Sunday, December 11, 2016
Report From Halpern & Branches-Branch of Goldfus/Goldfoot
Nadene Goldfoot
Halpern & Branches is a DNA group created by Andi Ziegelman and Sandy Aaronson of which we Goldfoot family now belong to. They used triangulation to arrive at their conclusions as well as ancient family trees. We have found we connect to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer b: 1658-d: 1724 in Worms, Germany. He had gone to Vienna in 1684 to join the bank of his uncle, Samuel Oppenheimer, and soon became a court banker. Rabbi Samson is a relative of RASHI b: 1040 d: 1105 in Troyes, France. He, in turn, is related to the one and only--King David of Israel. I am 3rd cousin (concluded by amount of cMs matching and size of segments and number of segments involved in the match) to Andi Ziegelman.
Goldfoot's Y haplogroup is Q1b1a, now titled as Q-L245 and in 2 months will receive another title after deeper DNA testing. It should show another twig on this branch.
Update 7/6/17: After taking the Q-L245 test ordered on 4/29/2016, the haplogroup is now called QBZ64. On the tree it sits between Q-BZ68 and Q-BZ64. The line it comes from of Y2200 has been found as of July 2017 to originate in 500 CE with our common ancestor. I would venture a guess that this would have been in the Rhineland, in or around Worms, Germany. From my timeline (Jews were leaving and going into Europe. This would be as early as the 400s CE and continuing to arrive there through the 10th century of 900s. On 640 , 721 and 873 Jews in the Byzantine Empire were forcibly converted to Christianity. This was the Greek speaking Roman Empire with headquarters in Constantinople alias Istanbul. It was later a part of the Ottoman Empire. )
Note that our matches who carry the haplotype, J1 or J2 are of the Cohens. J1 is called the Cohen gene, Jews from Aaron and Moses who had the priestly responsibilities and still do. Many Arabs also carry a branch of the Cohen gene, attesting to them being our cousins; son Ishmael of Abraham like Isaac was. .
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| King David 1010 BCE-970 BCE |
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| RASHI 1040-1105 |
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| Rabbi Samson Wertheimer 1658-1724 |
Halpern & Branches is a DNA group created by Andi Ziegelman and Sandy Aaronson of which we Goldfoot family now belong to. They used triangulation to arrive at their conclusions as well as ancient family trees. We have found we connect to Rabbi Samson Wertheimer b: 1658-d: 1724 in Worms, Germany. He had gone to Vienna in 1684 to join the bank of his uncle, Samuel Oppenheimer, and soon became a court banker. Rabbi Samson is a relative of RASHI b: 1040 d: 1105 in Troyes, France. He, in turn, is related to the one and only--King David of Israel. I am 3rd cousin (concluded by amount of cMs matching and size of segments and number of segments involved in the match) to Andi Ziegelman.
Goldfoot's Y haplogroup is Q1b1a, now titled as Q-L245 and in 2 months will receive another title after deeper DNA testing. It should show another twig on this branch.
Update 7/6/17: After taking the Q-L245 test ordered on 4/29/2016, the haplogroup is now called QBZ64. On the tree it sits between Q-BZ68 and Q-BZ64. The line it comes from of Y2200 has been found as of July 2017 to originate in 500 CE with our common ancestor. I would venture a guess that this would have been in the Rhineland, in or around Worms, Germany. From my timeline (Jews were leaving and going into Europe. This would be as early as the 400s CE and continuing to arrive there through the 10th century of 900s. On 640 , 721 and 873 Jews in the Byzantine Empire were forcibly converted to Christianity. This was the Greek speaking Roman Empire with headquarters in Constantinople alias Istanbul. It was later a part of the Ottoman Empire. )
Oppenheims descend from a Rabbi Oppenheimer who was from Oppenheim, Germany, and in about 1450, was Rosh Yeshiva in Worms.
We have a few Alps whose Y DNA is Oppenheim DNA – Haplogroup Q.
Note that our matches who carry the haplotype, J1 or J2 are of the Cohens. J1 is called the Cohen gene, Jews from Aaron and Moses who had the priestly responsibilities and still do. Many Arabs also carry a branch of the Cohen gene, attesting to them being our cousins; son Ishmael of Abraham like Isaac was. .
Halpern and Branches - Results (from Halpern & Branches leaders)
So far, we have some interesting results.
The G2c haplogroup seems to be most likely to link to the old rabbinic Heilperin family originally from Germany, c. 1500. One man in this group can trace his tree directly back that far, and at least two others with similar surnames match very close to him.
There is another E1b1b1c1a cluster that appears to have originally been from Kurenets, Belarus c. 1700, or even earlier. They may trace to the rabbinic family of this name, since they appear to have gone by "Alper", "Alperovich" and similar names since 1700. Surnames were very uncommon in that time, unless one was from a note family.
There is a small J1 cluster as well, with folks of Austrian, Romanian, and western Ukrainian descent. These folks appear to have had a common origin around 1700, but unlike the E1b1b1c1a case, there is no documentation to prove it.
My own cousin of the Halpern family is J2a4b*, and has no matches in the group. Our family traces to Rabbi Reuven Halpern of Glowno (c. 1760-1816), who was said to have descended from Jehiel Heilperin of Minsk (1660-1746). Some sources say that Jehiel descended from the Heilperins of Germany. (This is is from Andi Ziegelman, who is my 3rd cousin. It could be a clue to our origins).
Some folks also appear to be from Q, and other haplogroups.(Dr. Joseph Halpern is our match and is a Q-M242).
Clearly, all of these groups can't trace back to the same male along one paternal line, but they might be related to each other via women who passed their famous name onto their husbands and their descendants.
We can conclude that though there is no one clear Halpern clan, there appears to be at least 3 distinct clusters tracing back to about 1700 or even earlier in some cases.
Other folks may be "late adopters" of the surname.a
From Andi: The roots of your Wertheim-Halpern connection are for sure from Italy. Rabbi Judah ben Meir Ha-Cohen Sir Leontin, the first, who was THE teacher of Rabenu Gershon Light of the Exile, was born in Italy in about 900 CE or so. You and I descend from him.
Update: 7/11/17 My son and I triangulate with the Wertheimers. This means that we both descend from Samson Wertheimer, or from his father. One of those Wertheimers with whom I triangulate has a tree back to Samson. Another family group with whom you both triangulate descends either from Samson or from his brother. From Andi.
Labels: dna, ftdna, Halpern, haplotypes, Rashi, triangulation, Wertheimer
