JGSGB EE SIG/Sussex RG - 21 Feb 2021 2pm – with Michael Shade – “Pedlars’ Progress 3: A quiet, inoffensive man"
Our next meeting in the JGSGB Virtual Meeting Programme is both from the JGSGB Eastern European Special Interest Group (EE SIG) and from the Sussex Regional Group (RG) by Zoom. • Date: Sunday 21 Feb 2021 • Time: 14:00 London; 09:00 New York; 16:00 Jerusalem • Title: Pedlars’ Progress 3: A quiet, inoffensive man • Speaker: Michael Shade • Description: When Elias Barnett died in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1873, the local newspaper referred to him as a longstanding local shopkeeper, Jewish, and a “quiet, inoffensive man”. I was actually on a Frankenstein hunt (see Pedlars’ Progress #1), but this soon turned into a Joel hunt (Pedlars’ Progress #2), and, inescapably, a Barnett hunt, which is where we are now. As befits a story that starts in Poland and moves to England in the first half of the nineteenth century, our quest is beset by records that are confusing, missing or non-existent, and on more than one occasion we are guided by that time-honoured principle of genealogical research – “L...