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In Dutch, the city of Amsterdam is often called Mokum . > It was given this name by Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe who sought refuge there, starting in the 17th century. =] Rembrandt's Jews Had Rembrandt moved into any other neighborhood of the city, he would have been surrounded by neighbors with such names as de Witt, Graaf, Van den Berg, and Janszoon. As it was, the occupants of the hous...
Overview In the whole world there are easily more than one hundred million people with recognizable Portuguese ancestors, due to the colonial expansion and worldwide immigration of Portuguese from the 16th century onwards to India, the Americas, Macau and East-Timor, Malaysia, Indonesia and Africa. Between 1886 and 1966, Portugal lost to emigration more than any West European country except Ire...
Archdiocese of Goa-Roman Catholic Priests The Age of Discovery introduced Christianity in Goa from 1510, starting a culture that would leave an indelible stamp of Catholicism on the Goan people. Forty-eight years after D. Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Cidade de Goa, the first priest of Goan origin emerged from the Seminary of Chorão, his name was Pe. André Vaz. This young man from Carambolim ...
(Under Construction - this project will delve deeper into the protagonists of the conflicts and the parallel establishment, expansion and demise of trading posts)======De Nederlands-Portugese Oorlog== Guerra Luso-Holandesa =._______________________________________________________==Military Protagonists=======Includes strategic and tactical alliances of both sides========Portugal===* António de ...
Nobres Goesas / Noble Goans MD to MCMX This project complies people from the Portuguese Kingdom and its Empire who were classified as Noble Goans, bestowed with various titles. These people were from diverse origins and ancestries. Numerous people of the 21st century Goa are descended from these Noble Goans, if not all. This serves as a catalogue to help find your ancestry, the diversity of ...
O termo Inquisição refere-se a várias instituições dedicadas à supressão da heresia no seio da Igreja Católica. A Inquisição foi criada inicialmente para combater o sincretismo entre alguns grupos religiosos, que praticavam a adoração de plantas e animais e utilizavam mancias. A Inquisição medieval, da qual derivam todas as demais, foi fundada em 1184 no Languedoc (sul da França) para combater ...
Portuguese people and their descendants in Russia
Goan Genealogy Contributors Goan Ancestry Goans are proud of their diverse ancestry and complicated as it gets, the good news is that they are one of the best recorded populations in the subcontinent. There are numerous people from around the globe who have contributed on Geni. Due to this collective effort, the documented records have now been visually translated here into branches of gra...
Familias da Provincia de Salcete = Genealogia das famílias da província de Salcete / Genealogy of families of the province of Salcete. =This is a project to compile the genealogical profiles of illustrious/noble ancestral families either related directly or indirectly belonging to the province of Salcete from pre-15th century. All the descendants of these noble and illustrious families of the P...
Este é um subprojeto relacionado ao Projeto Maior Brasil: Imigrantes Portugueses ao Brasil / Portuguese immigrants to Brazil Aqui estão relacionados os imigrante portugueses que vieram ao Brasil do Concelho de VIANA DO ALENTEJO .
Project Translators Portal=This portal is I hope the start of something big and possibly game changing in Geni. Geni is creating a WORLD Family Tree and so we need to do what we can to ensure the whole world has good access to the whole of Geni. Language being a key barrier that we must cross in order to achieve this. This Portal Project will be the start of coordinating people creating project...
by B. H. Levy & Rabbi Arnold Mark BelzerCongregation Mickve Israel was founded by 42 Jews who arrived in Savannah, in the new colony of Georgia, on July 11, 1733. Having left London, England, five months earlier, the brave band of mostly Portuguese Jews and two German Jewish families sought freedom and opportunity in the New World.The first communal act upon landing in Savannah was the initiati...