Birth Name: Catherine Louise Sagal
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: January 19, 1954
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*1/4 Alsatian German, English, some Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swiss-German, German, 1/32 Swedish, distant French (mother)
Family Background: Katey Sagal is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She is known for her role as Peggy Bundy in the sitcom Married… with Children, and as Gemma Teller Morrow in the series Sons of Anarchy.
Katey is the daughter of Sara (Zwilling), a director and singer, and Boris (born Bernard Louis) Sagal, a director and writer. Sara was born in Geneva, Illinois. Boris was born in Yekaterinoslav, Soviet Union (present day Ukraine).
Katey’s maternal grandparents were Daniel Frederick Zwilling (the son of Daniel Zwilling and Alda Blanche Miller) and Virginia Lee Thompson (the daughter of Nathaniel Quitman Thompson and Virginia/Jennie M. Macon). Daniel, Sr., was born in Ohio to parents from Alsace Lorraine, France. Alda was born in Marshall, Iowa. Nathaniel and Virginia/Jeannie was both born in Mississippi.
Source: Genealogies of Katey Sagal (focusing on her mother’s side) –
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=my-thompson-line&id=P140
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LDWP-WDY
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LDWP-ZSK
Katey’s mother on the 1930 United States Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSY3-VM3
Katey’s mother on the 1940 United States Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K48G-S8Y
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