{"id":179,"date":"2017-01-08T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/?p=179"},"modified":"2017-01-15T01:08:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T06:08:37","slug":"frank-sephardic-weil-anagram-for-levi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Weil an Anagram for Levi?  Weil &#8230; Spanish and Moroccan Sephardi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New information has been discovered that indicates that Weil written in Hebrew is an anagram\u00c2\u00a0for Levi written in Hebrew. \u00c2\u00a0This makes the Weils Levites. \u00c2\u00a0This is further reinforced by a 23andMe report that states that among my DNA cousin matches the\u00c2\u00a0most numerous and weighted DNA match and ancestral name is Cohen. \u00c2\u00a0The third largest is Levi. \u00c2\u00a0The second largest is Rothschild. \u00c2\u00a0It must be remembered that this calculation comes from the DNA samples that were voluntarily submitted, not from a scientific population study.<\/p>\n<p>Also, new information has been discovered that places Weils in Spain and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weil\/Weyl\/Weill Anagram for Levi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What&#8217;s in a name?<\/em> By Estee Rieder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are some that are even an anagram of an earlier family name; the name Weil in Hebrew (vov-yud-lamed) is an anagram of Levi (lamed-vav-yud).\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/0807\/names.php3\">http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/0807\/names.php3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several locations, including Wikipedia and a Moroccan Jewish name list, indicate that Weyl\/Weil\/Weill may have come as an anagram of the name Levi. \u00c2\u00a0According to Jewish biblical history, the Cohens and the Levites were assigned specific tasks in the temple, and treated differently in other ways. That is consistent with the 900 page history that indicates that the Weils were a highly respected Rabbinical family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weil A Sephardi Name?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weil is listed as a Sephardi name in the following documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/www.sephardicgen.com\/databases\/SephardimCom2009.htm<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.sephardicgen.com\/names.htm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Getting There: The Rationale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The analysis\/search of the Sephardi connection\u00c2\u00a0started\u00c2\u00a0because one of my 2<sup>nd<\/sup> cousins Karen, also a descendant of Carl Henry Weil, was surprised when her DNA analysis showed 98% Ashkenazi. Her comment stirred my prior interest in a possible\u00c2\u00a0Weil Sephardi origin. \u00c2\u00a0A comment in an excerpt from the 900 page family history suggested that the Weils were Sephardi although I gather there is no hard information on that point in that book.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The history also indicated that the author didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know where the name came from.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently there are two rivers in Europe who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s names are spelled close to Weil. However, the family history also contains an unsubstantiated suggestion that the family originated in Valls, Tarragona, Spain not far south west from\u00c2\u00a0Barcelona. \u00c2\u00a0It was a Jewish centre. \u00c2\u00a0If true, that ups the probability almost to a certainty.<\/p>\n<p>First, the naming conventions are different for the Ashkenazim than for the Sephardi. \u00c2\u00a0The German web site Hohenems Genealogie (J\u00c3\u00bcdische Familiengeschichte in Vorarlberg und Tirol) which has extensive family tree information on the Weils.\u00c2\u00a0 Lo and behold, the Weils practiced the Sephardi convention where they named the first male and female children after a living family member, specifically grandparents.\u00c2\u00a0 Ashkenazim don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, apparently. Furthermore, Sephardi have been using surnames from according to that convention going back to about the 12<sup>th<\/sup> C, when, of course, there were large numbers of Jews in Portugal, Spain and Morocco.\u00c2\u00a0 Ashkenazim didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really adopt surnames until the late 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0C to the mid-18<sup>th<\/sup> C when they were required to in Europe. The 900 page family history indicates that the Weil names goes way back in the Randegg family.<\/p>\n<p>Also, both my 2nd Cousin Karen and I have significant Iberian and Mediterranean DNA, not in large amounts but sufficient to be unequivocal. \u00c2\u00a0 It appears in other DNA tests as well. I used a number of GEDmatch Admixture analysis apps with both my file and Karen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s which further confirmed a substantial Mediterranean connection. \u00c2\u00a0I did not get it from my other three grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>My Eastern European DNA can almost totally be attributed to my Polish great grandmother Juliana Lugiewicz who conceived my grandfather with Carl Weil on New Years Eve 1989.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New information has been discovered that indicates that Weil written in Hebrew is an anagram\u00c2\u00a0for Levi written in Hebrew. \u00c2\u00a0This makes the Weils Levites. \u00c2\u00a0This is further reinforced by a 23andMe report that states that among my DNA cousin matches the\u00c2\u00a0most numerous and weighted DNA match and ancestral name is Cohen. \u00c2\u00a0The third largest is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,30,23],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history-pre-1890","category-frank-the-man-his-life","category-relatives-2","category-semitics","tag-parents-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}