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The Burial Register of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews, London 1657-1735 transcribed by R. D. Barnett
IntroductionThe register gives us dates for the burials in the "Bethahaim Velho" or Old Cemetery but does contain a few transcription errors. This is only to be expected as the difficulty of reading the old writing and original clerks work can be at fault. However, in our case, the graves have been examined by Dr. Peter and John and Sue Ferdinando and we can make one correction to these as noted below. Secondly, the dates all appear as the Jewish Calendar and so need to be re-calculated to achieve Gregorian equivalents. This can be achieved by following this link to the Jewishgen site. I also asked for a check and a researcher, using Kaluach 2 for windows has provided me with alternative dates. These look very close to those we had calculated some time ago.
Burial Information and Jewish and Gregorian Calendar Dates
The Jewish CalendarAn introduction to the Jewish Calendar by Jewishgen shows how the calendar works. Follow the link to the Jewishgen web site.
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