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Rachael Jacobs was the daughter of Lewis Jacobs and Milcah Levy At the time of writing (February 2020) there are a large number (43) of trees on Ancestry that have Rachael marrying Jonas Lipman in 1849. None of these trees appears to have a detailed citation for the marriage. At best they give the date, 4th July 1849, and the...

The first Jacobs connection with Latin America that I am aware of is Daniel Jacobs. He is born, and spends most of his life in England. However, in 1860 he is living on St. Thomas in what is today the US Virgin Isles, but at the time it was Danish, working as a Clerk. The family he is living with...

I was recently contacted via the family tree database by Olivia Jameson. Liv and her family are descendants of Samuel Jacobs who went to NZ via Tasmania and Australia. Three Jacobs brothers were in NZ in the mid 1860s – details of Samuel can be found on this site :- The Life of Samuel Jacobs June very kindly sent me some...