Goldfoot Genealogy

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                          

Meyer Guggenheim Head of the Family, Meyer Guggenheim was a hard-working peddler. If many of us find we have a match ,  ever so slight, to Guggenheim's surname, it could be a false positive.   On the other hand, they had a lot of descendants, and we could have a common ancestor with them at any point along the way.  Anything 7cMs or less could be discounted as a false positive. match.  However, if you do a triangulation and find yourself and 2 others matching on that one point, it's a match.  That 3rd person has to match both of us on that spot.  If a segment is 10cMs or more, the common ancestor lived within the last 1500 years.   If a segment is shorter than 4cMs, it has a 67% chance of being a false positive;  thus the need for triangulation.  However, with Ashkenazi DNA, we find we are an endogamous society.  We have intermarried over and over through the generations, having a limited source of choices.  If in society, someone with 5cMs matches another from a completely different geographic area , then it's questionable and could be a false positive,  such as an Eskimo with someone from Spain.  However, Ashkenazis have been virtually kept in the Pale of Settlement by Russia, many having to escape in the dark like my ex father-in-law and his family did.  So I would say the odds are better at having a true match.   I have found that my paternal aunt married a man who immigrated from Germany in May 1939, one of the last Jews to leave. He and my aunt were related according to GedMatch.com.  They matched on chromosome #1 with 7.2cMs; #16 with 7.5cMs and #18 with 9.4cMs; all acceptable amounts to be true.  It would all be within a span of the past 1500 years since RASHI was found living in Troyes, France in 1040 while studying in the Rhineland at the same time.

The Guggenheim name is known in the United States.  It's a  family that had success in the copper industry.  they branched out into mining, smelting and refining other metals. I find that the Guggenheims are also on my tree, becoming 4th and 5th cousins to my family. The connection goes back to Eastern Europe.  

 Almost every member of the family devoted much of his finances to philanthropy and to the establishment of foundations which have distributed an amount in the 10s of millions of dollars.  One family investment company, Guggenheim Partners, today manages over $100 billion in assets  Another family vehicle, Guggenheim Investment Advisors, oversees about $50 billion in assets. 

Meyer Guggenheim b: 1828-d: 1905 was the head of the family and founder of its fortunes in the USA.  He eventually drew all his 7 sons into business with him.  He was a Swiss citizen of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, arrived in America in 1847, which was more like that of German Jews who came to the USA after Sephardic Jewry.  Over the next few decades, the family became known for their global successes in mining and smelting (including the American Smelting and Refining Company) and eventually the family possessed one of the largest fortunes in the world.  His ancestor had to be from a part of the Pale of Settlement to have met up with mine, or the connection could have been in either Germany or Austria first.  

1. Isaac Guggenheim b: 1854-d: 1922 was the director of the Mexican Union Railway. He married married Carrie Sonneborn (1859–1933). 
   a.  Beulah V. Guggenheim (1877–1960)

• Edith B. Guggenheim (1880–1960)
• Helene Guggenheim (1886–1962) married Edmund L. Haas

2. Daniel Guggenheim b:  July 9, 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-d: 1930 established foundations for the promotion of aeronautics and the advancement of social welfare.   Daniel became head of the family after his father's death. He married Florence Shloss (1863–1944)  Daniel and his father had become successful by manufacturing stove polish and "coffee essence," an inexpensive coffee substitute. "Although the family was Jewish, Daniel Guggenheim attended a Catholic high school in Philadelphia until the age of 17. When Meyer Guggenheim determined that Daniel would never be a scholar, he sent him to Switzerland to study the Swiss lace and embroidery business and serve as a buyer for Meyer's importing business, M. Guggenheim's Sons."  During the Civil War, Meyer sold wholesale supplies to the Union Army. He also had a lace and embroidery business. By 1880, he had $800,000 in the bank.
     a. Meyer Robert Guggenheim (1885–1959)

•    Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890–1971)  .  He was US ambassador to Cuba from 1929 to 1933.
•          Diane Guggenheim (1924–1991)
• Gladys Eleanor Guggenheim (1895–1980), married Roger Williams Straus (1891–1957)
•   Roger Williams Straus, Jr. (1917–2004), a founder and chairman of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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• 3 Murry Guggenheim (1858–1939), married Leonie Bernheim (1865–1959)
• • Edmond A. Guggenheim (1888–1972), married Marion Price (1888–?)
  • Lucille Guggenheim (1894–1972)

                                                                           

Solomon, Meyer Guggenheim's son

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,5th Avenue, Manhattan

4. Solomon Robert Guggenheim b: 1861-1949.   He married Irene M. Rothschild (1868–1954), and was distinguished as a patron of the arts with the Guggenheim Museum in New York which was named for him.  The amazing thing is that I am on my genealogy tree with Gene Lepere, whose father was the art collector, Joseph Hirshhorn, who established the Hirshhorn Art Museum located in Washington DC.
   

• Eleanor Mary Guggenheim (1896–1992), married Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart
  • David Stuart, Viscount Stuart (1921–1942)
  • Robert Stuart, Viscount Stuart (1923–1944)
  • Arthur Stuart, 8th Earl Castle Stewart (1928–)
    • Andrew Stewart, Viscount Stuart (1953–)
  • Honorable Simon Stuart (1930–2002)
• Gertrude R. Guggenheim (1898–1966)
• Barbara Josephine Guggenheim (1904–1985), married John Lawson-Johnston of the family producing Bovril
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• 5. Jeanette Guggenheim (1863–1889), married Albert Gerstle

6. Benjamin Guggenheim b: 1865-d: 1912  married Florette Seligman (1870–1937)He was drowned in the Titanic.
     

• Benita Rosalind Guggenheim (1895–1927)
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  Entrance to Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni,Venice, Italy

                                                                             
  
• Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979); Peggy founded the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.  She lived mostly in Europe.  Peggy  was a noted art patron, especially of American abstract expressionism.  
  • Michael Cedric Sindbad Vail
  • Pegeen Vail Guggenheim
• Barbara Hazel Guggenheim (1903–1995), married King-Farlowe
  • Barbara King-Farlowe
    • Ghislaine Agostini
    • Amelia Kaye
    • Adam Jacobs
  • John King-Farlowe
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  • 7. Robert G. Guggenheim (1867–1876)

8. Simon Guggenheim b: 1867-d: 1941 must have been the twin of Robert.  He married Olga Hirsch (1877–1970).   He.served as US Senator from Colorado from 1907 to 1913.  In 1925 he set up a foundation to award fellowships for research and creative work.
     

• John Simon Guggenheim (1905–1922)
• George Denver Guggenheim (1907–1939)

Resource: The New Standard Jewish encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_family
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/business/the-guggenheim-connection-fame-riches-and-a-masquerade.html?_r=0
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Daniel_Guggenheim.aspx
Davis, John H., The Guggenheims, 1848-1988: An American Epic, Shapolsky, 1988.
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/His-Story-Her-Story-Peggy-Guggenheim-and-her-Jewish-identity-351687