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Memory🌳 Englishmoderne· 1716 EC — 1786 EC

The Salvador Family

Write the Great Book

סלבדור

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Salvador lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

London Sephardic family. Francis Salvador emigrated to South Carolina in 1773 and died in battle in 1776 for American independence — the first Jew to fall for the United States, the first Jew elected to an American legislature.

Geographic origin: Londres, Charleston

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Salvador lineage has not yet been written.

Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.

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Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

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Web research

Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).

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Writing

Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.

Get a single link: it signs you in if you already have an account, or creates one — no password. This finalises your proposal and lets you follow its review.

Lineage Map

New YorkNew YorkPlace of Origin — LondresLondres
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the Salvador. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.

To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Salvador, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/salvador

The address zakhor.ai/salvador leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.

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Link

https://zakhor.ai/salvador

HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/salvador">Salvador — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Salvador — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/salvador

Variants of the name (4)

One name, a hundred faces.

The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.

Latin3

SalvadoreSalbadorSalvadó

עברית · Hebrew1

סלבדור

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Francis Salvador

    Patriote américain, député en Caroline du Sud

In memory

The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Salvador.

Search “Salvador” on Yad Vashem

The search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more

Notable figures of the lineage

Places along the journey

Communities crossed

Diaspora regions

Royaume-UniÉtats-Unis

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Salvador give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Tags

#anglaise#sefarade#revolution-americaine#lieu-geo-auto

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