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Have any of you encountered the name OTGERGUST from Mogador (Essaouira)

Is any one in the group familiar with pessoa family from Egypt and their Sephardic origins?

I bellieve this list of Brazilian Families is relevant to some group members

I recently sent Jeff Malka a list of names from Amsterdam appearing in 3 vol (out of five) I have of "Studies on the History of Duch Jewry" ed. by Jozeph Michman and published in Jerusalem in 1984. This might help some of you..

UCLA's Sephardic Archive which was launched in 2015, is the first of itskind in the United States. Its focus, at least initially, will be on the LosAngeles Ladino speaking community whose pioneer immigrants came frommodern-day Turkey and the Balkans in the early 20th century. Over time thecollection will expand to include Los Angeles' North African, Persian andother Middle eastern Jewish communit...

A 16th century manuscript hand-written by Luis de Carvajal the Youngerdocuments the arrival of Jews on the New World-first stolen then found in anauction house 80 years later-then being returned to the Mexican NationalArchives. De Carvajal was a secret Jew, burned at the stake by theInquisition in Mexico, then a colony of Spain. His manuscript had resided inthe Mexican National Archives until it ...

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Interesting

Taken this morning in Savannah GAFirst cemetery plot for the Sephardic Jews who arrived with the first ship With British parliament member Ogelthorpe to Savannah( 31 of 41 Jews, the others were German) in 1733. On the left , taken at Mikve ISrael synagogue and museum - the map of their houses.

I wander if it is possible that some conversos arrived in The Phillipines (especially in Lucban Quezon). While researching the Elazar/Alazar family I have found a large Ellazar/Eleazar since 1670 there. I know Elazars Conversos arrived at the Dominican REpublic..Let me know your thoughts.

Might be of interest to the groupDissertaions on line in Lisbon University regarding converson and Jews. Some in PDF to download

Would like your opinion on this - Just goT my Husband's haplogroup and it turned G-201 OR G-377 Ashkenazi origin. Although we know for fact that he is from Sephardi roots on his paternal line which we have in lineage back to 1750 (NIs Serbia) and according to research back to Saloniki 1515. Schelly Talalay Dardashti , could FTDNA send a total mistake?

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Amazing Genetic study for the Kazenellbogen family ...also of Sephardic origin.

Gibraltar Archives now have inhabitents lists since 1704,1756,1777,1791 etc...see-

My proposal "Working by the book" (literally) in Sephardic research has been accepted to the 36th IAJGS International Conference in Seattle.

Another great find - Attaching for those interested in the namesLIST OF WILLS OF JEWS IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES PRIOR TO 1800Samuel OppenheimPublications of the American Jewish Historical SocietyNo. 32 (1931), pp. 55-64Published by: Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43059633

JSTORE is free for 10 days. I have some interesting articles and downloaded (3 offered) like this one-Sephardic Epitaphs in Hamburg's Oldest Jewish Cemetery: Poetry, Riddles, and Eccentric TextsAuthor(s): Marian Sárraga and Ramón F. SárragaSource: AJS Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Apr., 2002), pp. 53-92Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Jewish StudiesStable URL:

Looking for Aroas/Arowas/Arvas rabbi in Gibraltar. Found him only once in an article by Prof. Yaron Ben Nahe (Written ארווץ) )with Rabbi El Daudi Anyone heard of Him. I have Found nothing in Gibraltar, nor have i a given name.

Anyone in the group knows the origin of the Sephardic surname Nachmoli-Nachmouli ? Could it be a place I missed or perhaps comes from the Hebrew Nachum- Nachman-Nechama e.g. consolation ??

A great source for Sephardic researchJewish marriage notices from the newspaper press of Charleston, S.C., 1775-1906 /Elzas, Barnett A. (Barnett Abraham), 1867-1936

Can anyone tell me if the birth name of the bride's mother is mentioned in this Ketuba of tha daughter of Rephael Gozlan, Esther Bechora