my maternal ancestors

[davidfcooper]

As you may know, today is holocaust rememberance day in Israel. For a summary of how the end came to the Jews of Drohitchin (my grandmother's home town), see the on line English translation of the Drohitchin Memorial Book

For a profile of my great great grandfather

and my great grandparents

The latter article seems to translate my grandmother's name Fanny from the Yiddish as Penny. I am grateful that my great grandparents had the good sense to emigrate to the USA.

Comments

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

not just to you

To whom? My sister? My mom?

Which personality type resemblances do you see?

[bethr.livejournal.com]

Personality types: outgoing, scholarly, concerned about community, interest in law/medicine, Jewish-positive but not constricted by it.

The great-great-grandfather definitely looks like you. The great-grandfather looks like Sarah and Samuel, IMO anyway. But it's your mother's side of the family, no? Otherwise i'd say he looked like your father also, but in a different way than your siblings.

PS But Genetics Do Wild Things

[bethr.livejournal.com]

I don't know what happened to the photo, but my mother had a photo of her grandmother, our great-grandmother, as a teenager. And if you only saw the photo of the eyes down to the bridge of her nose, it could have been my sister 100%.

The specific facial features that make my kids look just like their father are the same ones that make him look just like his mother, which made her look just like her father. The very distinctive surprised-looking eyebrows and widely-spaced roung eyes are direct courtesy of Philip Schwartz, the kosher butcher of Altoona, PA.

Re: PS But Genetics Do Wild Things

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

the kosher butcher of Altoona, PA.

By coincidence the surname Shube comes from
שוכת ובודק
a kosher butcher and examiner (of animals selected for slaughter and of butchered carcasses).