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Professional genealogist / family historian, German-Jewish genealogy specialist. Always far too busy, rarely asleep! Determined, resilient, has big email backlog!! Passionate disability accessibility campaigner, thought leader & advocate. Views are my own.
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I'm writing a book about accessible communication with @matissenelis.com and it's available for pre-order: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/acce... #Accessibility #a11y #Communications

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Great to see these digital 'memory #maps' of Anglo-Jewish #history flagged on Laura Vaughan's blog. They unite oral history, images and local context & there's one for London, one for Manchester - should be of interest to Jewish #genealogy researchers & One-Placers, amongst others:

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🗓️ Next Sunday our International Tracing Service research team are at the Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre offering the chance to learn about taking care of the precious documents, photographs, and items that represent your family histories Sign up now 🔗 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/recove...

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I'm attending The Family History Show Online Today! Will you be going? We can meet up for a virtual chat! thefamilyhistoryshow.com/online #FamilyHistoryShow #Jewish #genealogy #JGSGB

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Rosa Rosenberg nee Wimpfheimer was born on 15/04/1891 at Ittlingen Baden Germany. She was deported by the Nazis on 26/04/1942 from Stuttgart Germany to Izbica near Lublin Poland. Rosa was declared dead after the war. Rosa was my grandmother; she was murdered in the Holocaust and has no known grave.

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Today on CL: updated 72 links to The Knowles Collection -- six free databases on FamilySearch with more than 1.2 million Jewish people. Read more: knowlescollection.blogspot.com/2022/03/acce...

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That age old #genealogy #familyhistory problem caused by often copied family tree information: Did the couple marry on 4 May or 5 April? Of course, the original record isn’t available online so we can’t check it. Some family trees say one date, and some say the other! SIGH!

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Tickets are still available for the German-Jewish SIG (GerSIG) Seminar on Sunday January 19, 2025. #German #Jewish #Genealogy #FamilyHistory Visit www.gersig.org to book your ticket and find out more about our 5 world-class speakers.

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Some people need to change the way text is displayed in order to read it. This includes changing size, spacing, font, color, and other properties. When people customize text, the text should re-flow so they don’t have to scroll horizontally to read. www.w3.org/WAI/perspect...

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Spending time on these slightly quieter dark afternoons going through old copies of scanned family photos and e-labelling them. So far, I’ve found sufficient Chanukah* presents for me for each of the eight days of the festival #Jewish #genealogy #familyhistory. *All other spellings are acceptable!

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German-Jewish SIG (GerSIG) Seminar #German #Jewish #Genealogy #FamilyHistory seminar on Sunday January 19, 2025 Visit www.gersig.org to find out more & book your ticket. Five great speakers. Booking now open!

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Weekend #genealogy happiness is helping my client to discover their family’s ancestral origins #Jewishgenealogy #EasternEurope. Lessons to learn as ever are type what you see and hear, then get creative with the spelling! Why doesn’t the UK GRO use soundex? SIGH!

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#Genealogy task for today is scanning photos from our wedding over 30 years ago and sending copies to relatives. Sharing happy memories and then organising the images by labelling all the scanned photos with names, dates and places. What are your genealogy plans for this weekend?

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

#genealogy weekend rabbit hole and spare time eater – what happens when you randomly follow an interesting genealogy link to an online book and inadvertently, sometime later, end up making exciting and unexpected ancestral discoveries that definitely go way further than names and dates and places!

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Weekend #Jewish #genealogy plans: Putting together next weekend’s German-Jewish Special Interest Group meeting presentation, and re-organising some of the many books in my home genealogy library. I'm also attending at least two other family history webinars presented by other talented genealogists.

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Quote posting this because normal reposts aren’t working for me at the moment… 😕 Do check this talk out from @scientistsoph.bsky.social!

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Tuesday: Continuing to downsize the enormous paperwork hoard I’ve accumulated over many years before attempting to carefully preserve and catalogue the far more precious papers and numerous photos inherited from my ancestors. I’m not very good at this downsizing thing, I want to keep it all!

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Copy/paste to introduce yourself to #Genealogy Years Researching: 25+ Hobbyist/pro: Pro Fun facts/Wildest discovery: One name study - NEUGARTEN one place study - Purley Bury House My niches: I’m an educator, I enjoy giving family history talks to groups. Personal specialism: German-Jewish research

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Today I’m spending a quiet Sunday preparing the two Jewish genealogy sessions I am delivering during this coming week. I will also be attending two Jewish family history sessions presented by other people. Feels like a great way to spend my day – refresh and recharge.

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments