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Anonymous (Hilse) Burnett
Honor Code SignatorySigned 8 Oct 2014 | 2,659 contributions | 380 thank-yous | 472 connections
My surname at birth was my father's adoptive surname, Hilse, VIA his mother. I haven't used "Hilse" here because the genetic line of MY wonderful but UNKNOWN Jewish male GF MUST be the line that offshoots from Dad's mother's Berg line to her Unknown first mate, when she was likely a teen. He's present in my father's and my genetic credentials, literally "Unknown" name only--but he's felt by me. So Berg remains as Dad's adoptive surname. (Please pardon me for confusing you, if you were.)
My mother's Scottish/English surname is BURNETT (my birth surname and my middle name); one of my major GOALS is to find out more about her and my English roots.
I've had courses in several languages, but my language training started after the 13th year of my life and is consequently inadequate to speak/write fluently in German, Italian, and Latin.
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 via my father's line. My mother's line gave me strength, energy, and curiosity. My father's genes gave me the awareness of an artist, which he had but didn't use (a sad fact). After I found my DNA connections (correctly assumed as a paternal element, so I can't technically qualify as being "Jewish"). I studied Judaism as an adult 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.
An APPRECIATION TO FTDNA.COM: 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 via a Family Finder test. Neither of us knows how the Bermans that were found actually do connect with our trees, but her Bermans are identical to mine. Bravo, Tina Campbell! (See below for details about my Jewish relatives.) WOULD ANYONE BE ABLE TO TELL ME: How many generations back would my Jewish ancestor(s) start to appear? --Three, four, or six?
A full sequence mitochondrial test for my mother's very English lines was done at ftdna.com.
On Ancestry.com I have a Great Britain-based tree and a Germanic-Polish & Belarusian tree that represents the family line of my father's DNA as represented in me, thru ftdna's testing site. This line has blockades in it, consisting of the lines (male and female) stemming from my paternal Gf and GGf, my two listed but Unknown ancestors (and their lines); my paternal gf and the other one is that second grandfather's father, my GGF. The wars in Europe seems to have wiped out some family lines. ( IF YOU CARE TO HELP WITH THOSE LINES, PLEASE CONTACT ME.) Some of the mystery about these men was almost certainly created by prejudice against Jews and the German system of record keeping. But many records still exist.
Names of two husbands: 1. David Harry Stewart, b. 1939, Michigan; living in 2018 and later. Married 20 Dec. c. 1960 in Whittier CA, he's likely still living. 2. Bert Arthur Bender, PhD. b. 29 Feb 1938. Cape Girardo, MO. Married abt. 1971 in March. He is living.
Please KNOW this: I advise "never use" for Family Data Selection those trees made by other hobbiest genealogists found at ancestry.com. I intend to go 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!! About: researching through anyone's self-stated and historic family lines --"buyer beware."
My hunch is that anyone who gained land in this pioneering United States felt they "had to have" readily available slaves and indentured servants because someone or many people were needed to work the land and its living creatures. Slavery and indenture were "cheap employees." In 2018 I discovered the relatively new term in social history of the Sourtern USA, the term "PEONAGE." One such user was Shadrach Tuttle/Tootle Dixon who kept slaves for many years after the end of slavery at or near the end of the Civil War when it wasn't allowed. By my inference, he likely felt he was far enough away from the US Capitol to ignore the anti-slavery laws.
MORE ABOUT MY JEWISH ROOTS and Alliegences:
My religion is Universalist. I further believe people choose religions that will do them the most good.
In 2012 and ff. years, I am not finding enough information regarding 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/normal and usual 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 who was 16 yrs old when this couple brought my father's birth into existence--in about March 1906.
My pride in my Jewish roots comes from two or three places: First, they are, HISTORICALLY, 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 Jews so HIGHLY VALUE EDUCATION, they are smarter as a group than are 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 a vast tree & living in Germany shows names that cohere with mine, but one man insists to those who find his family connected that others cannot securely assert "a relationship" with his line. However I've found connections significant enough to believe we ARE related.
In July 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; 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 and legally assumed my birth-middle name as my present surname and that resulted here in Wikitree in my losing almost all my G2G points, which were restored after my many sorrowful complaints. _____
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I sent you a message a couple of weeks ago on behalf of the Germany Project and have not yet heard back from you. I hope you are well!
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Best wishes,
Susie :-)
I havent heard back from you about the break up of the United Kingdom Project. I hope all is well with you. I assume you dont wish to join any of the country-level projects at present, and will go ahead and remove the United Kingdom badge. If you wish to join England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland in the future, you would be most welcome to do so via the respective G2G sign-up post.
Many thanks for all your contributions,
Susie :-)
Thank you, though, for considering that while I'm still alive, I actually could do some things for our shared work.
Thank you, though, for considering that while I'm still alive, I actually could do some things for our shared work.
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Many thanks,
Susie
Thank you so much for responding to our check-in for the Southern Colonies.
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Unfortunately its not a match. Happy Hunting!! Sue