My 8 Great Grandparents - Paternal Side (VLOG #45)

[@Lia_T]

Wow, how complex with all those name variants to work through. Great job. What a fascinating history too. Demonstrates too, as you say, how the stories, when you dig into the family tree, bring family history to life.

[@RoamYourRoots]

I loved this! I'll definitely be doing this as well! You probably already know this, but Jewish headstones can be a great place to find parents' names, albeit usually in Hebrew. If you need Hebrew translation assistance let me know!

[@GeneaVlogger]

Yes, the tradition of patronymics on headstones is an amazing tool for Jewish genealogy! A very useful thing I have used in much of my research.

[@rosemarie7705]

This is great, I would love to do the sane with my grandparents.

[@phillipmoore9012]

Some nice photos there. All the images I have earlier than my parents are old folks.

[@karentucker2161]

This is cool!!!

[@serenacoils1866]

You have done well to find out so much, amazing

[@johnfreeman5100]

Thank you for your awesome videos!! Greetings from Spain!!

[@GeneaVlogger]

Hola! Mucho gusto!

[@phillipmoore9012]

I thought I would add this before moving to your next video. My pedigree is sort of the opposite. Every one of my lines was in British Colonial America. I have all 16 2nd-GGP with DNA evidence through siblings of 1st-GGP, or siblings of 2nd-GGP. Every pedigree line moved south and west mostly from Virginia, and all but one line had a Confederate soldier. On that one line, my 2nd-GGF died young in AR and his only son was too young to join. All the rest were veterans except for one who died a POW. I'm lucky he also already had a son. One vet was even shot in the neck, but the South put him back in the War after 6 months.

[@esthersacilowski641]

Great! 😉😉

[@glendathegoodwitch6987]

My husband's grandmother was also Fanny Goldberg. She came to America in 1904ish Lower East Side, NY. My husband's father was Harry, born in "Kiev Gorbanya." I discovered that is just the name of the county and environment around Kiev.

[@bookmouse2719]

Beautiful family story, my Grandma's sister's name was Fanny too. A lot of Jewish people coming to America angelized their names, for instance my Great Grandfather was Moshe but he changed his name to Morris. My other Grandfather was Yehuda Lev and he changed his name to Louis. On my Dad's side his brother was trying to get to the US quickly to avoid the Polish army and he went to Cuba and then the US but later enlisted in the US Army and was a baker which gave him citizenship.

[@karentucker2161]

Pretty cool

[@nicholasonciul5770]

Cool video! My family’s been here a while, 7 of my greats were born in Canada and 1 was born in America.

[@popacristian2056]

Interesting! Your last name is of Romanian origin. Have you ancestors from Romania?

[@bentroyer3101]

So many of my ancestors on my dad's side are from, or passed through, Germantown. They were all Amish, so I doubt they ever set foot inside an establishment like The Ross House. Always interesting to find little connections like that, though!

[@superangel1139]

*GeneaVlogger* Perfect as always. Have a superior day :p

[@robinson-gissettealekjandr4772]

I do have connection with spirit, while I realize this is out of the blue I would check records for Greenbergs first in the area round where your great-grandfather David was born when you have access to them!

[@robinson-gissettealekjandr4772]

There's also some work with Ancestral Tarot by Nancy Hendrickson that can help you speak to her spirit and find more information about her!

[@joanmcgovern603]

The Greenbergs were connected with Ida and Abe Zupnick also in this tree and mine.

[@jasonjoseph8700]

Loved it

[@cefcat5733]

Wow! With so many treasures to find, what great Grandchild would not want to delve into the area of genealogy?

[@digging4roots]

I was curious about your comment about not knowing why the name changed from Vaxer/Vakser to Waxman. According to Alex Beider, the name Vakser is derived from Vax (meaning Wax in Yiddish) and was most commonly found in "Zhitomir, Rovno; Kherson" and was an occupational surname. Common as Vakser or Vaxsman. The V in Yiddish often became W in English. This would suggest the transition from Vakser to Waxman was an Americanization of his surname. (A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire, by Alexander Beider, 1st Edition)

[@misstuxbrandi]

Lol. The way you said "REBECCA". I could hear the frustration she caused you in your research.

[@AdirondackRuby]

I have a silly question, but it's kind of related to the topic: What do you call someone who has one parent who was born in another country but another that was born in the same country as their child? My late maternal grandmother, for example, was the daughter of a Polish immigrant. Her mother arrived in the USA at around 11 years old. But her father was born here in the USA. His parents were immigrants from Russia & Poland. Would my grandmother still be considered First Generation American, or is there another term for someone with a generational mix? This happened on my father's side too. My great-grandfather Edward was the son of a German immigrants father and a mother whose parents were German immigrants. There are also a few other occurrences of this on my late maternal grandfathers side, because of Quebecois migration down into NY & VT. I don't suppose it matters, but if there is an answer you seem like the one who would know.

[@VickieCarla]

Does this information ever have you considering returning your surname to Rosenberg? Names can also be changed over the years, especially with ancestors like mine who were farmers and didn't read and write. One of my lines went from Armory to Emory to Hembree to Embrey then back to Emory and eventually Emery in current time. (1695 - 1870 span)

[@rochfan]

I always enjoy watching your videos! Did you know Fannie Brood is also a dutch name?

[@digging4roots]

Curiosity prompts me to ask: did you mean Russian dressing or 1,000 Island? Because the ingredients you mentioned are the latter.

[@nsjoah235]

My Great-grandmother is still alive living with my grandaunt but my great-grandfather is dead in 2006 when he was 81.

[@TheKelJacob]

None of my great-grandparents were born here and only half of my grandparents. However, I'm a bit older than you & then the 2nd to last grandchild by 7 years on both sides. Have you used Jewish Gen at all? I was able to find quite a lot of interesting information in the Russian censuses.

[@popacristian2056]

1:29 I have a suggestion for you. The name Fanni can come from Fănica, Fana which were Romanian feminine names widely used in Romania and come from the feminine name Ștefania, having male correspondents Ștefan, Ștefănică, Fănică. What do you think? As for her surname, do you think it could be Barbu?

[@visulino]

Great-grandparents have a name in Spanish (and Portuguese), bisabuelo/bisabuela. In Italian, bisnonno/bisnonna. Great-great-grandparents in Spanish is tatarabuelo/tatarabuela. in Italian trisnonno/trisnonna, also trisavolo, similar to Spanish and Portuguese.

[@mr16325]

Hey dawg, I know your a very busy man, but I was wondering if you could only help me with the father for coats worth Crosby, K8X2-N6G. It would be greatly appreciated. He was a character, as you can see by his picture lol lots of crazy stories

[@pierresursock6000]

Shut up dawg

[@ninthmind4351]

What's that intro song ??🤙🏽

[@jimiwhat79]

Would fannies neutralisation papers not give her maiden name and her parents names?

[@GeneaVlogger]

Back then women would take citizenship based on their husband, so her being listed in his documentation would have been enough and thus very unlikely she had her own naturalization papers.

[@jimiwhat79]

@@GeneaVlogger Ahh, same as the census, this makes genealogy very difficult, even on gravestones it only mentions there husbands names. I live in the UK now and notice that. It almost deleting someone’s history

[@toniverburg7589]

If you are only certain of one parent and in turn one of their parents how do you start matching relatives with 3/4 information missing?

[@GeneaVlogger]

Clustering of matches. There are two main methods - the Leeds method and Autoclusters. Autoclusters can be run through Genetic Affairs, MyHeritage, or GEDmatch. Family History Fanatics have a lot of great videos on these topics.

[@z.vosloo916]

What is the best place to get documents about your family and info

[@shaokhan2845]

#1 free website is probably FamilySearch. One of the best if not the best website for me that requires a paid subscription is probably Ancestry.

[@GeneaVlogger]

It really depends on your ancestry because records from different areas of the World are often only available through certain databases or websites, but for pretty much anyone Ancestry (paid) and Family Search (free) are usually the best places to start.

[@ozzylc1901]

my great grandmother's parents were samuel dolbear he was born in 1888 and janet dolbear mcfarlane she was born in 1889 they were married in 1912 the day was my birthday they had eight children my great grandma was the 8th child my great great grandfather died in 1938 at the age of 50 years old and my great grandma was 7 years old my great great grandmother died in 1968 at the age of 79 years old my great grandma was 37 years old and my grandma was 16 years old

[@z.vosloo916]

What is the best place to build a family tree for free

[@GeneaVlogger]

It depends on a your personal preferences but I personally prefer Geni.com. With that mentioned, I should said that building your family tree on multiple websites is often the best way to go. It's hard to keep them all completely up to date but it's often good to have something on all the sites to help utilize those sites much better while also increasing your cousin bait (ease at which cousins can find you). Besides Geni some other websites where you can build family trees for free are Family Search, MyHeritage, Ancestry, GeneaNet, and WikiTree.

[@z.vosloo916]

@@GeneaVlogger Thank you for the help

[@z.vosloo916]

@@GeneaVlogger What happens when you GEDCOM a family tree do you lose it on that website that it is on or will it stay there

[@GeneaVlogger]

If you create a gedcom it won't delete your family tree, it just creates a copy of the data so you can upload it to other sites or software. Sometimes the translation of a Gedcom between one program to the other will make things kind of wonky but that's about the worst of it.

[@z.vosloo916]

@@GeneaVlogger Thanks for the help

[@c.rutherford]

Always found it kinda weird that the human population on earth is exploding and that is an understatement..... almost tripling since 1970 for instance to a whopping 8 billion today. But concursively the further you go back, the more relatives you have (2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great-greats). How can that even work. Also, is concursively even a word? Not sure about that either.

[@glendaleecartagenabarreto4094]

Can I send you an email? I have doubts about my 14th great grandfather

[@michaeldukes4108]

As would most of us!

[@mitchamcommonfair9543]

Can see a resemblance between you and Harry

[@mixedracegirlandproud2883]

I have a white great great grandparent and a white great great great grandmother and grandfarther most of my fam is mixed race how much dna do I share with them