Marius Heemstra

Recently I discovered two books containing copies of marine insurance policies from the years 1758-1762 (Amsterdam City Archives SAA 557: Archief van de Assurantiebezorgers De Vos en Zoon, #24 and 25). Initially they caught my attention, because I found insured shipments by the company of Mordechaij and Jacob Italiaander & Sons (mainly tobacco to the Scandinavian countries) and by Hartogh van Embd...

Does anyone here know whether there is a register of people buried in the sephardic cemetery in Glückstadt, Germany, former Danish Lykstad?

Thanks to William Yehudha De Oliveira and Olve Utne I have found a lot of new information for my research concerning the familiy tree of Abraham Levi Vitoria alias Italiaender (Venice c. 1639-Amsterdam 1699). After looking at the information they gave me about the Italiaenders in Denmark, I could very quickly conclude that they fit into this familiy tree and are not a separate branch of the Levi ...

The research with regard to my familiy tree is momentarily focused on my ancestor Abraham Levi Vitoria, alias Italiaender (old Dutch for Italian, c. 1639-1699), and his (grand-)children. He came from Venice and was initially married to an Ashkenazy wife, Rebecca Hammelburg, and later to a Portuguese wife, Gracia de Campos. I will post some messages about the links that this family had with both th...