Posts by Genie Milgrom
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Don't miss the opportunity to see the movie Between the Stone and the Flower !
Does anyone know if there is a site that has the inscriptions of the Portuguese Jews in Bordeaux at Cimetière des Juifs portugais, 105 Cours de la Marne, Bordeaux. ?
Hello ! If you are looking for Inquisition era Jewish relatives in any of these Portuguese Cities, please ask me and mention the city . I will look up the information for you ! Trancoso, Guarda , Belmonte and Arraiolos !
Hi everyone ! Be sure to join us this year at IAGJS in Orlando July 23-29 . For the first time ever, we have planned an incredibly rich anusim/converso track. You will hear personal stories of the descendants of the Inquisition Iberian Jews, you will hear the rich histories of the countries they fled to and you will learn how to follow the genealogies as well as current identities of some of these...
Hello everyone. Heading to a week all over Portugal. Any specific book stores you can recommend for accurate books on the cristanios nuevos ? My own family was from Braganza and Alcanices when it was part of Portugal and most from up and down the Douro , Miranda, and Mogadouro. Is there one specific place to buy these books ? My interest is mostly in accurate information about these places i hav...
Hi ! The 37th Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be held in Orlando, Florida from Sunday July 23 through Friday, July 28, 2017 . This very special event will have a track for tracing Converso lineages, reading Inquisition manuscripts and much more ! Below my talks:• The Inquisition: The Jews that stayed• Converso Genealogy Project• From the Spanish Inquisition to the P...
What do we know about the surname Ben in Amsterdam or London ? I have little knowledge of its use as a last name yet know several claiming Jewish ancestry with this name . Anyone ?
Very little information is available on who was judged in the Inquisition of Cartagena ,Colombia. In the link below, you can see a source for 50 years of this Inquisition and look up specific names !
Hi all. A woman wrote me asking me more information on her husband's line if Raphaels that have been traced from England to the US. Can someone help out? Here is her information.She would like to know where they were from originally as she thinks it was from Spain then England then Boston ThanksHis great grandfather Aaron Raphael was born in England and married to Dinah who was born in Germany. A...
Hi all. Please come out to the IAJGS Conference in Seattle next week. My talk schedule below. Many will be Live ! Come on in or listen in :)
Last will and Testament of Felipa de Saa.No. 2397 - Last will of Felipa de Saa, living in Amsterdam, who is about to depart for the Holy Land byway ofVenice. By means of bills of exchange from Manuel van Surck and Abraham de MareesJr.she has transferred to Rafael Abenacar and Josef Senior in Venice a sum of 1033 pounds, 10 shillings Flemish, representing the counter-value of3070 3/4 crusados. She ...
Question to all : very surprised to find so many Abigails in the name changes in Amsterdam . Along with the matriarchs , it is the no 1 used name. Any insights?
I have a question . As I record the information on names and aliases from the Mercantile records of Amsterdam, I notice that many aliases took or retook the name Cohen. So my question is if there is documentation that the Crypto Jews knew and maintained their Kohen Status amongst themselves and if those that had a Cohen alias were actual Kohans.
I have a question for the learned members of this group. Is there documentary evidence on whether or not the Portuguese Jews had to formally convert when they reached Amsterdam and joined the Community? I have read many varying opinions from Historians on the topic but I would like to know if there is ACTUAL documentary evidence of this. Did they return with a formal conversion? Were they accept...