Maiden Surnames of Female Spou...

Jan 17, 2011 by

Only surnames that do not appear in List I Abutbul-Avidor, Afia-Agi, Akdag, Akkiva, Albalag, Albukrek, Alexander, Algazi, Allix, Altarass, Aluf, Aluf-Medina, Alvo-Arditi, Amaraggi, Amram,  Anavi, Appelbaum, Arditi, Arie, Auzolle, Bahari, Barzilay, Bauer, Bedu, BeharAharon,...

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Statistics

Jan 16, 2011 by

In a family of approximately 3000 individuals, living or deceased, which include family members and their spouses, there is ample room for statistics. We have chosen to calculate family data of several types: Geographical dispersion and migrations Occurrences of names and...

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Introduction: Seeing is Believ...

Jan 16, 2011 by

Genealogy looks always backwards. Older people often look back in nostalgia to times and places they remember vaguely from their past, to scents and tastes long forgotten, to people that were once family and are not there any more. Younger people long to hear and see how their...

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Introduction: Family Research ...

Jan 16, 2011 by

We have been doing research on the family for several years. Most of it is routine work of contacting family members and accumulating genealogical data that enable us to compute interconnections. But once in a while, this occupation leads to unexpected results or such that...

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The Story of the Soldier Nisim...

Jan 16, 2011 by

By Raphael Ventura In 2002 I saw an ad by Michel Calef on the Jewishgen website. Michel, a Parisian businessman, wished to obtain information on the surname Behmoiras. I obviously responded and understood that his paternal grandmother was Alice Calef, nee Behmoiras. When my...

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