Dear All, Thanks enormously for your help on my last post and I hope to hear from you more. I have another interesting riddle that maybe someone may have an idea on, perhaps Gigi Del Monte or others well versed with Italy or Egypt. When I was in Livorno and I went to visit the cemetery I arrived to look for Nunes Vas and Meldola who are all ancestors on my father's side. However I turned to my right as i entered and I was surprised to see the grave of Prosper Flack (1832-1891) and Clementina Flack (1838-1896). Flack is my mother's maiden name. Our Flack family was variously Flack, Flach and Flasz and we believed primarily ashkenazi from Poland. There was always a story that the Flacks had been fortunate and like the fable for the Nunes Vas, sent the four boys to different countries to try to pull a Rothschild. Our Polish family did know some of the cousins in Austria so perhaps it was true. I was nonetheless surprised to find these Flacks in Livorno. I attach pictures of the graves. As you can see Prospero was made a Knight Commander by the Italian crown and was also awarded in Egypt in the Ottoman Order of the Medjedie. I thought because of these awards perhaps there may be a way to find out more about him. I found him on a Freemason record book from Egypt with an anglicised named (Prosper). I have not found any further details. I received from Livorno info that they have a record of aFlack Haná died in 1855Flack Solomon died in 1894Ernesto Flack too. Flack appears in the "Diciionario Sefaradi De Sobrenomes" "Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames" so maybe they were Sephardic originally. Any ideas would be much appreciated. They may not be our family at all but it was a strange coincidence. ThanksJeremy