We have recently added over 500 War Memorials and Commemorations to CemeteryScribes.com. With more to follow soon. These commemorations were placed by family, friends and IWGC / CWGC to those who died in the service of their country in the…
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Information and announcements about the Cemetery Scribes site
Cemetery Scribes – What we do, and what we don’t do
We set up The CemeteryScribes project in 2008. Our aim was to photograph and record the information inscribed over the centuries on headstones in Jewish cemeteries across the country before its irrevocable loss to the ravages of acid rain, urbanization,…
Putting the record(s) straight
Some months ago we received some information regarding the family of Abraham Jacob Jonas. We checked the data and found it sound, with one exception. Our correspondent suggested that Benjamin JACOB JONAS had married a Julia REUBEN daughter of Jacob…
Warning
We have been robbed!. Not once, but twice! Firstly, by a Very Large, Highly Respectable, Organisation. We still aren’t clear what possessed them. Over-enthusiasm? Naievete? Or sheer thoughtlessness? Whatever the cause, the result has been highly damaging. Whole datasets from…
Brynmawr Jewish Cemetery
We are delighted to announce the addition of Tombstone photos from Brynmawr Jewish Cemetery which is part of the municipal cemetery in Harcourt Road. The Jewish section opened in Nov 1856. To see all the entries click here Our thanks…
Balls Pond Road Jewish Cemetery, London now complete!
We have added over 500 photos to CemeteryScribes.com taken at this cemetery. Each entry includes the tombstone photo, inscriptions and in most cases the immediate families of those buried there. Balls Pond was opened in the early 1840’s and is…
More Levy’s than Cohen’s on GenPals CemeteryScribes
A quick review of the numbers and names on GenPals CemeteryScribes Cemetery Project. Since we launched the site with 500 entries back in Nov 2007 it has grown and grown! There are now over 8,000 individuals listed, so we thought…
GenPals Cemetery Project: Cut Off date
We have been asked many times why we do not include photos of headstones where the individual died after 1928. We took the view when we started this project, that while we want to record the information that has been…
Website error: Hannah Montefiore
Among the photographs kindly donated by Dr. Helen Fry, was one from the Exeter Jewish Cemetery for Hannah Montefiore, wife of Moses d’Ancona. The inscription on her stone reads “Hannah relict of Moses Ancona daughter of Moses Montefiore died April…