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JGSGB EE SIG - Nov 1st 2020 2pm – with Leigh Dworkin – “Polish Ancestral Tourism – Wolf Hunting in Womja”

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

This is the first of three speakers on Eastern European ancestral tourism in November, as well as an Anglo Special Interest Group meeting and a South East Essex Regional Group workshop open to all. Lots more details about those meetings will follow in the coming weeks.

Here is the information for the next meeting:

•       Date: Sunday Nov 1st 2020
•       Time: 14:00 London
(note, 09:00 New York, 06:00 San Francisco, as the US clocks change early Sun Nov 1st)
•       Title: “Polish Ancestral Tourism – Wolf Hunting in Womja”
•       Speaker: Leigh Dworkin
•       Description: This talk details ancestral tourism in Warsaw and Lomza (pronounced “Womja”), Poland with minimum budget and embarrassingly little planning …
It describes the speaker’s first trip to Poland. Finding himself unexpectedly in Warsaw on business, he arrived a day early to take in museums, cemeteries and a synagogue. He took a few extra days' holiday after business was complete to explore more cemeteries, Holocaust memorials and archives in the Lomza district in north-eastern Poland. This was interspersed with walking the town squares and streets of his ancestral home towns and villages.
Despite not speaking a word of Polish, this felt so much more like home than other places he has lived in and visited such as the UK, the USA and Israel.
Even with the lack of planning, he managed to drive his research back three more generations into 18th-century Poland and to discover where his family was really from.

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

About Leigh Dworkin
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Leigh Dworkin is the current Chairman of the JGSGB. He has been researching his mainly Polish family for the last 35 years, but also tries to research into Lithuania and Belarus, from where his surname originates.
He regularly presents at JGSGB Regional Groups, Special Interest Groups and Conferences.

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

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: JGSGB EE SIG: "Polish Ancestral Tourism: Wolf Hunting in Womja" by Leigh Dworkin
When: Nov 1, 2020 02:00 PM London

You are invited to register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtduGpqzMoEtyAuM4aECVsTT89_pKk6hMA

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