We are related but I am not sure how. You had a post about Amelia Janushek, she is my great-grandmother. She came here from the Black Forest, Bohemia, with her sister Rosa. My grandmother told me that she and her sister were put on a boat and sent to Baltimore to live with their uncle. My grandmother was so secretive as to who they were and my mom only remembers her grandmother speaking in a foreign languag and trying to teach my mom how to speak it. My mother doesn’t remember what language it was and doesn’t talk much about her family either.

So, last year I decided to get my DNA (female only) tested and it comes back T2 haplogroup (lots of Jewish both Ashkenazi and Sephardic). The Ashkenazi is German, Polish, Ukranian and Russian.

I understand fully the addiction to ancestry, because I have traced my father’s line back to 900 A.D. My dad has quite a few Jewish grandmothers too, and is Scottish royality. My mom, I know nothing. My great-grandmother Amelia married Joseph Shaller and they had 11 children (9 lived) of which my grandmother Margaret was one of them. Margaret married Louis Krauk and they had two children, Robert and Phyllis (my mom). I don’t have much on them. My grandfather Krauk is still living (99 years old) and he won’t talk about his childhood either or MomMom’s. It is sad, I wonder why they won’t talk about it.

Please write back, I have been searching for someone related to my great-grandmother for over 15 years.

Thank you in advance for your time! From one Baltimorean to another…let’s go Ravens!!!

Sincerely,
Karen