Posts by Rui Faísca Pereira
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This year's edition of the Portuguese National Genealogy Colloquium.A Direcção da Associação Portuguesa de Genealogia anuncia a realização do II COLÓQUIO NACIONAL DE GENEALOGIA, que terá lugar nos dias 21 a 23 de Maio de 2026 em Ponte da Barca.Este evento é uma organização da APG com o apoio da Câmara Municipal de Ponte da Barca.A inscrição no evento é gratuita e aberta tanto aos Sócios da APG com...
THE PORTUGUESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2026: A COUSIN OF ARTUR BARROS BASTO IS TAKING PART In a recent post I mentioned how the Portuguese newspaper Observador has partnered with the Portuguese Genealogical Association to do genealogical studies on the 8 main candidates to the Portuguese presidential election which will take place in early 2026, and how candidate Catarina Martins is a distant relati...
THE PORTUGUESE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2026: OUTGOING PRESIDENT AND ONE OF THE CANDIDATES HAVE COMMON SEPHARDIC ANCESTRY The Portuguese newspaper Observador has partnered with the Portuguese Genealogical Association to do genealogical studies on the 8 main candidates to the Portuguese presidential election which will take place in early 2026. The fourth of those studied, about candidate Catarina Mar...
THE ANCESTRY OF JUAN ÁLVAREZ MENDIZÁBAL (1790-1853)Juan Álvarez Mendizábal (Spanish Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_%C3%81lvarez_Mendiz%C3%A1bal) was a major figure of Spanish politics in the first half of the 19th century. From some information I found online, it looks like he was descended from Converso lines, a fact that he tried to disguise.Apparently a book was published on his ...
New book published in India about the 16th century trial of the converso Catarina de Orta. My apologies if this was already announced here.
Information about an entail started in Lisbon in the 1500s, from Project Vinculum, a major ongoing effort to study entails in Portugal and other territories. Although the post does not mention it, the founder Diogo de Castro do Rio was a Converso. Text in English after the text in Portuguese.
A major work (in Portuguese; 9 volumes, 6000+ pages) on families of the Portuguese islands of Madeira is coming. The author is Jorge Forjaz, known for major works on families of the Azores islands, Portuguese India and Macau. Although this is _not_ a work specifically on Sephardic/Jewish families, I guess this might be interesting for at least some group members.Some info: subscription price 400 e...
"GENEALOGY IN PORTUGAL" - an intro for non-Portuguese researchersAs some of you may know, I am currently one of the members of the board of the Portuguese Genealogical Association (APG). At APG we are trying to improve our communication, and that includes people outside Portugal who are interested in their Portuguese roots.Last year I prepared a brief introduction to Genealogy in Portugal, targete...
Article on the Rodrigues family, from my presentation in Vilnius on 9 June 2023. Send me a message if you are interested in the article.
New (EDIT: actually from 2021) book about the Sephardic community of Antwerp, by Florbela Veiga Frade.
FAMILY CONNECTION BETWEEN AARON LOPEZ AND THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL Tree showing the kinship between the merchant Aaron Lopez (1730-1782) and the current President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.Part of presentation made yesterday at the 7th yearly Genealogical Meeting in the city Castelo Branco, Portugal - the capital of the district where the common ancestry comes from, and inciden...
PORTUGUESE GENEALOGY JOURNAL "RAÍZES & MEMÓRIAS": INDEX OF ALL ARTICLES IS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE "Raízes & Memórias" is published every year by the Portuguese Genealogical Association (Associação Portuguesa de Genealogia, APG). APG was founded in 1986 and the first journal issue was published in 1987. Most articles are on Portuguese genealogy, with some dealing (totally or in part) with Converso fa...
Great news from the Portuguese aggregator tombo.pt. Its Chrome extension, which improves the handling of Portuguese archive websites, has been improved and is now free.
V COLÓQUIO – DIÁLOGOS LUSO-SEFARDITAS Castelo de Vide, Portugal, 9-10 November 2023Call for papers open until 30 SeptemberEvent's website here:
TRE SECOLI NEL TRIDENTE (1696-2018)Alvarez de Castro, a Portuguese (Sephardic) family in Romebook in Italian by Pino Coscettahttp://www.tresecolineltridente.it/Very interesting book (in Italian) about a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry that has been living in Rome for over 300 years. The author is a family member by marriage.The genealogy presented in the book appears to be correct from aro...
FREI MARTINHO, or FRÈRE MARTIN: Converso, friar and spy - document from Portuguese Inquisition on him and his family, the Bom DiaIf anyone needs an interesting topic to study, here is one. As part of the "Gente de Nação Hebrea" documents related to New Christian fugitives in the early 1600s (see my post on that here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheSepardicDiaspora/posts/3467247986868151/), the...
GENTE DE NAÇÃO HEBREAA precious set of Portuguese documents including dozens of lists of New Christian fugitives from many parts of Portugal, compiled after a decree from 1613Online here at the Torre do Tombo website:
CAPTAIN BARROS BASTO'S SEPHARDIC ANCESTRY WAS A FORGERY as clearly proven in article by Paulo Valadares Link to article:http://www.catedra-alberto-benveniste.org/_fich/15/Pagina_299-312.pdfWe all know there are many people of Iberian Christian ancestry that think they have Sephardic ancestry (or that they "are Jewish", whatever that happens to mean for them) for the most absurd reasons: having a r...
"THE JOURNEYS OF THE RODRIGUES - An Iberian Sephardic family in the Inquisition era (17th-18th centuries)"Hello to all, this is my first post to the group.Linked below is my presentation of a work by Maria Manuela Pereira and myself about a Portuguese Sephardic family I gave in Vilnius on 9 June 2023 at the 2nd International Colloquium of Genealogy, Heraldry, and Vexillology.This family is connect...
BAPTISMAL RECORD OF AARON LOPEZ (OF NEWPORT)Setting the record straight: Aaron Lopez was not born in 1731. He was born 6 August 1730 in Setúbal, Portugal, and baptized 17 August in the parish of Santa Maria da Graça. His parents were Diego José Lopez Ramos, from Spain (first cousin of Baron Diego d'Aguilar), and D. Filipa Micaela Rosa da Costa, from Portugal.Source: Arquivo Distrital de Setúbal, p...