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Finding photos – can you help?
As our readers know CemeteryScribes is all about saving headstones and inscriptions by recording them, and in this way our site is in memory to those who have gone before us. It came as no suprise when I was asked the other day about photos. Normally these requests are for headstone photos or cemetery photos... »
Samuel Falk, Baal Shem of London, burial record & Alderney (Globe) Rd Cemetery
We thought our readers may be interested in a recent ‘find’ we came across while transcribing and transliterating burial records for SynagogueScribes.com – our sister site that deals mainly with pre civil registration, Synagogue records such as births, marriages and burials. See SynagogueScribes Sources for more information. There are already a... »
Willesden Jewish Cemetery – additions to CemeteryScribes
In Jan 2010 Cemetery Scribes reported on the Knowles Collection and the new site http://histfam.familysearch.org/index.php which includes ‘The Knowles Collection – The Jews of the British Isles’. Todd’s collection now holds over 75,000 people from 149 independant sources. Todd kindly gave us photos of tombstones at Willesden Jewish Cemetery and we are now delighted to... »
Hildesheimer & Co
The German born Hildesheimer brothers along with the Tuck family were at the forefront of the fast expanding trade in Greetings Cards in Victorian England. Siegmund Hildesheimer was born in 1832 in Hallberstadt Germany and settled in Manchester in the mid 1870’s. The 1881 census lists his occupation as Picture Importer, although, according to... »
Willesden Cemetery; Art, Music and Literature
Willesden Cemetery , consecrated in 1873, acts as a bridge between the intimacy of the old, historic London Ashkenazi Burial Grounds – Aldernery Road, Brady Street and Lauriston Road – enclosed within high brick walls, their modest, fading stones haphazardly set in grassy plots under shady trees, and the vast modern and largely treeless,... »
33 Jewish Charities in London -1850.
According to “The charities of London. Comprehending the benevolent, educational, and religious institutions. Their origin and design, progress, and present position (1850)”, there were 33 specifically Jewish charities in London at the time of its publication. Each charity is listed with the address, date of establishment and their presidents, treasurers and other officers. For example this... »
Announcing our new sister site SynagogueScribes
The Cemeteryscribes website, (previously www.Genpals.com Cemetery Project) has now been running for three years and, from the number of hits and the regular flow of comments and contributions we continue to receive, we believe you have found it useful. We now have over 10000 individuals on the site and some 3,330 headstone photographs, with many... »
The First Jewish Cremation in Britain – 1888
We have many entries on the CemeteryScribes database for individuals who were famous for their charity and good deeds , their professional and financial achievements, or their contributions to the Arts and Sciences, but this is the story of a person who was famed, not for his life, but for his burial. Camillo Roth, a... »
Never leaving a stone unturned!
Half-a-day for the photography – then comes the real work….. It’s just over 4 months since we visited The Balls Pond Road Cemetery and we’ve been working flat out on processing the photos ever since. So why do we still have three times as many on our “to-do” list, as we have completed and... »
Co-incidences, WDYTYA, Dreyfus and Balls Pond Cemetery!
Genealogist should be used to co-incidences and synchronicity, but it still came as something of a shock when I suspended work on transcribing the stones in the Balls Pond Road Cemetery and switched on the TV to watch the 1st in the latest BBC series of Who Do You Think You Are. Davina Mcall’s maternal... »
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Latest Additions to Cemetery Scribes
- Individual: GOSCHOWSKY Deborah [Deborah b Hiam Leib Yehudah] (I12487) September 9, 2010b. 1875, […]
- Headstones: Tisch, Henry September 4, 2010(d. 16 Feb 1897) Status: located. Ref: KBp87 […]
- Individual: TISCH Henry [Elchanan b Mordecai] (I12499) September 4, 2010b. 1840, […]
- Headstones: Oppenheimer, Adolf September 4, 2010(d. 22 Feb 1897) Status: located. Ref: KBp83 […]
- Individual: OPENHEIMER Adolf [Aharon b Shlomo] (I12498) September 4, 2010b. 28 Apr 1878, […]
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