Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is a meeting from the JGSGB Chilterns Regional Group (RG) by Zoom. Here is the information for this meeting: Date: Tuesday Dec 8th 2020 Time: 19:30 London (note, 14:30 New York, 11:30 San Francisco, 21:30 Jerusalem) Title: “Polish Ancestral Tourism, Part 2: Busting a Gut in Warsaw, Łódź & Łomża” Speaker: Leigh Dworkin Description: This talk details Ancestral Tourism in Warsaw, Łódź and Łomża (pronounced “Wutch” and “Womja”). It describes the speaker’s second trip to Poland at the time of the IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies) Conference in Warsaw back in 2018. This time the trip was meticulously planned with a gaggle of cemeteries, memorials and ancestral towns/villages explored, not forgetting the occasional archive, synagogue and museum too. Had everything gone exactly to plan it would have been boring … Learn how to ignore medical emergencies whilst extending your family histo...

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 descri...