Goldfoot Genealogy

Nadene Goldfoot                                                       

Abram with Sarai and her Egyptian maid, Hagar who  became mother of Ishmael, father of Ishmaelites, who will also divide into 12 tribes.  They are the Arab descendants of Ishmael. Modern Arab still claim this descent.  Sarah's son was Isaac.  His son, Jacob, had 12 sons that became 12 tribes.

Way back in Abraham's day, relatives married each other.  Abraham's wife was Sarah, his niece.
Descendants of Terah:   Abram's father was Terah.  They were the Ivrim (Hebrews from the east, around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers).  Terah settled in the Chaldees.  I note in our Jewish law that a woman cannot marry her nephew but nothing was said about her uncle.  As for Abraham, Jewish law says he cannot marry his aunt, but said nothing about his niece.  
                                                                     
The Chaldees:  The city, along with the rest of southern Mesopotamia and much of the Near East, Asia Minor, North Africa and southern Caucasus, fell to the north Mesopotamian Assyrian Empire from the 10th to late 7th centuries BC. From the end of the 7th century BC Ur was ruled by the so-called Chaldean Dynasty of Babylon. It's located on the river.  Today, Ur is located in Iraq.  

Abram's brother was Haran.  Haran's daughter was Sarai.  He had married his brother's daughter.  "In American and English civil law, a man may not marry a niece who is the daughter of his brother or sister, but may marry a niece who is the daughter of his wife’s brother or sister. The halakhic permission—even encouragement—to marry the daughter of a brother or sister is superseded by the civil law’s prohibition in this case."

Abram's Tree

1  Terah b: in Ur of Chaldees, Sumeria, Mesopotamia Iraq d: in Haran in the year 2083 BCE Occupation: idol Manufacturer
. 2  [1] Abram-Abraham b: in Ur of the Chalees d: in Hebron
..... +Sarai-Sarah d: in Hebron
. *2nd Wife of [1] Abram-Abraham:
..... +Hagar
. *3rd Wife of [1] Abram-Abraham:
..... +Keturah
. 2  Haran
. 2  [2] NAHOR II b: in Ur of Chaldees d: in Haran
..... +Milcah b: in Ur of Chaldees d: in Haran
. *Friend of [2] NAHOR II:
..... +Reumah

Sarai's Tree
Descendants of Haran

1  Haran
. 2  Lot
. 2  Iskah
. 2  Milcah b: in Ur of Chaldees d: in Haran
..... +NAHOR II b: in Ur of Chaldees d: in Haran
. 2  Sarai-Sarah d: in Hebron
..... +Abram-Abraham b: in Ur of the Chalees d: in Hebron
So to start with, children had double doses of certain genes
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Then Jacob had 12 sons by 2 sisters (Leah and Rachel) , and the 2 handmaids of each wife (Zilpah and Bilhah) .  This led to 12 tribes that were probably trying to live in their own tribal units while in slavery in Egypt for 400 years.  When they reached Canaan, the land was doled out by Moses and Joshua to each tribe, so they were able to live within their tribal unit and no doubt found mates within it.  The genes certainly could triple this way and become stronger.

King Solomon reigned from 961 to 920 BCE and died.  This caused a split in the empire with Judah and Israel dividing, and Judah was the southern part, ceding from Israel.  Now it would be less likely that marriages took place among each other's tribes.  The split was very political.
                                                                     
       
Assyrians attacked in 722-721 BCE and carried off the best of the people.  It is believed that some wound up to be in Afghanistan and Pakistan and are the Pashto people there.  Many have been maintaining their customs of Judaism all these about 3,000 years.
                                                                         
The Babylonia Exile took place in 597 and 586 BCE and not all Jews returned in 538 BCE, so this would have caused a bottleneck where many haplogroups could have been lost, Taken from Judah and then remaining in Babylonia.
                                                                       

By 70 CE (3,830 on the Jewish Calendar), Jerusalem was destroyed  by the Romans after 3 weeks of fighting along with the 2nd Temple and Jews  divided  when fleeing for safety.  The Sadducees from the 2nd Temple period,  were about wiped out in this attack by Herod.  As a continuing group, when the Temple was destroyed, they just disappeared.  They were probably descendants from the High Priest, Zadok.  Most likely they followed their family leadership in this emigration.  They would try to stay in family groups.  Obviously, some could not and would have become separated from each other.  Some, familiar with trading going on in Spain followed that path to become the Sephardim Jews.  Others were taken as slaves by the Romans.  Some Jews had already been there, too, trading with the Romans.   Many were killed.  The lucky ones were able to find their way to the Rhineland which was Germany and France as Roman soldiers needed slaves to do work, and were taken there in that manner.  These would become the Ashkenazi Jews.  Eventually they were able to be free and live there.
                                                                       
When they were not able to continue living there, they worked their way up northward to eastern Europe's countries and into Russia.  Catherine I, who ruled from 1725 to 1727,  put out an edict in May 1727, expelling all Jews living in Little Russia (Little Russia, sometimes Little Rus', is a geographical and historical term first used by Galician ruler Bolesław-Jerzy II who in 1335 signed his decrees as Dux totius Russiæ minoris. Wikipedia), only to be countermanded after her death. Then Catherine II "THE GREAT" ruled from 1762 to 1796 and  her Jewish policy in her last year of ruling  that Jews were to live in the Pale of Settlement .  This area including Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, had originally been called WHITE RUSSIA (Belorussia)(Belarus)  who lived here by the 16th century,  in 1786.  In 1795 she prohibited Jews from living in rural areas of the Pale.  

The Pale of Settlement consisted of 25 provinces of Czarist Russia.  It included Poland, Lithuania, White Russia, Ukraine, Bessarabia and Crimea.  Catherine II created this in 1791.  In 1835 rulers followed the oppressive STATUTE CONCERNING THE JEWS.  By 1882 they followed THE MAY LAWS.  All these laws severely hampered Jewish economic development.  The law keeping Jews in the Pale of Settlement was not abolished legally until March 1917 when the 1st World War ended.  
1. Jews be forbidden to settle anew outside of towns and boroughs, exceptions being admitted only in the case of existing Jewish agricultural colonies
2. 
"Temporarily forbidden are the issuing of mortgages and other deeds to Jews, as well as the registration of Jews as lessees of real property situated outside of towns and boroughs; and also the issuing to Jews of powers of attorney to manage and dispose of such real property."
3. "Jews are forbidden to transact business on Sundays and on the principal Christian holy days;
                                                      

Hitler ordering the slaughter of Jews

The 1930's brought on such strong anti-Semitism that Germany brought their laws against Jews that turned into the Holocaust and 6 million Jews were slaughtered in Europe.  

Today we have about 14 million Jews in the world; 6 million in Israel, 6 million in the USA and 2 million others scattered.  We are 0.02% of the world population and make up 2% of the USA population.  Israel is the only Jewish state in the world, created has our haven, since we were not allowed in any countries as refugees in our time of need, except the USA with restrictions.  One needed someone to take financial responsibility for a refugee. They had to sign to do this.  Boatloads with over 1,000 Jews were turned away from ports.   
                                                        

Since the discovery of DNA, we are finding that some Jewish marriages show that the wedded couple are distantly related to each other.  This is thought to reinforce the children's IQ points.  It can also cause genetic diseases as well.  



Jewish law: We are not to marry: (a) His mother, grandmother and ascendants; the mother of his grandfather; his stepmother, the wife of his paternal grandfather, and of his ascendants; and the wife of his maternal grandfather.