Bob Lazell

Due to tariff concerns the publisher is not shipping to the US, but you can order from bookstores in the Netherlands. My copy arrived yesterday. Beautiful book.

https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/beyond-columbus-what-dna-can-and-cant-tell-us-about-jewish-history?fbclid=IwY2xjawJmVvNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlrZam2tGNInNB7kTn6UrDwSp9vsq8aZd3ZhPjUGRsQ5gSdGzU84eSkAbCWc_aem_AINrKcYzg70GPKPoUNFrbA

https://programs.cjh.org/stream-tickets/ai-in-genealogy-2025-04-27

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2024/12/20/uk-update-bevis-marks/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1-ZBdFsIKTKOkEmtj4zeQ4hFlxNKGnWbu0SbSdYZNIc7rdvNh8oLbOzdk_aem_84pv4ov-wI6kjwpIldlluQ

# https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/069120991X/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1I just finished Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite and left the following review:An incredibly learned and wide-ranging work that brings together in one volume the history of the New Christian merchant elite and the myriad of historical forces that shaped them. A sometimes...

Benjamin Mendes Seixas (1846-1901) and Nanette Baiz Seixas (1844-1928)(my maternal 2nd great grandparents)

** My maternal great grand aunt Adele Miriam Seixas Naar (1871-1966) and I, 1954.**

Any help identifying the language/translating would be appreciated. It is an inscription in a book.

A Ketubah question. I just unexpectedly came across my paternal 2nd great grandfather's ketubah (non-Sephardic) for his second marriage. I only ever knew his second wife's name as Kate Hilson which is very English/Scottish and I assumed non-Jewish. However on the Ketubah she is Gitel Daughter of Eliokum. Did she convert?

**1940 Cairo Egypt HEBREW-FRENCH PASSOVER HAGGADAH Haggadah de Pessah**

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/library

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Tomorrow Wednesday September 13th.

I don’t know how far Ton Tielen has gotten but I’m not halfway and I’m feeling a bit exhausted.

Coincidentally, today Heritage released AI photo dating software and I ran it on one of the photos I recently posted. I also let it repair and enhance the photo. It came up with 1878 as the estimated date of the photo. I'm going to scan more of my great grandmother's photos and see what AI can do to match faces.

Tintypes circa 1860's- 1880's taken either in St. Thomas or Venezuela from the photo albums of my great grandmother Maud Sarah Seixas. She labeled nothing and I have been unable to match them to any known family grouping.The one with the young black woman stands out of course. The slave trade in the Danish West Indies was abolished in 1803 and slavery itself ended there in 1848. The families all ...

1841, St. Thomas. The household of my 3rd great grandfather and grandmother. Their daughter Hannah age 3, married Benjamin Mendes Seixas who were my 2nd great grandparents. Their religion is listed as **Israelitish. **The house still stands (and was listed for sale a few years ago)

‘Kaart van het Bebouwde gedeelte van Surinamen.' including 'Algemeen kaartje van Surinamen.' (Map of the built part of Suriname / Surinam including a General map of Suriname.) 1818Colonized parts of Suriname with plantations and names.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/books/review/kantika-elizabeth-graver.html

Time to apply my schoolchild level Dutch reading skills (and maybe a bit of The Google)

I dare say that I have no doubt this collection will have many items of interest to historians of The Sephardic Diaspora.

This is the 2nd one of these I've recently (ever) received. Both posts were in this group.

A new find. Apparently my maternal 6th Great Grandfather's (Isaac Mendes Seixas Born 05 SEP 1708 • Lisboa, Portugal **Died **03 NOV 1780 • Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA) house in NYC was robbed. (no record of the thieves being caught.)

Just found my 3rd Great Grandfather Abraham Mendes Seixas, in New York, U.S., Bodies in Transit, 1859-1894. No new information but never heard of the resource before.

# One of my favorite family genealogical record finds. Grand uncle Percy's occupation, "Spice Trade"([New York, U.S., State Census, 1905](https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7364))