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Jewish settlement in Brazil began when the Inquisition took hold in Portugal in the year 1497. The first documented Jewish arrival can be traced back to the year 1500 when Gaspar de Gama , a Crypto-Jew, accompanied the Portuguese admiral Pedro Alvares Cabral when he landed on the shores of what is now known as Brazil. Like Gaspar de Gama, most Jews who arrived at that time were known as New Chr...
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...
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 ...
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...
Grandes Portugueses País de origem, ascendencia, nacionalidade: Portugal . This is a project to compile notable, great, famous, prominent, globally contributing Portuguese people of varied, diverse ethnicities. Portuguese people, citizens are all across the world/continents, e-specially after the age of discovery. Portuguese people are of varied colors, ethnicities, appearances and in the 21st ...
Os primeiros membros documentados desta família, com origem na actual freguesia de Silgueiros, perto de Viseu, foram Daganel (Daniel) de Loureiro e sua mulher D. Sancha Gonçalves, que fundaram a paróquia de Silgueiros em 1186, enquanto padroeiros da Igreja de Santa Maria de SIlgueiros.A igreja incluía “espaços para cemitério, terras para lavoura, pastos, árvores, águas e tudo o mais”, como nos ...
Henrietta Mello Mayer has spent many years researching the descendants of Manuel and Mary Enos Silva. Their many US descendants stem from some of the earliest Portuguese to settle in Stonington, Connecticut, USA. She published her work in a slim volume, titled as this project is named. My family are direct descendants of this line, and the grateful beneficiaries of her work. As there is no curr...