I just posted this in Jewish Exogamy. I'll post it here too just for the heckuvit.
Hi,
I have just noticed that there are two people who turn up in many different trees, here on Geni, and elsewhere, buried 65 km north of where my ggg grandfather turned up as a Bohemian Jew in late 1700's who have exactly the same name as ggg grandfather. One of them has a grandson with exactly the same name as my gg grandfather. 100 years earlier.
As I try and unravel the facts about whether the identical names, and the relatively small distance between the two locations (either side of the current Czech German border btw) are a coincidence, I am also left to ponder; to wit: -Is it possible that a huge family in Saxony Germany, with many many German descendants, was initially Jewish? Or, -Could my ggg grandfather, who is responsible for a brood of 400 Jews(and counting, -everytime I go to Badatelna I find five more 3 cousins from ggg grandfather,) have been a convert?
I may discover that this is all a big coincidence, or I may discover nothing.
I am interested to know however, what the religious background is, of this German Saxon family members of which have several identical names as my Czech Jewish family.
If anyone can help please join this discussion and I can share links to the relevant profiles, here pn geni, and elsewhere.
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