For a more complete
extensive bibliography
Malka, Jeffrey S.
Sephardic Genealogy:
Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World.
Avotaynu, 2002.
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Indispensible. The ONLY comprehensive book for Sephardic Genealogy. --
History, research methods, archives, surnames, maps, bibliography, and more. (Includes Holland, St. Thomas, St. Croix and Nevis, Curacao, St Eustatia, St Maarten, Jamaica, Argentina, Brazil, etc.).
Liebman, Seymour B.
The Inquisitors and the Jews in the New World.
University of Miami Press.
Except for a brief introduction, the entire book is a listing of Inquisition Records in the New World. Good source for converso names in the New World.
Emmanuel, Isaac Samuel and Suzanne A. Emmanuel
Precious Stones of the Jews in Curaçao: Curaçaon Jewry 1656-1957.
NY: Bloch, 1957 (out of print)
Emmanuel, Isaac Samuel and Suzanne A. Emmanuel
History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles.
Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1970 (out of print)
Barnett, R.D. & P.Wright
The Jews of Jamaica; Tombstone Inscriptions. 1663-1880.
Jerusalem, Ben Zvi Institute, 1997.
Good source and index.
Mordechai Arbell
The Portuguese Jews of Jamaica.
University Press of the West Indies (Canoe Press), 2000.
Mordechai Arbell
The Jewish nation of the Caribbean : the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas.
New York: Gefen Pub., 2002.
Birmingham, Stephen
The Grandees. America's Sephardic Elite.
Sephardic version of "Our Crowd". About the early Sephardic
families in the US.
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