Famous ancestors or relatives

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz]

Wtf is wrong with you. That's something you should never admit.

My GG Grand father wa hung for murder in 1912 at Nashville Tennessee.

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz]

The only thing interesting in my family is that my father's cousin is working for national intelligence service.He was known as a journalist\photoghrapher who works independent,made a local newspaper for a small town which wouldn't sell to make him earn money.He went abroad sometimes.Then my father learned he was recorded as a "government official" in archives and earning wage.I never asked him directly,I see him once a year maybe less,but sometimes he indirectly mentioned after the word was spread in family.

You really should remove that post. He wouldn't approve.

[derLowe]

How big was the town? What does Haydn mean? If its not an occupational name and not common and it wasn't a big town then you probably are related.

I never did any research into it, I am just repeating what my grandfather told me. In hind sight I should have researched it before posting this on the thread.

Lets see what I can find:

Both my Great grandmother and the composer are from Rohrau Austria, it is a village near the Hungarian border.

I am not sure about the surname Haydn, perhaps one of our other members knows more about it.

[Anglojew]

I never did any research into it, I am just repeating what my grandfather told me. In hind sight I should have researched it before posting this on the thread.

Lets see what I can find:

Both my Great grandmother and the composer are from Rohrau Austria, it is a village near the Hungarian border.

I am not sure about the surname Haydn, perhaps one of our other members knows more about it.

In little European villages all people with same name, unless occupation like "tayler/Schneider" etc, will often be related as they used to have 8 kids. I'm a betting man (Australian) and I'd be happy to put a wager you're related. It would be unusual for two families with the same name in a small village not to be at least distantly.

[Formicide]

Hadzhi Dimitar, Dobri Chintulov... names that most bulgarian people know, but that's about it.

[Endo]

After DNA testing that is still gathering information. The furtherst by Immigration Documents and 3-5th Cousins in Ireland and Germany. Maternal side to Lady Denny (Spelling) Ireland. Paternal is Enderle von Ketsch; Ketsch Germany; (Revolt) Legend of Enderle. If anyone has more information or descendant of this line. Also off Paternal sides mother Pomeranian area Justman surname.

[Endo]

Maternal Lady Denny Ireland; Paternal Enderle von Ketsch (Mayor/Elder), Ketsch, Germany; Lengend of Enderle (Revolt/Curse).

[urrakiberg]

King David, Anglojew? its not confirmed if he existed or is a symbol.

[Anglojew]

King David, Anglojew? its not confirmed if he existed or is a symbol.

The Tel Dan inscription, or “House of David” inscription, was discovered in 1993 at the site of Tel Dan in northern Israel in an excavation directed by Israeli archaeologist Avraham Biran.

The broken and fragmentary inscription commemorates the victory of an Aramean king over his two southern neighbors: the “king of Israel” and the “king of the House of David.”



I'm descended from Rashi. http://www.davidicdynasty.org/descendants.php

[Anglojew]

Jewish descent from the Royal House of David can be traced through oral tradition, rabbinic sources, historical data and/or extensive research. Most families claim descent from King David through Rashi. Several families claim descent "ben akhar ben"(father to son) in a direct line, most notably the Dayan, Shealtiel and Charlap/Don Yechia, families.

There have been many great rabbis and rabbinical houses that trace their ancestry back to David Hamelech. This group of great scholars and leaders include: Hillel, Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi, Yochanan Hasandler, Rashi, the Rambam and Yosef Karo as well as the more contemporary gedolim like the Baal Shem Tov, the Breslevor Rebbe and the first Lubavicher Rebbe, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, to name but a few.

Here we will enumerate some of the well-known family names that trace their ancestry back to David Hamelech. Since well over 100 generations have passed between the time of King David to the present, there might be hundreds, even thousands, of family names that can legitimately trace their family line back to David Hamelech. Therefore, the omission of your family name from this list does not exclude you as a possible descendant. On the other hand, the inclusion of your family name on the list below does not necessarily guarantee that you are a descendant of King David. In fact, the well-known line from the Maharal of Prague is now in question. The opening thought of this page bears repeating - It is only through oral tradition, rabbinic sources, historical data and or extensive research that one can determine if he/she is indeed a descendant of David Hamelech.

Here is the partial list of family names that trace their descent back to King David. It is important to note that through the course of years and trails through many countries, variant spellings and pronunciations have evolved for many of the names.

Abarbanel*
Adler
Alter/Rotenberg
(Ger Chassidim)
Altshuler
Ashkenazi
Auerbach
Averels/Everels
Babad/Heschel*
Bach
(descendants of Sirkes)
Bachrach
Beharier
Berdugo
Berlin/Berliner
Bernstein
Biederman
Birnbaum
Breslav Chassidim, Nakhman
Burstein
Caro/Karo
Charif
Charlap*
Chayes/Chayut
Cohen (various families)
Dayan*
Don Yechia/Ibn Yechia*
Edels
Ehrenreich
Ehrlich
Eichenstein
(Zditchov Chassidim)
Elfandari
Enzel
Epstein*
Falman
Fishel
Freidensohn
Frenkel/Frankel*
Frenkel-Teomim*
Friedland
Friedman (Rizhin, Sadagora etc. Chassidim)
Fuchs
Ginzburg/Gunzburg
Glickman
Goldman
Gombiner
Gordon
Halberstam(ZanzChassidim)
Heilprin/Halperin*
Heller*
Helman
Hertzkes
Heschel/Babad*
Hillel and the Nesi'im*
Horowitz/Hurwitz
(various Chassidim)*
Ish-Zvi
Isserles/Isserlin*
Itinga/Ettinger/Ittingen
Jaffe/Yoffe* / **
Kalb
Kalmankes
Kalonymus*
Karo/Caro*
Katz (Maharal of Prague)
* / **
Katzenellenbogen*
Klauber
Klausner*
Klingberg
Landau
Lau
Levinsohn
Lichtenstadt
Lichtenstein
Lifshutz/Lipshitz
Loeb*
Loewenstam
Lowe*
Lubarsky
Lukashevesky (Lux)
Lurie/Luria*
Maharal of Prague * / **
Malavski
Margolioth
Margulies/Margolis
/Margaliot*
Meisels*
Mintzberg
Mirels
Mirkes
Morgenstern
(Kotzk Chassidim)
Moskowitz
Oknovski
Openheim
Paprosh
Parnas
Pereles
Peretz
Polak
Posner
Rabinowitz
Rapaport*
Rashei Galut (Exilarchs)
male descent from David*
Rashi (descendants of daughters)*
Reines
Roffe
Rokeach (Belz Chassidim)
Rotenberg/Alter
(Ger Chassidim)
Roth
Rubin (Horowitz)
(Ropshitz Chassidim)
Rubinstein
Sabatka
Safrin
Sassoon*
Schneurson
Schneurson
(Lubavitch Chassidim)
Schol
Schorr*
Segal (descendantz of "Taz")
Shachor/Charny/Shwartz
Shapiro/Shapira.Spiro/Spira*
Shealtiel/Sealtiel*
Shereshevski
Shrentzels*
Simchowitz/Simchowitch
Sirkes/Sirkin
Sonnabend
Spiro
Tamarels
Teomim/Teomin-Frenkel*
Treves/Dreyfus*
Twersky
Twersky (Chernobyl Chassidim)
Weil *
Weinberg
Weisblum
(Lizhensk Chassidim)*
Widslawski
Winkler
Zak
Zaslovsky
Zifferstein
Zinger