"Brit-Am Now"-933
Contents:
1. Steven Collins on Tea Tephi and Jeremiah
2. Norwegian Researches
3. Where is the Genealogy Section?

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1. Steven Collins on Tea Tephi and Jeremiah
Hi Yair
I received this response from Steven about the
Jeremiah/Tea Tephi connection.He states it is
true.
                              Ron Hoover
                               in Aurora Co.(Denver)
JEREMIAH IN IRELAND -- FACT OR FABRICATION?
http://www.hope-of-israel.org/us$brit1.htm

 [Steven Collins has given Brit-Am permission to publish the following reply:]
Dear Ron,

In my view, the Jeremiah/Tea Tephi connection to Ireland's ancient history is not only plausible, but true. There is evidence to support it. My reasons (and the historical sources) are given in my books, Israel's Lost Empires (pp. 118-124) and Israel's Tribes Today (pp. 123-130). Jeremiah was given complete authority by the Babylonians to travel freely and take with him whatever he desired. It is logical he would take as much of Israel's patrimony as he could. The Bible records he traveled to the West from Judah, and we lose track of his travels in Egypt. Jeremiah 43:5-7 records that he did have the kings' daughters with him (was this only a coincidence or did Jeremiah have a purpose?). Jeremiah 25:22 records that Jeremiah knew about "the kings of the Isles which were beyond the Sea." This indicates Jeremiah knew about royal dynasties who were "in Isles" that were "beyond the Sea" (i.e. the Mediterranean Sea). The British Isles were long in the Phoenician/Israelite orbit, so they are logically the "Isles" Jeremiah discusses. If he was bringing royal daughters with him and he knew about royal dynasties in the British Isles, It indicates Jeremiah had royal intermarriages in mind from the beginning! Jeremiah had plenty of friendly Israelite ports of call available to him on the way to the British Isles (Kirjath Hadeshath/Carthage and Iberia/Spain were two such).

If Jeremiah did not bring a king's daughter to Ireland, then who brought David's harp and the stone of destiny to Ireland? This harp is still a standard symbol for Ireland, and Ireland's ancient capital, Tara, preserved the Hebrew name of Abraham's father (Genesis 11:26).

England's kings and queens are, in my view, descended from King David. Indeed, I think all of the royal houses of Europe have a similar descent. The connection of a Jewish king's daughter with ancient Irish Kings is actually the lesser aspect of this connection. The major part of David's blood in Europe's royal houses came from the old Parthian dynasty, which was descended from King David. Many of the ten tribes of Israel in Asia had kings with the name of David's ancestor, Phares, in their individual or dynastic name. Parthia, Iberia (in the Caucasus), Scythia and Indo-Sakan kingdoms all had such names (Pharesmenes, Gondophares, etc.). When Parthia fell, the Armenian kings preserved the Parthian royal blood for another two centuries and secular history records they sheltered the Parthian dynasty's surviving princes. My books also cite secular sources that the rulers of the Goths, Germans and Saxons (who migrated into Europe) had Parthian origins. Indeed, who else would the Parthian refugees accept as kings? They had accepted only David's descendants as kings for five centuries in an unbroken line. The royal houses of Europe descended from the royalty who migrated into Europe with all the refugee Parthian and Scythians (the ten tribes of Israel). God promised that David's seed would permanently rule over the ten tribes of Israel (Jeremiah 33:17). God kept his promise.

Steven Collins
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2. Norwegian Researches
I am working on a book-project concerning the Aser-Vaner origin in the Black Sea area, as according to Snorre Sturlasson. Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl did his last expeditions in Asov/Tanais digging for evidence supporting Sturlasson's story. Heyerdahl pubished two books together with the swede Per Lilliestr m on this subject, I don't know if these have been published outside Scandinavia.

They searched for the remainders of the Aser in today's Aserbajdsjan (supposedly meaning "the land of the Aser" - ?), and believed they found them among the "Udin"-people still living there today.

Blessings, Eirik Stokke, Norway.
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3. Where is the Genealogy Section?
 

Yair,
Why do you no longer have the sir-names listed on your web-site? I sent my whole family, the Macleans to it which must have given you quit a bit of hits! App. 5,000 are signed up on my family net!  They enjoyed going to your site, as did I. I wish you could bring it back!
Thank you,
j.c. paul
jp296022@yahoo.com

Answer:

The Genealogy Section was the personal contribution of Betty Rhodes.
Betty has pulled out of Brit-Am and taken the Genealogy Section with her.
At one stage the Genealogical Section was responsible for about half the traffic to our site.
The rate of traffic since the departure of the Genealogy Section however has not decreased but rather increased.
Nevertheless, this aspect of ancestral research is important
and in the future we may re-introduce a similar service.