Les Fleurs de l'Orient Website – Jewish Genealogy of the Middle East

Les Fleurs de l’Orient, a unique website, includes a major genealogy project with more than 409,000 entries, personal documents and publications submitted by various authors, a bibliography, references, links to genealogy sites, a compilation of Franco-Egyptian words and expressions spoken and written by many French-speaking residents of Arab lands in the Middle East, plus photographs and memorabilia about the families mentioned. Many men and women of the Jewish genealogy communities assisted and guided Les Fleurs in the path of worldwide recognition. Alain Farhi will describe how his passion in genealogy grew from a few Farhi families drawn on paper to a website covering the major Sephardic families of the former Ottoman Empire.

This session has limited seating.