Ancestry
 

I just came across ancestry.com yesterday. It is a place where you can start a family tree and reseach gov't records for ancestors.

Has anyone here researched their ancestry? How far back were you able to go? I only got to my great great grandparents. My great grandparents signed the census of 1910.

On a side note, I am also researching the Jews from Spain and how they migrated to Latin America and the new world starting in 1492. 1492 was the same year that Columbus left for the new world and that the roman catholic inquisition was happening in Spain. Thus the reason for the Jewish migration to Latin America. There are serveral websites about crypto jews in Latin America. Two of my grandparents last names are listed as spanish jews from the records of the inquisition. Any comments?

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interesting history there dedicated, glad they came to the new world to escape the inquisitors, dt

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Where did you find the information on the spanish jews?

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there are several websites. one of the main ones is sephardim.com. It lists all of the spanish surnames that are jewish. sephardim is the name of the jews from Spain and Portugal. you can google it for more info. also a wikipedia article with more links. What part of Latin America are you or your husband from?

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Spain. My husband's last name is Moraga.

(as a side note, so is mine now!) :toofunny

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Moraga is one of the names listed at sephardim.com. It is referenced in the book "Sangre Judia" by Pere Bonnin. I just ordered the book on line from Barcelona. $28 plus $44 for shipping. The home page of sephardim.com seems to freeze up all of the time so try this direct link to the "M" page of last names. http://www.sephardim.com/namelist.sh...&search=search go to bottom of page to find name then use number to the right of name to find the reference book.

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I just accessed the website and did a quick review of it. My husband will LOVE this. I saw Moraga listed and and I also saw his mother's maiden name - Rivera listed as well. That is the side he would be interested in researching from the jewish aspect.

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Mine has already been traced.
DEGRAFFENRIED, THOMAS P., History of the deGraffenried family from 1191-1925.

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Great news! Glad I could help. My last name should be Rivera also. I have grandparents with Molina, Maldonado, Pagan, Vega and Diaz. Did the home page work for you? It always freezes up for me, don't know if its dialup or not.

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wow that's awesome, 1191? who did the tracing for you and what kind of records did you use? were they family archives?