Christian Yelich

Birth Name: Christian Stephen Yelich

Place of Birth: Thousand Oaks, California

Date of Birth: December 5, 1991

Ethnicity:

*likely Croatian (father)

*Japanese, German, English, Danish, Scottish, remote Dutch (mother)

Christian Yelich is an American professional baseball left fielder.

His maternal grandparents are Mineo Dan Oda and Bonnie Lynn Gehrke. His grandfather Mineo Dan is Japanese. Bonnie Lynn is the daughter of American football player Clarence Fred Gehrke and Marilyn Palmer. Clarence was the son of Fred Richard Gehrke (son of August Daniel Gehrke and Elizabeth A.) and Augusta Tichelmann (daughter of August Tichelmann and Johanne Krom), both born in Königsberg, Germany. Marilyn was the daughter of Bart/Bert Conrad Palmer (son of Morris Palmer and Mary Frost) and Vera Mariger (daughter of Lawrence Christian Mariger and Sarah Lucretia Stewart).

Source:

Birth record of Christian’s maternal grandfather Mineo Dan Oda-

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V27L-ZGW

Marriage record of Christian’s maternal great-grandparents Clarence Gherke and Marilyn Palmer-

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8K8-4T8

Genealogy of Christian’s great-grandfather-

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35699202

Christian’s great-grandfather Clarence Fred Gherke on a 1930 U.S. census-

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH66-PBF

Christian’s great-grandmother Marilyn Palmer on a 1930 U.S. census-

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH66-6SF

Christian’s great-great-grandfather Bert Conrad Palmer on a 1900 U.S. census-