http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Randol_Schoenberg

E. Randol Schoenberg was the co-founding partner of Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP, where he handled a number of complex business litigation matters, specializing in cases involving looted art and the recovery of property stolen by the Nazi authorities during the Holocaust. He won the return of five famous Klimt paintings for his client, Maria Altmann.

In 2007, Mr. Schoenberg received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award for outstanding achievement in the field of litigation. He also received the 2006 Jurisprudence Award from the Anti-Defamation League and the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award from the American Jewish Congress.

Mr. Schoenberg graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1988 and a certificate in European Cultural Studies. In 1991, he received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California.

His interests include classical music, tennis, skiing, genealogy, art, basketball, law, mathematics, backpacking, philately, German, French, and computers. He serves on the board of the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Sinai Akiba Academy, Southwest Chamber Music Society, JewishGen, Choral Society of Southern California, and the L.A. Jewish Symphony. He has been an avid genealogist since he was 8 years old, maintains a huge family tree both on JewishGen and Geni, is responsible for JOWBR’s 150,000 Austrian cemetery records and is the Co-Founder, Coodinator and Moderator for the JewishGen Austria-Czech Special Interest Group http://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/ . He is the author of the Beginner's Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy http://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/ausguide.htm and the co-author of Getting Started with Czech-Jewish Genealogy http://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/czechguide.html .

I have a very deep and broad family tree on geni.com

All 4 grandparents were from Vienna. 15/16 of my gg-grandparents were Jewish, from Bohemia, Moravia, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. A list of surnames and cities is below. If you go back far enough, some of my ancestors were in the Rheinland area.

I have tried dna testing at familytreedna.com and 23andme.com. I have a relatively unusual y-dna, R1b1b2a1a2c. On familytreedna.com I am R1b1b2a1b3 M222- M269+ P312+ SRY2627+ U106- U152- and have no close matches other than my father and another Schoenberg (likely a 5th or 6th cousin) from the same village in Hungary (Szecseny). Other than that we are pretty unique.

My ancestral surnames are:

AUSCH (Praha)

AUSTERLITZ (Wien)

BEER (Lomnice, Radimer)

BIEDERMANN (Bratislava, Wien)

BITTNER (Breclav)

BLOCH (Ckyne)

BÖHMER (Kounice)

BRASCHINSKY (Branky, Usov)

BRASCHITZ (Usov)

BRAUN (Holesov)

BREITENFELD (Lobkowitz, Rychmburk)

BROCK/BRÜK (Hermanuv Mestec)

CHALFON/HALFON/HALPHEN (Mannheim, Metz)

DUSCHAK (Uhersky Ostroh)

FEITLER/VEIDLER (Ceske Budejovice, Kaplice, Kardasova Recice, Rozmberk nad Vltavou, Udoli)

FREISTADT (Bratislava)

FUNK (Prostejov, Wien)

GLASER (Bratislava)

GOLDSTEIN (WIEN)

HIRSCH (Prostejov)

HOFFMAN (Brno)

HOFFMANN (Breclav, Wien)

HOFMANN (Lomnice)

HOROWITZ (Praha)

JELINEK/JELLINEK (Holesov, Hodonin, Unicov, Wien)

JONTOF/JONTOF-HUTTER/JONTOW (Praha)

KATAN (Eisenstadt, Praha, Wien)

KATSCHER (Branky, Lostice, Slavkov, Valasske Mezirici)

KOENIG (Miroslav)

KOHN (Ckyne)

KOLISCH (Hodonin, Korycany, Wien)

LANG (Prostejov)

LEWY/LÖWY (Kolodeje nad Luznici)

LÖWY (Bratislava, Szécsény)

LUCERNA (Wien)

MENZELES (Bratislava, Wien)

MÖLLER (Karasova Recice)

NACHOD (Praha, Wien)

PALLAK/POLLACK (Bratislava)

PRESSBURG (Bratislava)

REICHMANN (Hlinsko, Pradubice, Raab)

REIF (Uhersky Ostroh, Wien)

ROSENFELD (Korycany)

SCHMIDT (Branky, Valasske, Mezirici)

SCHOENBERG/SCHÖNBERG (Bratislava, Szécsény, Wien)

SCHWARZ (Bratislava, Pezinok, Wien)

SIMON (Bratislava, Tyrnau)

SINGER (Kojetin, Prostejov, Uhersky Ostroh, Valasske Mezirici)

SINSHEIM/SINZHEIM/SINZHEIMER (Mannheim, Wien)

SPITZER (Prostejov)

STAMPFER (Ckyne, Kolodeje nad Luznici)

STEININGER (Kaplice, Rozmberk nad Vltavou)

TAUSEK/TAUSSIG (Lobkowitz, Rychmburk)

TEOMIM (Padua, Wien)

TREBITSCH (Bratislava)

TRITSCH (Praha)

VAIDAL (Frankfurt)

WEINBERGER (Velke Mezirici)

WEIS (Uhersky Ostroh)

WILTSCHEK (Bucovice)

ZAY (Metz)

ZEIMER (Hresihlavy, Praha)

ZEISEL/ZEISL/ZEISSEL/ZEISSL (Jevicko, Lednice, Lomnice, Radimer, Rozsochy, Svojanov, Velke Mezirici, Wien)

ZODEKS/ZODEX (Praha)

And my non-Jewish 1/16 is

ERTL (Kula)

INQUART (Budapest, Wien)

RESCH (Budapest, Kula, Pecsvarad)

STRAZSAI (Kula)

VIGHARD/VICKARDT (Kula)