Categories: Jewish Roots.
I've had courses in the following languages, but my language training started after the 13th year of my life and is consequently inadequate to speak fluently in the following: German, Italian, and Latin. Since only the first two of these appear in anyone's Vitals, I can be reasonably helpful in translating these.
As a scholar, poet and writer, I have a long history of sharing information and publication. TRANSPARENCY and DAYLIGHT are democratic and Important, as are ACCURATE FACTS. (Thus with an auDNA test from ftdna.com I found that FTDNA.com now says I've had my Jewish genes reduced ten percent. So now I'm 21% Ashkenazi Jewish from my father's line). My mother's line gave me strength and curiosity. My father's gave me the awareness of an artist. After I found my DNA connections, I studied Judaism for a year at a local reform temple. I'm still a humanist and while complicated religions are large fields of study, my research interests are legion.
Via an auDNA test with ftdna.com, I've been found by a Jewish Berman relative in the midwestern US who is related to three of the same Berman relatives through her ftdna test there, also a Family Finder test. Neither of us knows how the Bermans found actually connect with our tree, but her Bermans are identical to mine. Bravo, Tina Campbell ! (See below for details about my Jewish relatives.)
A full sequence mitochondrial test for my mother's English lines was done at ftdna.com.
On Ancestry.com I have a Great Britain-based tree and a Germanic-Polish & Belarusian tree. The latter has blockades in it, consisting of the lines (male and female) stemming from my gf and ggf, my two Unknown and listed males, who stand for my paternal gf and the other is that gf's father. The wars in Europe seems to have wiped out some family lines. Some of the mystery about these men was created by prejudice against Jews and the German system of record keeping. But many records still exist.
MORE ABOUT MY JEWISH ROOTS and Alliegences:
My religion is Universalist. I believe people find religions that will do them the most good.
In 2012 and ff. years, I am particularly focused in finding my Ashkenazi roots. By a DNA test, I am related to many people world-wide who are of this genetic strain, but in general and with two major exceptions, the ordinary male participants of ftdna's DNA testing matches have been unwilling to discuss family links so far. I am, however, in communication with a family of Bermans living in the US*. I have three out of 8 ggparents who are Ashkenazim. I am very proud of these genes, and I have met three in the Berman family, who are 3rd or 4th cousins. We don't know where these paternal lines out of Old Poland and Lithuania connect with my known lines except as the Unknown mate for Anna Elisabeth Berg at 16 yrs old in about March 1906.
My pride in my Jewish roots comes from two or three places: First, they are survivors. As a group, they are part of the world's three (3) monotheistic religions and should be recognized by the larger populations as reputable. Further, they fostered Christianity, which religion most people in American and Euro-based religions say they follow. Then because they so HIGHLY VALUE EDUCATION, they are smarter as a group than most but not all Christians. They are also very family-centered. More Jews occupy highly elevated positions of power in all forms of business, education and government, and so are to be considered activists or intellectuals, creative innovators, and leaders of all the world's affairs.
My German Baer/Bär seems to be a second thrust and major European connection; however, my father's father's name is unrecorded at my father's birth (probably to protect his mother from physical harm and prejudice). There is much research to do regarding the German ancestors with Baer and Sallmann as important German names there. One of the Sallmann relatives living in Germany shows names in part of a vast tree that cohere with mine, but he insists that we cannot securely ascertain "a relationship." However I've found significant connections to believe we are related.
In July of 2015 I discovered Schneiders from Württemberg in my German family line. Later came Joesel. These names led to Netherlands. One of my lines leads to Austria.
Berg should have been my LNAB --my father's LNAB surname is Berg but his adoptive name is Hilse. Thus MY Birth Record-LNAB is HILSE, my father's adoptive surname. He was born Rudolf Berg (haven't found a middle name). After 1979, I DON'T REMEMBER the specific year, I finally took legally my birth-middle name as my surname and that resulted here in Wikitree in my losing almost all my G2G points, which were restored after my many sorrowful complaints. _____
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On 17 Apr 2018 at 07:54 GMT Drew (M) McClenaghan wrote:
On 10 Apr 2018 at 18:05 GMT Chontae (Holminski) Feldman wrote:
I would love to say that I did all the research on my own, but I have been working with family members. My Grandmother and her family did some work on my dad's side. I have an uncle that worked on my mother's side.
I'm working on locating my Jewish and Indian roots....
Thank you again for your help!
On 10 Apr 2018 at 09:02 GMT Drew (M) McClenaghan wrote:
On 10 Apr 2018 at 01:32 GMT Joann (Morris) Gudzus wrote:
I did what you said to do in the previous note. So now what do I need to do to join Jewish Roots? I would also like to join Scottish Roots and Irish Roots because I am doing a family tree on my in-laws' family. Thanks Joann Gudzus
On 8 Apr 2018 at 01:39 GMT Linda Barnett wrote:
Star this is the link you need to go to and The registration deadline is April 19, 2018, at 12:01 am. Note: Please post as an answer not as a comment. Thanks! https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/586403/will-you-participate
On 27 Mar 2018 at 20:21 GMT Karen (Lowe) Tobo wrote:
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to the top of your biography if you speak English natively, intermediate Rumanian and basic Hebrew, or you could use de-4 to specify near-native German or ru-2 for intermediate Russian, and so forth up to ten languages.
It really helps to know who speaks all the different languages used on WikiTree! If there is a language you speak that is missing from our categories, I would be happy to add it. If you only speak English, you're very welcome to use this text to make that clear:
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Thanks,
Karen
On 26 Mar 2018 at 23:33 GMT Anne B wrote:
On 17 Mar 2018 at 01:03 GMT David Selman wrote:
Have been away most of the day so the slow answer.
I am not an expert on GEDCOM and GEDCOMpare and would recommend you read the Help Pages.
Click here for GEDCOMPare Help and the step by step process.
Click Here for all the GEDCOM Help pages.
I suggest you ask on the G2G Forum if the help pages do not answer your question. Title your Question; Need GEDCOM and GEDCOMPare Help.
Be sure to add the tags GEDCOM, GEDCOMpare and Mentors to your G2G question. This way a GEDCOM Mentor will take note of your question.
And I'm here to help too, just ask!
David ~ WikiTree Mentor
On 15 Mar 2018 at 02:15 GMT Drew (M) McClenaghan wrote:
On 11 Mar 2018 at 15:06 GMT Michael Thomas wrote:
First, you need to contact Jaqueline Clark and get the badge: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-15765
Complete instructions are found on the German Roots page. Spend some time looking it over. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:German_Roots
Find an area of interest and add that category to your ancestor profiles that fit. That's about it!
If you need more help, just let me know.