Savich/Savage/Cobrin

How about the actor Fred Savage? His father and grandparents were our neighbors in Illinois.

I was looking into that but there's no way I'll be able to get in touch with anyone famous! As cool as that would be, it's unrealistic to think of getting in touch with him. I did research it though and found it is possible that we could be related but I don't have information on his paternal grandfather's family to make heads or tails of it. Geni did find a very very extremely distant relation to him on my father's side (through marriage so no we are not really related that way), but I'm looking for the connection from my mother's side. If you know any way to get in touch with him, that would be great!

Yosef Sa'ar But thank you so much for posting on the thread.I really appreciate it!

Contact me privately, Facebook or email.

When I read the surnames, a blue led flashed in my mind. So I searched in my 12K people tree and no, I'm not related to them. But I'd seen them before!

Some quick search led me to where:

* Nikita Kobrin - https://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/member3063.htm (yes, I am a professional translator, too)

* Doug Savage - http://www.dougsavage.com/about/

No idea on whether they are Jewish.

What's the problem of getting in touch with famous people?

Keep in mind that they were people and had relatives - you could be one of them - long before they became famous.

For instance, I was contacted by a fifth-cousin - making a long story short - who was being interviewed almost every day during a whole year on US national TV networks.

Geni traced my family links to both Thomas Jefferson and Franklin D. Roosevelt, though the latter involves some 4-5 divorces on the way, so he's an ex-cousin. ;-)

Edward Posnak in Jewishgen.org is researching Cobrin in Ukraine and you can reach out to him thru Family Finder. There are also 488 family trees on Jewishgen.org of Savage. Otherwise this question is very broad - need first names or places of birth or dates to help further.

Fred Savage - the actor

My experience in uncovering the people and stories in my family's history teaches that a researcher should always explore every possibility...always reach out to the downtrodden and obscure as well as the famous and powerful...keep records of one's discoveries from apparently insignificant to earth-shattering...and try again and again to connect the dots.

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Savage.html

Please consult this link. If interested in more details about Jimmie Savage and his brother Richard, get back to me.
Isaac Meilijson, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University.
isaco@math.tau.ac.il

Nigel Savage | 212.908.2503 | nigel@hazon.org . He is president of the Jewish organization Hazon

Of course, you might want to check out Jessica Savitch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Savitch&gt;. Her father was Jewish.
There is a Rabbi Rachel Kobrin in Austin, Texas.

Jessica Beth Savitch

Thank you all so much. For those who found people outside of America, I do appreciate it, but I know my family is American for as far back as I'm looking. Yes, we do stem from Lithuania and other areas in Eastern Europe, but for quite a while, my family has been in America (even before the war). The great-grandmother I'm trying to research was born in America. Anyone know of any AMERICAN Savages/Savitches/Cobrins?

Also, those names may not be related to each other but I am related to one or the other. However, it could be my great-grandparents were related even before they got married. It could be that my great-grandfather Sam Ziskind Oppenheim was a cousin of the girl (Anna F. - either Freida, Fruma, or something of the like) whom he later married. Just speculating.

But it's very strange that I found a gravestone with the name Yosef ben Baruch Bendet (from Benedict, Bennett, Baruch...) Oppenheim. His wife's name was Anna F. which is the same name as my great-grandmother's but her maiden name was not Cooper which is who that stone belongs to. So it could be related to me, could be it's not. But some of you mentioned Fred Savage. His brother Ben's name is Bennett Joseph. Yosef ben Baruch Bendet = Bennett Joseph. Coincident? No clue...

Hello.

So I just found out that my great-grandmother's maiden name was in fact Savitch/Savage - not Cobrin or the like (we think it was Savitch and they changed it to Savage, but it IS one of the two.)

However, I spoke to a relative of Fred Savage (yes, the actor) but he didn't recall any other surnames I mentioned. Do you think it's possible that maybe some members back in my family split up between different places and lost touch? Or do you think this really is a sign that we're not related to that Savage family?

My mother took the DNA testing through MyHeritage DNA, but that won't help if any other family didn't take a DNA test, and it still doesn't tell us how we're related to people. It says the closest possible match is 1.7% a DNA match. What does this mean? How can I know that we're actually related even to that person whose name doesn't sound familiar at all?

Sorry I sound so ignorant on the subject, but this is really important to me and to my mother.

Hope you can help,
Mindy

Hi, the surname "Savitch" resembles these Lithuanian surnames:
- Savičius;
- Savičas.

If You enter those in Lithuanian surname database:
http://lkiis.lki.lt/pavardziu-duomenu-baze
You'll find surname originis and prevalence in ~1940s.

Search for those surnames in Geni.com, MyHeritage databases.

BR,
Eglė

Hi, in Serbia/Croatia etc you find Savić surname.
BR Tom

That's very interesting info (regarding Savic surname Serbian/Croatian origin).
My maternal uncle has 14% Balkans' genes and we have no clue which country these are from. Most probably we must look closer to Serbia/Croatia.

Hi, please look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savi%C4%87
BR Tom

They prob changed their name inquisition go to jewishgen.com

Angela vega Thank you, but it says the site can't be reached.

Try org instead of .com also name my roots is good one too.

I I found savage on genealogy. Com

Angela vega Thank you so much for your help. I still have not found anything on these sites.

Update: The closest I've gotten was through DNA testing which tells me with whom we share DNA segments. I found a record for a "Mae Savitch" who is in the family tree of the closest DNA match. However in this person's tree, it stops at Mae on that side of the tree. It is more extensive on the other branches. Everywhere I seem to turn, the trees stop at Savage with no going further. Everyone I've found has this. Even the Savage actors' family tree stops abruptly at Savage while the other side of the tree is filled with information.

The interesting thing is, however, that whenever I try to find a link to a Savage, it always links through my father's side. In fact, I typed in a relative I know on my mother's side and Geni again found a path - through my father's side. So somehow, it might just be that we're related to all these people 2 ways.

So, if anyone has any other information or tips, I'd really like to hear it.

Thanks again,
Mindy

@Mindel Leah Levin, I give up on getting Geni to cough up this Mae Savitch you mention, so my advice has to stay fairly generic: start with what you know and work your way back. Yes, it's oft-repeated, but true. A surname like /saw-vich/ (in whatever spelling) is likely to have arisen for hundreds (if not thousands) of totally unrelated families; all they needed to have in common was residence near or some other connection to the river Sava, or an ancestor named Sava/Sova (derived from a Slavic word meaning 'owl'). So don't get fixated on the name; research specific people instead.
When all of the online genealogies have the same thing(s) in them, it's generally because they're all copied from one another. There's often no telling where the information originally came from. This is the main reason I find online trees to be of limited usefulness, and prefer instead to search through actual or indexed historical records, for example on FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/hr/search), JewishGen (https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/), GenTeam (https://www.genteam.eu/), and Matricula (http://data.matricula-online.eu/en/).

Private User Thank you so much. I realized that, however, I read somewhere that very few Savage's are actually Jewish. Apparently it's more of a non-Jewish name which makes it more rare. I don't know how accurate this information is, but I figured I'd at least try to build from that. The reason I'm trying is because I know that's my grandmother's name and I'm trying to find her family.

This is likely the marriage certificate for your grandparents:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24C9-5KQ

It lists her parents as Ocker (Osker/Oskar?) Savitch and Yetta Blumenthal

Alexander Bernstein Wow! Thank you so much! How on Earth did you find this? That's so incredibly amazing! I can't thank you enough :) :) :) Finally a little glimmer!

I've searched on Ancestry for Anne Savitch married to Sol Oppenheim. Ancestry database had a record from index to NYC marriages. Index only has names, license number, and date - March 9, 1918. I then searched on FamilySearch using the date to narrow the search, and found the certificate itself which includes names of the parents. There are a couple of trees on Ancestry - one public and one private that have this information. You may want to join and contact owners of those trees.

Alexander Bernstein There's a family tee with this record?! That's amazing! Can I see the public one even if I don't have a paid account?