Ancestry

[tamor]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

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?

Spain. My husband's last name is Moraga.

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

[Dedicated Mind]

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.

[tamor]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

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.

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.

[Dedicated Mind]

Originally Posted by tamor

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.

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.

[tamor]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

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.

I was able to open the ones that I tried. I didn't have alot of time when I was looking at it. He has an ancestry book at home that one of his aunts did a few years ago. I need to get it and compare it with what I can find on that website.

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by tamor

Spain. My husband's last name is Moraga.

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

That's better than More agua...

[tamor]

Originally Posted by Berkeley

That's better than More agua...

[Esther]

A couple of areas to consider searching:

1) Cementary records
2) Military records
3) Morman records
4) Census records
5) Ship records

Margie yes please post the sites you have found.

Thanks

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by Esther

A couple of areas to consider searching:

1) Cementary records
2) Military records
3) Morman records
4) Census records
5) Ship records

Margie yes please post the sites you have found.

Thanks

Some of these are just for fun. Others are for serious research. It'll probably take me several posts in order to do this......................

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

[Margies3]

This is a good one for figuring out a birthdate if you have a tombstone that says "May JOnes, died 5/14/1008, age 68 years 4 months and 3 days"

http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/birthday.html

This one is just for fun........

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.c...s/thefunny.htm

I think you might have to pay a subscription here. I can't remember for sure tho...

http://www.gencircles.com/

http://www.genealogical.com/index.php

http://www.familyhistory101.com/map_census.html