The paternal
side of the Marx Brothers Family
Pierre KOGAN
The origin of
the father and even more remote ancestors of this well-known
family of American entertainers (known under the nicknames as
Groucho, Chico,Harpo, etc..) proved to be uncertain. Questions
about it on our website gave our member Pierre Kogan the incentive
to start a serious investigation which drove him to the small
Alsatian village of Mertzwiller in 1859. You will be happy reading
this family story !
More
about Todrosse from Schalbach
Pascal FAUSTINI
Pascal
FAUSTINI has published an article in Revue 94 about this individual’s
ancestors. Several genealogy-literate readers in Cercle de Généalogie
Juive have offered additional information about the same Todrosse,
connecting him to their own family. Faustini describes their
different approaches in their research and shows how the available
research tools can be used.
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MISCELLANEOUS
The Leghorn
Jews in Tunis : historical demography and anthroponimy
Jacques TAIEB
Jacques TAÏEB, in Part 1 of his paper, recalls the continuous
flow of Jews from Leghorn (Livorno) to Tunis, starting just
after 1600. The first immigrants, marranos from Spain and Portugal,
were followed by Jews from Italy, and they together founded
in 1710 a community separate from the local one, counting between
5 and 10 percent of the total Jewish population (some 60,000
individuals in 1948). In Part 2, Taïeb analyzes the names
of these families by idiom of origin (Iberic, Italian, Hebrew,
Arabic) and provides ample details about their occurrence.
Ethics in
Genealogy
Bernard LYON-CAEN,
in a letter to the Editor, elaborates on recent articles about
the publication of private data, noting that differing life
experiences probably result in differing behaviors. He expands
the topic to the unchecked and even erroneous information found
on Internet and subsequently copied indefinitely. He advocates
a cooperative examination of this moral problem by the genealogical
community.
Our surnames
and given names.
The same author is startled by the frequency of questions raised
on our website and during private genealogy discussions about
the origin and history of our surnames and sometimes given names.
He suggests that a section be opened in our Revue for testimonies
by our readers about the origin and evolution of their surname.
These contributions would result in a collection of facts that
could become a valuable research tool.
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