I was born in Watford in early 1960s, an unplanned pregnancy from a woman separated from her husband and a man of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. I was adopted, but have gleaned the following brief biographical details from my birth mother: that my birth father owned or ran a shop that operated in a parade of shops in South Oxhey. She is reluctant to share anything else with me.
Hi everyone
DNA strongly suggests that his biological father was a member of the Lebedun family from Varena Lithuania and that his mother was also Lithuanian from Rasheini with a last name of Serif/Harrif/Rose.
My birth father (born perhaps 1910) was likely conceived in Lithuania (his parents perhaps not being married to each other), and came to England, most likely to Leeds where his mother's sister lived. His mother's sister was a member of the Lithuanian Jewish community at New Briggate Synagogue.
In Oxford in 1940 he produced another illegitimate child (my half-sister - whose mother had lodgers from all over the world). I am trying to untangle the connection and consider whether he would have been a member of a particular community, and would that community still have records of him or his parents.
Please help me piece the puzzle together.
Hi everyone
DNA strongly suggests that his biological father was a member of the Lebedun family from Varena Lithuania and that his mother was also Lithuanian from Rasheini with a last name of Serif/Harrif/Rose.
My birth father (born perhaps 1910) was likely conceived in Lithuania (his parents perhaps not being married to each other), and came to England, most likely to Leeds where his mother's sister lived. His mother's sister was a member of the Lithuanian Jewish community at New Briggate Synagogue.
In Oxford in 1940 he produced another illegitimate child (my half-sister - whose mother had lodgers from all over the world). I am trying to untangle the connection and consider whether he would have been a member of a particular community, and would that community still have records of him or his parents.
Please help me piece the puzzle together.
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