Alan Ehrlich is absolutely right about GENI. It is wrong to describe it as a genealogical site because its information is so often wrong. It is a very good site to discover “Mishpochah”. If I want to

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All my family used the word to describe Eastern European Jewry. Perhaps they did not like saying “Pullaks”. I think it is only my generation that has ceased using it, I guess because nobody would now

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The Great Synagogue. I find that the records are most easily accessed from the books by Harold & Miriam Lewin. There are four volumes, the one I use most is “The Marriage Records of The Great Synagogu

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In Lewin's records it shows that they were married on 7 June 1860. The groom's father was shown as Ziens Levy (deceased) and his Hebrew name as Avraham Shlomo ben Yehudah which is a little strange.The

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For anyone with Anglo-Jewish ancestry the books by Harold and Miriam Lewin are well-nigh a necessity. I use them all the time as I do the similar series, Volumes II to V, produced by Bevis Marks Synag

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Sent from Mail for Windows 10 It seems that somewhere there has been a mix-up between US (United States) and US (United Synagogue). The latter does issue Authorisations for Marriage in United Kingdom.

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Simon Sheratski’s address appears to be Dean Street (E7)which is a fairly long way east of the Great Synagogue. His bride, Dinah Jacobs lived in Jubilee Street (E1) which is also a long way, if not so

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Not second marriages; just a child born after an earlier sibling had died. Perhaps named after a grand-parent whose name the parents wanted to preserve in the family. Martyn Woolf London Sent from Mai

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This was a normal practice in the Jewish community of the UK in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. If a child was born and died, a later child would be named the same. I have several examples in

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Dr. Blumsohn's comment is absolutely right. I have found that those making unauthorised changes are generally those with trees of around 100,000 names and asked about sources have no idea what is mean

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There are a few photos of headstones in the Fawcett Road Cemetery in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The cemetery is actually in Southsea which is adjacent to Portsmouth but the community was one. If

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I have read the various comments about GENI and the Mormons. Some considerable number of years ago I was Chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, when the question arose of Mormon

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Try: https://billiongraves.com/cemetery/Cheshunt-Western-Synagogue-Cemetery/189430

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In my family for several generations there was always an OKER. I had an Uncle OKER, a great-uncle OKER and so on. I have never found the name anywhere else and wonder whether there could be a connecti

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A number of years ago when I was Chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, we raised this subject with the Mormon Church here in the UK. We received an absolute assurance that the

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It may well be due to Spanish influences. After the banishment of Jews from Spain, many went to Eastern Europe and many other parts of the World. In Spain under the Inquisition, in order to preserve t

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I have used Ancestry for a very long time and MH more recently. In truth I do not think MH adds very much and at my next renewal, I shall cancel. The problem that we all have is the plethora of sites,

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My family, in England for a very long time have used the name Mark over many generations although the |Hebrew name has continued to be Mordecai. As with names generally, the exact spelling does not re

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I am sure this picture was taken in the 1890s. London certainly had electricity in the home, Brixton , (a London suburb) had Electric Avenue, which was to the best of my knowledge, the first street to

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The sources used by My Heritage and Geni seem generally to consist only of what can be read on their subscribers' family trees. No genuine sources but you can build a tree of 50,000 people in a week o

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