You might be able to buy one or both from Livraria Gil in Ponta Delgada which you can find on the internet.
--- On Thu, 2/17/11, lori pacheco <lorettajwri...@gmail.com> wrote: From: lori pacheco <lorettajwri...@gmail.com> Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Catholic or Jewish Roots? To: "Azores Genealogy" <azores@googlegroups.com> Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 3:17 PM Thank you John. How do i make contact with these two works you mention? are they book articles or websites? Again, thank you On Feb 16, 6:15 pm, John Raposo <marra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have written on this subject many times. It continues to be a very > controversial subject. The estimates of the percentage of Jews in the Azorean > population is greatly exaggerated in both the low and the high side. I have > only one proved set of Jewish ancestors: > Francisco Fernandes, o Castelhano foi escudeiro e era natural de Sevilha, > sendo o seu nome todo Francisco Fernandes Pincho, segundo o genealogista > Agostinho de Barros Lobo. Veio por 1500 e tantos para esta ilha de S. Miguel, > onde fez testamento com sua mulher a 9.7.1544, sendo morador em S. Pedro de > Ponta Delgada; foram sepultados na igreja da mesma freguesia junto ao > cruzeiro (Nota N.º 1). Frutuoso cita-o algumas vezes como se pode ver no > início do Liv.º IV das Saudades da Terra. Casou com Maria Fernandes, que, > segundo se diz, foi sambanitada em Sevilha pelo que deve ser por ela que se > transmitiu a ascendência de cristãos novos aos seus descendentes, entre eles, > Gaspar Dias e os filhos de António Mendes Pereira. > > I recommend the following two works: Braga, Paul Drumond, A Inquisição nos > Açores, Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada, Ponta Delgada: 1997, which is > the most comprehensive research on the Jewish presence in the Azores. The > other is: Almeida Mello, José, Sinagoga Sahar Hassamain de Ponta Delgada, > Nova Gráfica, Ponta Delgada: 2009, about the presence of modern Jewry in the > Azores, the Moroccan serphadim that arrived in the 18th century. Their > synagogue in Ponta Delgada is being restored. The synagogue in Newport, RI > was built in the same style. > --- On Mon, 2/14/11, lori pacheco <lorettajwri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: lori pacheco <lorettajwri...@gmail.com> > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Catholic or Jewish Roots? > To: "Azores Genealogy" <azores@googlegroups.com> > Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 5:43 PM > > This question keeps coming up for me so I want to ask it here. Does > anyone know whether the roots of their azorean ancestors were Jewish > (Sephardic)? I was baptised Catholic;.however, this subject has > intrigued me for a while and I cannot find much informatioon on it. I > would love any feedback from you > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when > they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
