According to a 2008 study by the American Journal of Human Genetics, 19.8% of the Portuguese population has Jewish ancestry. The genetic signatures of people in the Iberian Peninsula provide new evidence that the number of Jews forced to convert to Christianity during Catholic rule in the 15th and 16th centuries was much greater than historians believed
Jorge Arez da Silva Thanks, I found the link to the original article http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2668061/?tool=pmcentrez in the wikipedia reference section.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Portugal.
Wikipedia also mentions , José_da_Silva---your ancestor?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_José_da_Silva
hi malka ! silva are a very comun name in portugal jewish and not
i am related to Cristovão Rodrigues Marques
and of the last rabi mor de castilla coronel
Jorge Arez da Silva Regarding ''the last rabi mor de castilla coronel'' are you referring to Don Abraham SENIOR CORONEL alias: Fernando PEREZ CORONEL or Fernando NUNEZ CORONEL
Born: 14 Oct 1412 Segovia, Castile, Spain
Baptism: 15 Jun 1492 Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Spain
Occupation: Court rabbi of Castile, and royal tax-farmer-in-chief
Died: 1493/1496
*http://www.tzorafolk.com/genealogy/history/senior.htm
I just added the Senior Coronel & Saraiva Family of Segovia, Castilla y Leon, Spain to one of our Geni Projects: http://www.geni.com/projects/Important-Jewish-Family-Tree-Charts-So...
I don't have any Portuguese relatives that I know of, but I'm reading _Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean_ now, and one of the things it makes clear is that there was a time when "Portuguese" was virtually synonymous with "Jewish", at least with respect to anyone that immigrated to the Caribbean and South America, so I would not be surprised at all to find a higher percentage of Conversos in Portugal than initially believed.
Fernão Perez Coronel
* Segovia, Segovia 1412 + 1493
Casamentos
N
Filhos
Constança Coronel Tomé da Veiga
João Perez Coronel Maria de Castro de Leão
Iñigo Perez Coronel Guiomar Mendez del Rio
Notas Biográficas
Regedor de Segovia
Viveu pelos anos de 1492
último Rabino-mór de Castela
Conselheiro da rainha Isabel
encarregado das finanças do país
Forçado, converteu-se ao catolicismo, adotando o nome “Fernán Núñez Coronel”, sendo batizado no Monastério de Guadalupe
You are my 17th cousin twice removed :) But if we were able to figure out the Sephardic lines, we might be closer. I have a path to Samuel ibn Naghrela (Hebrew: שמואל הלוי בן יוסף הנגיד, Sh'muel HaLevi ben Yosef HaNagid; Arabic: أبو إسحاق إسماعيل بن النغريلة Abu Iṣḥāq Ismā‘īl bin an-Naghrīlah), also known as Samuel HaNagid (Hebrew: שמואל הנגיד, Shmuel HaNagid, lit. Samuel the Prince), (born 993 - died after 1056)
http://www.geni.com/path/Hatte+Anne+Blejer+Rubenstein+is+related+to...
Hatte Anne Blejer, Pirates of the Caribbean is indeed a very enlightening book---and it is very reasonable http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Pirates-Caribbean-Swashbuckling-Freedo...
Kenneth Kwame Welsh, (C) Oooops sorry I meant Kwame.
http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Pirates-Caribbean-Swashbuckling-Freedo...
Hatte, can you here me cussing from where you are? I just came back from the bookstore. If I'd seen this message an hour earlier, I'd have been hunting for the Pirates book. Oh well. Next time.
I have a line of Portuguese Jews in 17th century Dublin. They appear to be connected to the Carvajal family. At least, they were wine merchants. I poke them from time to time to see if I can stir up anything new, but I've pretty much given up. It's just a fact of life that some lines will never be found.
Yes Hatte.
I found her in the 1910 and the 1920 US census.
I know she came as a small child to NY, probably about early 1890's from near Linz, Austria after her mother died in childbirth.
She was my great grandmother, married and divorced Marcus/Mark Weisberger in about 1902, mother of Morris/Martin Weisberger who was my mother, Elinore Weisberger Schwartz's father.
Thank you very much for any information!
I am missing some people on my mother's maternal line. My mtDNA matches me to people who have ancestors in Portuguese-speaking places and DNA testing shows that I have Iberian/Southern European DNA, along with a little bit of Jewish DNA--- and my maternal line is Catholic.
I have DNA cousins who have roots in Portuguese or Spanish-speaking cousins, and all of these cousins have found some "mystery" Jewish DNA. I am distantly related to a Brazilian family that practices Judaism. My hunch is that I have Converso ancestors.
I am supposed to be descended from the Perheiras from Portugal; my mother's paternal grandmother was Rosa Schiller from Austria, of this Perheria family.
Lisa Reik
Israel
reiklisa@gmail.com
Today The DNA tests Era is a reality and will prove it. MyHeritage has uncovered history by gens. I am brazilian and i live in Brazil sNorth some indian, black and white. All My relatives have been living here for three century at least. The point is in my genetic outcome showed i am 23% mesoandino asian, 22% of escandinavian, 20% nigerian and 14% iberian and 6.0% of "AshKenazi Jews".... by gens. Who can explain me this?