Family of Semaân
Saint-Sauveur, 1728-1799
Eponym: Semaân (2 generations below) Named after Semaân, a forebear named in his descendants’ acts, with no record page of his own yet.Identity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)View the record naming him
Tree of 2 people across 2 generations, 1 filiation links drawn, some of them recorded in an index.
✓ Demonstrated≈ Probable? PlausibleNo published level
Members
Family members
2 members, 2 of them with a page
Without a published page, the name comes from the record and links to its mention.
Generation 1
Butrus FrangisIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)
Life and events
Parishes
- Saint-Sauveur4 records · 5 mentions
Records per decade
Records per decade from 1740s to 1790s, 2 dated records in total.
- 1740s: 1 record
- 1750s: 0 records
- 1760s: 0 records
- 1770s: 0 records
- 1780s: 0 records
- 1790s: 1 record
Sources and method
Starting point
Probable starting point
The identity of the person opening this family is established as probable, not as demonstrated: the filiations shown depend on it.
Butrus FrangisLLP-2244
born 1746 · child, record of 1728 · See their mention in the 1728 record.
Identity: probable : Starting point (Inferred with high confidence, not attested verbatim.)What this level means
Provenance of the reconstruction
Founding decision and fingerprint, shown here: verifiable, reversible.
Two matched mentions open the lineage, each with its page:
- SS-STA-i220-01-enfant-61728 · Saint-Sauveur
- SS-BAP-1746-i294-09-enfant-11746 · Saint-Sauveur
Fingerprint: 7d20c6c6What this is
What the sources do not say
A documented event affects this parish during this period.
Jerusalem · The 1760 plague: Jerusalem and its surroundings (1760)
Scope rules bar the link between this family and this event: no record places it there, at the time and place the event is attested. A silence, not a gap.
A documented event affects this parish during this period.
Jerusalem · Plague of 1786-1787 (Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ein Karem) (1786-1787)
Scope rules bar the link between this family and this event: no record places it there, at the time and place the event is attested. A silence, not a gap.
A record counts once even if it names several members (5 mentions).
The generations shown are deduced from the filiations stated in the records, never read as-is from a single source. Each "Child of" link carries its certainty level and links back to the record that establishes it.
What this level means
- ✓ Demonstrated, attested by a record
- ≈ Probable, converging evidence
- ? Plausible, open hypothesis
Thin line, no marker: attested by a record, no confidence published for this pair.
Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project, "Family of Semaân," accessed 17 August 2026, https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F270/. Version cited: snapshot from 17 August 2026, hash b13bd7cd21c8.
Cite this record.
Reference (Chicago style).
Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project, "Family of Semaân," accessed 17 August 2026, https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F270/. Version cited: snapshot from 17 August 2026, hash b13bd7cd21c8.
See the BibTeX and RIS formats
@misc{levantine_f270,
title = {Family of Semaân},
author = {{Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F270/},
note = {Snapshot 2026-08-17, hash b13bd7cd21c8, id F270},
urldate = {2026-08-17}
}TY - DATA TI - Family of Semaân AU - Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project DA - 2026/08/17 PY - 2026 UR - https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F270/ ID - F270 N1 - Snapshot 2026-08-17, hash b13bd7cd21c8 Y2 - 2026-08-17 ER -
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