I am more than a bit puzzled. We have 7 or 8 aliyot at our services - Open the Ark; draw the curtains and close them; take out the Scroll and after, replace it , Haggbah); undress the Scroll and dress

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When a family historian is a very Senior Citizen with a house full of everything they need, give them the family tree of the family into which you married. This will enable them to spread their family

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The usage of "Christian Name" for "Given Name" was normal in Britain but started to die in about 1975. Round about that year official documents started to change from the one to the other when asking

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Dear Val. A common change of name is to Change the family Name, but keep the initial letter. Next common is to also change the Given Name (Jews do not have Christian Names) whilst keeping that initial

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Ron I am sorry, but the ways that different searches change over the ages are unknown to this ordinary mortal. However, I would suggest that that the Bishopsgate Institute files on www.bishopsgate.org

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Islington is now an area within London, just to the North of The City. The Angel, Islington is a pub which has given it's name to a cross roads (road junction), now on the boundary of the Clean Air Zo

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Neil and any others on the Cardiff trail I would have thought that the records of Clubs and Societies (and similar) relating to a Synagogue were kept in the Archives. A first source to try would be th

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In Great Britain at the start of the twentieth century and earlier although the names of children were on the papers of the wife was not. She was part of her husband as his chattel in a married unit;

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Dear Team Many thanks for this delightful reading which I have now punched and filed a small loose-leaf binder. My wife and I will use it as the source for our verbal extras at communal seders. We hav

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I am of the opinion that too many memorial days dilute the strength of the sense of the event. It is a bit like commemorative postage stamps; onset a year has a power; ten sets weaker and only seems t

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It is almost always that the most important thing on moving to a place with different types of names and wishing to merge in or otherwise choose a name that might be acceptable, is to retain the Initi

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To all of you with this problem If it were not for Covid, would you be able to go the archive, ask for the file and then read it and take your own prints or photos? I ask this because in Britain when

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Dear All I am sorry that I missed the original email. When the pandemic travel restrictions end, possibly not far off, you might be able to get to Emden from Paris. I visited their very small but very

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This is a question of crossed lines. I think that Authorizations relate to Orthodox Jewish Weddings in Britain under their Beth Din and are not a part of Civil Marriages. Usually existing membership o

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Might there have been a need for a conversion course before the Synagogue wedding? I married my first wife in a Registry Office, some time later, she started a conversion course but needed to have a s

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On this question of Authorization. Not only do we have our Ketubah, but I have my Mother's and her Mother's (My grandmother). I would also note that I have my Grandfather's Apprentice Indentures which

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The cheapest way is to ask if anybody on this site is going there on a holiday this year or after travel resumes. It might be a long shot but worth trying. 6 or 7 years ago there was a similar request

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I tried to reply yesterday but the server was down for more than an hour and this may be the wrong e-address. My grandfather from Russian Poland came to England from Poland via Berlin and Paris and wh

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Sherri and Robin Why not use the correct name of Thessaloniki? It might help. David Harrison , England (who has been to Thessaloniki several times)

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This was also common in Great Britain until about 1980. Additionally, people getting a divorce had to be very careful that any friends were not quoted as accomplices by The Queen's Proctor (a crown of

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