California Elias roots
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California Elias roots
| Vince Elias (View posts) | Posted: 7 Aug 1999 3:20AM GMT |
Hello out there in cyberspace. Looking for long lost Grandparents.
John Elias and spouse Amelia Pastrano, or/and offspring (my biological aunts and uncles).
Both of my parents were estranged.
Believe they were both or one of sephardic sect -- origin: perhaps from Iberia through
South America and Southern California.
May have been converts to Catholicism as a result of their ancestors.
Trying to research orginal European surname origin.
Surname is also middle-Eastern, German, English, Czech, Greek, etc.
Note: "...And they asked him: "What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith: 'I am not'" (John the Baptist contradicts Jesus -- Jesus says that John is Elias and John denies that he is what Jesus ascribes him to be...."
John Elias and spouse Amelia Pastrano, or/and offspring (my biological aunts and uncles).
Both of my parents were estranged.
Believe they were both or one of sephardic sect -- origin: perhaps from Iberia through
South America and Southern California.
May have been converts to Catholicism as a result of their ancestors.
Trying to research orginal European surname origin.
Surname is also middle-Eastern, German, English, Czech, Greek, etc.
Note: "...And they asked him: "What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith: 'I am not'" (John the Baptist contradicts Jesus -- Jesus says that John is Elias and John denies that he is what Jesus ascribes him to be...."