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From: "borray" <>
Subject: Re: on Genealogy Warning
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:32:48 GMT


>I think you have some more research to do.
>
>Bob
>
>


Thanks for your clear answer Bob.
The reason for the namechange is clear to me.
That ancester wanted to become a member of the citycouncil,
and exaxtly on the date he became a member he changed his name.
The documents before, he used borray and after he used borra.
Also outoff those days I have the laws that forbid the jews in that city to
have those kind of public functions.
About the direct line to that man named jacob I have a familyregister
with all the generations, complete with several documents/person,
that's not my problem.
My problem starts in 1600, but I cannot find in the 'Sephardic connection'
of those days the name borray .
I used copernic 2000 to find borray all over the world and I discovered
a few in north-america and I heared from them that they came from south-
america and I found a man in Israel with the name borray who told that
the name came from Syria and was used by Jewish and some Arabic
families.
This is the point I stand now, do you have any suggestions?

pieter.

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