From Hazel Atlass: Chilterns Regional Group Meeting Tuesday 19th May 2020 The latest meeting of the Chilterns Group took place on Tuesday 19 th May via Zoom. We had 32 members sign in, not only from the Chilterns Group but from further afield in the UK. Our speaker was JGSGB’s former Vice-Chair, Dr. Joel Levy, who gave a very interesting and in-depth talk about his current researches. In fact the talk was most up to date as he was finalising the talk on the previous Sunday evening as he had just received more information. Joel’s talk was titled “Coming full circle: using Israeli sources”. Joel has been working on his Gavenda/Gavendo/Gawenda/ Gawendo family for many years, tracing them from Poland to the USA and to Israel. The first part of his talk concentrated on the roots of the family in Poland and how they then went to South Africa and the United States. One example of the research is Joel then found a relative that had emigrated to ...
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