Well my dear and unknown members of the Foinquinos Family, yesterday I had a wonderfull surprise,Armando Bonilla Foinquinos, my longtime virtual and dear friend and remote member of our family phoned to me. I must say that I was really worried about him and the family because of the earthquake in Peru. Thus, I sent an E-Mail to him the next day of the earthquake to make sure that no one was hurt. Finally I received yesterday a phone call and you can imagine how happy I was. The Peruvians Foinquinos are, to my knowledge, issue of Rafael Foinquinos and Sarah Attias, Rafael from Tangier and Sarah Attias from Tetuan, I think she is buried in Tetuan if my memory is exact. The doubt persist in my mind because I was so desappointed for the lack of cooperation I encountered along these years, that I just packed all the research archives in a big carton and did not touched it for five years. Now that I met my cousins Simone-Cathy-Caroline, I decided to go into it again and give it another try. Perhaps this time I am going to encounter members of the family more willing to help and to cooperate.
I must say that the first response we had was from Daniel Melo Foinquinos from Manaus.
What a charming person, well I hope that all the Foinquinos unknown till now are as charming as Daniel. He even invited us to come to Brasil - I live in Haifa/Israel - it is quite a long way away
but the distance must be of no importance when the objective is to meet people of your own family.....do you agree with me?
I look forward to have reponses from the Foinquinos Family in Belem - Recife/Pernambuco -
Florianopolis and of course from Peru, you are quite numerous thank God.
On how the Family decided to emigrate to the Amazonas and Venezuela, I shall revert later.
A lot of Love for all of you.
Simone M. Foinquinos
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Armando Bonilla Foinquinos has been added as an author. He can contribute to this blog as co-author.
Great to hear that everyone is safe in Peru, we have earthquakes in California too, but everything is built for it.
I wonder who was Sarah Attias, and how she followed her husband in Amazonia when usually men went there alone. Sheila Hall was wondering if she came from France. I guess not, if she is buried in Tetuan.
Thank you for sharing your research with us and I hope a lot of Foinquinos will join us.
Simita,
Gracias a Dios, los Foinquinos de Peru no fueron afectados por el terremoto.
Navegando en internet, encontre una pag. de un descendiente de los hnos. Pinto, quienes emigraron de Tanger a Brasil y luego Peru.
En esa pag. hacen referencia a mis bisabuelos Rafael Foinquinos y Sara Attias.
http://juifs-marocains-en-amazonie.com/espanol/Abraham-Pinto-chapitre2.html
Evidentemente, Sara Attias, fue una mujer valerosa, que acompano a su esposo en esa aventura, por lugares remotos.
Un abrazo
Armando
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