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Sunday, May 18, 2025
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Speakers: Barbara Wright, Shelley Kellerman Pollero, and Jordan Auslander For our fourth annual members' presentations, Barbara Wright, Shelley Kellerman Pollero, and Jordan Auslander will each present a case study that demonstrates how they resolved a genealogical question in their family research. Searching to Find Changed First Names after Moving from Spain to France in the 18th century – Barbara Wright My Sephardic family in Spain and Portugal, originally from Braganca, Portugal, were Conversos. When they left and went to France, they adopted Biblical names (Jacob, David, Esther, Rachel, etc.), but previously had their Baptismal names (Juan, Leonor, Gabriela, Michaela, Joseph, etc.). There is ...

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