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[quote=Anonymous]How fascinating! I’m on a very similar search. There’s always been a suspicion in my dad’s family that we have some Jewish ancestry too. We also have a “mystery” German relative who came to the US around 1848. I can’t find anything about his life before the US, and his son (my 3x grandfather) seems to have erased this man too, even going so far as to tell everyone he was adopted.

It turns out that we do have some Jewish dna that can’t otherwise be explained, but I’d love to know more about this ancestor. As a kid, I always wished we were Jewish instead of Catholic, so this search is mostly wish-fulfillment for me. Knowing if this guy was Jewish won’t actually change anything, of course, but I’m still curious.

A few ideas for leads—were they naturalized? If so, can you order the Declaration of Intent and other paperwork from the National Archives? And was there a German language paper in the town that they settled in? By sheer good luck, I found an obituary for a half-sibling of my ancestor that gave some clues about where they likely were from. Nothing definitive but I at least have some guesses now.[/quote]

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