I just wanted to share the fact that we had a successful visit to the LMA this afternoon (leaving at throwing-out time).
My niece now understands the attraction of visiting archives - of seeing original documents, which may have been handled by someone connected to her, or which are just historically interesting - and maybe beautiful as well - such as the original vellum Ketubah (?singular) of Joseph LYONS and Sarah COHEN.
A M MARKS had been a director of the company (eligible, I guess, because of his marriage to Joe Lyons's wife's cousin) I had known that there was some kind of obituary of her great grandfather in the Lyons Mail (staff magazine) of December 1914. I was hoping there might be a photo of him - perhaps in a group. We found the obit, and then worked backwards, once we realised that there were photos as frontispieces in each one: some of buildings, some of special people. We landed on a lovely portrait photo of her great-grandfather! and it had a little snippet of accompanying info about him, too.
No longer will my niece be speculating as to how one might fill a couple of hours at an archives office! I have promised that we'll go an visit her soon and she can come with me to the Southampton Uni Library where they have a lot of Jewish archives - which are likely to include material relating to her family. I think she might just come along, after all. ;)
Christine
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In this context, researching: FRIEDMAN/FREEMAN (England, Oz, Pikallin in Lithuania), MARKS (England, Oz, NZ, Himbach-Limeshain in Germany) STORCH (Himbach-Limeshain in Germany), COHEN, JACOBS JONES, BENJAMIN, GOLDSMID (London, England), & GOLDBERG (Lithuania)
My niece now understands the attraction of visiting archives - of seeing original documents, which may have been handled by someone connected to her, or which are just historically interesting - and maybe beautiful as well - such as the original vellum Ketubah (?singular) of Joseph LYONS and Sarah COHEN.
A M MARKS had been a director of the company (eligible, I guess, because of his marriage to Joe Lyons's wife's cousin) I had known that there was some kind of obituary of her great grandfather in the Lyons Mail (staff magazine) of December 1914. I was hoping there might be a photo of him - perhaps in a group. We found the obit, and then worked backwards, once we realised that there were photos as frontispieces in each one: some of buildings, some of special people. We landed on a lovely portrait photo of her great-grandfather! and it had a little snippet of accompanying info about him, too.
No longer will my niece be speculating as to how one might fill a couple of hours at an archives office! I have promised that we'll go an visit her soon and she can come with me to the Southampton Uni Library where they have a lot of Jewish archives - which are likely to include material relating to her family. I think she might just come along, after all. ;)
Christine
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In this context, researching: FRIEDMAN/FREEMAN (England, Oz, Pikallin in Lithuania), MARKS (England, Oz, NZ, Himbach-Limeshain in Germany) STORCH (Himbach-Limeshain in Germany), COHEN, JACOBS JONES, BENJAMIN, GOLDSMID (London, England), & GOLDBERG (Lithuania)
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