Birth Name: India Halff Ennenga
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: November 16, 1994
Ethnicity:
*English, German (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
India Ennenga is an American actress. She is the daughter of director and filmmaker Laurie Weltz and George Ennenga. Her father is of English and German, descent. Her mother is Ashkenazi Jewish.
India’s paternal grandfather was Thomas Curtiss Ennenga (the son of Oscar Frederick George Ennenga and Cornelia Thomas). Oscar was the son of Gretus George Ennenga, who was German, and Elizabeth Wagner. Cornelia was the daughter of Abraham Ulysses Thomas and Margaret Curtiss.
India’s paternal grandmother was Ida Louise Curtis (the daughter of Randall Fuller Curtis and Irene Brown). Randall was the son of William Sanders Curtis and Ida Frances Fuller.
India’s maternal grandfather was Samuel Robert Weltz (the son of Samuel Robert Weltz and Jeannette Alexander). Samuel was the son of an Austrian Jewish father, Moses Weltz, and a Russian or Austrian Jewish mother, Pauline Rothwax. Jeannette’s father, Philip George Alexander, was the son of a German Jewish father, George Bernard Alexander, and of an English Jewish mother, Amelia Hart, whose parents were Russian Jews/Polish Jews. Jeannette’s mother, Gertrude Leichter, was the daughter of a German Jewish or Russian Jewish father and of a French Jewish mother.
India’s maternal grandmother was Audrey Askin (the daughter of Arnold Sam Askin and Fannie Ray Halff). Arnold was the son of Polish Jewish parents, Samuel Askin and Leah Rosenbloom. Fannie was the daughter of Henry Levi Halff, whose father was a French/Alsatian Jew and whose mother was born in Texas to a French Jewish father and a German Jewish mother, and Ray Oppenheimer, whose parents were German Jews.
Sources: Marriage announcement of India’s parents – https://www.nytimes.com/
Genealogy of India’s father – https://www.geni.com/
Obituary of India’s paternal grandfather, Thomas Ennenga – https://www.walkermortuary.com/
Obituary of India’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Robert Weltz – https://www.legacy.com/
India’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Robert Weltz, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
India’s great-grandmother, Jeannette Alexander, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Jeannette on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
India’s great-great-grandfather, Philip George Alexander, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
India’s great-great-great-grandfather, George Alexander, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Obituary of India’s maternal grandmother, Audrey Askin – https://sv.findagrave.com/
India’s great-grandfather, Arnold Sam Askin, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/
Arnold on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org/