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Sephardic Genealogy and Sephardim, Jewish Genealogy

Comprehensive site for Sephardic Jewish genealogy. Sephardic history, names, searchable databases, gazetteer, Consolidated Sephardic Surname Index (CISS), calendar tools, Crypto-Jews and Anusim, extensive bibliography and much more.

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Sephardim.com

A research tool for Sephardic / Jewish genealogy. This site serves as a research tool for Sephardic genealogists world-wide. Sephardim are Spanish and Portuguese Jews exiled to Iberia by the Romans. Many of these Serphardim would later disperse to the four corners of the world in 1492.

This is no fish tale: Gefilte tastes tell story of ancestry

Onlne article from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Explains the geographic divide between taste preferences in gefilte fish in Eastern Europe as well as other clues to Jewish geographic origins including prayer books, head coverings, and tombstone shapes.