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Family of Franzis Issa

Sainte-Catherine Bethléem, 1630-1646

1 generation · 8 people · 10 records

Tree of 8 people across 2 generations, 2 attested filiation links.

Members not yet linked by a filiation record

✓ Demonstrated · ≈ Probable · ? Plausible · thin line: no published level

Members

Family members

8 members, 8 of them with a page

Generations follow the filiations stated in the records.

Each line comes from a record: role, year, parish. The symbol after "Child of" qualifies the filiation link and points to the record that states it.

Generation 1

  • Franzis IssaIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    head of household, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · Attested by a record1630

  • CatharinaHousehold membership: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    child, 1630 · Sainte-Catherine Bethléem · Attested by a record1630

  • AndreasHousehold membership: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    spelling in the record: Andrea · child, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · Attested by a record1630

  • JacobHousehold membership: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    spelling in the record: Yacub · child, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · Attested by a record1630

  • ClaraHousehold membership: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    child, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · Attested by a record1630

  • JosephHousehold membership: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    spelling in the record: Yusef · child, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · Attested by a record1630

  • MariaIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    spelling in the record: Maria Khalil · wife, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · Attested by a record1630

Generation 2

  • AnnaIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)1634

    child, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · Attested by a record1630Child of Maria, Franciscus

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Context

Parishes

  • Sainte-Catherine Bethléem7 records · 9 mentions
  • Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore3 records · 10 mentions

What the sources do not say

  • A documented event affects this parish during this period.

    Bethlehem · The 1636 plague: Bethlehem (1636)

    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.

    See the event

  • A documented event affects this parish during this period.

    Bethlehem · The 1670 plague: Bethlehem and Jerusalem (1670)

    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.

    See the event

Records per decade

Records per decade from 1630s to 1690s, 9 dated records in total.

  • 1630s: 3 records
  • 1640s: 5 records
  • 1650s: 0 records
  • 1660s: 0 records
  • 1670s: 0 records
  • 1680s: 0 records
  • 1690s: 1 record

Sources and method

Starting point

Starting point under confirmation

The identity of the person opening this lineage is still under confirmation. The filiations shown depend on it: read this family as a provisional reconstruction.

Franzis IssaLLP-0342

head of household, 1630 · Custodie de Terre Sainte – S. Salvatore · See their mention in the 1630 record.

Verification in progress

A verification point is open on this family.

Provenance of the reconstruction

Founding decision and fingerprint, shown here: verifiable, reversible.

A record counts once even if it names several members (19 mentions).

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 Franzis Issa," accessed 15 August 2026, https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/FX0020/. Version cited: snapshot from 15 August 2026, hash 3c80ed4680a9.

Cite this record.

Reference (Chicago style).

Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project, "Family of Franzis Issa," accessed 15 August 2026, https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/FX0020/. Version cited: snapshot from 15 August 2026, hash 3c80ed4680a9.

See the BibTeX and RIS formats
@misc{levantine_fx0020,
  title        = {Family of Franzis Issa},
  author       = {{Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/FX0020/},
  note         = {Snapshot 2026-08-15, hash 3c80ed4680a9, id FX0020},
  urldate      = {2026-08-15}
}
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N1  - Snapshot 2026-08-15, hash 3c80ed4680a9
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