## *The Pardo Family Adventure*## *Premiere 20 October 2024*## *Sephardic World on Youtube*Join us for the YouTube premiere of this video on Sunday 20 October 2024, at 11am in LA, 2pm in NYC, 7pm in London, 8pm in Paris/Amsterdam, 9pm in Jerusalem, and 4am the next morning in Sydney. Join us at https://youtu.be/gmSqV1EnaVY Please remember to subscribe to the channel.The Pardo are a famous Sephardic lineage. An eastern Sephardic family that traveled west. Leaving Salonika in the early 17th century, the family settled in Amsterdam where they provided hahamim and hazanim for the community. The first two generations were successful religious leaders. Subsequent generations tried their luck elsewhere, settling in Jamaica, London, Curacao, Surinam and New York.***Ton Tielen*** tells the story of this remarkable family, correcting widespread errors and false connections in existing family histories.*Ton Tielen* is joint president of the Sephardic Genealogical Society, co-founder of The Sephardic Diaspora Facebook group and a trustee of A Nação Hebraica. He is former archivist of The Netherlands Red Cross.It is a pleasure to share knowledge about Sephardic history and genealogy, but it is not without cost. For as little as $5/month you can become a patron and join our core community. Please support our work at: https://www.patreon.com/sephardi***Next Week’s Talk***Join is live on Zoom on 27 October 2024 to hear Ali Erginsoy discuss his new research: Keeping the Faithful: Poverty, Welfare and Cohesion in the Sephardic Community of Georgian London. If you are not yet a patron and want to join us live, please sign up at: https://www.patreon.com/sephardi***Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?***Following a documentary on Spanish television there has been a lot of online discussion about the ancestry of Christopher Columbus. Michael Waas of JewishGen, himself an expert on Sephardic genetic genealogy, has written an article refuting the claim.https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/pfbid0rT5nKUtZFhCtoUnUTVvbkTopcgVaSYJF3gMdDoEcmTxTYaZ9RySkXaoLz3R11vaHlHaving initially enthusiastically promoted the theory that Columbus was Jewish, the Spanish newspaper El Pais has published a new article: International experts slam alleged Columbus DNA findings: ‘Commenting on this is like commenting on aliens!https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-10-17/international-experts-slam-alleged-columbus-dna-findings-commenting-on-this-is-like-commenting-on-aliens.html***Sukkot***Our apologies for the delay in sending this newsletter. Thursday and Friday were the first days of Sukkot, and Saturday was Shabbat. Moadim l'Simcha!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfiLTuN45Cg***Can you Volunteer or Donate?***The Sephardic Genealogical Society is looking for volunteers. If you have skills and time to spare, please complete our questionnaire. We are particularly looking for people with video editing, fundraising and web design experience.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aFsubxSY_PtauwOJzlayxBmLTKjXL8kTzz50jmmRiHA/viewform?edit_requested=trueWe rely on the support of our patrons. If you can support our work by donating as little as $5/month, please visit our Patreon page. We have a number of projects that require more substantial support. Please let us know if you can help.https://www.patreon.com/sephardi***Join our new WhatsApp channel***We have set up a WhatsApp channel to better help communication with supporters. If you have WhatsApp, please follow the channel.https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaHxAjhJ93wTMhWkTF0i***From the Sephardic Archives***The De Sola Mendes Family and the Portuguese Inquisition. Dr Florbela Veiga Frade has studied this famous family in Inquisition records, including those who escaped and those who stayed and suffered at the hands of the Inquisition. Sephardic family histories tend to focus on that part of the family that left. Using documents from the Inquisition archives, Florbela, a recognized expert on early modern Sephardic history, brings us a more rounded story.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAOdEP8Ulk0&t=15s*Best wishes**Ton and David**Sephardic World**Image: Beth Haim Ouderkerk aan de Amstel*