Greetings,
I am from Brazil and I was always very curious about one of my great grandfathers. Since it was practically impossible to know anything about his past, no matter how hard I searched on the internet. No idea about his parents, roots, nothing. Recently I got a clue about him from a very distant member of our family who told me that he was a jewish immigrant from Poland who came to Brazil in the end of XIX or beginning of XX century. Apparently he adopted an ordinary Brazilian name: MARTINHO DA MOTTA SILVEIRA OR MARTINHO DA MOTA SILVEIRA. Does anyone here know where I can start a more accurate research about this great grandfather of mine.
Best Regards
from Brazil,
Antonio Silveira Marques
