External links

Hi David,

Those are indeed excellent links. I will add them at the bottom of the jewish Ancestry Guide for starters.

Also, I will add them to the Geni Genealogy Specialistis Project too.

Erica has a Public Discussion List that collects all external Genealogy Links.
* [http://www.geni.com/discussions/80238 External Genealogy links]

That link is posted under the Genealogy Specialist Project both under
Erica's name, and now at the bottom of the page, under External Links too.

David, Thanks for those great Sephardic links.

Thank you Malka for pointing us in the direction of that public discussion as well.

It's also good to cross-reference between public discussions and project discussions, because not everyone reads everything.

Erica's public discussion list at http://www.geni.com/discussions/80238 is one of those great initiatives on Geni that we all should be grateful for. It has also encouraged many others to post there - and there are lots of useful links for Geni users.

The Belmont-Belmonte family, a record of four hundred years, put together from the original documents in the archives and libraries of Spain, Portugal, Holland, England and Germany, as well as from private sources (1917) by Richard Gottheil is available as a free pdf at:

http://www.archive.org/details/belmontbelmontef00gott

There are family trees in the back of the book.

Erica Howton This discussion refers to your Genealogy Links Discussion-----:http://www.geni.com/discussions/80238

@ Mark, The Belmont family record would be a great addition to the discussion above.

There is a link to http://www.geni.com/discussions/80238 Genealogy Links Discussion in the "Genealogy Specialists on Geni Project" too.

http://www.grandesp.org.uk/historia/gzas/medinarioseco.htm

http://www.somosprimos.com/inclan/pedrogonzal.htm

Both of these links are to Noble families in Spain which have many Sephardic descendants.

@ Jarrett Ross (112-1701-241-22), @ Private User
http://www.geni.com/discussions/80238
Have moved your super links to a main discussion link
which appears on Genealogy Specialists on Geni.com. Project.
http://www.geni.com/projects/Genealogy-Specialists-on-Geni

http://www.grandesp.org.uk/historia/gzas/medinarioseco.htm
http://www.somosprimos.com/inclan/pedrogonzal.htm
Jarrett Ross (112-1701-241-22) Both of these links are to Noble families in Spain which have many Sephardic descendants.

Private User The Belmont-Belmonte family, a record of four hundred years, put together from the original documents in the archives and libraries of Spain, Portugal, Holland, England and Germany, as well as from private sources (1917) by Richard Gottheil is available as a free pdf at:
http://www.archive.org/details/belmontbelmontef00gott
There are family trees in the back of the book.

http://www.americansephardifederation.org/sub/publishing/articles.asp - Articles of interest

http://www.americansephardifederation.org/sub/publishing/sephardi_r... - The Sephardi Report

http://www.americansephardifederation.org/sub/library/archives.asp - archives

http://www.americansephardifederation.org/sub/library/genealogy.asp - genealogy

There is a book published by the Sephardi shul in Amsterdam which has records of all the births, deaths and marriages of the community from 400 years ago. I saw a copy in the Jewish Museum in Curacao.

http://www.farhi.org/genealogy/index.html - This site contains the Genealogy of the Major Sephardi Families from the Ottoman Empire and beyond

Private User looks like a great link, but I cannot get it to work for me. Does the link work for everybody else?

Malka

That link is not working for me at the moment either. Possibly a temporary outage - the link is otherwise good.

I use that site for Baghdadi roots. It's got a lot on it besides the genealogy section. It is a great site. Not so relevant to the families who settled first in Western Europe after leaving Spain. More relevant to those who lived further East - in Turkey, Persia, etc.

For Dutch roots in general, Sephardic or otherwise, see http://www.genlias.nl/en/page0.jsp

For almost 200 years the Dutch authorities have been recording births, marriages and deaths in the Civil Register. Genlias provides you with information from these official records.

A record of birth provides you with the following information:
the name of the child
the names of the parents
the exact date of birth
In most cases, the parents' address

A record of marriage provides you with the following information:
the names and ages of the bride and groom
in most cases, the names of the bride's and the groom's parents
in most cases, the places of birth of the bride and groom
whether the bride is a widow or the groom a widower
in most cases, ages and professions

A record of death provides you with the following information:
the name of the deceased
the exact date of death
in most cases, the name of the deceased's parents
in most cases, the age of the deceased
in some cases, the deceased's place of birt
in some cases, the name of the deceased's spouse
in most cases, the address of the deceased

At present, the following records are in the public domain:
records of births prior to 1903
records of marriages prior to 1933
records of deaths prior to 1953

I could not get the farhi.org link to open, either.

Maybe try farhi.org again in a day or two

Apart from my own tree at
http://www.tzorafolk.com/genealogy
I would suggest the following:
AKEVOTH
http://www.dutchjewry.org/
and
GENEALL
http://www.geneall.net/site/home.php

Has anyone read "Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean". There are some familiar family names there.

Deborah, I'm reading that book now. I just discovered it the other day. It's fascinating - and delves much more into the general Sephardic diaspora than I was expecting, not just the piracy.

There is a wealth of information, particularly about surnames, at http://www.sephardim.com/

There is a wealth of information, particularly about surnames, at http://www.sephardim.com/