Harvey Levitt

Ancestors

Son of Jack Joseph (Lewitański) Levitt and Rosalind Jean (Friedman) Levitt

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Biography

Harvey was born and raised in Orlando, Orange County, FL. At the time (the 1950s), it was a small agriculturally-based town (citrus fruit mostly) with no tourist economy of significance. It was a pleasant place in which to grow up. No one really knew about it. If you told anyone from "up north" that it was your home, their response was usually "Oh, is that somewhere near Miami?". He attended Orange County public schools and was an enthusiastic member of the William R. Boone High School Band.

Harvey attended college and graduated from Emory University [BBA, Finance, 1970] in Atlanta, GA and later from the University of Central Florida (then known as FTU) [BSBA, Accounting, 1977]. While working in Miami as a CPA for Laventhol & Horwath, he also attended Florida International University in Miami [Masters in Taxation (but not completed)].

Harvey and his wife, Mara, met in 1983 on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend. They quickly realized that they were made for each other and married in January, 1984.^[1]

Harvey continued to work as a CPA (in Orlando for Coopers & Lybrand) until being offered a position in the airline industry with a company planning a public stock offering. After taking that company "public" as its Chief Accounting Officer, he returned to public accounting as a partner in a small regional Orlando CPA firm and continued there for roughly 25 years before becoming involved as an independent I.T. consultant and network engineer for several more years.

In 2013, Harvey and his wife, Mara, relocated to Atlanta, GA to be nearer to their grandchildren. Mara's biological daughter, Dana Sugar, is Harvey's adopted daughter as well.

Now in retirement, Harvey and his wife enjoy time with their grandchildren as well as traveling to distant ports of call.

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Research Notes

There were no biological children from any of Harvey's marriages, but for all intents and purposes, Dana Sugar is, was, and always will be Harvey's daughter.

Hebrew name: Hayim Nahum ben Yaacov Yosef HaLevi^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, Florida: "Florida Marriage Index, 1927-2001"; database on-line, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, UT, USA: 2006 (Ancestry Record 8784 #10725206 : accessed 7 January 2019); citing Name: Harvey Norman Levitt; Spouse: Mara Ellen Fischer; County of Marriage: Orange; Marriage Date: 8 Jan 1984; Gender: Male; Race: White; Volume: 5527; Certificate: 004022.
2. ↑ First-hand information. Entered by Harvey Levitt

DNA Details:

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal GEDmatch comparison between Harvey Levitt and Rosalind Friedman, his mother (direct ancestor). Their most-recent common ancestors are Fanny (Ganz) Friedman and Morris Friedman, parents of Rosalind (Friedman) Levitt and grand-parents of Harvey Levitt. Predicted relationship from GEDmatch: mother/son based on sharing 3548 cM across 49 segments (with an estimated number of generations to Most Recent Common Ancestor = 1).

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a Family Tree DNA Family Finder test match between Harvey Levitt and his paternal 1st cousin Lana (Leavitt) Rosenfeld. Their most-recent common ancestors are Hyman Levitt and Bertha (Kahan) Levitt, parents of Jack Levitt and parents of Boris Leavitt. Predicted relationship from Gedmatch: 1st Cousin, based on sharing 539 cM across 20 segments (with an estimated number of generations to Most Recent Common Ancestor = 2.4).

Mastodon social website reference: "https://toot.community/@Harvey"

Previous Marriage Details:

To be thorough and complete, Harvey was married twice before briefly. First to Karen Renee Sonne (a/k/a Karen Mangham)

• Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, Florida: "Florida Marriage Index, 1927-2001"; database on-line, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, UT, USA: 2006 (Ancestry Record 8784 #10760412 : accessed 7 January 2019).
• Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, FL, USA: "Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001"; database on-line, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, UT, USA: 2005 (Ancestry Record 8837 #7140618 : accessed 6 January 2019).

and second to Eva Rosenblitt (a/k/a Yael Heimer; a/k/a Yael Barkay).

• Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, Florida: "Florida Marriage Index, 1927-2001"; database on-line, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, UT, USA: 2006 (Ancestry Record 8784 #11340640 : accessed 7 January 2019).
• Florida Department of Health, Jacksonville, FL, USA: "Florida Divorce Index, 1927-2001"; database on-line, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, Provo, UT, USA: 2005 (Ancestry Record 8837 #2535256 : accessed 6 January 2019).