Searching for Levy ancestors

Question

Greetings,

I am searching for my grandfthers with the surename  Levy from Hessen, Germany, a certain Salomon Levy ( Levi ) moved from Hesse(n) Germany to a village called Kollumerzwaag ( zwaagwesteinde ) in Friesland, the Netherlands where he settled down and got married to Fokje Thuenis and got 3 children of which one of the Aaltje I am a desendend from.

Note: there is quit som history to Salomon Levy, he and some other Dutch men leaded a revolt against the French in that time for which he was later hung and burried in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. sad story, but he is well remembered until this day by may villagers and he even has a statue and streetname to his name.

If you happen to have any information about his families origin in Germany I would most highly appriciate it.

Yours Sincerely,

Edwin vandenbergh

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Answer 1

Hi Edwin, 

I m sure you already searched at AlleFriezen.nl [https://www.allefriezen.nl/zoeken/persons?ss=%7B%22q%22:%22Salomon%20Levy%22%7D]. We, of the Dutch_Roots Project can help you lots at the Netherlands. But for good help at Germany you will need someone from there. 

I am not sure if the German group is active. I tried to look into your family tree but as you re unlisted I can not see any info on your ancestors and what info you still need or what info you already have. 

There are really many very friendly and helpful people at WikiTree that love to help at any. 

I just can tell you from my experience @ WikiTree, WikiTree is really safe :) But we do understand you like to stay anonymous. 

Staying unlisted will not be very helpful for you at finding family here or to find others researching the same as you do. Unlisted is really meant for children under 13 years. Please... and feel free to do or not...... as I said we respect your choices....  read here [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Privacy] about the great privacy settings/possibilities at WikiTree for every profile you can set it different. And if you do not like your name shown all over the Tree, just use or an initial or "anonymous" for OR your first name OR your last name. Not for both....... If you need more info please contact a mentor at WikiTree. 

 

Als je Nederlands bent en je wil meer informatie dan kun je mij ook contacten als je wilt of een WikiTree mentor. 

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I tried some at the German GedBas but it didn t bring much. [https://gedbas.genealogy.net/search/simple]

 

I am sorry I couldn't be of more help. 

Kind regards from the Netherlands, 

 

A. 

Answer 2

Hello Edwin,

The Dutch centre of Jewish Genealogy has loads of links to look at, have a look at this page:

http://www.nljewgen.org/buitenland/

You might find some info here:

http://lagis.online.uni-marburg.de/

Good luck!