Welcome to the Vaughan / Levan Family History Extravaganza!
Now With 50% More Yiddishkeit and 100% More Name-Dropping!
Shalom, curious internet wanderer! Unless you’re mishpacha, a friend of Russell or Adrienne Vaughan, or once narrowly escaped being adopted by their legendary BBQ pitmaster, this family tree is about as useful to you as a chametz detector at Pesach. But stick around if you love a good mystery—or enjoy watching someone bang their head against literal brick walls (spoiler: it’s me, and yes, my therapist has a PhD in genealogy-induced migraines).
What’s Simmering in the Vaughan/Levan Archives?
I’ve been spelunking through family history for years—think Indiana Jones, but with more tea stains, fewer boulders, and a soundtrack of Hava Nagila on loop. This site’s got it all:
- Drama! Our Berman/Berkman branch is basically Days of Our Lives meets Fiddler on the Roof. Are they related? Maybe. If. But YET.
- Mystery! Why did Great-Grandma flee Poland? To dodge a meteor? Nope, just history. But hey, we’re here because she packed a suitcase and a kugel recipe!
- Pictures! Now with face-to-name technology! If Aunt Mabel’s staring at you from the 1920s, yell. We’re listening… and also slightly terrified.
The “Rogues’ Gallery” of Names I’m Stalking
A.K.A. The List That’s Longer Than the Torah Portion
Key Players: Aronowitz/Phillips, Casson/Davgovsky, Levanovitch/Levan/Lask, Bernstein/Burns, Donofsky/Zietman, Vanovitch/Vaughan, Rosengarten/Rose, Berman/Berkman/Saklovitz/Sokolove… and approximately 742 spelling variations. (Ancestors, was Scrabble your favourite game? Or just a plot to confuse future generations? We’re onto you.)
Full Cast of Characters (a.k.a. “The Cholent of Surnames”):
ABELSON, ABRAHAMS, ABRAMOWITZ… [all names listed here] …ZOLER, Rose.
P.S. If your last name is Cohen, prepare for existential dread—we’ve got more Cohens than a deli has pickles.
Breakthrough Status
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Chaos
Stage 1: Interrogate relatives with rugelach. (Ongoing. Bubbe’s recipe works wonders.)
Stage 2: Cry over census records. Tears optional, but recommended for hydration. (Pro tip: Sob directly into your chicken soup for added flavour.)
Stage 3: Build a tree that doesn’t look like a spider web. (Spoiler: It currently resembles a toddler’s crayon rendition of the Ten Plagues.)
How YOU Can Join the Mishegas
- Got docs? Dust off Great-Uncle Bob’s shoebox of photos. We’ll take anything—even his questionable moustache collection or that challah recipe he stole from Epstein’s bakery.
- Spot a typo? Correct us! We’ve got more “creative interpretations” than a bar mitzvah boy’s Torah portion.
- Think we’re related? Register here! (Or slide into my DMs like a Victorian ghost with a vendetta and a knish.)
Final Plea from Your Local Family History Fanatic
This tree’s a team effort—shoutout to cousins, aunts, and that one friend who Googled “Vaughan” at 3 AM while eating babka. It’s flawed, chaotic, and updated slower than a sloth on dial-up… but it’s ours. Want in? Let’s swap stories over a virtual cuppa (or a virtual Manischewitz).
P.S. New updates drop here! (But you’ll need to log in it’s like Narnia, but with more birth certificates and fewer talking lions.)
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Disclaimer: No ancestors were harmed in the making of this website. Yet. However, several schvitz stains were sacrificed for the cause.
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Help us ID Aunt Frieda’s third cousin twice removed… or at least explain why she’s holding a goose.
Tl;dr: If your surname’s on the list above, mazel tov—we’re probably cousins. Let’s kvell over shared DNA and mutually complain about the spelling of “Levanovitch.”