Goldfoot Genealogy

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

Audrey Hess Zeitz has been a big part of our Goldfoot family.  She is the mother of my son's wife, Molly.  She just passed away yesterday at 4:42 am at the hospice in Vancouver, Washington.  Audrey lived for 94 years 8 months 25 days.  

 Audrey had lived here in the Suburban Mobile Estates a year longer than I have.  She and her husband, Irving Zeitz, who passed away March 25, 2010, moved here from Florida after one of those horrible hurricane hits that happened in 2009.  

I've been so lucky to live so close and get to know Audrey as well as I have.  She was 8 years older than I am, but close enough to share much of the same memories that I have.  She was born in Elbow Lake, Minnesota, and she and Irv then lived in Connecticut. I'm a native Oregonian.  My maternal grandmother was from Sweden, and Minnesota was full of Swedes.  I think a brother in law of hers was Swedish.  We had fun chatting about our families.   

The most exciting thing for me to find out was that Audrey and I were connected by DNA.  Here it is.  It doesn't show up on FTDNA, but I found the information at GedMatch.com, the webpage that researchers like to use because of just this reason.  If you share a small amount such as 3cMs, it will show up on GedMatch.  FTDNA registers people who must share a segment 7cMs, at least.  Though this is small, I don't think they are showing specks of dust.    Chromosome 15 holds our biggest segment of 5.6cMs AND another small one of 3.2cMs.  It appears that Audrey's ancestors and my ancestors knew each other sometime in the past.  Audrey, you were related either to the Goldfoot side or the Jermulowske side.   Her maternal grandmother was a Mollie Medved of North Dakota.  Audrey was Audrey Hess before marriage.  Her family had been from Austria, Bohemia, etc. 
                            

Audrey and Nadene's shared DNA in chart below: 6 segments shared: Largest segment = 5.6 cM  

Chr	B37 Start Pos'n	B37 End Pos'n	Centimorgans (cM)	SNPs
2	239,406,446	240,401,778	3.7	254
3	192,293,753	193,724,534	3.7	273
10	2,991,774	3,715,765	3.8	296
11	18,796,480	19,962,033	3.8	372
15	28,013,600	30,369,914	5.6	394
15	78,101,909	80,061,726	3.2	521

         My brother, David, also matched Audrey with DNA.

Chr	B37 Start Pos'n	B37 End Pos'n	Centimorgans (cM)	SNPs
2	71,020,254	74,200,833	4.6	579
9	137,384,140	137,968,826	4.1	217
10	130,633,376	131,540,063	4	290
11	577,534	1,689,325	3.6	257
11	18,796,480	19,962,033	3.8	381
12	43,406,549	47,498,533	3.2	673
19	40,691,632	44,118,680	3.8	549

Largest segment = 4.6 cM
Like many siblings, David and I only share with Audrey on one Chromosome, #11 with 3.8cMs.  Otherwise, he matched different chromosome segments than I had.

Our cousin, Sandra Oster, brings Goldfoot and Jermulowske genes as well as Oster genes. She also shares with us the segment on #11, only she only had 3cMs.  Sandra, Audrey and I shared chromosome #15, the one I had 5.6cM.  Sandra had 3.8cMs.  

Chr	B37 Start Pos'n	B37 End Pos'n	Centimorgans (cM)	SNPs
1	15,471,992	17,425,829	3.1	362
1	116,336,876	119,500,773	3	709
1	242,440,891	244,319,340	4.1	380
4	103,387,419	108,047,174	3.2	690
6	167,334,382	168,458,074	3.5	229
8	51,550,158	54,540,154	3.9	570
8	127,399,987	128,660,096	3.4	373
11	382,912	1,642,602	4.1	271
11	18,993,465	19,843,574	3	275
15	28,299,454	29,866,274	3.8	208
17	77,423,753	78,297,779	3.9	221
22	49,779,586	51,089,213	3.1	358

Largest segment = 4.1 cM                        

I think this is amazing and I think it surprised Audrey, too.  We had a lot of similarities and differences to talk about.  She was a dancer.  I had a background in dancing.  She was outgoing, I was shy. We were able to go together to family parties and celebrations.  We both had dog; she boys, and I had a girl.  I'd walk to her house and take a break there with my dog, and the dogs had a social together.  Then, Audrey would walk to my house, and we'd do the same.  Then came the time when my dog just couldn't walk anymore at all.  Audrey would come over anyway.  It was impossible to take a walk without stopping with dogs who were used to visiting each other.    The funny thing was that my dog loved treats.  I kept offering treats to Audrey's boys, but they never liked anything I offered.  My dog, also another Molly, would pounce on the unwanted treat and gobble it up.  She loved to see them come calling !.

Audrey was worried that she'd pass away and asked me if I would then take her dog, and of course I said I would.  As it turned out, both her little male doggies passed away before she did.  That's what we grandmothers worry about; even the lives of our little doggies.  

Audrey also knew her memory was fading.  She was highly aware of it.  That's the bad thing that often comes with old age.  Then, when that fading memory mechanism sets in as an unwanted visitor, you're not aware of it, which is a blessing.  

                                                                             

                         November 2019 and Audrey was still out walking in our park.  She was 93 !

I've missed the times the two of us got in the car and drove to a restaurant for dinner.  We were two grandmas having fun together.  It was also nice to have Audrey and Molly over for Shabbat dinner once in a while.  All this caused the past 15 years go by so fast.  I just can't believe it's been 15 years here, but it was the Spring term time at TVCC when I drove here from Ontario, Oregon with my bird and Mom's cat in the car with me.  My mother had passed way on October  5, 2005, and I decided to join Steve and Molly and all my relatives  who lived in and around Portland.  Steve and Molly had found a home in the same park that Molly's parents were in, so that seemed perfect to me.   

It's very hard losing a parent.  Audrey will be very much missed.  She was a little dynamite.  We'll never forget  her 90th birthday to have clowns, bands, you name it.  She had such a strong personality. She had been a clown in her youth. 

 

Labels: Audrey Zeitz, Irving Zeitz

# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 10:11 PM