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JGSGB Dutch & Sephardi SIG - 20 Dec 2020 at 2pm – with Bernard Miller – “Sephardic-Nordic-Noir”

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is from the JGSGB Dutch & Sephardi Special Interest Group (D&S SIG) by Zoom.
 

Date: Sunday 20 December 2020
Time: 14:00 London
Title: Sephardic-Nordic-Noir
Speaker: Bernard Miller
Description: Think Sephardic Jews and you are unlikely to think Viking. So when, early in his family history search, Bernard found Danish, Swedish and Norwegian relatives sprouting on his family tree, usually related by marriage, he assumed most were paternal Ashkenazi one-offs even if they showed as connected through his mother’s Sephardic side. After all, most of that lineage came from Spain, Portugal, Holland and Belgium. Even after becoming aware of the German Sephardic community based around Hamburg, he was not expecting to uncover Sephardic blood relatives in Scandinavia. A series of apparently random discoveries and a set of astonishing coincidences proved his initial assumptions wrong and show he has many more Scandinavian Sephardic family mysteries waiting to be unravelled. If you enjoy Nordic Noir thrillers, you will want to join him as he shares some of his surprising finds…
 

About Bernard Miller


Born and raised in London, Bernard lived for over thirty years in a dozen other countries, worked in many more and is fluent in several languages. Originally trained in architecture, planning and economics, much of his life has been devoted to research.

His mother’s family was Sephardic, his father’s Ashkenazi but there was little talk of them or their history. Until being sucked into genealogy, he did not feel part of anything more than a small nuclear family. Now he feels part of a massive worldwide network!

His interest in genealogy, although he didn’t then know it was genealogy, was triggered by a mention in the 1960s of an ancestor, one of the Dutch Burghers who came to petition Oliver Cromwell to ‘readmit’ the Jews to England in the mid-17th century. He decided to follow up that saga in the 1990s when internet searching became available.

That unearthed some amazing stories and his interest in his family history and in genealogy more broadly has flourished. At his first JGSGB meetings, two years ago, he met long-lost friends and unsuspected (and unsuspecting) blood cousins and relatives by marriage. His findings have convinced him that in genealogical research chance and coincidence are as important as diligence and perseverance and co-operation is invaluable.
 

After the talk, there will be an opportunity for Q&A on the talk.
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. In particular, if you get stuck in a registration loop, you may want to upgrade the version of Zoom on your PC, but please email me and I can help you through this…



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



Topic: JGSGB D&S SIG with Bernard Miller – “Sephardic-Nordic-Noir”

When: Dec 20, 2020 02:00 PM London



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Chanukah sameach!



Leigh Dworkin

Chairman, JGSGB

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