Subject: [COULOMBE-L] Re: Christophe COLOMB

> ----------On another subject, I had told you many months ago that I 
> would access the French portion of the Internet... however when I did, I 
> found that speaking French was not a help, the database is just 
> "genealogical lingo" to me... I don't know enough about the terms used 
> in this "science" to be of any help... Sorry.

That's quite all right; but is sure gives me pause as to how we can
accomplish this.  There seems to be a real wealth of information over there
if only one of us can figure out how to access it.  Oh, well, I'm sure
sooner or later something will come up and we will accomplish this somehow.

 Thanks so much for trying, though!

> 
> --------I read with interest the message yesterday about Christopher 
> Colombus' life..... I was not aware that it was such a mystery. I own a 
> very good book by Nancy Smiler Levinson,  titled Christopher Columbus 
> Voyager to the Unknown,  pub by Lodestar Books, in 1990 which contains 
> very detailed information... 
> 
> According to the records she has used, CC was born in GENOA, iin 1451 (a 
> city on the Western coat of Italy, near access to the Mediterranean sea. 
> His father was not a sailor, but took to the sea to sell his cloth.
> CC had two brothers Bartholomew and Giacomo (Diego in Spain) and a 
> sister, Bianchinetta. 
> 
> CC grew up accompanying his father, and later ventured off farther and 
> farther, eventually joining up with his brother Bart. who lived in 
> Lisbon, and owed a shop that sold books. He also drew maps and sometimes 
> went to sea.
> 
>  CC died in Villadolid Spain on May 20, 1506
> He had at least two sons and  wives, Felipa and Beatrice Enriquez de 
> Arana.
> 
> Anyway, I cannot retype the whole book, (and I don't have a 
> scanner......)  but it is VERY interesting, easy to read (I bought it 
> for my son who was then 10) and a must-have for anyone who thinks they 
> may be descendants of this family..... It isn't an expensive book 
> either....
> 
> And, as I have told you before about having visited Le Neuboug, where 
> the "accepted fact" is that the Colombe's who are there are indeed 
> descendants of CC's sons.  

Thanks for the above; this is research that I am hoping to be able to do
"when I find time".  It would be wonderful to be able to find the
connection and link up the family line; but difficult.  I have been sending
out some preliminary posts in the midevil bases - you never know what you
will find when you send out inquiries.

More on this later!

Great hearing from you; and hope all is well with you.

        Ellen

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