Birth Name: Wendy Allegra Rosenberg
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 4, 1958
Ethnicity:
*87.5% Jewish (Ashkenazi, small amount of Sephardi)
*12.5% Cuban
Wendy Makkena is an American actress. She is the daughter of Diana K. Rosenberg (Diana Kline), an astrologer, and Werner Rosenberg.
Wendy’s father was born in Berlin, Germany, and was Jewish; he was a holocaust survivor. Her mother was born in New York, and was of three quarters Jewish (Austrian Jewish, German Jewish, English Jewish, French Jewish, and Jamaican Jewish) and one quarter Cuban descent.
Wendy’s paternal grandparents were Ludwig Oskar Rosenberg and Erna Bein.
Wendy’s maternal grandfather was Edward Adolphus Kline (the son of Edward A. Kline and Lulu/Luisa Harberger). Wendy’s great-grandfather Edward was born in Austria-Hungary, the son of Jacob Kline and Sallie Rosenberg. Lulu was the daughter of Leo Harburger, who was born in Germany, and Sadie/Sarah Bernal Hassan, whose father, Abraham Hassan, was born in Ohio, to English Jewish parents, and whose mother, Esther Bernal, was born in Jamaica, and was likely Sephardi Jewish.
Wendy’s maternal grandmother was Frances Esther Steinhardt (the daughter of Irving David Steinhardt and Clara Aurora Luis). Irving was Jewish, and was the son of Julius Lester Steinhardt, who was born in Germany, and Rachel Lyons, who was born in New York, to a French Jewish father and a mother, who was born in New York, to English Jewish parents. Clara was born in New York, to Cuban parents, Jose Jacinto Luis and Francisca Yraola.
Sources: Wendy’s maternal grandfather, Edward Adolphus Kline, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Edward on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Wendy’s great-grandmother, Lulu/Luisa Harberger, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Genealogy of Wendy’s great-great-grandmother, Sadie/Sarah Bernal Hassan – https://www.findagrave.com/
Wendy’s great-great-grandmother, Sadie/Sarah Bernal Hassan, on the 1860 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Sadie on the 1870 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Wendy’s great-great-great-grandfather, Abraham Hassan, on the 1850 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Abraham on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Wendy’s maternal grandmother, Frances Esther Steinhardt, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Frances on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Genealogy of Wendy’s maternal grandmother, Frances Esther Steinhardt – https://www.geni.com/
Wendy’s great-great-grandparents, Julius Lester Steinhardt and Rachel Lyons, on the 1881 Canada Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Wendy’s great-great-great-grandparents, Hyman/Herman Lyons and Esther/Hester Ezekiel – https://www.familysearch.org/
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