This past September Ancestry DNA confirmed that my grandfather Clyde Robertson really was Max Pellack. A year earlier my Ancestry DNA results were completed, and I logged onto the site with excitement to finally find out who I really was.
I had confirmation of one person on my paternal maternal line. Since this was the only line that I actually knew anything about I was not delighted with the results. About 6 months later I convinced my dad to let me complete his DNA for my Ancestry account. Hopes dashed again when the same single relative matched. Now I had about 300 folks that I, or my dad, shared DNA with and absolutely no way to figure out how. About 6 months after that one new shared tree notification arrived for both my dad and I. He was the great grandson of my grandfather's uncle. The mystery of who Clyde Robertson was is now solved.
He was Max Pellack. DNA doesn't lie.
Those missing 10 years still exist. How he became Clyde Robertson still a mystery. I have found the family's arrival to Canada via Quebec on a ship's manifest in 1909 leaving the Port of Bremen. Where they were before that? Still searching for records that connect the Pellack/Pelyck family to the village of Skoryky, Скорики, Ternopil's'ka Oblast, Ukraine . I'm 12% European Jewish and my dad 27% according to our Ancestry DNA results. Ukrainian? Austrian? Jewish?
Still looking for Alexander & Mary (nee Maximiw) Pellack - the roots of my current Bramble Bush!!!
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