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JGSGB EE SIG - July 19th 2020 2pm – with Daniel Morgan-Thomas – “Finding my great-great-grandmother’s missing sister”

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is from the JGSGB Eastern European Special Interest Group (EE SIG) by Zoom.

Date: July 19th 2020
Time: 14:00 London
Title: Finding my great-great-grandmother’s missing sister
Speaker: Daniel Morgan-Thomas
Description: This talk is subtitled, “Why you should always look at records twice”: it is a cautionary tale about going back to your sources and describes finding a new branch of your family through a combination of old-fashioned detective work and DNA links. Featuring passenger lists, censuses and a trip from Manchester to Manhattan – and back again!

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk.

About Daniel Morgan-Thomas

Daniel has been a member of the Society since 2008, when he joined at the age of 15! Since then he has served on the Programme Committee, as a library volunteer and helped run some of the Society’s workshops at the Jewish Museum. When not finding dead relatives and building his family tree, Daniel works in the charity sector and is a local councillor and school governor in North East London. He keeps meaning to give up genealogy as a hobby, if only he didn’t keep finding such interesting relations...

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself!

Please note that we are trying registration for our Zoom meetings in July to see if the automated emails generated are better than manually sending out Zoom invitations.

If you have problems joining please email chairman@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts.

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Leigh Dworkin is inviting you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: EE SIG: "Finding my Great-Great-Grandmother’s Missing Sister" by Daniel Morgan-Thomas

When: Jul 19, 2020 02:00 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqfuippjgvGNIFU1QPSobdA0VXly7WvU0x

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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