Author: dave

Starting with our oldest confirmed ancestor, David Jacobs, the Jacobs have had regular contact with the law, either civil or criminal. Their main court involvement has been for bankruptcy although there have been several much more serious brushes with the law.

The possibility of a Jewish connection was first mentioned twenty years ago when I first started looking into my family tree.As a child in the 50’s I was lucky enough to have met my maternal great grandparents, and 2 great uncles. They were called Braham and the story told to me as a child was that they had had a...

In January 2008 we received an exciting email from Debs saying that she had made contact with another of the Jacobs clan, and one with a wonderful story to tell. Rabbi Roderick Young is connected through Jacob Jacobs [Z065] and his son Henry (the butcher).