Karen Brubaker

Ancestors

Daughter of Luke Oliver Brubaker and Emmy Lou (Pitcher) Hampton

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Biography

Karen Brubaker, a fourth generation Californian, was born on 11 June 1948 in Hemet, Riverside County, California and moved to Newport Beach, California, in about 1953 where she attended kindergarten up to high school, graduating in 1966. She went to San Jose State University, California, and the University of Bergamo in northern Italy.

She taught English as a foreign language in high school in Italy until retirement. With her knowledge obtained in "English Foreign Languages and Literature", Italian and as a member and conference speaker for Man Center, a non-profit organization, and a board member of the California Man Center she has translated and edited many books and newsletters.

She can translate from Italian into English and help you read Italian documents, sometimes.

She has been a member of Ancestry.com since 2006 and WikiTree since 2012.

In 1972, in San Francisco, California, she married her husband, Alberto Tassetti, who is from Italy and they made their home in Almè, Bergamo Province, Lombardy Region, Italy. They have one son Davide Roberto Tassetti, born 27 September 1979. ^[1]

All of Karen's ancestors came across the Atlantic Ocean to the colonies in the 1600s and the 1700s. See also the Ethnicity Estimate map on this profile. Her father, Luke Brubaker's haplogroup is R-1b, and his ancestor lived near the Lake of Zurich, Switzerland . The last name “Brubaker” comes from the German name “Bruggbach” and means “bridge brook” or a brook with a bridge and Heinrich "Bruggbach" lived there in 1333.^[2][3]

Ethnicity estimate for Karen Gail Brubaker (Ancestry.com DNA test results): haplogroup T2b:

Europe

• England & Northwestern Europe 60%
• Germanic Europe11%
• Scotland 9%
• Norway 7%
• Ireland 6%
• Sweden & Denmark 4%
• Wales 3%

Migrations - All to America

• Northeastern States Settlers
• New England & Eastern Great Lakes Settlers
• Central North Carolina, Southeast Missouri & Southern Illinois Settlers
• Southwestern North Carolina & Southern Illinois Settlers
• Pennsylvania, Ohio & Indiana Settlers
• Alleghenies & Northeast Indiana Settlers

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Sources

• Allen Minix, Karen Gail Brubaker firsthand knowledge.

1. ↑ Entered by Allen Minix, Mar 19, 2012 and completed by Karen Gail Brubaker.
2. ↑ https://www.rolfpfischter.ch/Bruppacher.html
3. ↑ https://brubakerfamilies.org/by-the-bruggbach/

• Karen Gail Brubaker in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995. Original data - Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.Original data: State of California.
• California Marriage Index. Original data - State of California. California Marriage Index, 1960-1985. Microfiche. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California.
• GEDMATCH.COM ASSIGNED KIT NUMBER = A886737
• Ancestry.com DNA test results.
• Ancestry Tree