We just had a young woman doing research in our library trying to establish Spanish ancestry and I imagine that the useful tools and methodology are similar to Annette Goldsmith's case. We had several books she found useful:
Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World Jeffrey S. Malka Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic Stanford J. Shaw Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel Mathilde A. Tagger Lee Jaffe Temple Beth El, Aptos (Calif) > From: Annette Goldsmith <[email protected]> > To: Hasafran <[email protected]> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:08:13 -0700 > Subject: [ha-Safran] Portuguese citizenship for Sephardic descendants > Dear colleagues, > > I have been asked for help by a young woman who is trying to build a case > for citizenship in Portugal. She needs proof of a connection to the Iberian > peninsula, and Portuguese descent is even better. > > Do you know of anyone who could do some paid genealogical research to > prove her ancestry and then write a report of their findings that can be > submitted as part of her application? > > Here are two informational links that she shared with me: > > www.embassyportugal-us.org/portuguese-sephardic-jews-descendants/ > > > > http://www.comunidade-israelita-porto.org/resources/pdfs/Portuguese_Nationality_for_Sephardic_Descendants_English.pdf > > Please feel free to share this with anyone you think might be interested. > > Thank you! > > Annette > > -- > Annette Goldsmith, PhD > Librarian, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Los Angeles, CA > Chair, Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) 2020 Translated YA > Book Prize Committee > Currently reading: *It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of > Hope*; story by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, poems by Hope Anita Smith, with > illustrations by Lea Lyon (Christy Ottaviano/Henry Holt, 2019) > > "A book is like a world you can carry around with you." Liniers, > *Written and Drawn by Henrietta* (TOON Books, 2015) > > >
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