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Friday 3 January. 10.30–3pm. A Library Session - open for general research. Visitors welcome. (There would be a nominal charge of £5 per person including refreshments, deductible on the day against one year’s membership). Librarians will be on hand to help you use the library. 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA. RSVP : library@jgsgb.org.uk Sunday 5 January. 2.30–5pm. Herts Regional Group. Subject : "Visiting Archives – some members' recent experiences”. Contact : northherts@jgsgb.org.uk for location and further information Thursday 16 January. 7.30–9pm. An Education Evening. “Holocaust Research”. Webinar. For further information, contact Jeanette Rosenberg at education@jgsgb.org.uk Sunday 19 January. 2–5pm. A Library Session. Open for general research. Visitors welcome. Librarians will be on hand to help you use the library.  14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA. RSVP :  library@jgsgb.org.uk Sunday 19

I am very happy to announce that my good friend and fellow researcher Joshua Marrache from Gibraltar will be coming to London on Sunday 19 January 2020 to give a talk to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. The subject will be the Jewish community of Gibraltar: its foundation, together with its commercial and family links to Morocco, Italy, Amsterdam and London during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The meeting will be held at our usual venue, The Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA and will start at 2.00pm. The closest stations are Barbican and Farringdon. Please arrive for 1.45 at the latest, so we can start promptly. Non-members of JGSGB will be very welcome to join us, for whom there would be a nominal charge of £5 per person, to include refreshments. As you can see from the title of Joshua’s talk, this will cover several areas of genealogical interest so we hope to see as many people there as possible. If you ar

A day of talks and workshops introducing how you can research the rebels in your family. Sessions will range from a beginners guide to family history, special sessions exploring Afro-Caribbean and Somali family history to writing and publishing your research! We will have stalls from Friends of Island History Trust, The East of London Family History Society, The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain and others. For our younger family historians, we welcome them to join our family history zine workshop. Contact Genova Messiah Heritage Trainee Tower Hamlets Council  Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives 277 Bancroft Road London E1 4DQ Tel: 020 7364 1290 localhistory@towerhamlets.gov. uk

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