Underlined: Hard to identify genuine “Behmoiras” variants Abd el-Tawab, Aboaff, Abramov, Abruzzo, Abuaff, Acevedo, Achiron, Ackerman, Adams, Adato, Adoni, Adut, Agatstein, Aguadish, Albala, Alboker, Alev, Alev-Levi, Alfandari, Alfassa, Alkalay, Alkalay-Appel,...
read moreOnly 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,...
read moreIn 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...
read moreGenealogy 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...
read moreWe 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...
read moreBy Simon Behmo I was born Shimon Behmoarash on March 10, 1940 in Sofia (Bulgaria), the only child of Azaria Behmoarash from Varna, Bulgaria and Nora Dassa from Salonica, Greece. My parents met in Barcelona (Spain), where they got married on July 14, 1935. My father, aged 30,...
read moreI was born November 17, 1928, during a winter that would prove to be so fierce that pieces of ice were, for the first time in people’s memories, seen floating in the Bosphorus. I was told that I was a surprise baby. Although my sister and brother were two years apart in...
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