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The Usillo Family

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אשיליו

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

Ce nom, dont le sens n'a pu être déterminé, est trouvé sous la graphie d'Usiellys dans les documents espagnols du XVe s. — Source : A. I. Laredo, « Les noms des Juifs du Maroc » (CSIC, Madrid, 1978).

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Usillo 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).

03

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.

This book tells the story of the Usillo. 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 Usillo, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/usillo

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

🔗 Cite / link this page

Copy any of these formats to cite this page or link to it.

Link

https://zakhor.ai/usillo

HTML

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

Citation

Usillo — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/usillo

Variants of the name (2)

One name, a hundred faces.

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

Latin1

Usiellys

עברית · Hebrew1

אשיליו

Does your family write this name differently?

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 Usillo.

Search “Usillo” 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

Works & texts (1)

Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.

Notable figures of the lineage

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Usillo 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

Bibliography

  • Abraham I. Laredo, Les noms des Juifs du Maroc, CSIC, Instituto B. Arias Montano, Madrid (1978)

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