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Thank you for your reply, Phil. I understood your French very well but if you reply, you may reply in English. My maternal grandfather was born in Puglie but, as best as I can understand, his family was not Jewish. It is my father's family that was certainly Jewish and lived in Rome. I am thinking that his ancestors came to Rome from Sicily and that they arrived in Sicily from Tunisia. Ipar Pinchas - GENEALOGIE
Dear Lorenzo, Thank you for your reply. I envy the work that you have done in tracing your family and discovering your true surname. I hope that I will be as fortunate as you have been in my searches. I am thinking that my Jewish ancestors came to Sicily from Tunisia and that after the expulsion, they went to Rome, perhaps as New Christians ("neofiti") or perhaps as Jews. Eventually they wentpar Pinchas - GENEALOGIE
I hope that through this forum I will be able to make contact with Tunisian Jews who have family in Sicily or mainland Italy. I am an observant Jew and descendant of Italian anusim. We know so little of our family history that, until a few years ago, we thought we'd always been Italian, that is to say from Rome and environs, and then we found a clue that we'd come to central Italy from Sicilypar Pinchas - GENEALOGIE
Je suis un Juif pratiquant et descendant des Anusim italiens. Nous savons si peu de notre histoire familiale que, jusqu'à il ya quelques années, nous avons pensé que nous avions toujours été en italien, c'est-à-dire à Rome et de ses environs, puis nous avons trouvé un indice que nous venions a l'Italie de la Sicile . Maintenant, il semble que nous sommes arrivés en Sicile de la Tunisie. Nous espépar Pinchas - GENEALOGIE