Research your Sephardic Jewish ancestry with evidence, context, and professional help.
This website is dedicated to Sephardic genealogy, Sephardic family history, and the history of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish diaspora. It brings together resources for researching Sephardic Jewish families across Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the Americas, and beyond.
If you are trying to trace Sephardic ancestors, understand a family tradition, build a Sephardic family tree, or assess a claim of Sephardic ancestry, this site is designed to help.
Professional Sephardic Genealogy Research
I offer professional research into Sephardic Jewish family history. This includes work on family trees, archival research, Sephardic surnames, migration between countries, and the interpretation of historical evidence.
Whether your family was connected with Spain, Portugal, Amsterdam, London, Livorno, the Ottoman world, Morocco, Jamaica, Barbados, Curaçao, Suriname, or elsewhere, I may be able to help.
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What makes this site different
Sephardic genealogy is often made harder by weak online information, unsupported surname claims, family legend, and confusion between tradition and proof. This site takes an evidence-based approach.
It emphasises:
- documentary research
- proper genealogical standards
- careful use of surnames
- caution in interpreting Sephardic DNA
- distinction between fact, inference, and speculation
Start your Sephardic family research
You may wish to begin with one of these key pages:
- Genealogical Standards for Sephardic Jewish Family Research
- Sephardic surnames
- Sephardic DNA
- Crypto-Jews and Bnei Anusim
- Hire a Sephardic Genealogist
Research Sephardic genealogy by place
This site includes resources on Sephardic Jewish communities in many parts of the world. Choose a country from the menu or begin with the major centres of Sephardic migration and settlement.
Who this site is for
This site may be useful if you are:
- researching your Sephardic Jewish ancestry
- building a Sephardic family tree
- trying to identify the origins of a Sephardic family
- tracing migration between Sephardic communities
- assessing whether a family story is supported by evidence
- looking for a professional genealogist to research your Sephardic roots
Need a professional genealogist?
Researching Sephardic family history can be complex. Records may be scattered across countries and languages, surnames may vary, and family stories may need careful testing against the evidence.
If you would like me to research your Sephardic genealogy for you, please contact me here.
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