A distant connection

 

Ancestry. WWI Draft Card. 5 June 1917.

I've been looking at Amado DNA connections as part of my DNA research questions. One small match on my Mom's results is a granddaughter of David Amado, who arrived in the US through the port of Baltimore in 1911 and found his way to Chicago. According to his WWI draft registration card, David was born in Calafat, Romania, on the Danube River across from Bulgaria, on 27 March 1889. From looking at other records on Ancestry, I can see David was from the Sephardic community. The 1920 US Census places David and his wife Sophie in the home of Sophie's brother Sam Siprut. Although these people were from Ottoman Türkiye, Bulgaria and Romania, according to the Census, they all spoke Spanish.

Ancestry. 1920 US Census. Chicago, Illinois.

The DNA match to my Mom only shares a minimal 9 cM. From Ancestry's Shared Matches of Matches, I can see this person has a first cousin whose father was a Sephardic immigrant to Chicago from Türkiye, and mother from Bulgaria (just across the Turkish border, relatively close to present day Istanbul). This makes me wonder how distantly this group of possible Amado matches may be related to the Izmir Amados who settled in Los Angeles, and potentially to my own Amado branch that moved to Mexico.