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Presenter: Lea Gedalia

"Working by the book" (literally) in Sephardic research : Following the wandering Portuguese GEDALIA family - A Case Study My Lecture relates to the Gedalia family after the expulsion and their wandering Descendants. My research started with Chief Rabbi Rachamim Gedalja who died in Nis Serbia circa 1765 and who was (according to the Sephardic community lore) a descendant of Don Yehuda Gedalia the First Hebrew printer in Salonika after the expulsion. Data on the web gives information regarding Gedalia/Gedaliah,Ghedalia/Gedilia ( and more variants) families in cities such as Salonika, Livorno, Mogador, Marakesh, Amsterdam, ,Hebron, New York, London and Nis Serbia and countries such as Gibraltar, Brazil, Curacao and Egypt My quest to find out if they were all branches of the same clan required many hours of library work for positive confirmation of the relevant branches. The next phase should be final verification by DNA.