# Zelik Mendelsberg (b.1835) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **3x great-grand-uncle · also 1st cousin 5x removed *(2 ancestral lines)*** **Born** 1835 — [[Żółkiewka]] **Died** 1848 — [[Żółkiewka]] **Parents** [[Josef Mendelsberg (b.1812)]] · [[Prywa Szajman (b.1808)]] **Siblings** [[Ela Mendelsberg (b.1837)]] · [[Ayzyk Hersz Mendelsberg (b.1840)]] · [[Izrael Chaim Mendelsberg (b.1841)]] · [[Szloma Lejbusa Mendelsberg (b.1844)]] · [[Abram Mendelsberg (b.1847)]] · [[Laja Frajdla Mendelsberg (b.1849)]] · [[Szulim Mendelsberg (b.1852)]] · [[Marya Brandla Mendelsberg (b.1855)]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **3x great-grand-uncle** — [[Zelik Mendelsberg (b.1835)]] → [[Prywa Szajman (b.1808)]] → [[Laja Frajdla Mendelsberg (b.1849)]] → [[Szol Aron Balter (b.1874)]] → [[Gittel Balter (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **1st cousin 5x removed** — [[Zelik Mendelsberg (b.1835)]] → [[Josef Mendelsberg (b.1812)]] → [[Zelik Mendelsberg (b.1783)]] → [[Brandla Mala Mendelsberg (b.1803)]] → [[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 I510511 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions