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Contact:
Shirley
Collier
Updated May 2009
The JGSGB East of London group is based in Redbridge, Essex and meetings are held on Monday evenings, every three months, at Ilford Synagogue, 22 Beehive Lane, Gants Hill. We try to cover every aspect of Jewish genealogy and our meetings are not restricted to local research but worldwide. Each meeting contains items of interest for both new family researchers and the more experienced genealogists. This is very much a self-help activity and although so much is now available on the internet we enjoy bringing people together and putting them in touch with each other. We have found members who share the same interests, both in family names and towns and on occasion, even relationships. We try to provide guest speakers who are able to give informed information regarding source material and there is always an opportunity to ask questions and socialise over tea and biscuits. For details of future meetings please see the programme section on the website.
Committee members:
Shirley Collier (Chairman), Ida Lawrence, David Miller and Raymond Montanjees
OUR PREVIOUS
MEETINGS HAVE INCLUDED:
JEWISH
GENEALOGICAL WORKSHOP
Richard Pearlman. This was our inaugural meeting and topics covered
included tips for both Ashkenazi and
Sephardi family tree research with member participation
QUESTION TIME
The JGSGB's own experts: Doreen Berger (Anglo-Jewry), Richard Cooper
(Poland), Elliott Porte (Lithuania),
George Rigal (Anglo-Jewry and Insurance researcher)
JEWISH GENEALOGY
ON YOUR DOORSTEP
Using local resources for family research, including a section on computer
access, with a huge range of books and leaflets to browse through.
"TELL US YOUR
FAMILY HISTORY"
Special guest JGSGB member and journalist Francis Beckett, son of former
Labour MP turned Mosley blackshirt, John Beckett.
GENEALOGY IN THE
BALTICS
Saul Issroff, author and Baltics' genealogy guru, gave a
jam-packed rundown of the resources available.
MIGRATION AND
THE PORTS OF LONDON
Academic Nick Evans showed the routes by which our ancestors reached the
Ports of London and Hull from former homelands.
"WE DON'T SPELL
OUR NAME THAT WAY"
Sue Fifer showed how to use spelling of surnames to unlock Eastern European
ancestry.
HOW CEMETERIES
KEEP OUR ANCESTORS ALIVE!
Elliott Porte. Uncovering Jewish family history in graveyards which can
give can give
precious clues to a family's past.
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