Tuesday, August 13, 2013
If Our Goldfoot Genes Could Talk, They Would Say......
Nadene Goldfoot
Nathan Goldfus/Goldfoot (1871-1912) Telsiai, Lithuania
If genes could talk, they'd tell us the whole story of our lives. Being my father's haplogroup is a Jewish Q1b1a, I know where to start. You can say that our journey started a good 60,000 years ago with some Neanderthal guy, being our modern gal is carrying 2.9% Neanderthal genes in her. All people who made it to the European continent are carrying some amount of Neanderthal genes from about 2.0% to 3.0%. Thoughts are changing about those Neanderthals and it is thought now they were a lot smarter than previously thought, especially in tool making using bone.
Before the 2nd millennium BCE, our distant ancestors came from humans 38,000 years before that, and they advanced and migrated from Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey 13,000 to 18,000 years before. We hooked up with an Eastern migrating group with haplogroup J1 from the Fertile Crescent originating about 8,000 to 13,000 years before and joined their travelers from the east to see western land which led to a city called Ur Kasdim (today in Iraq).
There our genes became part of the household of Nahor and his son, Terah who was the father of Abram, a family of idol makers. They were descendants of Shem who had also migrated from the east and settled in a valley in the land of Shinar. Terah's son was Abram, and that's where the exciting part of our DNA takes off. The household moved from Ur of the Chaldees to Canaan where we all lived among the Canaanites and Philistines. We also visited Egypt. Abram had married Sarai and they changed their names to Abraham and Sarah as they changed their thinking about G-d. Abraham was the founder of monotheism.. Eventually we moved into Egypt because of a famine that hit Canaan.
From the time we arrived to the time we left, we had stayed there for 400 years. It was there that Moses, an Egyptian adopted son of the Princess, discovered he was of Jewish slave parents, Amram and Jochabed. He was actually the 3rd great grandson of Abraham, and he led us out of Egypt to go back to Canaan. We thought the trek would only take us about a month, but it took 40 years of walking and traveling. to get there because we all had to change from our slavery mind-set to that of a new and brave Israelite. We were Israelites because Abraham's son Isaac had a son named Jacob whose name was changed by G-d to Israel because of the new position he had been placed in..
Abraham's son was Isaac that my family had followed. His son Jacob had 12 sons who became the tribes of Israel because Jacob's name had been changed by our one G-d to Israel. Those of us that were also slaves had left with Moses, and we were integrated with these 12 tribes. We had picked up men from various haplogroups; J1 and J2, E, G, I, etc. who were all in the same boat we were; slaves in Egypt.
We entered Canaan with Joshua, since Moses died at age 120 just outside the land. G-d gave the whole land of Canaan to Abraham for all his descendants. The land was called Israel, and then a section ceded off much later and called themselves Judah because they were part of the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel.. That's where we got the name of Jews. Those of us that survived the centuries were the Jewish people. The others of the original 12 tribes had been captured and taken by the Assyrians and then the Babylonians. Some of the tribe of Benjamin had joined our Judah group. A J1 family would produce all daughters, and one of their husbands would have to take over as head of the tribe. One of my descendants got that position.
It was in 70CE that Rome burned Jerusalem, now the capital of Judah instead of Israel. The Romans carried away many of us as slaves to Rome. My descendant was in that group, while my friends stayed in part of Judah away from Jerusalem. I was lucky to have descendants live through much killing at that time. Other friends managed to go to nearby lands to live in more comfort only to be degraded and treated only a little better than slaves.
When in Rome, we were sold as slaves to men going to the Rhineland (Germany) and we became soldiers for the Romans who had needed more men in their outposts. My descendant was stationed in a Roman garrison in the Rhineland. Later on, we sent for relatives who were still in Rome to come join us, as the land was rich and green. Unfortunately, Christianity followed us and caused much bitterness where many of my friends here were massacred. I don't know how we lived, but knew when to leave and headed back south, down the European continent looking for better and safer lands and we landed in France. There, my genes picked up a few of Rashi's genes (1040-1105). He was to become a famous Jewish scholar. He had studied further north in the Rhineland and had returned to Troyes where he set up a school. He had studied the Babylonian Talmud and made outstanding notes about it that were widely shared with others.
So we went on into the Rhineland's Germany to see what it was like. In 1096 we escaped the German Crusade massacres going on. There we picked up the surname of Goldfus, later anglicized to Goldfoot in England. We also picked up and used Yiddish, our language made of our Hebrew with German added to it. After suffering from changing political and religious attitudes, we had to flee Germany and went further north to Poland, and then to Lithuania where we settled in Telsiai. While others had to buy themselves a surname, we were able to keep ours that we had in Germany.
We lived in Telsiai from about 1700 till about 1890, where we faced many pogroms and forced service in armies for Russia. When Nathan Goldfus was born in 1871, there were many pogroms going on in towns of Russia, causing his mother to swear that he would be one to leave that country as soon as possible. My descendant traveled to Britain and landed in England for a short while. The story that was given to one of my descendants was that we were also walking around with genes from the Vilna Gaon and his family who was another famous Jewish scholar in Lithuania. It could be because we were in Lithuania for over 200 years and Vilna was 149 km or 92 miles away from Telsiai. He then migrated to Dublin Ireland, and from there went to the USA via a short stop in Canada.
Finally, Nathan Goldfoot (1870-1912) married in Council, Idaho to Zlotta or Hattie Jermulowske (1886-1950, also of Lithuania, and they moved eastward to Portland, Oregon and settled down in 1906 with their first son, Charles. Nathan fathered 5 children before dying at age 45 in a horse and wagon accident with the 5th still on the way. Their middle child, Abraham, died in infancy.
All the descendants of Nathan were successful and well educated people, coming from grandparents denied this opportunity. They had 9 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and 12 ggreat grandchildren. Though the males carry Q1b1a as their haplogroup, their gene pool comes from the J1's, E's, G, and a few I's. Today's ggrandchildren have picked up a few more. Through the many centuries we've had close relations with them all.
My results with 23&Me of autosomal testing : Jewish father, Swedish/English mother
And from familytreedna autosomal test: 73.06% +- 13.49% and 26.91% +- 13.49% Middle East-Jewish
Brother's makeup 41.81% Europe and 58.19% Middle East -same mother and father
Resource: Abraham's children by Jon Entine
http://www.examiner.com/list/healthiest-route-from-africa-to-europe-humans-took-60-000-years-ago
familytreedna
Nathan Goldfus/Goldfoot (1871-1912) Telsiai, Lithuania
If genes could talk, they'd tell us the whole story of our lives. Being my father's haplogroup is a Jewish Q1b1a, I know where to start. You can say that our journey started a good 60,000 years ago with some Neanderthal guy, being our modern gal is carrying 2.9% Neanderthal genes in her. All people who made it to the European continent are carrying some amount of Neanderthal genes from about 2.0% to 3.0%. Thoughts are changing about those Neanderthals and it is thought now they were a lot smarter than previously thought, especially in tool making using bone.
Before the 2nd millennium BCE, our distant ancestors came from humans 38,000 years before that, and they advanced and migrated from Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey 13,000 to 18,000 years before. We hooked up with an Eastern migrating group with haplogroup J1 from the Fertile Crescent originating about 8,000 to 13,000 years before and joined their travelers from the east to see western land which led to a city called Ur Kasdim (today in Iraq).
There our genes became part of the household of Nahor and his son, Terah who was the father of Abram, a family of idol makers. They were descendants of Shem who had also migrated from the east and settled in a valley in the land of Shinar. Terah's son was Abram, and that's where the exciting part of our DNA takes off. The household moved from Ur of the Chaldees to Canaan where we all lived among the Canaanites and Philistines. We also visited Egypt. Abram had married Sarai and they changed their names to Abraham and Sarah as they changed their thinking about G-d. Abraham was the founder of monotheism.. Eventually we moved into Egypt because of a famine that hit Canaan.
From the time we arrived to the time we left, we had stayed there for 400 years. It was there that Moses, an Egyptian adopted son of the Princess, discovered he was of Jewish slave parents, Amram and Jochabed. He was actually the 3rd great grandson of Abraham, and he led us out of Egypt to go back to Canaan. We thought the trek would only take us about a month, but it took 40 years of walking and traveling. to get there because we all had to change from our slavery mind-set to that of a new and brave Israelite. We were Israelites because Abraham's son Isaac had a son named Jacob whose name was changed by G-d to Israel because of the new position he had been placed in..
Abraham's son was Isaac that my family had followed. His son Jacob had 12 sons who became the tribes of Israel because Jacob's name had been changed by our one G-d to Israel. Those of us that were also slaves had left with Moses, and we were integrated with these 12 tribes. We had picked up men from various haplogroups; J1 and J2, E, G, I, etc. who were all in the same boat we were; slaves in Egypt.
We entered Canaan with Joshua, since Moses died at age 120 just outside the land. G-d gave the whole land of Canaan to Abraham for all his descendants. The land was called Israel, and then a section ceded off much later and called themselves Judah because they were part of the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel.. That's where we got the name of Jews. Those of us that survived the centuries were the Jewish people. The others of the original 12 tribes had been captured and taken by the Assyrians and then the Babylonians. Some of the tribe of Benjamin had joined our Judah group. A J1 family would produce all daughters, and one of their husbands would have to take over as head of the tribe. One of my descendants got that position.
It was in 70CE that Rome burned Jerusalem, now the capital of Judah instead of Israel. The Romans carried away many of us as slaves to Rome. My descendant was in that group, while my friends stayed in part of Judah away from Jerusalem. I was lucky to have descendants live through much killing at that time. Other friends managed to go to nearby lands to live in more comfort only to be degraded and treated only a little better than slaves.
When in Rome, we were sold as slaves to men going to the Rhineland (Germany) and we became soldiers for the Romans who had needed more men in their outposts. My descendant was stationed in a Roman garrison in the Rhineland. Later on, we sent for relatives who were still in Rome to come join us, as the land was rich and green. Unfortunately, Christianity followed us and caused much bitterness where many of my friends here were massacred. I don't know how we lived, but knew when to leave and headed back south, down the European continent looking for better and safer lands and we landed in France. There, my genes picked up a few of Rashi's genes (1040-1105). He was to become a famous Jewish scholar. He had studied further north in the Rhineland and had returned to Troyes where he set up a school. He had studied the Babylonian Talmud and made outstanding notes about it that were widely shared with others.
So we went on into the Rhineland's Germany to see what it was like. In 1096 we escaped the German Crusade massacres going on. There we picked up the surname of Goldfus, later anglicized to Goldfoot in England. We also picked up and used Yiddish, our language made of our Hebrew with German added to it. After suffering from changing political and religious attitudes, we had to flee Germany and went further north to Poland, and then to Lithuania where we settled in Telsiai. While others had to buy themselves a surname, we were able to keep ours that we had in Germany.
We lived in Telsiai from about 1700 till about 1890, where we faced many pogroms and forced service in armies for Russia. When Nathan Goldfus was born in 1871, there were many pogroms going on in towns of Russia, causing his mother to swear that he would be one to leave that country as soon as possible. My descendant traveled to Britain and landed in England for a short while. The story that was given to one of my descendants was that we were also walking around with genes from the Vilna Gaon and his family who was another famous Jewish scholar in Lithuania. It could be because we were in Lithuania for over 200 years and Vilna was 149 km or 92 miles away from Telsiai. He then migrated to Dublin Ireland, and from there went to the USA via a short stop in Canada.
Finally, Nathan Goldfoot (1870-1912) married in Council, Idaho to Zlotta or Hattie Jermulowske (1886-1950, also of Lithuania, and they moved eastward to Portland, Oregon and settled down in 1906 with their first son, Charles. Nathan fathered 5 children before dying at age 45 in a horse and wagon accident with the 5th still on the way. Their middle child, Abraham, died in infancy.
All the descendants of Nathan were successful and well educated people, coming from grandparents denied this opportunity. They had 9 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and 12 ggreat grandchildren. Though the males carry Q1b1a as their haplogroup, their gene pool comes from the J1's, E's, G, and a few I's. Today's ggrandchildren have picked up a few more. Through the many centuries we've had close relations with them all.
My results with 23&Me of autosomal testing : Jewish father, Swedish/English mother
100%
European
48.6%
Northern European
47.8%
Ashkenazi
0.9%
Southern European
0.4%
Eastern European
2.2%
Nonspecific European
< 0.1%
East Asian & Native American
< 0.1%
East Asian
0.0%
Native American
0.0%
And again, family tree in more depth:
And again, family tree in more depth:
99.9%
European
46.4%
Ashkenazi
Northern European
18.8%
French and German
25.8%
Nonspecific Northern European
0.3%
Eastern European
Brother's makeup 41.81% Europe and 58.19% Middle East -same mother and father
http://www.examiner.com/list/healthiest-route-from-africa-to-europe-humans-took-60-000-years-ago
familytreedna
Labels: Abram, Canaan, East, genes, Germany, Israel, Judah, Lithuania, Q1b1a haplogroup, Ur, USA
