FAMILY MATTERS

THE GENEALOGY FROM ADAM TO JESUS CHRIST

The Son of God (?) and the Last Adam

By 1600 the bulk of the European Jewish population had shifted to Greater Poland, but the Polish names they were forced to adopt became inoperable with the arrival of Napoleon, who forced Jews and Gentiles both to surrender their Polish names and http://ldolphin.org/2adams.html

adopt more “Western” ones. These names were the ones carried by the Jews to America in the late 1880s, and they are the only This all took some years to accomplish: over a week or two by the Jewish and Creationist calendar – up to four million years names by which I know my ancestors – all ten or twelve of them.

in the catalogue of Science.

I cannot trace my ancestry back before 1800, so my contribution to this book must needs be more literary than historical. Set Historically, a few hundred emigrants are said to have made the long trek from the ancient city of Ur with Father Abraham below the 150 families which I have hanging from Inez’ family forest of trees, my bunch would barely appear as a mushroom.

across the deserts and into ancient Israel; there, they stayed a while, then were sold as slaves into Egypt, where, after doing some This is a very common problem in genealogy. Some research shows the average American’s family can only be traced back serious time cracking rocks for the pyramids, they escaped to freedom across the Sea of Red, wandered for 40 years in the Sinai, 5-10 generations. I can’t find any studies which show much and how many generations back the average American actually and finally returned to Israel from which, sometime later, most of them “removed.” They wrote it down in the Pentatuch and other knows about his or her family, but I can’t find any reliable information.

“books,” all of which Christianity came to refer to as “The Old Testament.”

I did find this, however, an offering posted by a helpful amateur genealogist:

After the rebellion against the Roman occupation of the province they called “Palestinia,” the official Diaspora of the Jews American records are great from the 1600s to the late 1700s. Then there’s a gap of about 40 years where records were commenced, though for hundreds of years the Jewish population had been dispersing itself across the Mediterrean and north into minimal and the information on them outright skimpy. You can usually hit the middle of the 1800s on the internet without Europe - following the legions into the growing Roman Empire.

a problem, but unless you know exactly where the family lived between 1790-1840, you’ll need to do some serious research History, genetics, and folklore tells us that the Diaspora resulted “cradles,” “spawning grounds,” and “holding places,” where offline in a library or state archives. Then you can pick it up again in the 1790s and back to the colonial period. Immigration Jewish populations grew: on the Black Sea, in Northern Italy, and up along the Rhine - and from which, for hundreds of reasons records from the 1800s aren’t complete online, though they’re immensely better than they were 4 years ago. The huge (most of them dealing with persecution) they left to search for more tolerable living spaces.

Castle Garden project for passenger records into NYC pre-Ellis Island hasn’t hit the 50% mark yet, so there’s a lot still to Whatever names my ancestors may have had have been lost in antiquated naming patterns which – had they been preserved come. The major group that’s lacking is the Dutch, but the Scandinavians aren’t well-transcribed, either.

- would have mostly yielded “Isaac ben Davids,” and “Jakub ben Isaacs” for almost two millennia.

And about Poland, the same researcher writes:

However, one thing we do know about my own family (the Ziering branch) is that they claimed to be Levites-of the assistant In Poland, the records are starting to come online through volunteer efforts, like the Poznan Marriage Index and some priestly class. Wiki offers the following:

Jewish research projects. The records are on film with the LDS, but you have to literally order one film at a time. The rest In tradition, a Levite (pron.: , : לֵוִי, Levi Lēwî ; “Attached”) is a member of the of . When led the into the land of , the Levites of Central Europe, including much of Germany, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, etc, is hit and miss after the immigration were the only tribe that received cities but were not allowed to be landowners “because the Lord the God of Israel himself is records. You may find the records showing the person coming over, but you won’t find multiple generations from a village in their inheritance” (Deuteronomy 18:2). The Tribe of Levi served particular religious duties for the Israelites and had political Slovakia before that. You’re back to the LDS and researching through regional archives. The good news is that the regional responsibilities as well. In return, the were expected to give to the Levites, particularly the tithe known as the or . In current archives in Europe are realizing that American genealogy can become a profitable business for them and they’re starting Jewish practice, dating from the destruction of the , the communal privileges and responsibilities of Levites are mainly limited to employ English-speaking research aides to answer inquiries and respond in English. The Ukraine, Russia and former to the and the ritual of . and his brother, , were both Levites. Notable descendants of the Levite dynasty according to the Bible Russian lands aren’t easily researched on the internet. Don’t expect to go back farther than 1880.

include ,,, , and . The descendants of Aaron, who was the first , high priest, of Israel, were designated as the priestly class, the . As The borders of Europe – especially Eastern Europe – and more especially Galicia (Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bessarabia, such, kohanim comprise a family dynasty (although people claiming to be kohanim have many haplogroups) within the tribe of Hungary and anything else that can be remembered) changed with the borders which changed the times which changed with the Levi, and thus all kohanim are traditionally considered to be Levites, but not all Levites are kohanim.

weather; but this was the area from which my ancestors broke out of jail and came to America.

Levite Y-chromosome studies

Galicia was and almost always had been a colossal mess. Here’s a snippet of Eastern European history written by Jakub - my A 2003 study of the Y-chromosome by Behar et al. points to multiple origins for Levites, a priestly class who comprise now-found, once-lost, never to be lost again, cousin:

approximately 4% of Ashkenazi Jews. It found that R1a1a (R-M17), uncommon in the Middle East or among Jews,

originating in Central Asia and dominant in Eastern Europe, is present in over 50% of Ashkenazi Levites, while the rest of Ashkenazi Levites’ paternal lineage is of Middle Eastern origin. Behar suggests a founding event, probably involving one A Taste Of Eastern European History

or very few European men, occurring at a time close to the initial formation and settlement of the Ashkenazi community as a possible explanation. As Nebel, Behar and Goldstein speculate, “although neither the NRY haplogroup composition By Jakub Ziering

of the majority of Ashkenazi Jews nor the microsatellite haplotype composition of the R1a1 haplogroup within Ashkenazi Levites is consistent with a major Khazar or other European origin, as has been speculated by some authors (Baron 1957; The region Zierings are from is currently known as Ukraine, even though some parts are currently in Moldova and Romania. Ukraine Dunlop 1967; Ben-Sasson 1976; Keys 1999), one cannot rule out the important contribution of a single or a few founders means Frontier in Ukrainian and Russian. That region used to belong mostly to the Polish Commonwealth. It was called Kresy, among contemporary Ashkenazi Levites.”

which means Frontier in Polish. After Khmelnitzky uprising in the 16-hundreds the eastern part ended up in Russia. But the Western part was in Poland. So, Dolyna was in Poland. Further east, borders constantly shifted, so Ziering found themselves here and there.

By the end of the 17-hundreds, at the time of the American Revolution, the Polish experiment with the Noble’s Republic begun to

Notable Levites

resemble current situation in the US. The main difference, there was no ocean around Poland, so the authoritarian empires around it (Russia, Prussia and Austria) divided it between themselves. Western Ukraine and South Eastern Poland ended in Austria. The Mary, mother of Jesus, was also a Levite, and, as you can see above, so was John the Baptist, a cousin of Jesus. So…..need I say province was named Galizia (since apparently Gauls lived there in the first centuries after Christ). Actually, it was a nice occupation it? If Jesus isn’t my direct ancestor, he’s at least a cousin. That said…

and many of its former dwellers had some sentiment toward it. My Father used to sing “Unsern Kaiser, unsern Fater”. He managed We know from recent history that the first thing your persecutor needs to do in order to persecute, is to get your name or at to be born as an Austrian citizen as all other Zierings born before 1918. Only those who had a misfortune to live in the Russian least give you a number. So it was that, as late as the 18th Century, the Jews were forced to adopt more “Christian” surnames – and part had to dodge the conscription. I think, you had to be 18 for it but the service might have lasted up to 25 years (if one survived often, they were made to pay for them (“Epstein,” so the story goes, cost a shitload of shekels)

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