Sunday, March 20, 2011
Joining Two Branches of Goldfoot
Denise just pointed out to me that her grandfather, Chaim/Hyman Goldfoot, was living at the Arbutus Place on the census in 1901. This is where our grandfather, Nathan was living at the time of this first marriage in 1893. Her grandfather was born in 1867 and our grandfather was born in 1871. However, her grandfather's name was Abraham, as far as I know and ours was this Morris/Chaim Itzhak. So they were first cousins once removed according to my calculations. (originally I had ignored the Arbutus Place address favoring the Wood Quay not knowing my granddfather had lived at Arbutus Place-Wood Quay)
This makes us (my generation) 3rd cousins once removed to Denise and Ian. I have taken the liberty to join our trees together now to an unknown Goldfus born about 1780 in Telsiai, Lithuania, being pretty sure without paper evidence in front of me that it is that city and country. We knew we had a common ancestor somewhere along the tree. This must be it. Being we also have a distance of 3 alleles out of 67 alleles in our dna test, I think this is pretty accurate. According to the tip report on familytreedna, and without changing the 1 in the box, we had a 67.49% chance of sharing a common ancestor at 8 generations, and figuring 25 years to a generation, I figure we are 9 generations apart, which would be a 75.48% chance of sharing a common ancestor I have named "unknown Goldfoot".
Finally. I hope this is it. Thank you to Mike Posnick who told me of the Nathan Goldfoot at the Londonderry Port in Ireland on the Parisian going to Winnipeg. We had no idea our grandfather had been in Ireland, though we had heard about England and a brother or brothers he was traveling with and then left to come to America. What a trip!!! It's very hard finding 3rd cousins, especially during the time of emigration and immigration that our people have gone through. This is so amazing!!
Nadene Goldfoot
This makes us (my generation) 3rd cousins once removed to Denise and Ian. I have taken the liberty to join our trees together now to an unknown Goldfus born about 1780 in Telsiai, Lithuania, being pretty sure without paper evidence in front of me that it is that city and country. We knew we had a common ancestor somewhere along the tree. This must be it. Being we also have a distance of 3 alleles out of 67 alleles in our dna test, I think this is pretty accurate. According to the tip report on familytreedna, and without changing the 1 in the box, we had a 67.49% chance of sharing a common ancestor at 8 generations, and figuring 25 years to a generation, I figure we are 9 generations apart, which would be a 75.48% chance of sharing a common ancestor I have named "unknown Goldfoot".
Finally. I hope this is it. Thank you to Mike Posnick who told me of the Nathan Goldfoot at the Londonderry Port in Ireland on the Parisian going to Winnipeg. We had no idea our grandfather had been in Ireland, though we had heard about England and a brother or brothers he was traveling with and then left to come to America. What a trip!!! It's very hard finding 3rd cousins, especially during the time of emigration and immigration that our people have gone through. This is so amazing!!
Nadene Goldfoot
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