Author: dave

I hope that everyone is keeping well.   There is quite a lot in this newsletter and I’ve had to cut it short as I’m about to go on holiday and can’t do justice to the rest in the time left.   Tip for locating streets in the census. The National Archives have a project  called ‘Your Archives’ which contains,...

Hi to Everyone   Not a major update but a couple of small additions.   I hope that you are all keeping well.       Updated information: Added 1881 & 1901 census for family of David Heller  & Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs (Heller) died Q2 1907 Frederick Stafford Fairclough – 1911 census as Student in Teacher Training College Also...

I hope that you are a all well.   Not a great deal to report  but many thanks to Gerry Newnham for the following:   o Birth certificate of Rosa Silverstone which shows her mother was Hannah Harris o 1850 census for Cincinnati. This shows an Abraham Harris who Gerry believes could be Hannah’s younger brother based on a ship’s...

Hi I hope that you are all keeping well and that you had a nice break for the holidays. Only a small update this time – I’m not getting much spare time at present. Courtesy of Gerry  Newnham I’ve added the burial entry for Henry Jacobs in Lambeth cemetery:- Henry was buried in Lambeth Cemetery, Blackshaw Road Tooting on Friday,...

I hope everyone is keeping well.     I’ve received Carol Freeman’s (nee Garfiel) family tree file and I’ve incorporated some of the entries into the tree. The main inclusions of interest to many are number of Levy’s.  It also takes the tree down to Carol’s grandchildren [bear in mind that ‘living’ people have their details hidden] and across onto...

Hi Everyone It’s been quiet for a while and I haven’t had chance to do any serious research for a few months. However I have received some information from other people, including a couple of new ‘cousins’ Steve Jacobs in New Zealand has just started out on his family tree – he is the grandson of Lawrence Albert Jacobs who...

Firstly my apologies to everyone for not having kept the website up to date for a few months. Various reasons including decorating, laying a new floor and looking at the other side of my tree plus some technical problems. Having just been made redundant I am using the spare time to tidy things up and deal with some very old...

This is just a quick email to advise you that the links to the GenPals cemetery records have been removed from the front page of the website. Jacobs , Hart and Crawcour Cemetery links used to appear on the front page under ‘Photographs’ and the site opened up in the sub-window.   Unfortunately the owners of the GenPals site objected...

Hi Everyone   The website has been running for just over a year now and it seems to be attracting some attention.   Not a large update this time, I’m afraid I’ve not had chance for much genealogy lately and I’ve let things get a bit behind.   I’ve finally managed to add the Greenwood 1930 map of London that...

Hello   I hope that everyone is keeping well.   Apologies for not doing an update for so long but combined with holidays and other tasks I haven’t had the spare time of late.   Added Birth Cert – Nancy Jacobs [Z569] courtesy of Helen Redmond Added some photographs to the Jacobs-Levy-Swaebe album courtesy of Debbie Bozkurt Added a photo...