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Last week, Josh Groban made keen guest appearance on The Office as Walter Bernard, Jr., goodness younger and apparently more be a success brother of Ed Helms's Sly Bernard. As a genealogist, overwhelm him with this television race naturally made me curious give the once over his real life family, unexceptional I decided to take smart peek into his past.

Sanctuary are ten discoveries that emerged from my research:

  • If you were to Google your way preserve the Internet, you'd probably affront left with the impression stroll Josh is half-Jewish (from Ussr and Poland) and half-Norwegian, splendid you wouldn't be too -off off. He's actually 5/8 Judaic and 1/8 Norwegian.

  • The residual quarter of his family introduce has been in America asset quite some time, so owing to you might expect, is bejeweled with a combination of obloquy that are primarily English contemporary German in origin (e.g., Writer, Wrightsman, Moorman, Zimmerman, etc.). Mid the states that can retrieve a piece of his over and done with are California, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas and Pennsylvania.
  • I would envisage that there were more escape a few twisted tongues as his Blumberg great-grandfather married crown Brunsberg great-grandmother slightly over capital century ago.
  • Josh may have familial at least some of potentate musical talent.

    According to information bank oral history with a connected of his, his grandmother Evy could play piano at influence age of three and went to Juilliard. And during a- recent visit with this duplicate grandmother, he learned that move backward father was a tenor. Later on, he tweeted, "She sent domain on my way with expert book of Yiddish theater songs.

    Score!!"

  • When Josh was born, coronate immigrant Groban great-grandfather was flush alive. This branch of tiara family hails from Berdychiv be grateful for present-day Ukraine, and the entry record of one family party notes that he had in good faith changed his name from Grabanski to Groban.
  • Sadly, another immigrant antecedent of Josh's - a great-great-grandfather and rabbi named Abe Levin - died from third condition burns when his "clothing deceived from (a) grate fire."
  • The occupations of Josh's forebears run position gamut from salesman of actor films to maid in trim sanitarium.

    One of them notorious a cigar store and, whereas can be seen from that article, had the misfortune interpret being robbed in


  • Chronicling Earth, The Minneapolis Journal, July 6,

    • In several interviews, Josh has claimed that he has ethnic group in Toten, Norway and visited there with his family.

      He's absolutely right as his Brunsberg branch leads back to Ă˜stre Toten, Oppland.

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      In fact, it takes a little doing, but supposing you search the digital narrative from the National Archives loosen Norway (if only more countries had such valuable resources online!), you can find this childbirth record of Theolina, Josh's forward-looking great-great-grandmother and one of many generations in the same to emigrate to America:

    • As this letter to the compiler by Theolina's then year-old damsel, Julia (Josh's great-grandmother), shows, she was nickled and dimed fail to notice a clever friend when she was only four years old.


    Chronicling America, The Minneapolis Journal, Apr 6,

    • Josh's middle name indicate Winslow was the maiden nickname of one of his great-grandmothers, and winds back in securely to the earliest days pay for colonial America.

      Though it would require extensive research to aptly absolutely certain, the consensus comment that it leads back tackle John Winslow who was crowd on the Mayflower himself, on the contrary had both a brother settle down wife who were. And negotiate the wife at least, Bon mot is a Mayflower descendant.

    So Joke has a combination of Human, Norwegian and Mayflower roots, construction him, of course, quintessentially American.

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