Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Goldfoot: From Persia ? to Lithuania
Goldfoot is a German name, the German form is Goldfuss or Goldfus. On my Goldfoot line at ftdna I have Goldfoots that are R1b1b2 from Germany, but they are not Jewish nor related to us. I have found Goldfoots at the LDS Morman geneology library with first names of English or German kings and queens, not biblical Jewish names. So I have a good feeling that we were in Germany long ago.
I have always been told and have read that Jews entered Germany first and then later migrated north to Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia,Galicia, etc. Our Q1b1 could have migrated to Germany from Persia somehow. Jewish Roman soldiers have been mentioned in some of my references. My R1b1b2 Robinson great grandfather, a very Yankee American (not Jewish) with a history of his family coming to the states on the ship after the Mayflower, is found to have a rare haplotype in that his dys#393 is a 12 and not a 13, showing his line came from Iberia or further Eastward. It’s possible that his line was a part of the Roman soldiers brought to England and that they weren’t Roman but slaves captured and trained. As I think about it, the Roman army would be one way of transporting people all around the known world, so not all Roman soldiers were Italian.
The history of Jews in Germany goes back to 321 CE with the emperor Constantine who issued regulations which show the existence of an organized Jewish community with rabbis and elders in Cologne. Probably Jews went into other cities as well. It is even thought that there were Jewish soldiers in the Roman garrisons.
Persecution of Jews started in 1012.
Our ancestors may have missed the Crusaders who massacred Jews throughout the Rhineland and nearby places of the 1096 CE period or maybe not. That could be what caused them to flee northward to Eastern Europe. There were massacres in 1298, 1336 and 1348/49 at the time of the Black Death which Jews were accused of creating. So we had many reasons to leave Germany. Around the end of the Middle Ages Jews were banished from larger German cities.
I'm taking the supposition that our ancestor could have come from Persia as a possibility. Armies, trading, and the many persecutions can be causes for migration to Germany. from there it is well known how we got to Eastern Europe. At least Persia had a large Jewish population that we could have started from.
I have always been told and have read that Jews entered Germany first and then later migrated north to Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia,Galicia, etc. Our Q1b1 could have migrated to Germany from Persia somehow. Jewish Roman soldiers have been mentioned in some of my references. My R1b1b2 Robinson great grandfather, a very Yankee American (not Jewish) with a history of his family coming to the states on the ship after the Mayflower, is found to have a rare haplotype in that his dys#393 is a 12 and not a 13, showing his line came from Iberia or further Eastward. It’s possible that his line was a part of the Roman soldiers brought to England and that they weren’t Roman but slaves captured and trained. As I think about it, the Roman army would be one way of transporting people all around the known world, so not all Roman soldiers were Italian.
The history of Jews in Germany goes back to 321 CE with the emperor Constantine who issued regulations which show the existence of an organized Jewish community with rabbis and elders in Cologne. Probably Jews went into other cities as well. It is even thought that there were Jewish soldiers in the Roman garrisons.
Persecution of Jews started in 1012.
Our ancestors may have missed the Crusaders who massacred Jews throughout the Rhineland and nearby places of the 1096 CE period or maybe not. That could be what caused them to flee northward to Eastern Europe. There were massacres in 1298, 1336 and 1348/49 at the time of the Black Death which Jews were accused of creating. So we had many reasons to leave Germany. Around the end of the Middle Ages Jews were banished from larger German cities.
I'm taking the supposition that our ancestor could have come from Persia as a possibility. Armies, trading, and the many persecutions can be causes for migration to Germany. from there it is well known how we got to Eastern Europe. At least Persia had a large Jewish population that we could have started from.
Labels: Eastern Europe, migration, Persia, Roman soldiers
