As the French say:"Tout ça, pour nous faire une belle jambe..."("A lot of good that'll do me" in plain English)

 Here are some of the names of those families partially responsible for bringing me into this 58th century...

	 	Marton, Rosenberg, Preis/Preisz, Csillag/Stern, Grünewald, Hirschler,Schlesinger 
	
  and if we jump a few generations:  
   Gans, Leidesdorf, Austerlitz (an ancestor of Fred Astaire)
									
  with the renown:		
   Akiva Eger, Moses Schreiber (Chatam Sofer),Israel Horowitz,
	
  and (according to the lore reported by Raphael Patai) 

			Rashi and David HaMelech!


And if we are to go further, to the African diasporas,
here is the link, for the Y Haplogroup r1B 
and for the mtDNA Haplogroup K and more specifically:
HVR1Haplogroup K
HVR1 differences from CRS 16224C
16234T
16311C
16519C
HVR2 differences from CRS 73G
114T
263G
315.1C
497T
But more later, as the present needs attention...
If you don't mind getting lost
in a similar vertigo with your own history, here are some good places to start:

- The National Geographic Genographic Project

- The FamilyTreeDNA database

- Jewish Gen