Goldfoot Genealogy

 Nadene Goldfoot                                               

   Here she is in 2015 after a hair cut. She had not been taught about any house-rules and          was hard on the beige rugs.                                                                    

    Molly is just leaving my computer room.  She's wearing her navy blue coat.  As she gained weight later, she no longer could wear it and we went for a sweater, instead.  I really like her hair long, but it's hard on her when she goes to the bathroom.   

My dog for the past 7 years; ever since the winter of 2014, has been Molly, an AKC Lhasa Apso.  She was born on July 19, 2006.  Her License Number is 57356a and it will expire on 3/13/2021.  Molly died on March 11, 2021, two days before her license expired.  Please do read about Molly.   

She has golden, white markings, very appropriate dog who is also free of dander since I, a Goldfoot, am allergic to all dogs except her breed and to those like her.  I've had her grooming done with Cindy Rogers Dog Grooming in Boring, Oregon.  

Her father was Riverbend's Tigger.

Her mother was Riverbend's Laverne.

The breeder was Marcia E. Tappan  
Her ownership was  in Sandra J. Oster's name of West Linn, OR though Sandra now lives in SW Portland, OR.  She transferred it to me.                                     

1.  She weighed 9.1 lbs.  Today she weighs over 20 lbs.  

2. She has dry eye, and has a dark lens, like tar that grows over each eye every day that needs to be removed by eye drops.  Mollie is now blind and deaf, about 98%, I'd say,  for both.  I took her to VCA Northwest Veterinary Specialists on SE 82nd Drive in Clackamas, OR to the special eye doctor for dogs.   I believe she sees the lights go on in the park by the street.  She used to like to sit and look at them.  She does today that , when she can.    Sometimes I've seen her glance up at the TV screen.  She sees movement or light and dark, I think.  Hearing seems to be strongest in one ear, and she can't tell where the sound comes from.                                

                                After a haircut she needs her sweater and scarf.  

3.  She had a hernia; needed an operation.  It's up by her groin of the right hind leg.    I have since had to give her a hysterectomy to save her life, but the vet had no time spared for the hernia.  He did take time to pull some of her teeth also found by Sandra's vet who said one side of her mouth was especially bad.  She had had her hysterectomy before September 26, 2016 as I have that bill.  

4. That's because she has a heart problem,, an irregular heart beat.  The vet said nothing about that but mine did.  It's much the same as my heart-irregular heart beats, I think.  It may be that this is causing her to become upset.  Her heart may be beating faster, more noticeable to her during these periods.  I have this problem, too, but haven't noticed the beats.  Some people do.  

5. She had de-worming done by Sandra

6. Molly''s right leg has a mark about 2 inches up on her skin.  It was probably a beebee gunshot wound, but there is no beebee in there.  

I had been taking her to the Stark Animal Clinic  and again in Gresham March 14, 2018 but since then he retired.  

My vet retired and Wellhaven took over, a group that I was not impressed with, so now Molly doesn't have a vet nearby anymore.  

I note that on October 19, 2019, I listed 5 problems that Molly had:

Heart-A- fib                                                  

                                             2017

Recent attack, running out of the house, going around the house, lying down in the grass, body pulsating, weak on day of appointment for a haircut have been things that are new for Molly.    She's  had a strange little cough since then.  

A year or more ago she faltered while walking down the hall and ran head-long into the wall of the hall, completely out of it.  I feared she was dying.  She got to her living-room bed but didn't want to eat later.  She was weak and strange.  I plied her appetite with cooked chicken gizzards I fixed for her, and she slowly got back her health.  That's one thing I've noticed; how frantic she gets with her body pulsating so much.  

She's never been a dog needing warmth from me.  She doesn't want to sit on my lap or get cuddly.  She is an alarmist; alarmed if you want to touch her or pick her up.  She doesn't like the car or the car rides.                                                                        

                      2017; her dog-bed is behind her.  That's a lamb who is her toy she doesn't play with.  The funny thing is that we used to walk over to Audrey's house who is the other grandmother of our mutual grandson, and Molly would play with her dog's toys.  She finds her own uninteresting.  It was more fun to irritate Audrey's little black male dog by playing with his toys.  That little male liked Molly very much.  They always greeted each other with a kiss.  He has since passed away.  

Also, about a year ago, she stopped walking every day with me by lying down in the middle of our  neighborhood park street and wouldn't move.  I got a neighbor to drive us the 2 blocks home.  That was it.  She had stopped the walking routine.  Now she won't even stop over the line she walks of going down our right sided porch steps and coming up the left side steps.  She spends her time sleeping most of the day away, and when she wakes up, sometimes deficates in the house, or if I'm lucky, on the porch, and hopefully, does make it to the ground and grass.                                    

She will be 15 years old in July.  In dog years, that's about 105 years old.  I have empathy for this poor little female who had to produce puppies for a living in that I'm 86.  She still sleeps on the bed with me, taking up 3/4 of my Queen-sized bed.  She has a hard time deciding which direction she wants to lie.  She tries them all.  Finally, slumber, but lately, she had a very horrible time.  She would move around in circles, and at times her little cough, and seem to be having a seizure of some sort.  That crash in the hall way before reminded me of it.  For 2 nights in a row, while in this episode, she fell onto the floor.  It's a wonder she didn't break something.  She does have the habit of sleeping close to the edge, and she seems to know it's the edge, too.  Last night she had a good, sound sleep.  

                                                        

Cindy was her groomer , and  with her last haircut told me that was it, no more because of the way she was acting and because it was hard on Cindy.  

 I had wondered about her food habits and her food.  I reward her, which started with her toilet training.  She got treats for doing it outside, for eating her bowl of food, and so it grew.  She knew that if she went outside that was a treat.  Eating was a treat.  I lost count of all the treats she was eating.  Then I discovered food additives/preservatives and that it was in many of our treats.  So now I've gone over to Blue dog food and not Purina and the assortment of treats, and hope that last night will be followed up by more good nights as this preservative has worked its way out of her system.                                                                            

 In the back yard under pine trees.  

This morning of February 12, 2021, Molly woke at about 3:30am in a state of not seizure but it was more like hysteria with rapid breathing and deep coughing  that showed in her body moving up and down and she was panicking.  I held her while we were in bed and calmed her down, petting her head, etc. I got my cherry cough medicine and forced her mouth open this time successfully, and she got a dose of it.  It did seem to help, to her surprise as well as mine.   Then I turned the lights on and it helped along with a classical music station on the radio.  We finally got up after another mini panic attack, and she went down the hall and into the living room-and went right for the door.  She went outside and of course it had snowed more; and this time she went down the snow topped steps by her own volition.  To my surprise, she managed to find her way back and into the house just as I had on my snow boots, ready to find and rescue her.  I feel this coughing attack and rapid breathing is a heart-related problem like mine; water that can accumulate around the heart, only I take meds for it.

Molly reminded me at 9:45pm every night that it was time to go out to do her business and lock up  the house and go to bed.  It was as if she wore a watch on her wrist.  

UPDATE March 11, 2021;  I had to have Molly put down this morning. I didn't want to, hoping always that Molly would die in her sleep and wouldn't have to go through any trauma.   During the past 3 days she has gone down-hill quickly with seizures and difficult breathing with trunk of her body moving up and down dramatically.  She's had a bad cough for several months, preceding all this.  It was obvious that she was suffering, moaning, whimpering slightly and acting differently, not resting but going all over the house.  I never went to bed but sat up all night with her, even rocking her in my chair for 2 hours which seemed to calm her down.  I cannot go through another night like this.  I'm exhausted.  

My son came over and drove me to his son's "Heart and Soul  Animal Urgent Care"  (Formerly MetroVet), being a Vet and the  new owner, and he was so great.  Molly was as limp as can be when we arrived, and they gave her a sedative first in her IV, then added the solution that put her to sleep.  It was about 11am when it happened.  We were with her when she got the shot, and until she had passed.  

PS:  I realize now that Molly was unconscious while in the car driving to Heart and Soul.  She really did die in my arms like I hoped for.  She didn't go through any trauma there.  What she went through previously was enough trauma.  Dogs are said to know when people are going to have seizures.  I think she knew when she was going to have one, and that accounted for her anxiousness.  She only really had them in the end.  

Our pets are like our children, and one wonders what we would do, how would we survive without them.  They are the best part of our planet.  

Labels: death, Lhasa Apso, pet

 Nadene Goldfoot   

below: Zlata Jermulowski/e 

Under 5' tall                                                         Almost 6'tall

                                                                        Nathan Abraham Goldfus

After the 1917  Russian Revolution when my ancestors, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/foot and his wife, Zlata Jermulowski/y,  were already here, the Communists took a new census and destroyed the 1897 census that was so complete and loaded with information.  Many copies stored in local or regional archives have been lost because of war, fire, flood and other disasters.  

Portions of the original returns still exist in the archives in Vilnius, Lithuania, Riga, Latvia, Grodno, Belarus, and archives in the Ukraine, some places and Russia and possibly elsewhere, at least since 2002.

Nathan Goldfus/foot came from the Telsiai (Telz) District as far as I know, most likely born there.  On this 1897 Ccnsus of the Russian Empire for selected districts in Lithuania, I see that the total population was 183,351.  Out of that, 22,695 were Jews, which was 12% of the population.  More Jews came from the Kovna (a city in the Kovno District) with a total population of 227,431 and in which 45,353 were Jews.  That made up 20% of their population.  In 1870 Telez had 6,481 residents, including 4,399 Jews which was 68% of the population.  Grandfather Nathan A. Goldfus was born January 1, 1871.  His father, Movshe, died in 1878 when he was only 7 years old.  

The Jewish numbers in Telsiai had gone up.   In 1797, only 2,500 people lived in there.  Out of that number, 1,650 were Jews which was 66% of the population. The % of Jews remained pretty much the same, the majority being Jewish.  At this time it was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom, when the 3rd division of Poland by the 3 superpowers of those times, Russia, Prussia and Austria, caused Lithuania to become partly Russian and partly Prussian.  Telz was in the Czarist Russian ruled area, 1st from 1802 as part of the Vilna Province (Gubernia) as a district administrative center and from 1843 as part of the Kovno Province.  Kovno Governorate or Governorate of Kaunas was a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian ... and Northwestern Krai. The governorate included almost the entire Lithuanian region of Samogitia and the northern part of Aukštaitija.     

Jews there suffered from the " BLOOD LIBALS" one in 1758 and the 2nd in 1827.  In both cases, the so called "accused" were released by the court, but as a result, the Jewish population suffered through a period of fear.

                                                               

     These are the tools from early American distillers in making corn whiskey.  Moonshine?
  

There were also plots by estate owners who saw the Jews as competitors in producing and selling alcohol.  I believe that my grandfather, Nathan Goldfus's father was Movsha ben Josel Goldfus (b: 1836-d: 1878 in Telsiai).  That's because my father was Moshe Goldfoot, probably named for him. Movsha died at age 42.  Strangely, Nathan died at 41. Our Morrie died at 59, a great improvement.   

 Great grandfather, Movsha was a DISTILLER.  The distiller mixes yeast, water, and sugar (or a sugar-containing grain) in a fermenter, aka a mash tun. After three to seven days of voracious fermenting, the yeast has consumed most of the sugar, turning the mash into a wash (10 or 12 percent alcohol by volume). A pump moves the wash into the pot of the still.  Craft distillers have a great job.  And sure, they do oversee the production of a beautiful liquid that makes many people very happy. But there’s a daunting degree of unceremonious routine required to fill every bottle. So if you’re thinking of cashing it all in pursuit of your life goal as whiskey maker, consider what goes into each day on the job. Think this is some magical, carefree existence? Dream on.  Jews, of all the people on earth, have a very low % of alcoholics, or rather, have had, since we use wine in our religious beliefs, and not for fun, except on Purim, when we are allowed to get drunk if need be.  Today, people are changing.  I hope we're not in this case.  

In 1825, the nobles asked the Tsar to expel the Jews because they.....spread diseases....and threaten to rob and to steal...  Duh, Jews usually in every case of epidemics or contagious diseases were least likely to catch it because of their law of Kashrut which includes cleanliness.  That made them the targets of spreading the disease, because they didn't catch it.  

In 1879, Jewish women established a vocational school for girls and nearby a boarding school for girls from oor homes.  Feige Lurie was head who donated money for maintenance.  Poor children studied at the "Talmud-Torah" schools and others at institutions of the "Kheder" type, where they learned reading and writing. and bible with "Rashi" commentaries and "Gemaera" (Talmuid).  Grandfather Nathan, at age 8 but whose father was dead, would have started maybe at the age of 5 and was learning reading and writing and a little Bible.  My father remembered sitting on his lap and he had a beard then.                                      

Charlie on left, Moshe (Morris) on right

   Nathan, dying in 1912 in an accident, left my father at age 4 without a father.  His brother, Charlie, was only 6.  It's good that Zlata had a brother living nearby for emotional support.  She had many half-siblings.  Bessie and Jenny were still living in Council, Idaho with their husbands.  Louis and wife Dinah and Lilly and husband Frank might have also been in Portland or Council.  Charles could have been in LaGrande along with sister Alice.

Reference:

Avotaynu, Volume XVIII, #3.Fall 2002

https://www.jewish-heritage-lithuania.org/

Preserving Our Litvak Heritage-a history of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania

Distiller's tools: https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk02JoupGrnNgP0-ErszV8c0InxgTVg:1611096127266&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=distiller&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwip-_TiiKnuAhUyHzQIHY-pD4EQ7Al6BAgmEF4&biw=1863&bih=901 pictures

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