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JGSGB German SIG – 7 Mar 2021 2pm – by Jeanette Rosenberg OBE

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a German Special Interest Group Meeting by Zoom.

•       Date: 7 Mar 2021
•       Time: 14:00 London
•       Title: “New developments and recent discoveries in German-Jewish genealogy”
•       Speaker: Jeanette Rosenberg OBE
•       Description: We will discuss new developments and recent discoveries in German-Jewish genealogy.  As ever, the presentation from the meeting will be made available after the meeting.

If you have questions about your research that you would have asked in person at the meeting, you will still be able to ask them, but for this meeting, you will need to email them in advance to jeanette.r.rosenberg@googlemail.com and hopefully either I or others attending our virtual meeting will be able to help you and answer them.

For 2021 the future meeting dates are Sundays 6 June, 5 September and 5 December. Please add them to your calendar.

Jeanette R Rosenberg OBE
Convenor of German SIG

The invitation to register is below, but please keep it to yourself! Please note that we are continuing with registration for our Zoom meetings 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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Jeanette Rosenberg OBE invites you to register for a Zoom meeting:

Topic: JGSGB German SIG

When: Mar 7, 2021 02:00 PM London


Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-isrDorG9MuZ8CeGab9OsTXAnIlMiNw

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

Leigh Dworkin
Chairman, JGSGB

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