Tens of millions of descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities, whose ancestors were forcibly converted from the 14th Century onwards, can now apply for and receive a Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry. Recent academic and genetic research has demonstrated that there are as many as 200 million people, largely in Latin and North America and Europe, who …
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Dig Into Your Transatlantic Roots This Findmypast Friday
The following is an announcement written by Findmypast: Explore new records from Peterborough to Pennsylvania. If you have East Coast branches on your family tree, you may find a familiar name or two within over 36,000 Huguenot Society Application Papers, or within the 195,000 Roman Catholic baptism and marriage records from New York that we …
Digitized Finnish-American Papers Tell the Story About the Life of Finnish Communities in America a Hundred Years Ago
The National Library’s collection of Finnish-American newspapers has been digitized up until the end of 1923. The collection had often received requests for digitization and is a significant source of material for the use of migration history, population history and genealogy. The papers tell the story of life in Finnish communities and are freely available …