ADOLPHE SAALFELD-TITANIC SURVIVOR AND HIS WIFE GERTRUDE LAZARUS
Adolphe Saalfeld – Titanic survivor and his wife Gertrude Lazarus by Dr Kirby The story of Adolphe Saalfeld as one...
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Harry, Henry or Hartog Gompel De Groot
We have Harry G De Groot who died in 1872 and was buried at West Ham Jewish cemetery, on CemeteryScribes...
Willesden Cemetery Open days & tours
United Synagogue Heritage have told us about two exciting new events taking place on Sunday 17th September 2017: Discover Willesden...
Marc Chagall in Kent
For centuries before the creation of the great city museums and art galleries – the Louvre Museum Paris 1793, National...
SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD………
At 20.20 hours on 10 August 1941, an RAF Liberator took off from Ayr Scotland, destination Gander Newfoundland. 20 minutes...
Jewish Cemeteries of Devon by Helen Fry
A guide to burials in the five Jewish cemeteries of Plymouth, Exeter, and Torquay & Paignton A catalogue of...
Finding Goodheim
On Monday May 21 1900 Mrs Rebecca Levy (nee Goodheim) placed an advertisement in the personal column of The Staffordshire...
WDYTYA link to CemeteryScribes and SynagoguesScribes
In one of the more lively and absorbing programmes of this current series, Alex Kingston, star of ER, and Dr...
Olympics – 100 years ago!
Taking part in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm was the son of a salesman, David Henry Jacobs. David was born...
Finding Lewis Gompertz
Guest Blog by Hannah Renier, Hannah has ghost-written several family histories, edited others and edited some nineteenth-century journals, besides ghost-writing...
