Tracing your roots to this Country is not easy. For instance, my great grandfather is Youseff SAAD...his three sons Kaleem, Saleem and Ameen all carried his FIRST name as their MIDDLE name. When they arrived in the USA (Ellis Island log onto www.ellisisland.org to search for your grandparents arrival on ships)...the INS listed them as JOSEPH (since Youseff means Joseph in Arabic), losing the name SAAD. I traced my grandfather through Social Security records under the freedon of information request, and death records here in Minnesota where he died...to see who they listed as their Parents, i.e., the Maiden names of their wifes and mothers. Eventually you begin to piece it together. The SHIP Manifest records reveal the Village they came from. If anyone knows of the SAAD families in Lebanon (Bouhaire/Toulla Al-Jebbeh) area..I would be most interested in hearing from you. Many thanks...Larry Josephs

My family were Saads from the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. They were Orthodox Christians. My Great-Grandfather Butrous (Peter) Saad fled Turkish pogroms in Syria with his family in the 1880s to China, then the Philippines, where the family became Roman Catholic. My grandmother Rosalia Saad, was born on the ship in Manila Harbor. Her mother, Mary, (Maria) died in childbirth. The Saads settled near Manila, where Peter (Pedro) owned a hotel. Rosalia married my grandfather, Robert E. Lee MacAnally in 1908. My mother, Annabelle Lee MacAnally, was born in 1921. She married and moved to the US in 1939.

There are Saads from this branch who live in the Philippines (Now often with the last name of Miranda or Garcia) and, I am told, also a good number in the Mexico City area, as well as in Spain.

Tony Saad-Garcia was a wel-known and respected Manila businessman, who also lived in San Francisco. He was my mother's cousin. As vice-president in the Ansor Corp. he headed up Phillippine Airlines and San Miguel beer.

I am told that this branch of the Saads regained our ancestral home and there might be a way to contact them. We may be related.

I am from Syria. My mom is saad and my grandfathers name is Nouri Saad. My mom told me some of her uncles lived in Lebanon. I could find out if you have the names.

We have a Saad in our Rassi family tree Azize Saad she married Maruf Rassi changing Rassi to Estephen. They had six chilldren: Duad fadel Rafic Laila Nadine Naime. I believe from Akkar.

Thank you for your posting. I am finding the SAAD name to go all the way back to the days of Constantnople around 1887 era. I also traced Philip the Arab, the emperor of Rome, conquerer of the Danube Region...he was a SAAD and a Christian. That goes all the way back to 100-144 AD. There were many sub clans of SAAD from the BOUHAIRET/TOULA, Lebanon region. The main figure was Boutros SAAD and his wife Maria Ismael Isaac.

Thanks again jane for your post.

For what it's worth, I believe my great uncle's wife may have been a Saad[e]. Her name was Anna. They lived in St. Paul, MN.