# Lejbus Grynblat (b.1780) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **5x great-grandfather · also 6x great-grandfather *(2 ancestral lines)*** **Born** ~1780 **Died** bef 1835 **Parents** [[PLACEHOLDER Chaim Grynblat]] **Spouse** [[Pesia (b.1780)]] **Children** [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **5x great-grandfather** — [[Lejbus Grynblat (b.1780)]] → [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] → [[Moszek Hersz Grynblat (b.1839)]] → [[Maryia Grynblat (b.1876)]] → [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **6x great-grandfather** — [[Lejbus Grynblat (b.1780)]] → [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] → [[Syma Fajga Grynblat (b.1826)]] → [[Bajla Frenk (b.1857)]] → [[Moszek Mortko Hamerman (b.1881)]] → [[Yona Hamerman (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I509158 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Lejbus Grynblat is known almost entirely through his son. Born about 1780 and married to **[[Pesia (b.1780)]]**, he was the father of [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] — the Rozkopaczew villager through whom the direct line descends twice over.[^son] The one document that names him is Chaim's own **1877 death act**, which records the deceased as "son of the late **Lejbuś and Pesia**" — so by 1877 (and, the tree reckons, before 1835) Lejbus was already dead.[^son] A family tradition holds that the Grynblats — a German-sounding name (*Grünblatt*) — originated in Germany, but nothing survives to trace him beyond his son's record.[^origin] *(Vitals-only stub: no record of Lejbus's own has been found; his life is not documented beyond his naming as Chaim's father.)* [^son]: [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]]'s death act (Łęczna, no. 32, 1877) — read directly from the scan — records Chaim as "**son of the late Lejbuś and Pesia**." This is the primary attestation of Lejbus Grynblat and his wife [[Pesia (b.1780)]]. Scan: [Akta 32](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/5ee0499aabdf2047d7304e2b14e23fe3359c6024d4bce6c1d54a210770c84bbd). [^origin]: Family tradition (MyHeritage profile): "The family likely originated in Germany" — consistent with the German-derived surname *Grünblatt* / Grynblat. Unverified. ## Research - **Attestation:** named only as the father of [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]] in Chaim's 1877 Łęczna death act ("son of the late Lejbuś and Pesia"), read directly. Wife **[[Pesia (b.1780)]]**. - **Dates:** born ~1780; died before 1835 (per the tree; consistent with being "the late Lejbuś" in 1877). - **Origin tradition:** the Grynblat/Grünblatt family "likely originated in Germany" (unverified). - No record of Lejbus's own (birth, marriage, death, census) has been located. ## Evidence - *No primary record of Lejbus himself.* His existence and name rest on his son [[Chaim Grynblat (b.1812)]]'s 1877 death act (image on Chaim's profile), which names his parents as Lejbuś and Pesia. ## Open questions - **Any record of his own.** A Rozkopaczew/Łęczna-district death record (pre-1835), a marriage to Pesia, or an early census would move him from a name to a documented person. - **German origin.** Whether the Grynblat family's German-origin tradition can be substantiated is open. - **His father.** Listed as [[PLACEHOLDER Chaim Grynblat]] — unconfirmed; needs a record naming Lejbus's own parentage.