Cortney Palm

LOS ANGELES – FEB 8: Palm at the 2015 Society Of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards at a Paramount Theater on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, CA, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Cortney Nacole Palm

Place of Birth: Castle Rock, Colorado, U.S.

Date of Birth: February 20, 1987

Ethnicity: English, German, Polish, Swedish, remote Dutch, French, and Jewish, possibly other

Cortney Palm is an American actress and author.

On his father’s side, Cortney appeares to be a descendant of Moses “Raphael” Levy, a Jewish merchant, who was born, c. 1665, in Germany, and of his wife, Rycha Michaels Asher de Paul, who was born, c. 1667, in New York.

Cortney’s paternal grandfather is Leo D. Palm (who likely was the son of Leo Henning Palm/Palen and Bernardine Alice Harris). Cortney’s great-grandfather Leo was born in Arkansas, the son of George Leonard “Leo” Palm, who was Swedish, and of Stella M. Combs. Bernardine was born in Ohio, the daughter of Theodore William Harris and Eunice Crown.

Cortney’s paternal grandmother is Nita Louise Poffel (the daughter of Milton Francis Poffel and Rita Mary Zinser). Nita was born in Texas. Milton was born in Maryland, the son of Frank Edward C. Poffel, whose parents were German, and of Agnes Gertrude Augustyniak/Agustiniak, whose own parents, John Augustyniak an Francziska “Frances” Dembeck/Dembek, were Polish. Rita was born in Maryland, the daughter of Frank Conrad Zinser and Angela M. Scheve, who were of German descent.

Sources: Genealogy of Cortney Palm (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com

Obituary of Cortney’s paternal great-grandfather, Milton Francis Poffel – https://allveterans.com