While the vast majority of Jews doing genealogy in the U.S. are of Ashkenazi descent, she neglects to mention that prior to the German immigration wave, most Jews in the British colonies and the Early U.S. Republic were of Sephardic (Spanish and Portuguese) Jewish background. In fact, the very first Jews in the Americas were either Sephardim escaping the "convert-or-leave" orders of Spanish and Portuguese rulers, or were conversos (Jews who became Christians to stay in their home countries, many of whom practiced Jewish traditions in secret) who fled the Inquisition. In places like Spain and Portugal (and in their colonies), conversos were carefully watched and were often accused of being secret Jews. As they were baptized Christians, conversos were then subject to the Inquisition. While one or two Sephardic individuals came to North America in the 1500s, the first small group of 23 Sephardim arrived in 1654. (Compare in timing: the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts Bay began in 1620; the colony at Jamestown, VA, began in 1607). The group was made up of Sephardic Jews who had settled in Brazil -- then a Dutch colony -- feeling safe from the Inquisition there (some Jews escaped Spain and Portugal and settled in Amsterdam, where they could practice Judaism freely, so felt secure among the Dutch). But when the Spanish overcame the Dutch rulers of Brazil, a group of Jews from Brazil took ship for North America. They wound up entering the harbor at the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam -- later New York, when the British took it over -- and were eventually granted safe haven. Even prior to the American Revolution, other Sephardic Jewish settlements grew in places like Charleston, SC; Newport, RI; Savannah, GA; and Philadelphia, PA. Therefore, Jews with deep roots in North America may have Sephardic heritage as well as -- or instead of -- Ashkenazi. One famous American Jew with Sephardic roots was the poet Emma Lazarus, who wrote "The New Colossus," better known as the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor...".
Thank you for this detailed information. I am struggling to connect the dots for my Sephardic Jewish ancestry because of the lack of resources guiding beginners. If you or anyone has anything helpful, I will be so grateful.
@@emilybarros9025 Our heritage is much more diluted in history than that of the Ashkenazis. Because our emigration was much more moved our diaspora is much more mixed. I would say that the simplest way would be to find a relative who was not been converted and keeped the Jewish surname Or read the Spanish and Portuguese censuses on naval-military and administrative emigration to the Americas (personnel have no record therefore it would be impossible to find), Finding a relative in the censuses would be the difficult part if not impossible, but if you are lucky enough to find one you only would have to look for the heraldic record (which only exists in Latin American countries, sorry if you are from the US) of the person and tie up the loose ends.
Jewish headstones usually do not have the birth town but will usually have (in Hebrew) the father's name and sometimes the mother's name. It will also have symbols and signs of Cohanim or Levi if they were. Some older cemeteries are segregated by town/country. A little research on the cemetery would be helpful.
For a Jew it is important to capture Jewish and Hebrew names. There are many reasons for this. For Genealogy, these names can help you validate ancestor information, where these names may have been listed as the first name.
My great-grandmother,my mother's grandmother was Jewish her name was Sadie Levy she married a Scottish man named George Kennedy. They had one son George who was killed in WW1 & one daughter called Sadie,my grandmother. This is also my mother's my sister's & her daughter's name but none of her daughter's are called Sadie or Sarah,which makes me feel sad. I would love to know more about this side of my family.
Thank you for this!!! Just began research for someone with Jewish roots in Russia, and I almost feel as though I am beginning genealogy for the first time, although I've been doing it for over seven years! Next genealogy crash courses will be in Mexican genealogy research:)
alicia hamblin perhaps some of the Mexican Ancestors descend from Mariano, secret Jews! A strategy of pretending an individual is Catholic in public, but keeps Jewish laws in private. This is a life saving strategy.
Interesting in 1914 parts of the Park Avenue (40s-57s) were tenement houses! My Maternal Grandfather and family lived there. Also I The 1940 census household income was listed. This same Grandparent, his Wife and three daughters lived on 2019 money would be 9k for all 5 people!!! They were well below the poverty line. Good news they lived to see and enjoy the financial good health of their children.
I love her videos. I do think she should do videos(on genealogy) with a theme. Or at least, youtube should organize the videos. Being Jewish, I find this very helpful but I want MORE.
One of my ancestors founded an American business empire. Looking at the census I saw that his early career involved accounting work.....nice to see the steps to success.
Is it possible that a child one census and not on the next was just a child in the house the day of the census. My Great Grandmother’s place of origin changed from the 1920 v the 1930 census. I believe based on family dialogue that the person who gave the census info the first time was no longer in the home in 1930.
I love your videos! I need help!!!! I am easily able to find my ancestors coming in to the US but I have two relatives that I am trying to trace leaving the US to go to Stuttgart Germany. Elsa Olga Ehmann and Lillian Elizabeth Ehmann left Kentucky in June 1910 to live with their Uncle Otto Ehmann living in Stuttgart. Their father, Karl Ehmann died in 1901 and then their Mother, Elizabeth died in January 1910. Any chance you can do a video on something like this?
Wonderful information! Will apply this in research of European ancestors who came in the mid-to-late 1800's (Galveston); Perhaps, some of it will also apply to the Hendricks' who immigrated from Holland, and the Tschudi's from Switzerland, but back in the early 1700's - I imagine digging into the Jewish resources mentioned, will be a good place to start. Thanks!
That sounds very interesting Paralee! You might find the Card Catalog very useful for this, as you can narrow your searches to specific areas. You can also enter Jewish as a keyword, as may records detailing Jewish people have the word Jewish included in the title. support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog We also find this article to be very useful when searching for Jewish records: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Finding-Jewish-Records Good luck with your research!
Wait, wait, wait, Crista, I just noticed something in your report. Or is it a misunderstanding. But, if the husband was already in Burlington VT and the mother was traveling to the US to meet him. She gave birth to 5 kids in England. Was she faithful to him? I could understand the oldest being his but.........lol
Ive been on Yad Vashem site and looked up my last name. I was shocked to find 21 pages of folks with my last name and there only a little less than 300,000 of us worldwide. So im wondering if theres any way I can find out if I was related to any of them
You inherit exactly 50% of your DNA from a parent. You get approximately 25% of your grandparents DNA. On average, you will have 12% of your great-grandparents DNA. And, you will have about 6% of a great-great-grandparents DNA.
I have a question. I am wondering if I have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Given the surname of my paternal grandmother (Jasinski) and the surname of my maternal grandmother (Kulpovich) I am wondering if those might be of European Jewish origin.
Being Jewish, maybe I can offer a little assistance. The name definitely has Russian origins to it. The 'SKI' means son of for Russian names. I went to Jewishgen.org and searched for people searching that name. Jashinski Elizabeth, NJ USA 14 Aug 2002 Last logged in: before 2004 Jachimski More info about Vilkaviskis Vilkaviskis Lithuania 16 Mar 1998 Sharri Krupoff (#11645) 8130 Belshire Drive Orlando, FL 32835 United States Last logged in: June 2016 With Sharri's listing indicates that her family with that name came from Lithuania (apart of the Pale of Settlements). I would definitely search Jewishgen.org first before doing the DNA test. I don't suppose you have a relative by the name Hersch Jasinski somewhere in your tree?? Either way, I would be happy to help you.
Sorry, I had it wrong. 'SKI' is Polish. Means 'son of' (there is a version for women), same thing for Russian is 'VITCH or VICH'. You can see evidence in English last names ending in 'S'. Little things like the end of the name 'SKI' means can actually point you in a direction to search. I forgot to tell you originally in my post, SKI means 'son of'. Now the first part, not a clue. If you ever get a chance to go to a genealogical convention, do it. You learn so much. In the mean time, talk to or meet someone from your local society, they might have some documentation that can help you.
While the vast majority of Jews doing genealogy in the U.S. are of Ashkenazi descent, she neglects to mention that prior to the German immigration wave, most Jews in the British colonies and the Early U.S. Republic were of Sephardic (Spanish and Portuguese) Jewish background. In fact, the very first Jews in the Americas were either Sephardim escaping the "convert-or-leave" orders of Spanish and Portuguese rulers, or were conversos (Jews who became Christians to stay in their home countries, many of whom practiced Jewish traditions in secret) who fled the Inquisition. In places like Spain and Portugal (and in their colonies), conversos were carefully watched and were often accused of being secret Jews. As they were baptized Christians, conversos were then subject to the Inquisition. While one or two Sephardic individuals came to North America in the 1500s, the first small group of 23 Sephardim arrived in 1654. (Compare in timing: the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts Bay began in 1620; the colony at Jamestown, VA, began in 1607). The group was made up of Sephardic Jews who had settled in Brazil -- then a Dutch colony -- feeling safe from the Inquisition there (some Jews escaped Spain and Portugal and settled in Amsterdam, where they could practice Judaism freely, so felt secure among the Dutch). But when the Spanish overcame the Dutch rulers of Brazil, a group of Jews from Brazil took ship for North America. They wound up entering the harbor at the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam -- later New York, when the British took it over -- and were eventually granted safe haven.
Even prior to the American Revolution, other Sephardic Jewish settlements grew in places like Charleston, SC; Newport, RI; Savannah, GA; and Philadelphia, PA. Therefore, Jews with deep roots in North America may have Sephardic heritage as well as -- or instead of -- Ashkenazi. One famous American Jew with Sephardic roots was the poet Emma Lazarus, who wrote "The New Colossus," better known as the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor...".
Thank you for this detailed information. I am struggling to connect the dots for my Sephardic Jewish ancestry because of the lack of resources guiding beginners. If you or anyone has anything helpful, I will be so grateful.
@@emilybarros9025 Our heritage is much more diluted in history than that of the Ashkenazis. Because our emigration was much more moved our diaspora is much more mixed.
I would say that the simplest way would be to find a relative who was not been converted and keeped the Jewish surname
Or read the Spanish and Portuguese censuses on naval-military and administrative emigration to the Americas (personnel have no record therefore it would be impossible to find), Finding a relative in the censuses would be the difficult part if not impossible, but if you are lucky enough to find one you only would have to look for the heraldic record (which only exists in Latin American countries, sorry if you are from the US) of the person and tie up the loose ends.
Jewish headstones usually do not have the birth town but will usually have (in Hebrew) the father's name and sometimes the mother's name. It will also have symbols and signs of Cohanim or Levi if they were. Some older cemeteries are segregated by town/country. A little research on the cemetery would be helpful.
For a Jew it is important to capture Jewish and Hebrew names. There are many reasons for this. For Genealogy, these names can help you validate ancestor information, where these names may have been listed as the first name.
My great-grandmother,my mother's grandmother was Jewish her name was Sadie Levy she married a Scottish man named George Kennedy. They had one son George who was killed in WW1 & one daughter called Sadie,my grandmother. This is also my mother's my sister's & her daughter's name but none of her daughter's are called Sadie or Sarah,which makes me feel sad. I would love to know more about this side of my family.
Thank you for this!!! Just began research for someone with Jewish roots in Russia, and I almost feel as though I am beginning genealogy for the first time, although I've been doing it for over seven years! Next genealogy crash courses will be in Mexican genealogy research:)
alicia hamblin perhaps some of the Mexican Ancestors descend from Mariano, secret Jews! A strategy of pretending an individual is Catholic in public, but keeps Jewish laws in private. This is a life saving strategy.
Interesting in 1914 parts of the Park Avenue (40s-57s) were tenement houses! My Maternal Grandfather and family lived there. Also I The 1940 census household income was listed. This same Grandparent, his Wife and three daughters lived on 2019 money would be 9k for all 5 people!!! They were well below the poverty line. Good news they lived to see and enjoy the financial good health of their children.
I love her videos. I do think she should do videos(on genealogy) with a theme. Or at least, youtube should organize the videos. Being Jewish, I find this very helpful but I want MORE.
One of my ancestors founded an American business empire. Looking at the census I saw that his early career involved accounting work.....nice to see the steps to success.
Rockefellers?
Is it possible that a child one census and not on the next was just a child in the house the day of the census. My Great Grandmother’s place of origin changed from the 1920 v the 1930 census. I believe based on family dialogue that the person who gave the census info the first time was no longer in the home in 1930.
I love your videos! I need help!!!!
I am easily able to find my ancestors coming in to the US but I have two relatives that I am trying to trace leaving the US to go to Stuttgart Germany.
Elsa Olga Ehmann and Lillian Elizabeth Ehmann left Kentucky in June 1910 to live with their Uncle Otto Ehmann living in Stuttgart. Their father, Karl Ehmann died in 1901 and then their Mother, Elizabeth died in January 1910.
Any chance you can do a video on something like this?
Even if you forget who you are,god never forget who you are
Wonderful information! Will apply this in research of European ancestors who came in the mid-to-late 1800's (Galveston); Perhaps, some of it will also apply to the Hendricks' who immigrated from Holland, and the Tschudi's from Switzerland, but back in the early 1700's - I imagine digging into the Jewish resources mentioned, will be a good place to start. Thanks!
That sounds very interesting Paralee! You might find the Card Catalog very useful for this, as you can narrow your searches to specific areas. You can also enter Jewish as a keyword, as may records detailing Jewish people have the word Jewish included in the title.
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog
We also find this article to be very useful when searching for Jewish records: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Finding-Jewish-Records
Good luck with your research!
Wait, wait, wait, Crista, I just noticed something in your report. Or is it a misunderstanding. But, if the husband was already in Burlington VT and the mother was traveling to the US to meet him. She gave birth to 5 kids in England. Was she faithful to him? I could understand the oldest being his but.........lol
Martin Jewish Heritage which came thru New York. What can you tell me to get this together, is there a list of names to check?
this will help a lot
Ive been on Yad Vashem site and looked up my last name. I was shocked to find 21 pages of folks with my last name and there only a little less than 300,000 of us worldwide. So im wondering if theres any way I can find out if I was related to any of them
How do I order a Naturalization Packet? I can only find the index card.
You can get copies original documents from either the National Archives or the County where the naturalization occurred.
I wish I could find more info on my family on came here in the late 1850's and the other early 1900's
Ancestry has millions of records for immigrants in that time period. Dig in! (Crista)
Thanks, this is excellent.
Thanks so much for stopping by, Katherine - we're so glad you enjoyed the clip!
what does it mean when you are 11 percent europeon jewish ? Can someone tell me ?
It means you are 11% European Jew
my dna said i am 5 percent jewish what does that mean? how far is that?
You inherit exactly 50% of your DNA from a parent. You get approximately 25% of your grandparents DNA. On average, you will have 12% of your great-grandparents DNA. And, you will have about 6% of a great-great-grandparents DNA.
I was shocked at the number of Jewish family members were here 1914 and earlier.
I have a question. I am wondering if I have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Given the surname of my paternal grandmother (Jasinski) and the surname of my maternal grandmother (Kulpovich) I am wondering if those might be of European Jewish origin.
It is possible. Have you taken an AncestryDNA test?
No I have not. I will get myself on eventually. I am under 18 and do not have the money saved up.
Being Jewish, maybe I can offer a little assistance. The name definitely has Russian origins to it. The 'SKI' means son of for Russian names. I went to Jewishgen.org and searched for people searching that name.
Jashinski Elizabeth, NJ USA
14 Aug 2002
Last logged in: before 2004
Jachimski More info about Vilkaviskis Vilkaviskis Lithuania 16 Mar 1998
Sharri Krupoff (#11645)
8130 Belshire Drive
Orlando, FL
32835
United States
Last logged in: June 2016
With Sharri's listing indicates that her family with that name came from Lithuania (apart of the Pale of Settlements).
I would definitely search Jewishgen.org first before doing the DNA test. I don't suppose you have a relative by the name Hersch Jasinski somewhere in your tree?? Either way, I would be happy to help you.
Thank you I found this very helpful
Sorry, I had it wrong. 'SKI' is Polish. Means 'son of' (there is a version for women), same thing for Russian is 'VITCH or VICH'. You can see evidence in English last names ending in 'S'. Little things like the end of the name 'SKI' means can actually point you in a direction to search. I forgot to tell you originally in my post, SKI means 'son of'. Now the first part, not a clue. If you ever get a chance to go to a genealogical convention, do it. You learn so much. In the mean time, talk to or meet someone from your local society, they might have some documentation that can help you.
In Belarus, knowing the Disyrict is like a County I The USA.
Jews came with Columbus...my son’s ancestor
It said on my ancestry im jewish decent its crazy
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American ancestry/ certificates so much better and easier, UK isn't so good.