Roberta (Hilse) Burnett

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Roberta (Hilse) Burnett has 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.

Biography

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.

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Roberta Burnett Hilse (LNAB -- but NOT A GENETICALLY LINKED SURNAME) at registration.

• Though NOT recognized as reliable sources, Support Records through ancestry.com and its like-minded familysearch.com, to a smaller extent. It seems that the US CENSUS records, and marriage and death records could be called legitimate resources and sources, but please UNDERSTAND: I Advise "never use" for Family Data Selection or trees by other hobbiest genealogists who are found at ancestry.com. I'm going through those records to eliminate those records as stated sources. It does not seem to delete the sourced information, but it does delete the credit it gives to the often faulty information. A CAVAET!! --"buyer beware."

• Carefully selected and substantial family trees found on-line and donated by my distant family members about my Owen AND Dixon lines. Shade's Tree is a family compiled genealogical and historical self-published book by one of Shadrach Dixon's many sons. It also contains cattle brands. No slave names are found so far in re: Shadrach or his fathers' lines. But they should be found. My hunch is that anyone who gained land in this pioneering United States felt they "had to have" readily available slaves (and indentured servants). I have in 2018 discovered the relatively new term in social history of the Sourtern USA, the term "PEONAGE." Shadrach Tuttle Dixon kept slaves for many years after the end of slavery at or near the end of the Civil War. By inference, he likely felt he was far enough away from the US Capitol to ignore the anti-slavery laws.

• IF YOU WANT "Shade's Tree" I can email it to you in parts, if I still have them.

• British Isles genealogical sources: family bibles and books; immigration, census, birth, marriage, death and military records; will; personal memories.

• Germanic or European Jewish sources: various archives in Germany; census, birth, death, marriage, immigration records.

• Autosomal DNA test at ftdna,com, the most scientific site. I've also used GEDmatch.com. But you all here tell me that while you can find information it is unlikely to find individuals. Have I got this right? Certainly those deceased are harder to find in some cases and easier in others.

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. _____

• Two of the three were in their 90s; both elders have passed on, sadly for me.

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