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JGSGB joins Twitter

For members who are on Twitter, you will be aware that a large number of museums, archives and genealogy organisations are on the social media platform – some with many thousands of followers. JGSGB has now joined Twitter to help promote our activities and membership to a wider audience. You can find us on @JewishGreat so please follow and retweet if you can.




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