# Fayga Raca Blufogel (b.1846) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **2nd cousin 4x removed · also 3rd cousin 4x removed *(2 ancestral lines)*** **Born** 1846 — [[Strzyżew]] **Parents** [[Judko Blufogel (b.1820)]] · [[Ita Gerecht (b.1824)]] **Siblings** [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1849)]] · [[Matla Blufogel (b.1854)]] · [[Noech Blufogel (b.1861)]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **2nd cousin 4x removed** — [[Fayga Raca Blufogel (b.1846)]] → [[Judko Blufogel (b.1820)]] → [[Estera Barbanel (b.1797)]] → [[Josef Barbanel (b.1773)]] → [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]] → [[Chaim Barbanel (b.1840)]] → [[Dawid Barbanel (b.1879)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Barbanel (b.1907)]] → [[Yisrael Tzvi Barbanel (b.1934)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **3rd cousin 4x removed** — [[Fayga Raca Blufogel (b.1846)]] → [[Judko Blufogel (b.1820)]] → [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1795)]] → [[Nowak Blufogel (b.1769)]] → [[Eyzyk Blufogel (b.1745)]] → [[Zlota Dwojra Blufogel (b.1779)]] → [[Szol Balter (b.1800)]] → [[Srul Balter (b.1845)]] → [[Szol Aron Balter (b.1874)]] → [[Gittel Balter (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I517160 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Fayga Raca Blufogel was born in 1846 in [[Strzyżew]], Poland (GEDCOM I517160, Bernstein tree). She was a daughter of [[Judko Blufogel (b.1820)]] and [[Ita Gerecht (b.1824)]], and the eldest of the four recorded children in the household, ahead of her brother [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1849)]], her sister [[Matla Blufogel (b.1854)]], and her youngest brother [[Noech Blufogel (b.1861)]] — a sibling group spanning roughly fifteen years, all in the same Strzyżew-area setting. She is recorded only at her 1846 birth; no later record of her — marriage, death, or place of residence — is known. The MyHeritage-attached note raises the possibility that a "Raca BLUFAJGIEL" who appears as a parent in an 1899 Polish civil-records index (the RAJBUCH/Psachiia and BLUFAJGIEL entries) may have been her daughter, but the note itself states this could not be confirmed [?], and the underlying index images have not yet been read (see Open questions). Any connection between Fayga Raca and that 1899 record therefore remains an unproven hypothesis rather than an established fact. She sits on two separate lines of descent to the family — as a 2nd cousin 4x removed through the [[Barbanel]] side and, because the family intermarried, also as a 3rd cousin 4x removed through the Blufogel–[[Balter]] line — reflecting how closely the Blufogel and Barbanel families were bound in this community. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Is the 1899 "Raca BLUFAJGIEL" her daughter?** The MyHeritage note attaches two JRI-Poland index images (RAJBUCH/Psachiia and SEDLANCZIK/Estera Ides, 1899) naming a "Raca BLUFAJGIEL" as parent. The note itself flags this as unconfirmed. Both "View Image" links (`legacy.jri-poland.org/databases/psa_image2.php?urldir=35/1723/0/2/45&jpgpage=16`) redirect to **szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl** (jednostka 2184688, scan 16) — **needs browser pass** to read the actual records and test the daughter hypothesis. Do not treat as established until read.