The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. One prestigious coeducational college preparatory boarding school recently made a radical change to its library. With 159years of academic excellence, one would expect the school to be steeped in tradition. However, a visitor to the campus might be surprised to learn that …
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Descendants of Spanish Jews Rediscover their Roots
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 …
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 …