Hello.

I'm afraid I have no info to help in your immediate quest, but I have a question for you. For several years, I have been working every angle to try to track down a character named Sidi(or Sadi) Mahomet (Mahommed)Ta-eber (or Taeber) who appeared briefly in southeast Utah on the heels of a minor gold rush in 1894 or 1895. I'm trying every angle I can to get any kind of lead on this man. My thought is that, as his name was sometimes hyphenated ("Ta-eber"), that the "Ta-" may have been some kind of prefix that was dropped by his descendants, assuming he had some. He was an elderly gentleman in the mid 1890s, and apparently well educated. He may have been Moroccan. If this has any possible bearing on your family origins, please get in touch with me. thank you very much, and good luck in your search. --Winston Hurst