Hi Zeev, long time since we were on the same thread ... yes some of that is ringing a bell now, maybe from Ask God or Feelies or something years ago .... remember a Jakob who knew ladino well, lived in Italy somewhere i think? ... i had ancestors who followed the genealogy too, on one of the 'english' branches who had been french/flemish huguenots and fled to Geneva then to England there actually turned out to be considerable evidence that their ancestors had been english and crossed into the low countries in the thirteenth century or so ... the fellow who was working on this, in the early days of computers, early eighties, died before finishing that volume, but all his documentation exists intact and the leads could be followed up ..... some of that same branch [i think it's the same one?] were clerks and secretaries to the tsars and two empresses of Rusia, another made a brooch for Catherine the Great that is on display in St Petersburg .... another got a captain's commission and a lot of fame at the battle of Aboukir, was selected to take the news of victory to India, distinguished himself in some way there, and the East India company gave him a thousand pounds, he was well on his way at the age of less than thirty, then went down off Newfoundland .... lots and lots of stories, many with just the outline recorded, makes you want to know the details
I'm amazed at the visceral reaction against spanish here .... wooo, this does not bode well for a nation with ambitions of ruling all six billions plus of us, we speak quite a variety of tongues ... i always thought the beauty of english was that it just shrugged its shoulders and incorporated languages with which it competed, look how it treated norman french after getting overrun, just ripped off what it wanted and let the rest go back to Calais, lol ..... spanish too, it just absorbed such arabic as people found a use for, didn't seem to do it any harm .... the name Zaragoza has been important to one branch of family, actually the name of the spanish town was originally César Augusto, until the moros came along, and presumbably applied their foreign accent to it .... no lasting damage, so far, lol .... you used to see rabble-rousing xenophobic whackos in México too, much less so now, though there remains that core sense of isolationism in foreign affairs, still an individual from anywhere is welcome ..... anyway, i didn't mean to get involved here, just state my piece and get out .... better stop feeling an obligation to respond i guess eh -g- ... cheers
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