The Prayer book belonging to Mrs Estella Meldola is currently being sold on an auction site, see here. With the kind permission of the seller we are adding photos here showing the signature and address of Mrs Meldola. Estella and…
Category: Names
Names and how they have changed
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…
Ketuba mystery – solved!
When it comes to requests for help with family trees, we at www.SynagogeSribes.com are a pretty hard-hearted bunch. We have to be: if we weren’t, we’d finish up spending all our time on other people’s genealogies, leaving none for our…
Names: Places of origin or occupations or ?
Among the difficulties we encounter when transcribing old community records written in cursive Hebrew, is the appearance of words that have no apparent English equivalent and which usually, but not exclusively, relate to places of origin or occupations. The script…
Names and their origins
This is the first in a short series we hope to be able to provide on names, family names and how they have changed over the years. Most Jews arriving in the UK following The Readmission would not have had…