Goldfoot Genealogy

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                      

My 1067  matches of  mtDNA haplogroups from 23&Me testing shows  haplogroups from a to x.  I never knew there were so many.                

Mother, Mildred Goldfoot-H2a1

H2a1 maternal grandmother, Augusta Gustafson from Sweden

                                 

My High School Graduation at 16-H2a1

 My own is H2a1 that is from my mother and her mother from Sweden etc.
                                                                         

Paternal Grandmother-W1h

Paternal aunt, W1h, Elsie with son, cousin Donnie

 My paternal grandmother's mt haplogroup is W, as tested through FTDNA with W1h predicted from the HVRI testing.  My father was Jewish and my mother                                                     converted when she married.
                                         

Ann Goldfoot getting married, 2nd Paternal aunt, sister of Elsie-W1h

  1=A2     A,A2 rose 60,000 years ago in NW Asia, in native Americans, Peru "Ice Maiden" mummy.
  1=B2   rose 50,000 years ago in central Asia, in southern Siberians, Mongolians, Chinese, Hawaiians
  1=B4a1a1
63=H   rose 20,000 years ago in Caucasus or Europe, 50% of European ancestry, common in Middle East
49=H1
 2=H10
 8=H10a1
 5=H11
 4=H11a
 2=H11a2
 1=H133a1a1a
 1=H15b
 1=H18
 4=H1a3
 3=H1b
 4=H1c
27=H1e
 2=H1e2
 1=H1f
 4=H1o
 2=H2a1  My maternal grandmother: Village of Lumsheden, Sweden est. 1554 by Priest
 1=H2a2a
 1=H2a2b1
 1=H2a5
19=H3
 5=H3a
 1=H4a1
 1=H4a1b
 2=H5
10=H5'36
13=H5a
 3=H5a1
 1=H5b
 8=H6a1
 5=H6a1a
 6=H6a1a1a
 1=H6a1b2
27=H7
 1=HV
 2=HV0
 1=HV1
31=HV1b2
24=HV5
15=I1     rose 30,000 years ago in Eurasia, in southern Europe, Egypt, Arabia                                                 1=I1a1
 1=I2
 9=J1b1a  45,000 years ago, central Asia, in near East, Europe, Caucasus, N. Africa, Middle East Jews
33=J1c
18=J1c1
 2=J1c3
 1=J1c3b
 1=J1c7
18=J1c7a
1=J2a1a1b   more localized in the Mediterranean
 2=J2b1
 1=J2b1a1
 2=K1  1/3 of Ashkenazi Jews carry this; subbranch of U, from Holocene Epoch, last glacial maximum.
11=K1a
 1=K1a10
 1=K1a1b1
204=K1a1b1a 
 4=K1a4a
 1=K1a4a1
43=K1a9
 1=K1c2
 5=K2a
53=K2a2a
 1=L0d2a1  from 145,000 to 170,000 years ago, main link to those outside of Africa
 2=L2a
14=L2a1
 1=L3b1a
 3=M1a1b with N, are 2 "superhaplogroups" from L3, went into Middle East to India, Asia, Australia
 5=M33c
56=N1b2   39-52,000 years ago, in Europe, Caucasus, Near East, Egypt, Arabia
 4=N9a3  with M, 2 "superhaplogroups"  60,000 years ago, Middle East,
 8=R0a
 6=R0a2
 5=T1  originated in Mesopotamia or Anatolia, 10,000 years ago, eastern Baltic Sea and Urals
15=T1a1
 3=T1b
 2=T2a
 7=T2a1
18=T2b
 1=T2b5
 2=T2c1
 4=T2e
 2=T2I1
 6=T2a
 8=U1b 50,000 yearss ago, in Basques, Welsh, cheddar man,
 1=U2e1a  most common in India
 8=U3a1
 1=U4a3
 1=U4b1
 1=U4d1
 1=U5a1  40% Europeans with U5, most frequent and ancient subcluster of U.
 3=U5a1a
 2=U5a1a1
 2=U5a1b
 1=U5a2b
 2=U5b1
 2=U5b1b1
 1=U5b2a
 1=U5b2b
 4=U6a7  Most common in North Africa
11=U7
 1=U8b'K
 4=V   12,000 years ago in Iberia, in Saami population of N. Scandinavia, Basques
 8=V1a
 5=V7
22=V7a
 2=W  W. Ural Mountains and E. Baltic area, found also in India.
 6=:W1
(Ours W1h)  paternal grandmother from Lazdijai, Suwalki, Lithuania/Poland
10=W3
 5=W3a
 1=X2   from M and N, from N. Levant into Europe, N, Asia, Americas 15,000 years ago, Sioux
 5=X2b
 1=X2d
                                                                 

Nadene Goldfoot      

My Uncle, Charles Goldfoot

                                                                 

My father, Maurice Goldfoot

     Charles Goldfoot b: 1906 and Moses "Maurice" Goldfoot b: 1908
              South Portland, Oregon c 1910.  Their father was killed in 1912.  

My father's Ydna Haplogroup is Q1b1a.  We are 5% of the Jewish men of today. I say we, but the haplogroup doesn't show up in a female's test.  One has to have a male from the line to do that.  All of our matches look like they are or at least were from people of a Jewish background.  My father, "Maurice", reflects his round face from the Jermulowske side and my uncle has the longer face from the Goldfoot side.  Their father, Nathan Abraham,  came from Telsiai, Lithuania and was Goldfus, there. I've traced the family back to 1730 in Telsiai.     

I discovered segments of the program that I had never explored until a few minutes ago and it is quite revealing.  My own DNA in this autosomal test shows up from both my mother and my father's genes.  We have to this date, 1067 matches. I fixed the program to show Y haplogroup matches.   Out of this huge group, 23&Me knows that 324 of them are testing only females showing no Y haplogroup title.  So I was able to check out 667 of the matching Y haplogroups from men who had tested..

There were :
144= E1b1b1.  I started thinking they all would be this group! It turns out that they are an ancient Middle East group.  It's quite Jewish, some clades found at moderate frequencies in the populations of Europe, particularly among those that reside near the Mediterranean, which is believed to represent ancient genetic influence from the Middle East to Europe.  E's originated in Africa (which we all did) some 50,000 years ago.

49 =G1.  May have originated along the eastern edge of the Middle East or India or Pakistan 30,000 years ago and dispersed into central Asia, Europe and Middle East.  7% of Ashkenazi Jews have this.

26=I1  Usually found in Scandinavia and Croatia with some traces in the Middle East, the source.  Vikings could have carried it from there.

95=J1e  10,000 to 15,000 years ago in Fertile Crescent including Jews, Arabs, Armenians, and Kurds.  Iran and Iraq have highest frequencies where it may have originated, carried by traders to Europe, central Asia, India, Pakistan.  J1 is the Cohen gene.  Arabs have been found with that as J1ced with Arab extension.  The majority of Jewish men are found with J1. Both Jews and Arabs are found with J1c3d.

109=J2, J2a1b  Same information as above: However, J2 is believed to be associated with the spread of agriculture during Neolithic Period from Anatolia, found in central Asia, Mediterranean and south into India.

47=Q1b  This is our Goldfoot haplogroup.  Came from central Asia 15,000 to 20,000 years ago so is older than J1.  Latest findings place us in or around Ur, which was the city where Abraham lived which is now a part of Iraq.  Abraham lived in the 2nd millennium BCE.

  6=R1
79= R1a1a  Older haplogroup yet, originating in NW Asia from 30,000 to 35,000 years ago, common throughout Europe and Eurassia.

14=R1b1b2  (not my gentile side of R1b1a2a1a1b4)  This one surprised me.
18=R1b1b2a
 8=R1b1b2a1a
 2=R1b1b2a1a1
 1=R1b1b2a1a1d
16=R1b1b2a1a1d1
 1=R1b1b2a1a2
 2=R1b1b2a1a2c
11=R1b1b2a1a2d
 3=R1b1b2a1a2d3
 7=R1b1b2a1a2f
 9=R2  Rarer than R1, is found only in Indian, Iranian and central Asian populations

21=T  This is a  new one on me and Jon Entine.  I found it is older and had been known as K2, found in Egypt, Portuguese Jews, Zoroastrians, Somalis in Ethiopia. Linkage with I of some sort.  " The presence of T1a2 chromosomes in Near Eastern Jewish and non-Jewish populations may reflect early exiles between the ancient lands of Israel and Babylon. The presence of different subclades of T chromosomes in Europe may be explained by both the spread of Neolithic farmers and the later dispersal of Jews from the Near East."

Reference: 23%Me DNA Company in California
Abraham's Children by Jon Entine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_T-M184
http://www.familytreedna.com/PDF/MendezHumBiol2011.pdf about T in Jews.
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2010/01/jewish-genes-what-haplogroup-could-they.html

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                       


To be related  through DNA to RASHI, one of the most famous of rabbis,  is quite a thought.  Legend is that he was a descendant of the royal family of King David (1010-970 BCE).  How can people learn such things?
                                                           
A group has been created on Family Tree DNA, Halpern and Branches,  that have connected members back all the way to Rashi, a famous Rabbi born in 1040 in Troyes, France and died July 13, 1105 in Troyes, France. He was the son of Yitzchak Ben Shlomo of Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany who died in 1060 in Worms. Rashi's grandfather was Shalma Tzarfali born  about 1000 CE.  He had been a scholar and wine merchant.  Rashi's income was from the vineyard.     He was a French rabbinical scholar and studied in the Rhineland of Germany and had his own school there.  France had been home to Jews before 70 CE when Jerusalem was attacked and destroyed by the Romans.  The Jewish position there faced hardships with the development of Christianity with Church councils taking steps to enforce the conventional anti-Jewish codes.  Many Jews had settled here for purposes of trade, importing foreign luxuries and establishing new communities up the Rhone Valley and into Champagne.  After 1096, French Jews were attacked by the Christian Crusaders.  Rashi  is well known for his commentaries on the Bible and the Babylonian Talmud. He was born into the Rishonim Period of 1000 to 1500 CE of  revered rabbis.  We are now connected to this group because of some of the segments of our DNA on  our 23 chromosomes match other people with connections from genealogies.  .

It is said that the first Jews to settle in Worms were the Benjamites, descendants from the tribe of Benjamin.That goes back a long ways since  Moses lived from 1391-1271 BCE and the 12 tribes were about to enter the Promised Land of Canaan just as he died.   Since a connection was made with Worms, Germany, we are also connected to another famous rabbi, Isaac of Worms (Baruch ben Isaac c 1200 who was a Tosafist and codifier, born in Worms, a town in Rhein-Hesse, Germany.  He lived at Regensburg and sometimes was called by either name.   We can also be connected to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer (1658 -d Vienna 1724)   of Worms, Germany.   His best friend was Samuel Oppenheimer (1630-1703), the great financier.  Oppenheimer's nephew was Rabbi David Oppenheim (1664-1736).  He was also born in Worms and was a rabbi in Nikolsburg and also in Prague starting in 1702.  He had built up a huge library and was considered a bibliophile.  Because Prague had censorship, he kept his books in Hanover, Germany.

 The Jewish community of Worms was annihilated in the First Crusade, but it re-established shortly afterward and was again destroyed in the Black Death outbreaks of 1349.  The Jews were expulsed in 1615.  The people found were massacred by soldiers of Louis XIV in 1689.  Its cemetery dated from the 11th century while its synagogue originally was built in 1034.  Close to it is the "Rashi Chapel" of 1624 and the ritual bath of 1186 which had stood until they were destroyed in November 1938 at the onset of WWII.  After the war they were reconstructed.  The 1933 community of Jews of 1,200 were killed by the Nazis.  It's a miracle that some of the descendants had survived.

Through having the familyfinder test at familytreedna, my brother and I were informed that we had segments of our dna that connected to people in their group.  A thorough search was done by the investigators of the project and sure enough, we were.  A first cousin then was also familyfinder tested whose mother was a Goldfoot, a sibling of our father,   matched more people  than we did who were already found to be connected to the group.   Our grandfather, Nathan Goldfoot, had married Hattie Jermulowske of Suwalki, Poland, and we carry her genes as well, so as a Goldfoot, so I cannot say whether these genes of ours were from one or the other side.  Now I'd love to have a Jermulowske cousin tested.

This group is found to be also connected to other Talmudists such as Rabbi  Jehiel Ben Solomon Heilperin (c 1660-1746) a scholar from Glusks (White Russia) and in 1711 from  Minsk, Belarus much later. He had a wide secular education and was a student of Kabbalah as well.   This has led to finding families with surnames such as Alpern, Guggenheim, Halpern, Rubenstein and Wertheim who are found to be connected.  The American, Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905), famous for establishing a very successful and philanthropic family must have an ancient rabbi as his origins, for they also have matching dna. I found a Rabbi Isaac Rubinstein (1880-1945) who might be related.  In 1906 he was the rabbi in Vilna, Lithuania and by 1920 was the minister of  Jewish affairs in the Lithuanian government.  Vilna was annexed to Poland in 1922 and he was elected to the Polish Senate where he fought for Jewish rights until the Nazis came in.  He was an ardent Zionist.  The Soviet Russia then annexed Lithuania in 1940 and he moved to New York where he taught in a yeshivah.

The surname of Wertheim, Wertheimer, Wertheimber are all taken from the town of Wertheim in Baden, Germanay.  Wertheimer family trees beginning in 1588 have been found.  The family has a family crest. They are related to Samson, Katz, Oppenheim, Oppenheimer, Arnstein and many others that have been found.

 Heilprin is a German name derived from the town of Heilbronn in Wurttemberg.  Not all Jews bearing this surname are related as many Jews of Austria, Germany and Russia took this name and others similar to it when they were ordered to take family names in about 1800.  They actually had to buy them.  However, 4 distinct branches have been found.  Jewish Encyclopedia has charts for 3 branches.  Many Heilprins in Russia claimed in 1900 descent from the 4th branch.  The oldest branch dates back to Zebulon Heilprin of the 16th century whose son, Moses of Brest-Litovsk was the father in law of Samuel Edels.  Another branch comes from the Lithuania Rabbi Jehiel Heilprin, a descendant of Rabbi  Solomon Ben Jehiel Luria (1510-1573) , known as the Maharshal, a codifier who traced his genealogy back through RASHI. He was found in many Lithuanian and Polish communities, the last being in Lublin.   A Heilprin branch is also related to the BAAL SHEMTOV, Israel Ben Eliezer c 1700-1760)  founder of Hasidism who was born in Podolia, region in S.W. Ukraine; formerly a region of S.E. Poland, passing to Russia in 1793.  He was known for his miraculous cures.  .

Our own personal Goldfus history from Telsiai, Lithuania from Stanley Goldfoot handed down to him was that the family was also connected to the Vilna Gaon, Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman of Lithuania (1720-1797), where the Goldfus clan lived.  Elijah's father was Shlomo Zalman of Vilna b: 1695 and d 1756.  Jews were reported to be in Lithuania by 1321. This must be because in 321CE, the emperor Constantine issued regulations of Jewish communities that were in Germany.   Jews had been in Germany as Roman soldiers serving in Roman garrisons, either forced or by choice.  Barbarians invaded the land.  In the 8th and 9th century, the Carolingian royal house adopted a pro-Jewish policy and encouraged the settlement of Jews in order for Germany to develop trade.

 By 1398 a group of Karaites lived in Troki, France.  They were Jews who had split off from the main group who did not agree with the Oral Law.  The Spanish Inquisition of 1492 had a great effect on the world Jewry and the attitude of their host country, so that by 1495 we find 10,000 Jews moving into Vilna, Grodno and Kovno.  By 1529 they had a charter guaranteeing freedom of movement and employment and soon were excelling in foreign trade and tax-farming.  From 1566 to 1572 our ancestors had to wear the Jewish badge and face the unfairness of not being allowed to bring in witnesses in giving evidence in court, thus not being treated like other citizens.

There are genealogies which show connections.  During the days of the 2nd Temple, a Cohen had to have a genealogy to prove he was indeed who he said he was in order to serve.  A genealogy of this group was from a written genealogy tracing back to Zebulon Eliezer without gaps showing that 2 Halpern  families came from the same family and even seem to have the Ydna haplogroup of G2C.  A Rabbi Meir Wunder documented facts at the time.  We have lost much of our knowledge due to WWII, and it is wonderful to find these old family trees as well as to be able to use DNA to clinch facts of family connections.

This group is one of many sources that proves the history of Ashkenazi Jews of a people taken to Rome after 70 CE's fall of Jerusalem from the Roman attack who then later made their way to France and Germany.  It was there that a Goldfus family took on their German-Yiddish surname before people were required to do so in Eastern Europe.  They brought their family and their surname up to Poland/Lithuania with them.  I am finding that once a rabbi has established himself and keeps a genealogy,  his children have followed his footsteps so that this dedication is often continued even to this day within the family.

Resource: http://www.jewishhistory.org/the-house-of-rashi/
Eliyahu's Branches by Chaim Freedman
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
Halpern and Branches Group
http://www.geni.com/projects/Revered-Rabbis-Kabbalists-Sages-Torah-Scholars-and-Luminaries-of-Renown/1052
http://www.chabad.org/libraryarticle_cdo/aid/11229/jewish/Rabbii-Samson-Great-Escape.htm
http://www.geni.com/people/Rashi-%D7%A8%D7%A9-%D7%99/6000000006709501378
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15013-worms
Finding Our Fathers-a guidebook to Jewish genealogy by Dan Rottenberg.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0016_0_15889.html
http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Y-DNA_project_help