 | My interest in genealogy was passed on to me by my mother, when she started seaching for her ancestors. After participating as the "official" family genealogist for the first Salas family Reunion in 1999, I was hooked. I have been working on tracing the descendants of the first 12 families of Sephardic Jews of Curaçao who landed on the island in 1651 for about 9 years now, entering all the birth, death and mariage dates and relevant data of our ancestors and their descendants. This has included research in various national archives, synagogues and cemeteries in Curaçao, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Panama and St. Thomas. |