UPDATE : Our intrepid reporter, PJ, has been out with his camera again. Now that winter is upon us and the flora and fauna had died back, its possible to see some tombstones at Green Lane cemetery. If you have … Continue reading →
SynagogueScribes are pleased to announce the addition of over 500 burial records from Hambro Synagogue to our database covering 1797 to 1843. Here are just some that we have managed to match to entries on our sister site CemeteryScribes: ASSER, … Continue reading →
ROSENTHALL. Does your family tree or your genealogy contain this name? If so, this may be your lucky day! A visitor to www.synagoguescribes.co.uk has contacted us with a very generous offer. He has in his possession an original receipt from … Continue reading →
These burial records have been abstracted from Hambro Synagogue burial registers and cover 1791 to 1872. Whilst these records show the date, Family Name, Forename and address of the deceased, where known, full transcriptions of these records, including Hebrew names, … Continue reading →
Few of the abstracts on our site conceal quite so much romance and drama behind the dry, archaic, legal language in which it was written, as the Will of Jacques de Paiva who wrote his Will aboard the ship Beaufort … Continue reading →
From time to time, in our work of transcribing early Anglo Jewish community records, we have come across Hebrew words which translate as “From the Medina“. To our ill-informed minds, this was romantically suggestive of Morocco, or some other exotic … Continue reading →
Preparing records for our website SynagogueScribes consists of several operations. First comes the transcription of the original. This is followed, in turn, by the transliteration \ translation of the Hebrew content; the conversion of Hebrew Dates into Civil dates; the … Continue reading →
We have been sent the following list of 394 individuals buried at Green Lane, Jewish Cemetery in Liverpool. This Jewish burial ground was acquired in 1839 and used until about 1921 although there was a later burial there in 1952. … Continue reading →
Following the very recent addition of over 1,000 Great Synagogue burial records to SynagogueScribes we have now add Hambro Synagogue burial records from 1788 to 1814. Please note that although the transcript is complete, the original record itself may only … Continue reading →
