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JGSGB EE SIG – 23 May 2021 2pm – with Arlene Beare – “Internal Passports in Lithuania and Latvia & Pitfalls in Researching the Origins of Rebecca Bloom”

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is from the JGSGB Eastern European Special Interest Group (EE SIG) on a Lithuanian and Latvian theme by Zoom.

• Date: Sunday 23 May 2021
• Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem
• Title: “Internal Passports in Lithuania and Latvia & Pitfalls in Researching the Origins of Rebecca Bloom”
• Speaker: Arlene Beare
• Description: Arlene will ensure that you get your money’s worth with two talks on Lithuania and Latvia. The first is about internal passports in the former Russian Empire and after 1919 in Lithuania and Latvia. The second is more personal about her research into her grandmother’s Lithuanian and Latvian origins.

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

About Arlene Beare
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Arlene was born in South Africa and emigrated to the UK with her husband and three children in 1974. She is a retired consultant physician. Her interest in genealogy started in 1995 and for a number of years she was President of JewishGen’s Latvia SIG, Chairman of Latvia SIG UK and is now a Co-director of the JewishGen Latvia and Estonia Research Division. Arlene is the webmaster for Kehilalinks-Riga and Jekabpils. She is the author of the JGSGB Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Latvia and Estonia which was our first e-Guide.

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 EE SIG: “Internal Passports in Lithuania and Latvia & Pitfalls in Researching the Origins of Rebecca Bloom.” by Arlene Beare
When: May 23, 2021 02:00 PM London

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkde6pqzguG9ajZRspayIBzXS4xFDIFErU

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