Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: General Topics: Jewish Genealogy Forum Re: Surname SEMFT (Jewish?) Posted by: Phillip Applebaum (ID *****0871) Date: June 24, 2008 at 20:53:55 In Reply to: Surname SEMFT (Jewish?) by Betty Catherwood of 5490 A Jew would not have been the godparent of a Catholic child, certainly not in 1832. Neither the Jew nor the Catholic would have agreed to such a thing. Semft is not a common name among Jews. The name does not appear in Yad Vashem records. Jewish Records Indexing-Poland shows one example: Semft in Tarnow, Galicia (see http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~jripllat2). Do not be mislead by the fact that Anna was the daughter of Jacob, a name common among Jews. Jacob was also a very popular name among ethnic Germans, and Semft is a German name. Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: Surname SEMFT (Jewish?) Betty Catherwood 6/25/08 http://genforum.genealogy.com/jewish/messages/5285.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Link to GenForum Add Forum

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