When discussing my surname with my mother, my mother said it meant flower (Bloom). I said 'that's a Hebrew surname.. isn't it?'' she said yes and said people in Germany have that surname but, it's spelled with a 'u'. Later on in the day, I messaged my mother and asked her what 'ashkenazic' meant. She said she didn't know and asked me why I asked her. I told her 'well, according to some research, this family may have ashkenazic roots, or origins'. She replied with 'what, you mean this family?' and I said yes. My mother texted back 'is it Jewish'.
I could've been dreaming but I swear my mother's dad (surname Bloom comes from him) was discussing his father, or grandfather long ago, and when he mimicked his accent it sounded Jewish. I may have recalled him saying something like 'he was a Jew' or something to that liking. I always get people say I and my mother look of totally Jewish descent and they say the same about my cousin and even more distant relatives. My family also lives in the same town that this Jewish family by the same surname settled. The 'Bloom' family with the meaning 'flower', according to houseofnames, is the Jewish one. It can be English or Irish too, apparently, and those families live in the UK too, but their surnames have a different meaning.
My mother and grandparents are gone now and I found it impossible to trace my grandfather's ancestry, no matter what site I go on, the family trees are simply not there.
Some family pics
Relative.. ? (surname Blum) his smile is exactly the same as my cousin's. http://i59.tinypic.com/9v8mmg.png
my cousin http://i60.tinypic.com/vg6avm.png http://i61.tinypic.com/dgrk77.png
Relative with what my mother calls the 'family nose'... my uncle looks similar, and I and my mother have the exact same nose shape! http://i58.tinypic.com/6r0neo.png
Young cousin http://i62.tinypic.com/20iw1so.png + http://i60.tinypic.com/2e1zsb4.png
Other cousin http://i62.tinypic.com/28s63rb.png
Me: (old picture from 5 years ago. I look pretty much a carbon copy of my mother and she had natural hair like that.) http://i62.tinypic.com/14nloq9.png
I could've been dreaming but I swear my mother's dad (surname Bloom comes from him) was discussing his father, or grandfather long ago, and when he mimicked his accent it sounded Jewish. I may have recalled him saying something like 'he was a Jew' or something to that liking. I always get people say I and my mother look of totally Jewish descent and they say the same about my cousin and even more distant relatives. My family also lives in the same town that this Jewish family by the same surname settled. The 'Bloom' family with the meaning 'flower', according to houseofnames, is the Jewish one. It can be English or Irish too, apparently, and those families live in the UK too, but their surnames have a different meaning.
My mother and grandparents are gone now and I found it impossible to trace my grandfather's ancestry, no matter what site I go on, the family trees are simply not there.
Some family pics
Relative.. ? (surname Blum) his smile is exactly the same as my cousin's. http://i59.tinypic.com/9v8mmg.png
my cousin http://i60.tinypic.com/vg6avm.png http://i61.tinypic.com/dgrk77.png
Relative with what my mother calls the 'family nose'... my uncle looks similar, and I and my mother have the exact same nose shape! http://i58.tinypic.com/6r0neo.png
Young cousin http://i62.tinypic.com/20iw1so.png + http://i60.tinypic.com/2e1zsb4.png
Other cousin http://i62.tinypic.com/28s63rb.png
Me: (old picture from 5 years ago. I look pretty much a carbon copy of my mother and she had natural hair like that.) http://i62.tinypic.com/14nloq9.png
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