JGSGB Specialist Talk - Jan 10th 2021 2pm – with Martin Hill – “Are other people’s families more interesting? Thoughts from a burial ground”
Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a specialist talk on an Anglo-Jewish theme by Zoom.
• Date: Sunday January 10th 2021
• Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem
• Title: Are other people’s families more interesting? Thoughts from a burial ground
• Speaker: Martin Hill
• Description: Martin Hill has been researching burials at the Western Synagogue burial ground at Brompton for the last 15 years and has recorded the memorial inscriptions and reconstructed the burial register. In his researches he has uncovered interesting details of family life in the mid-19th century and reveals many similarities with life in 21st-century Britain.
About Martin Hill
Martin Hill was a career civil servant who joined the Home Office in 1964 and spent the major part of his working life in that Department. On the basis of his grandparents, his family roots are English except for those which connect him to one of his great-grandfathers who was Jewish. He joined the JGSGB in 2005 when he was extending the range of his genealogical research into his Jewish ancestry and has been able to reach back into family origins in the Netherlands and Germany. Joining stimulated an interest in the wider Jewish community in Westminster and he has been working to identify those buried in the Western Synagogue burial ground in the Fulham Road, at Brompton: he has written about this research in Shemot. He became a member of Council in 2013 and was Secretary from 2014 to the end of 2020.
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 invites you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: JGSGB Specialist Talk: Martin Hill on "Are other people’s families more interesting?" - Thoughts from a burial ground
When: Jan 10, 2021 02:00 PM London
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElf-yprTgpG9cKM8EAeOpS3Fk-DZjTUyFO
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Keep well!
Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB
• Date: Sunday January 10th 2021
• Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem
• Title: Are other people’s families more interesting? Thoughts from a burial ground
• Speaker: Martin Hill
• Description: Martin Hill has been researching burials at the Western Synagogue burial ground at Brompton for the last 15 years and has recorded the memorial inscriptions and reconstructed the burial register. In his researches he has uncovered interesting details of family life in the mid-19th century and reveals many similarities with life in 21st-century Britain.
About Martin Hill
Martin Hill was a career civil servant who joined the Home Office in 1964 and spent the major part of his working life in that Department. On the basis of his grandparents, his family roots are English except for those which connect him to one of his great-grandfathers who was Jewish. He joined the JGSGB in 2005 when he was extending the range of his genealogical research into his Jewish ancestry and has been able to reach back into family origins in the Netherlands and Germany. Joining stimulated an interest in the wider Jewish community in Westminster and he has been working to identify those buried in the Western Synagogue burial ground in the Fulham Road, at Brompton: he has written about this research in Shemot. He became a member of Council in 2013 and was Secretary from 2014 to the end of 2020.
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 invites you to register for a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: JGSGB Specialist Talk: Martin Hill on "Are other people’s families more interesting?" - Thoughts from a burial ground
When: Jan 10, 2021 02:00 PM London
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Keep well!
Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB
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