Hope you're all doing well and had a great holiday despite the lockdown.In Moroccan Jews, the feast of Passover ends with the MImouna (from Emunah or Maimonides? ). On this occasion, all families visited each other and everyone went from house to house to wish each other good luck and share a sweetness.Terbho ouTsahdo!
Cliquez ☝️pour le françaisDear all,Welcome to all of you who just joined us: Marguerite Adams, Miryam Toledano, Menahem Mendel Calvo, Laurent Ettouati, Fuks Ilan, Terez Perez, Stéphane Bitton, Manon Alban. A big thank you to those who invited you, especially to Annabelle Yaëlle Cousin!Our group aims to create and complete a family tree of Moroccan Jewish families on Geni (https://www.geni.com/) and to restore the lost connexions between families. This is indeed a big project! The only way to see...
Dear friends,Some of your posts related to the current situation or what some people are going through today, are moving, make us sad or making us think. But, don't take it personnaly, they don't belong here. Post them on your wall or in the right groups and let's preserve this space. Let's preserve this place and keep there only posts related to Moroccan Jewish genealogy, to our past and to our culture.Thank you in advance for your understanding.Take great care of yourself and respect the lockd...
Cliquez ☝️pour le françaisHello to all,Welcome to the new comers Eric Erik Reboh, Daniel Perez, Michael Ohana, Christiane Belen, Viviane Louys, Elvire BA, Paul David Sagan, Linda Liza, Alexis Bensoussan, Rovida Benchemoul, Gilles Bellaiche, Gloria Ouaknin, Clarisse Oiknine-bruel, Paulette Amzallag, Isaac Bensoussan, Pierre Benattar, Sam Nait, Sarah Sicsu, Hanna Hoinounou and Saraline Vic.A big thank you to those who invited you, including Jacob Azoulay and Babette E. Bensoussan!Don't hesitate to...
Cliquez ☝️pour le françaisHello to all,Hope you're all doing well...If you had carried out a DNA test and had transferred your results to Gedmatch, join us on the Moroccan Jewish Genetic Genealogy group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/305757767049266/).For those who would like to get help to transfer their data on Gedmatch, please contact me by private message.Take great care of yourself and follow the safety instructions!
For our English-speaking friends, attached is the text on Jewish berbers in English. Enjoy !
Pour vous occuper : un peu d'histoire ! Il s'agit d'un texte sur les juifs berbères du Sous et plus particulièrement d'Iligh. Je l'ai un peu tronqué, mais il fait tout de même 9 pages ! J'ai laissé les numéros de notes auxquelles vous pourrez vous rapporter ici : https://www.europe-israel.org/2012/07/la-decouverte-des-juifs-berberes/Bonne lecture !
Pour le français, cliquez ☝️Good evening everyone,Hope you're all doing well!You've been too many to join us lately (almost 50! ) so that I can welcome you individually, but the heart is there 🙂!For newcomers, the goal of this group is to link Moroccan Jewish families with each other. How? By creating your family tree on Geni (https://www.geni.com/home). Start by registering on Geni, then add your parents, siblings (not to mention spouses), grandparents, grandparents, etc... Geni will do the res...
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Cliquez�pour le françaisHello to all,Welcome to all those who joined us this week: Suzy Arama - Art Mani, Joelle Kessous, Leslie Wallace, Jak Maman, Alain Bouhana, Kieffer Eric, Robin Andrews Perros, Jacques Malka, Jackeline Swissa Elkael, Évelyne Abitbol, Serge Toledano, Joelle Ohayon Quinn, Simone Abecassis, Yoav Toledano.A big thank you to those who invited them: Becky Rubenstein OHanna, Mireille Bensaude, Maurice Ohayon, and Annabelle Yaëlle Cousin!Thanks to you our community is growing and ...
Cliquez ☝️pour le françaisHello to all,First of all, welcome to those who have joined us this past week: Dorith Lévy, Linda Serero, Lucien Elmosnino, Serge Levy, Estelle Belhassen, Miguel Emmanuel Nisembaum, Matatia Moyal, Ariel Carciente and Helene Levy Helene Lévy Haddad!A big thank you to Babette E. Bensoussan and Mary Anne Ettedgui Maudy for inviting them. Keep inviting your friends and family to our group. The more we will be, the faster we reach our goal!This week I would like to share wi...
Vidéo envoyée par Harry Elkeslassy retraçant la vie quotidienne des juifs dans des villages reculés du Sud du Maroc et leur aliyah en Israel. Merci d'avoir partagé Harry 🙂 !
Cliquer �pour le françaisHello to all,Welcome to the new comers: Albert Derhy, גילברט אברהם רימוך, Haim Victor Abitbol, David Bouhadana, Audrey Botbol, Ohayon Jacques, Raphael Benarrosh, Ilan El, Benshoshan Madeleine, Bernard Obadia and Esther Nahmias!A big thank you to Sylvia Ouaknine Lombard, Maurice Ohayon, Annabelle Yaëlle Cousin, Mireille Bensaude and Gad Obadia for inviting them.The main objective of this group is to link Moroccan Jewish families with each other and to create a "universal...
Cliquez ☝️pour le françaisHello allWelcome to those who joined us this week Corinne Cohen, Sylvia Ouaknine Lombard, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, David Tab, Jacques Cohen, Anna Nataf, Therese Ohayon, Pascale Athuil, Nina Chats, Annabelle Yaelle Annabelle Yaëlle Cousin and Gad Obadia.A big thank to Annabelle Yaëlle Cousin, Arielle Sebah Lasry and Sylvia Ouaknine Lombard for inviting them to join us.If I mentioned Gad (he hasn't joined us yet, but he should do so very soon), it's because he is a close c...
DNA TESTMany of you have already performed a family dna test. What are they? How are they done? What information do they bring? How to use them?What are they? There are actually several dna tests. The more common test is to analyze markers (and not all dna) of dna included in the parents-transmitted chromosomes, half being transmitted by our mother and the other half by our father. This has its importance in family genetics, because when we identify a match with another individual, unless you k...
Cliquez ☝️ pour le françaisHello to all,Welcome to Annie Journo, who joined us this week. The pace of membership is slowing down, probably because the best ones are already members. Keep inviting your Moroccan Jewish family and friends!You have been many to register on https://www.geni.com/ and create your tree. Many connections between trees have been established and today the universal tree of Moroccan Jews grows and grows! I can't even count the profiles... keep going! We are on the right tra...
Hello,I am looking for descendants of the Semana family. Please contact me by private message.
Cliquez � pour le françaisHello to all and welcome to all those who joined us this week מוריס לסרי , Billy Ohayon, Isaac Raphael Abihsira, Jacques Ouanich, מרלן אורפז Fanny Abitbol, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Georges Sebat, Evelyne Bohbot-Ohayon, Silvia Oussadon Chamszadeh, Alisa Mergui Erlich, Saad Bouzoubaa, Noelle Wanonou !The goal of this group is to preserve our family memory and to contribute to the universal tree of Moroccan Jews on Geni (https://www.geni....
Hello to all,I remind you that in the rules of the group, it is mentionned that only posts containing photos, video links and other documents related to the genealogy of Moroccan Jews, in connection with our history (class photos for example) in Morocco or whose subject is the search for families are allowed. All other posts will be deleted.The goal is not to limit or frustrate members of this group. It aims not to fill the common space and allow easy reading of posts.We are flooded with images,...
Pour le Français, cliquez �Hello to all,Welcome to רבקה דונרשטיין, Joseph Alloul Marc Las, Renee Michele Payne and Armand Abisror who joined us this week.Thanks to the connections between the families already present on Geni and to the profiles YOU add, the family tree of Moroccan Jews will grow with many branches connected with each other. Today it reaches several tens of thousands of people. It's just a beginning!Here are some tips to help it grow (I will not mention the registration procedure...
Good evening to all,Anyone here could translate a document from Arabic to French (or English) or recommend a translator?This document is about fifty pages. It is a contemporary document reporting names of Moroccan Jews and facts dating back to end of 19th century. Please contact me by messenger.
Pour le français cliquer ☝️Hello, If you are interested in the genealogy of Moroccan Jews and pay attention to the places of birth and death of our ancestors or remember the old stories of families reported by our grandmothers, you'll note that the Jews from Morocco were finally pretty mobile. Within Morocco, changes in place of residence were influenced by local living conditions, the needs of the sultans in place and family alliances.During the 18th and 19th centuries, many Jews from coastal c...
Pour le français, cliquez �Hello all,Happy new year to all and welcome to the new members: Claude Oiknine, Dina Benichou, Victor Perez, Danielle Malka, Amine Bayad, Habib Levy, Benisty Shalom, John Assouline, Jacques Oiknine, Albert Twizer, Jo Abecassis, Joel LEVY, Cédric Levy, et Serge Cohen.All of you, cousins, friends, friends of friends, if you joined us, it is probably because you are interested in our common history and would like to preserve it. To do so, I strongly encourage you to regis...
Click 🤞for EnglishHello to all,First of all, welcome to the new members : Ariella Chemla Cadoch Delmar, Magali Benzacar, Samy Benarroch, Adam Setowici, Véronique Hamou Henlé. As I told you last week, I worked on the Toledano family tree. There are mostly from Northern Morocco. This family is also related to the Marache family whose complete tree is managed by Yaakov Marrache Fischel.This week, I have been working on Southern Moroccan families and mainly from Marrakech, Mogador, safi and agadir w...
For those interested in DNA tests (genealogy), most tests are on sale (until Christmas or the end of the year). You can have a test tone for about 50 € (familytree dna, myheritage, 23 & me, ancestry etc...).