Gene Zubrinsky

Eugene Cole Zubrinsky is an American genealogist focusing on colonial southern New England families. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists and lives in Ojai, California.

Background

As stated in his ASG biography, Zubrinsky is a former high jumper, community college sociology instructor, and jazz musician. He won a silver medal in high jump at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Zubrinsky played the trumpet professionally most of his life. In 1978, when the CSUN "A" Big-Band Jazz Ensemble recorded their album ''Let's Eat Cactus,'' he played the flugelhorn solo on "Crimp Cut".

Genealogy career

After retiring from teaching in 1987, he gradually developed an interest in genealogy, publishing his first journal article in 1992.

In 2008, he authored a series of twelve online sketches on the two primary colonial Carpenter families, of Rehoboth, Mass., and Providence, R.I., which form the definitive source of accurate information about the early American generations and English origins of those families. In 2014, he published a highly detailed volume pertaining to his Russian-Jewish paternal ancestry, and in 2016, an extensive genealogy of the Redways, one of his mother's ancestral families.

Zubrinsky was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists in 2010, an honor limited to 50 living persons.

He has published over 30 scholarly articles in premier journals such as the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Selected publications

*"The Parents (and Further Ancestry) of John Cole of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Husband of Mercy Perry and Elizabeth Brown", ''The American Genealogist'', 86(2012):40–45.
*"The Miles Family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; Newberry County, South Carolina; and Miami County, Ohio: With Extensive Coverage of the Film–Pioneer Miles Brothers", ''Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly'' 53(2013):3–12, 182–95, 304–18, 377–88.
*"Julian Adcocke, Wife of John1 Sutton of Hingham and Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and Their Family", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 167(2013):7–14.
*"A Fresh Look at the Parentage of Mayflower Passenger Joan (Hurst) (Rogers) Tilley: With Her Mother’s Identity and Family of Origin", ''The American Genealogist'' 85(2011):1–8.
*"Townsmen and Selectmen: Variations of Title and Function in Plymouth Colony", ''The American Genealogist'' 84(2010):50–51.
*"The Immigration and Marriage of William1 Carpenter of Amesbury, Wiltshire, and Providence, Rhode Island", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 164(2010):36–40, 296–97 (with addition and/or correction hereafter cited).
*"The Immigration and Early Whereabouts in America of Thomas1 Stanton of Connecticut: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom", ''The American Genealogist'' 81(2006):263–73.
*"John2 Cole and Family of Plymouth and Swansea, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, Rhode Island: With Additional Corrections to the Cole Literature", ''The American Genealogist'' 81(2006):122–32, 238–45.
*"Thomas1 Stanton of Connecticut and the Longbridge Tradition: An Old Dogma’s Demise (Again),” ''The American Genealogist'' 81(2006):48–52.
*"Three John Carpenters: A Chain of Mistaken Identities", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 159(2005):43–53, 361–62 (a&c); 163(2009):297 (a&c).
*"Abiah3 Carpenter of Warwick, Rhode Island, and His Family: With Additional Material Concerning William1 Carpenter of Providence, Rhode Island, and William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 159(2005):54–68, 362–64 (a&c); 161(2007):300 (a&c); 163(2009):297–98 (a&c).
*"The Penn(e)ys of Harwich, Massachusetts, and Upstate New York", ''New York Genealogical and Biographical Record'' 133(2002):83–98, 201–16, 293 (a&c); 134(2003):304–5 (a&c).
*"The Redway/Radway Family of Putney, Vermont: A Branch of the Rehoboth, Massachusetts, Redways", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 154(2000):446–58.
*"Deacon John1 Warfield and His Family of Medfield and Mendon, Massachusetts: With Proof of the Paternity of Deacon Samuel2 Warfield", ''The American Genealogist'' 73(1998):11–21; 76(2001):226 (a&c).
*"'To Say It Doesn’t Make It So': Clues to the Probable Identity of the Wife of Jonathan2 Bliss of Rehoboth, Massachusetts", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 151(1997):31–37; 159(2005):361–62 (a&c).
*"Samuel4 Redway of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: His Wife and Later Life", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 150(1996):311–14.
*"The Family of William2 Carpenter of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: With the English Origin of the Rehoboth Carpenters", ''The American Genealogist'' 70(1995):193–204.
*"The Hammonds of Rehoboth and Swansea, Massachusetts", ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 149(1995):211–29; 150(1996):216–19 (a&c); 164(2010):294 (a&c).
*"Elizabeth Bartram, Wife of (1) William Hammond Sr. of Rehoboth and Swansea and (2) Joseph2 Fiske of Lynn and Swansea, Mass.,” ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 149(1995):230–43; 150(1996):214 (a&c).
*"Joanna Hildreth, Wife of Captain James3 Redway of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: How Much Circumstantial Evidence Is Enough?” ''New England Historical and Genealogical Register'' 146(1992):337–42.

References

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1941 births
Jewish American sportspeople
People from Ojai, California
American genealogists
Fellows of the American Society of Genealogists
American non-fiction writers
Living people
Historians from California
Competitors at the 1961 Maccabiah Games
Maccabiah Games silver medalists for the United States
Maccabiah Games medalists in athletics