Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Origin of Lithuanian Goldfoot Jewish Family
Nadene Goldfoot
Goldfoot has been found in Telsiai, Lithuania by the other recent found branch of Goldfoot. They happen to both be Q1b haplogroup and the two parties tested are at least 3rd cousins. The report it that our other branch was also in the Ukraine. We have no knowledge as to where our Nathan Goldfoot b: 1870 was from other than "Russia" on the 1910 USA federal census other than his wife, Hattie Jermulowske of Suwalki, Poland, was a Litvak. They met and married in Council, Idaho. One can figure that their only language, Yiddish that they both spoke was the same. Chaim/ Hyam Goldfoot of the other branch was b: 1867 most likely in Telsiai, Lithuania and also lived in Elizabethgrad, Odessa, Russia
When Jerusalem fell in 70AD, some remained and their descendants are there today, but out of those that were not taken as slaves, many left and set up villages along the way from the Mediterranean to North Eastern Europe. They traveled through the homeland referred to as the Levant, then Anatolia and Greece and sailed to Italy, which is not that far away if you look at today's map. Rome in 70 AD had a large Jewish population already and some Romans and Greeks converted to Judaism. This happened in Jewish communities and in Roman colonies and villas in "Palestine" during the time of Roman rule. Remember that the Romans had changed the names of Judea and Samaria and Israel to the blanket name of Palestine to wipe out the Jewish presence.
Some Jews who were in Anatolia joined the cities of Byzantine Jews there. Some kept moving north in Italy, though the Southern Italian peninsula was the first home for the new communities of Jews.
In the 4th century CE Jews kept moving north into Northern Italy until the 10th century when they went north into the Rhineland (Germany) and set up communities which became the cultural center of the northern European Jews. They moved northeast after the 11th century and settled in Eastern Germany and Poland. This area became the largest Jewish Diaspora community in Europe before WWII which killed 6 million of them. It must have been while in Germany that the Goldfuss surname was attached to the family, which became Goldfus in Yiddish and then anglicized to Goldfoot. It was in 1012 CE that Jews migrated from Germany to Poland near Bialystock and Grodno. By 1495 Lithuanian Jews also migrated to Bialystock, Poland.
The founding families of Lithuania are said to have come from Babylonia in early medieval times. What had happened was that there was the plague in 1347 followed by a 1348 migration of Jews going from Eastern Germany to Lemberg and Temopol with Hungarian Jews from 1349-1360 migrating to Temopol also.
Wherever a plague broke out, the Jews were thrown out of some German town and went into Poland. Jews were accused of creating plagues because they didn't get sick and die to the degree that others did. This was because of Jews keeping their kashrut laws which contained a lot of sanitary habits, such as bathing and washing.
There was also a Lithuanian migration of 1445 southeast to the Crimea. At the same time Byzantine Jews and the Judaic Khazars might have gone to Khakov from southeast to the north in Russia. Also the Jews of Kiev who was a mixture of Byzantine, Western European and maybe even Khazaria and other Jewish communities living in Kiev moved into the Crimea in 1350. This was when the plagued finally ended.
Resource: Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry-Merging a Mosaic of Communities by Anne Hart copyright 2003.
Goldfoot has been found in Telsiai, Lithuania by the other recent found branch of Goldfoot. They happen to both be Q1b haplogroup and the two parties tested are at least 3rd cousins. The report it that our other branch was also in the Ukraine. We have no knowledge as to where our Nathan Goldfoot b: 1870 was from other than "Russia" on the 1910 USA federal census other than his wife, Hattie Jermulowske of Suwalki, Poland, was a Litvak. They met and married in Council, Idaho. One can figure that their only language, Yiddish that they both spoke was the same. Chaim/ Hyam Goldfoot of the other branch was b: 1867 most likely in Telsiai, Lithuania and also lived in Elizabethgrad, Odessa, Russia
When Jerusalem fell in 70AD, some remained and their descendants are there today, but out of those that were not taken as slaves, many left and set up villages along the way from the Mediterranean to North Eastern Europe. They traveled through the homeland referred to as the Levant, then Anatolia and Greece and sailed to Italy, which is not that far away if you look at today's map. Rome in 70 AD had a large Jewish population already and some Romans and Greeks converted to Judaism. This happened in Jewish communities and in Roman colonies and villas in "Palestine" during the time of Roman rule. Remember that the Romans had changed the names of Judea and Samaria and Israel to the blanket name of Palestine to wipe out the Jewish presence.
Some Jews who were in Anatolia joined the cities of Byzantine Jews there. Some kept moving north in Italy, though the Southern Italian peninsula was the first home for the new communities of Jews.
In the 4th century CE Jews kept moving north into Northern Italy until the 10th century when they went north into the Rhineland (Germany) and set up communities which became the cultural center of the northern European Jews. They moved northeast after the 11th century and settled in Eastern Germany and Poland. This area became the largest Jewish Diaspora community in Europe before WWII which killed 6 million of them. It must have been while in Germany that the Goldfuss surname was attached to the family, which became Goldfus in Yiddish and then anglicized to Goldfoot. It was in 1012 CE that Jews migrated from Germany to Poland near Bialystock and Grodno. By 1495 Lithuanian Jews also migrated to Bialystock, Poland.
The founding families of Lithuania are said to have come from Babylonia in early medieval times. What had happened was that there was the plague in 1347 followed by a 1348 migration of Jews going from Eastern Germany to Lemberg and Temopol with Hungarian Jews from 1349-1360 migrating to Temopol also.
Wherever a plague broke out, the Jews were thrown out of some German town and went into Poland. Jews were accused of creating plagues because they didn't get sick and die to the degree that others did. This was because of Jews keeping their kashrut laws which contained a lot of sanitary habits, such as bathing and washing.
There was also a Lithuanian migration of 1445 southeast to the Crimea. At the same time Byzantine Jews and the Judaic Khazars might have gone to Khakov from southeast to the north in Russia. Also the Jews of Kiev who was a mixture of Byzantine, Western European and maybe even Khazaria and other Jewish communities living in Kiev moved into the Crimea in 1350. This was when the plagued finally ended.
Resource: Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry-Merging a Mosaic of Communities by Anne Hart copyright 2003.
Labels: 1911 Goldfoots Lithuania, Goldfus, Origins
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from Alfred Krupa on Q1b origins possibly from Khazaria:
"This is the best description of Khazar Ashina Tribe (by Jonah Gabriel Lissner);" The Khazar ruling dynasty was ethnically and culturally descended from the classical Ashena, or original Turkic dynasty through the Altay-Siberian Turkuts, the Oghuz from the Afrasiab, and an early alliance between the Khazars and the Sabirs, who also originated in Altay" - so....no living soul can exclude Q haplogroup and any submutation. As matter in fact we can only add some R and G, probably."
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"This is the best description of Khazar Ashina Tribe (by Jonah Gabriel Lissner);" The Khazar ruling dynasty was ethnically and culturally descended from the classical Ashena, or original Turkic dynasty through the Altay-Siberian Turkuts, the Oghuz from the Afrasiab, and an early alliance between the Khazars and the Sabirs, who also originated in Altay" - so....no living soul can exclude Q haplogroup and any submutation. As matter in fact we can only add some R and G, probably."
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