Skip to main content

JGSGB Chilterns RG – Sep 29th 2020 7.30pm – with Daniel Morgan-Thomas – “Scandal Down Under: Divorce, Death & Descendants”

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a Chilterns Regional Group Meeting by Zoom.

Date: September 29th 2020

Time: 19:30 London

Title: “Scandal Down Under: Divorce, Death & Descendants”

Speaker: Daniel Morgan-Thomas

Description: The story of the author’s cousin Elsie, cause of headlines across Australia in the 20th century – from the scandal of her stepfather’s infamous bankruptcy in New Zealand to her four tumultuous marriages across the Antipodes! This talk displays the wide array of Australian and New Zealand sources for genealogy now available online and the research advantages of having some relatives with a taste for notoriety.

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 continuing with registration for our Zoom meetings in September to see if the automated emails generated are better than manually sending out Zoom invitations.

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

==============================================================


Hazel Atlass invites you to register for a Zoom meeting:

Topic: JGSGB Chilterns RG: "Scandal Down Under: Divorce, Death & Descendants" by Daniel Morgan-Thomas


When: Sep 29, 2020 07:30 PM London


Register in advance for this meeting:


https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrf-6rqz8pG9XXW3JbFfOomcX30fCe8dO0


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


==============================================================

Leigh Dworkin

Chairman, JGSGB

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750 - Conference 11 Jan 2021

ONE-DAY ONLINE CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH VOLUME 33 OF POLIN: STUDIES IN POLISH JEWRY  Jewish Religious Life in Poland since 1750      Published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Liverpool University Press   Monday January 11th 2021 10am-3.30pm Organised by the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL with JW3 London. Co-organised and supported by the Polish Cultural Institute, London This event honours the memory of Ada Rapoport-Albert, who edited the volume with Marcin Wodziński. Following tremendous advances in recent years in the study of religious belief, this volume adopts a fresh understanding of Jewish religious life in Poland. The contemporary reassessments, with their awareness of emerging techniques that have the potential to extract fresh insights from source materials both old and new, show how our understanding of what it means to be Jewish is continuing to expand.  Conference convenors: Dr F...
Post a Comment
Read more

January events reminder

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...
Post a Comment
Read more

JGSGB Specialist Talk – Sun May 8th 2022 2pm – “The Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children” by Dr Martin Walsh

Our next Sunday meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk by Zoom. • Date: Sunday May 8th 2022 • Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem; 15:00 Switzerland • Title: “The Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children” • Speaker: Dr Martin Walsh • Description: Almost all Jewish women entered England through London’s East End, where a cross-section of the poorer and working-class Jewish community resided. It was a dangerous and overcrowded place with its warren of lanes and criminality; most noted for the Jack the Ripper murders of the late 1880s. Many of the promises of marriage and employment never materialised. Worse still, some of these women arrived in London only to end up on the next boat to South America as part of the white slave trade. Even in London there was a real risk of these women ending up in the clutches of brothel keepers when the promised employment fell through and family members were not there to p...
Post a Comment
Read more