 56, daughter of Josel Goldfus, married Movsha Leib Khatskelevich, age 58, son of Mendel and wife Skidel. Both are widowers. This was in Telsiai, Telsiai, Lithuania.

On September 9, 1859, a daughter, Freida, was born to Khatskel Goldfus. Khatskel was the son of Josef. The mother was Sheina. This was in Telsiai, Lithuania. Khatskel was a merchant.

On March 8, 1876, a son, Iankel Meier Goldfus was born to Leib and his wife Ita. Leib's proud father was Chaim Goldfus. This was in Laukuva, Telsiai, Kaunas. The family was from Varniai, Lithuania.

I wonder if Iankel could be a brother to my grandfather, Nathan Goldfoot who was born about 1872 most likely in Lithuania. His father was also a Chaim Goldfus.

Mike Posnick was researching Goldfoot before I was. He is connected to Stanley Goldfoot's tree. He reported in June 2005 that he had found two brothers, Gershon Yitzhak ben Chaim Goldfus born about 1830-1895 and Yehudah Leib ben Chaim Goldfus born about 1836-1921.

The list of Rabbi Electors for Laukuva of 25 February 1914 contained a record for a Leyb Gershon Goldfus, son of Chaim, age 71 born about 1843.

This means that there was born about 1810 or 1815 a Chaim Goldfus who had two sons, Gershon Yitzhak Goldfus and Yehudah Leib Goldfus. Also listed as the son of Chaim was Leyb Gershon.

Mike also states that the family name Goldfus is rare and Laukuva was small. He felt that the brothers' names were combined in the Rabbi Electors record.

This is most interesting to me as my grandfather, Nathan Goldfoot b: 1872, was the son of Chaim Itzhak Goldfus. I know that even first names will be repeated in a family and that is one way to trace people.

What's even more interesting is that Stanley Goldfoot's tree connects to Chaim Goldfus born abt 1855 in Telsiai, Lithuania and that this Chaim married Blum Kagan Cohen and died almost 100 years later in South Africa.

My ggrandfather, Chaim Itzhak Goldfus was born at about the very same time in most likely the very same place and we have no other information as his son, Nathan Goldfoot, died prematurely in a horse and wagon accident in Portland, Oregon when his son was about 4 years old. Could these two Chaims be the same persons? They could be cousins. From what I have learned, his wife was Devorah, but that was just heresay from my mother. I only know of Chaim's name from Nathan's headstone which lists in Hebrew, information that tells his father's name.

DNA tests validate our knowledge that we are connected, but we can't find the paper proof and tell who our connecting ancestor is, though it most likely was at least 300 years ago.

I have found in the Litvak SIG information on Jewishgen a Yakov Goldfus in 1841.
He was living in Telsiai, Telsiai, Lithuania and was listed in the Ateret Shaul Prenumeranten Lists.

More recently found was a David Goldfuss in Lauckura, Telsiai, Lithuania in Kaunas. He was a Holocaust survivor and was found in 1946 in Italy. Little did he know that my brother is David Goldfoot, and that we didn't know of another David. We named David David for a ggrandmother Devorah.

Another person most likely with David was Leibe Goldfuss. This person was found in the same place and was from the same place as David.

Volf Goldfus, son of Borukh Goldfus, was 20 years old and missing in a census on June 20, 1868. No doubt they wanted him for the army, but I could be wrong. This was also in Lithuania.

Afred Krupa with his father Mladen Krupa have entered evidence that has been accepted to the International Commission and Association on Nobility to be recognized as distinguished true and noble members of the House of Ashina Royal Clan and is a member of the high nobility of Europe. That makes those of us who are also Q1b's and fit into this haplogroup the same. Freddy has shown that only the Royalty of Khazaria had converted to Judaism after hearing speakers of all three major religions; Judaism, Christianity and Moslem.

He was able to work on this and achieve certification even though his country of Croatia is trying to rob him of his home and business. They are using his Jewish heritage as sufficient reason to conviscate his property. Freddy was supposed to be out in the streets as of January 12th, but has been able to get the date postponed.

He sent me the certificate of recognition today along with his dna information. At one time the House of Ashina was quite powerful as it sat on the silk road, but the royalty has since scattered .

I believe he is turning the tables on this corrupt court and will in turn sue the judge for doing this to his family illegally.

Labels: Nobility, Royal Ashina Dynasty

Nathan Goldfoot married Hattie Jermulowske. Her dna test shows that she is a rare W haplogroup and she came from Suwalki, Poland. I don't know where Nathan came from other than most likely Lithuania, but reported on his one census of 1910 that he came from "Russia."

The W haplogroup is only 0.0190 in Russia. 135 women tested were W's.
In Poland is was 0.0476. Only 16 women were tested who had it from there so far. However, in http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v15/n4/fig_tab/5201764t2.html#figure-title, W was 3.1% in a Polish Jewish population and 3.7% in a non Jewish Polish population, and 2.7 in a Russian Jewish popuation while it was 2% in a Russian population.

As far as we know, Nathan and Hattie met in Council, Idaho, an off the way place in the mountains that was a mining town and hard to get to. I believe the train had just recently arrived there, which is probably how Nathan got there. They married November 20, 1905. W's originated around 20,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains of Turkey, Siberia and Mongolia, and that's exactly where Nathan's Q1b haplogroup of 1,000 years ago originated. I thought it was pretty unusual for these two to get together in Idaho.

We do have high percentages of W's in Caucasian, Persian and Turkic speaking populations.
In Iran, W's come in at 2.72% or 58 out of 2131. The Gilaki have the highest W percentage at 7.95% or 7 out of 88.
P.S. 4/28/2010: The oldest W found so far as reported by Mark Weide is from Unseberg, Germany who died in 6550 BCE. This was in the late Mesolithic era. W entered Europe with farmers from India on through the Balkans to the rest of Europe as it is understood at this time.
Reference: Peter Fischer

FAMILY HERITAGEACADEMIC PAINTER ALFRED TARNAWA KRUPA WAS BORN IN 1971 IN CROATIA,CENTRAL EUROPE.HIS IS MEMBER OF THE THIRD GENERATION OF HIGHLY EDUCATED ACADEMIC PAINTERS ORIGINATED FROM POLAND (JAN KRUPA +1919, ALFRED KRUPA+1989). FIRST TRACES OF HIS FAMILY IS MENTIONED IN 1204, AND DOCUMENTED IN 1450., AS OLD LINE POLISH NOBLE FAMILY.HIS GRANDFATHER AND FIRST TEACHER ,PROF.ALFRED KRUPA-SENIOR (1915-1989) WAS POLISH, BUT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR HE BECAME ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST IMPORTANT CROATIAN WATERCOLOUR PAINTERS OF 20st CENTURY. ALFRED IS OFFICIALY EDUCATED ON ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN ZAGREB(1991-1995,B.F.A.), AND ON TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY(1998/99,SPECIALIZATION),JAPAN. RECENTLY HE IS ACCEPTED AS PROFESSOR OF FINE ARTS IN THE COSMOPOLITAN UNIVERISTY (GLOBAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE) AND AS FULL-TIME FACULY IN THE DUGA RESA SCHOOL FOR DESIGN AS PROFESSOR OF FINE ART GROUP OF SUBJECTS. NOW, HE IS ONE OF VERY RARE CROATIAN PROFESSIONAL WATERCOLUOR PAINTERS WHO WORKS DIRECTLY IN OPEN(PLAIN-AIR). ALSO, ONE HIS MAIN FIELDS OF WORK IS DRAWING WITH INK (BIRD PEN, BRUSH ETC.) HE IS FELLOW MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS,MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE -LONDON, CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF FINE ARTISTS-ZAGREB, THE CROATIAN SOCIETY OF ART HISTORIANS-ZAGREB,ETC... AND HIS WORK WAS PRESENTED ON 16 ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS, AND LARGE NUMBER OF COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS IN CROATIA AND ABROAD(GERMANY). WATERCOLOURS OF ALFRED KRUPA-JUNIOR CAN BE FOUND IN NUMBER OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN CROATIA,LITHUANIA,AUSTRALIA AND GERMANY. ALSO, HE IS WORKING FREQUENLTY AS ILLUSTRATOR FOR NUMBER OF LOCAL DAILY AND WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS AND AS BOOK ILLUSTRATOR. HE IS CONFERRED WITH IMPERIAL TITLE OF CHEVALIER (FOLLOWING NUMBER OF INHERITED OR EARNED TITLES)BY HIH CROWN PRINCE ZERE JACOBE ASFA WOSSEN OF ETHIOPIA, AND HE IS CHARGED WITH OFFICER DUTY WITHIN THE SUPREME MILITARY ORDER OF THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM, AS THE GRAND CHIEF OF PROTOCOL OF GRAND PRECEPTORY LA ROCHELLE, AND AS OSMTH REPRESENTATIVE FOR ISSUES OF HERALDRY.
A FEW MOMENTS OF PAST WORK1992- ONE-MAN AID EXHIBITION FOR CHILDREN OF KILLED DEFENDERS IN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE 1994,1995,1997,1999-VARIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF NUMBER OF DAILY NEWSPAPERS, WEEKLY MAGAZINES, CULTURAL SPECIAL EDITIONS AND THREE DRAWING COLLECTIONS 1995- ONE-MAN EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS AND NUDES, OPENED BY AMBASSADOR OF AUSTRIA IN REPUBLIC OF CROATIA 1997- PARTICIPATION ON FIRST WATERCOLOUR FESTIVAL OF CROATIA 1998- PARTICIPATION ON FIRST WATERCOLOUR TRIENNALE OF CROATIA 2000- KARLOVAC ARTIST'S GENERATION OF 90's etc. LINKS; www.cosmoedu.net/ProfKrupa.htm
Contact Information:ALFRED KRUPADOMOBRANSKA 8KARLOVAC, CROATIA, EUROPA, 47000Work Phone: 00385 47 615 703Home Phone: Fax: 0038547615 703E-mail:mailto:mladen.krupa@ka.tel.hr
Krupa's website: http://watercolor-online.com/Gallery/ALFREDKRUPA/

Our Goldfoot's dna is of the male line, or Ydna. It is Q1b originating from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey. It is thought to be from the kingdom of Khazaria and is directly from the Ashina Royal dynasty. The royalty of that empire had not been Jewish, but was into shamenism. The head man listened to speakers from Christian, Muslim and Jewish representatives and chose Judaism for his royal house to follow. Being they were on the silk road and on the crossroads of trade, this seemed to be a wise selection. The royalty spoke many languages and had to deal with many types of people. This royal house existed around 700AD and when it fell, the Jewish men moved into Eastern Europe to be found in Poland, Lithuania and Russia and places in the area. Today the Q1b's make up only 5% of the male Jewish population in the world.

Our Jermulowske dna or mt dna is found to be W. This is a rare group, also found in the Altai mountain area for women. You can call it "Wilma Flintstone". Sykes didn't even know about it, and it actually one of the primordial "out of Africa" haplogroups. First, a little about the female dna. In fact, we are a W with the following exponents: 16145A, 16223T, 16265G, and 16519C. This is from a low resolution HVR1 test. It shows we are an Askenazi Jewish line. Not all W's are found in Jewish women. Our line is young, dating only from about 25,000 years ago and is an outgrowth of a larger group, not even listed by Sykes, called N, which dated back 65,000 years ago. N1 was found in Southern Siberia and was found in a 2,500 year old Scytho-Siberian burial in the Altai region.

Bryan Sykes wrote a book about female dna called "The Seven Daughters of Eve." He explained that 98% of all people of Western Europe descend from only seven women who lived in Europe within the last 50,000 years. These mothers descend from a common ancestor, Eve, who lived in Africa about 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. I guess this is where the garden of Eden was.

Our DNA makes us and comes from our mother and father. There are 23 chomosome pairs, one from each parent. The 23rd is different. You either get two xx's making you a female or you get an xy, making you a male. That's why a man can be tested and get the results of his mother and his father's dna. We females can only be tested for our mother's line. One interesting thing is that our mother's line goes back to the garden of Eden, just about without any change. A male dna line can mutate quite often, which lets us know more about what they've been up to.

Resource: DNA & Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick & Andrew Yeiser-book