Hi Eve If you look at the top of the spreadsheet, in the area above the sheet itself, you should see an area which will display the text of each cell, every time you move to one. Suggest you edit your entry there, if you are having problems editing in the cell itself. hope that helps regards Kathy >From a slightly milder Glasgow (but still want a few more degrees!) -----Original Message----- From: british-jewry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:british-jewry-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Eve Richardson Sent: 22 April 2008 19:34 To: british-jewry@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Spreadsheet headache I am struggling to use spreadsheets. It seems that basic knowledge of how to use them is presumed to be embedded in a gene I am lacking. I am hoping someone with the gene will help me. If I am typing and editing text in a cell the first time I use it, I just click on the cell and start typing. If I want to go back to that cell after leaving it, that doesn't work. I click on the cell and then, wherever I put the cursor or whatever I try to do - backspace, delete a letter - the whole of the text in that cell is deleted and I have to start again from scratch. Very annoying !!!!!! What do I have to do to edit text in a cell ? Please help save what is left of the hair attached to my scalp. It is being pulled out in handfuls. Eve Richardson loving the weather in Toronto Our website is at www.british-jewry.org.uk We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think "F" is for "function" Carol Freeman (moderately geekie - at least compared to my husband and the male lawyer I used to share space with!) Potomac MD -----Original Message----- From: british-jewry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:british-jewry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Eve Richardson Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:29 PM To: british-jewry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Spreadsheet headache cured Hi all you good folk you have or are replying to my plea for sanity. You must all be psychodelic (or something) because just as your replies were flying in I had a brainwave and tried the first two F keys (why are they all F's anyway ?) and got it ! Hurrah ! I'm sure I wouldn't have figured it out without your input. Much happier now and ready for my tea break. Thanks. Eve Our website is at www.british-jewry.org.uk We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi all you good folk you have or are replying to my plea for sanity. You must all be psychodelic (or something) because just as your replies were flying in I had a brainwave and tried the first two F keys (why are they all F's anyway ?) and got it ! Hurrah ! I'm sure I wouldn't have figured it out without your input. Much happier now and ready for my tea break. Thanks. Eve

You press the F2 key at the top of your keyboard to edit a cell... They probably don't tell you that anywhere! It's a leftover from Lotus 123, the great spreadsheet "stolen" by Microsoft in their heinous affliction of Lotus, WordPerfect, and Netscape. Ha'tochna anya - this is the software of affliction. 9 plagues on their house! (death of the firstborn is going a bit far, even for the ignominious Microsoft) cheers David L. Levy

I am struggling to use spreadsheets. It seems that basic knowledge of how to use them is presumed to be embedded in a gene I am lacking. I am hoping someone with the gene will help me. If I am typing and editing text in a cell the first time I use it, I just click on the cell and start typing. If I want to go back to that cell after leaving it, that doesn't work. I click on the cell and then, wherever I put the cursor or whatever I try to do - backspace, delete a letter - the whole of the text in that cell is deleted and I have to start again from scratch. Very annoying !!!!!! What do I have to do to edit text in a cell ? Please help save what is left of the hair attached to my scalp. It is being pulled out in handfuls. Eve Richardson loving the weather in Toronto

Apologies - the original posting was not in plain text. If you reply to a posting, it is automatically in plain text but if you use a volume to reply, it isn't. I should have checked - groveling in Bowmanville.   Did you UK relatives emigrate to Toronto?  On April 19, 2008, the Toronto Star had a full page article on a project started by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto.  The plan is to take digital photographs of “every grave in every cemetery”.  According to the article, there are 11, with the earliest dating from 1849.  Basic details will eventually make their way to www.jewishgen.org, with hard copies stored at the Ontario Jewish Archives in Toronto.  See http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/ for more details.   Still trying to clean up the office even though it is a lovely day in Bowmanville.   Regards, Susan McPhedran    

Did you UK relatives emigrate to Toronto? On April 19, 2008, the Toronto Star had a full page article on a project started by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto. The plan is to take digital photographs of "every grave in every cemetery". According to the article, there are 11, with the earliest dating from 1849. Basic details will eventually make their way to www.jewishgen.org <http://www.jewishgen.org/> , with hard copies stored at the Ontario Jewish Archives in Toronto. See http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/ for more details. Still trying to clean up the office even though it is a lovely day in Bowmanville. Regards, Susan McPhedran

Eve, It's really not something that can be easily explained. Perhaps you can take a class in Excel or ask a friend to sit with you and explain the fundamentals. Jackye >I am struggling to use spreadsheets. It seems that basic knowledge of > how to use them is presumed to be embedded in a gene I am lacking. I am > hoping someone with the gene will help me. > Eve

Hi David My great great great great great grandfather was Raphael Lazarus and the name is so rare that this is the first time I have seen a reference to a Raphael Lazarus born before 1800. I'm wondering if there's any chance your Raphael Lazarus is the same as mine. Mine was the father of Moses LAZARUS born 1801/2 who married Leah NATHAN in 1822 and Clara JOSEPH in 1828. If you think we may have the same Raphael Lazarus and any ideas how we might verify that, please let me know. Steve british-jewry-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > /From:/ "David L Levy" < David.Levy@umb.edu <mailto:David.Levy@umb.edu>> > /Subject:/ Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Joel - Lazarus - Moses - Levy Connection > /Date:/ Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:45:09 -0500 > /References:/ <0JRC00K5AR3BD340@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> > /In-Reply-To:/ <0JRC00K5AR3BD340@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> > > > Welcome Bill, and hello Georgina, > > I was in touch with Ben Dunham a long time ago when we connected around > a shared ancestor, Polly/Mary Moses, daughter of Meir Jacob > (Bramedsham). Polly's first marriage was to Ralph/Raphael Lazarus the > butcher, in 1796, and I'm descended through their daughter, Sarah > Lazarus, who married Moses Levy the pencilmaker in 1818. > > Ralph died young, then she married Solomon Joel Oct 31, 1809. > > You ought to be able to locate them on my online tree: > http://www.myheritage.com/FP/home.php?s=3891842 > (you can go in as a guest, but without seeing people still alive) > > I'd be very interested to hear if you have more info on Mary Moses, or > her siblings, parents, etc. > > Thanks, > David Levy

Hi Elly I don't have my great grandfather Lewis' birth certificate ... but following your logic, I have searched for and ordered from the GRO a copy of what I hope is the correct birth certificate. Thanks for the suggestion Steve Elly Smith wrote: > Hi Steve, > > You don't say if you have your grandfather Lewis's birth certificate? > That would give you his mother's maiden name. That in turn would tell > you if the Isaac LEWIS/Betsey EMANUEL marriage in 1875 is the correct > one and would enable you go backwards with more confidence. In any > case it can sometimes be easier to find a "missing" marriage if you > have two surnames to search on, rather than just the one. > > Regards > Elly > >

Hi Sherry I haven't been able to respond because I've been travelling for a few days, but thanks for your kind assistance which did prompt me to do some more research that was useful. I don't have a marriage authorisation for Charles/Isaac LEWIS, just the marriage certificate from the GRO. Nor have I been able to find a record of his dearth - there are no death records for a Charles LEWIS that seem to me to be likely candidates, and about 6 for an Isaac LEWIS that could be candidates - which makes it hard to know where to start. However, I was in London at the end of this week, so I took the opportunity to visit the LDS Family History Centre in Kensington where I found a record of the marriage on a microfilmed copy of the Great Synagogue marriage register. I'm assuming that perhaps the patronymic is recorded in the hebrew script on that record (some is in english and some in hebrew) which I can't read. Just in case, I took some photographs of that record using my mobile phone (if I'd thought ahead I'd have taken a proper camera) and then pasted the pieces together and enhanced it with some photo editing software to make it more legible. The birth place is recorded in the two censuses is as York, Yorkshire. I checked the dates of the death of Isaac's parents-in-law and the birth dates of Charles' children. Isaac's wife's parents were Amelia and Barnett Emanuel who died on 3 and 13 December 1878 respectively. Charles' oldest daughter was Amelia, born in 1877, and his second son was Barnet born in 1880. Ordinarily that would seem to me to count against my hypothesis that Charles and Isaac were one and the same ... except ... also at the LDS FHC, I found a book: "The Jewish Victorian" in which I found this: "BARNETT EMANUEL died 9 King St. Aldgate age 78 on 13/12/1878, Amelia (wife), Moses (son), Amelia (granddaughter), Elizabeth (daughter), Isaac Lewis (son-in-law)." It so happens that at the time of Isaac's father Barnet's death, Charles and Elizabeth had just the one child - Amelia! Finally, I searched for the birth of an Isaac LEWIS in 1845... and could find none that matched well :-( So now I'm wondering ... if Isaac changed his first name from Isaac to Charles, could he have also changed his surname to LEWIS? I asked my aunt who thinks that somewhere in the family someone may have changed the name from LEVY to LEWIS because it was a better trading name. Which makes me wonder ... could Isaac Levy of London have decided to become Charles LEWIS of York for his profession as a Traveller in Pictures? Is it possible that he kept the name Isaac for official purposes (his marriage certificate, for in death announcements etc.) And only once he had retired did he revert to puuting his real place of birth, London, on census returns? Could this also explain why he recorded his father's name as Levy LEWIS on his marriage certificate? Still it all sounds a little far fetched, but slowly the evidence seems more and more credible to me. If someone could read the hebrew from the Synagogue register for me, that might be enough to resolve it - if the hebrew names bear any relation to the english names, of course. Any further comments or suggestions would be welcome. Steve Sherry in France wrote: > Hello Geneva, from frosty Viersat, France! Welcome to the list. Yes, > you are exactly right, one of the main purposes of the list is to > share such information and see if we can get a solution between us. > > I think you have enough to make what you have told us reasonable as a > hypothesis. I understand your need to verify a bit more though. > > I have a couple of questions: > Do you have a) the marriage authorisation and b) the burial of Isaac > LEWIS (AKA Charles)? The former would give the patronymic. The > gravestone, assuming there is one, would confirm the same. > The birth place York...is that the city or the county? If you have > been using the LDS index of 1881 they have a nasty habit of mixing > counties up with cities. At one time, almost a quarter of the > population lived in Yorkshire! > > Also: Elizabeth's mother is Amelia and you say Charles' eldest > daughter was also named this. I would check forward for Barnet & > Amelia and try to establish if she died before the birth of Amelia > (d/o Charles) > > HTH, let us know how you get on, because I am sure most people would > be interested. > > Best > Sherry > > > > > > On 15/04/2008, Steve Lewis <slewis@slewis.co.uk> wrote: > >> Hello from snowy Geneva, Switzerland. >> > > > > >

Can anyone tell me why sometimes when I search for a certain name, e.g. Lazarus, I get pages of results and other times I get zero results (sometimes within the same hour ) ? Eve Richardson puzzled and perplexed in Toronto (where we've gone from snow and ice on the ground to summer almost over night )

Just a quite note of thanks to everyone who has written offering help with my Jewish Chronicle look-up request for help. Help was quickly forthcoming and I now the required information. Thank you to all who took the time and effort to email. Regards, Miriam Pollak Cambridge

Is there someone out there who has a subscription to the Jewish Chronicle who could do me a small favour? Please reply off-line. Thank you in advance, Miriam Pollak

Yesterday evening BBC Radio 4 broadcast a very interesting programme called A Rage in Dalston which uncovered a little known story of postwar conflict in England. For four years after 1945, London and the South East witnessed vicious confrontations between the remnants of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and Jewish ex-servicemen organised in the 43 Group. The goal of the 43 Group was to drive fascism from the streets and silence its message forever. The programme includes an interview with celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon who was caught up in the conflict. You can listen to the programme online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ao d/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/archivehour_dalston Jill Staines, Middx

Thanks Mirium but Salome left books to her daughter Eliza signing her name as Salome. Your time is appreciated. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miriam Pollak" <miriam_pollak@hotmail.com> To: <british-jewry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Re finding GGGrandmothers' Maiden name > > > Dear Sheila, > > > > > > Did a quick search of a free BirthsMarriages&Death site. They have a > marriage of a William George Morton taking place in the 4th Quarter of > 1845 at Shoreditch, vol 2, page 420. There are a number of choices for > the partner (as that entry contains about 5 couples). However, I would > plump for Sophia CUFFLEY as Sophia is close to Salome (which may have been > a familar name, rather than the name she was given at birth). I hope that > this helps. > > > > > > Miriam Pollak > > > Cambridge > > > > > > PS Have a very happy Pesach. > >> From: sdi39142@bigpond.net.au >> To: british-jewry@rootsweb.com >> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:42:02 +1000 >> Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Re finding GGGrandmothers' Maiden name >> >> We have been searching for ages for our GGGranmothers Maiden name. As >> someone already asked you a similar question and the answer was to order >> a childs Birth Certificate, but the child was born in Gibraltar and we >> haven't been able to find necessary numbers to order Cert. My GGG's name >> was SALOME and left several cyrilic language books when she died. We >> wondered if she had been born Jewish, she spoke German at home. She >> married ( not sure where) her husband, WILLIAM GEORGE MORTON was >> stationed in Gibraltar in the Army and their daughter ELIZA was born >> there in 1848. They went back to the UK and SALOME died in Briton Ferry >> and was buried in NEATH Glamorganshire, in 1851. Forgive me if this is a >> too awkward request but we have to try everything, don't we? With Thanks >> from Sheila Dixon in New South Wales Australia. >> Our website is at >> www.british-jewry.org.uk >> We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. >> >> British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > Our website is at > www.british-jewry.org.uk > We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. > > British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Sheila, Did a quick search of a free BirthsMarriages&Death site. They have a marriage of a William George Morton taking place in the 4th Quarter of 1845 at Shoreditch, vol 2, page 420. There are a number of choices for the partner (as that entry contains about 5 couples). However, I would plump for Sophia CUFFLEY as Sophia is close to Salome (which may have been a familar name, rather than the name she was given at birth). I hope that this helps. Miriam Pollak Cambridge PS Have a very happy Pesach. > From: sdi39142@bigpond.net.au > To: british-jewry@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:42:02 +1000 > Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Re finding GGGrandmothers' Maiden name > > We have been searching for ages for our GGGranmothers Maiden name. As someone already asked you a similar question and the answer was to order a childs Birth Certificate, but the child was born in Gibraltar and we haven't been able to find necessary numbers to order Cert. My GGG's name was SALOME and left several cyrilic language books when she died. We wondered if she had been born Jewish, she spoke German at home. She married ( not sure where) her husband, WILLIAM GEORGE MORTON was stationed in Gibraltar in the Army and their daughter ELIZA was born there in 1848. They went back to the UK and SALOME died in Briton Ferry and was buried in NEATH Glamorganshire, in 1851. Forgive me if this is a too awkward request but we have to try everything, don't we? With Thanks from Sheila Dixon in New South Wales Australia. > Our website is at > www.british-jewry.org.uk > We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. > > British-Jewry-admin@rootsweb.com is the address to use for help. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRITISH-JEWRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Name changes were common among immigrants so I would consider Miriam's suggestion. She could have changed her name after she had children. Jackye Sullins > Thanks Miriym but Salome left books to her daughter Eliza signing her name > as Salome. Your time is appreciated. Thanks

Eve Richardson wrote: <It may just be coincidence that these people are entered in pairs but I would be inclined to consider Sarah Ann Power as a candidate for Salome, if any of them are her.> Sheila, sorry for all the gobbledy-goop in my posting. Looking back on it I noticed that what I took to be pairings of the brides and grooms was just coincidental; the names are listed alphabetically. Sorry for the red herring. Eve Richardson

Sheila, > Diane wwrote: > > > > Did a quick search of a free BirthsMarriages&Death site. They have a > marriage of a William George Morton taking place in the 4th Quarter of 1845 > at Shoreditch, vol 2, page 420. There are a number of choices for the > partner (as that entry contains about 5 couples). However, I would plump > for Sophia CUFFLEY as Sophia is close to Salome (which may have been a > familar name, rather than the name she was given at birth). I hope that > this helps. > > > FreeBMD (Free birth, marriage and death registration searches) is at www.freebmd.org.uk . The entry referred to is: Surname First name(s) District Vol Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marriages Dec 1845 (>99%) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CASEY William Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9644481&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> <javascript:golink("/cgi/information.pl?r=9644481&d=bmd_1206548711")> Scan available - click to view <javascript:golink("http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=9644481&d=bmd_1206548711")> CUFFLEY Sophia Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9650093&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> <javascript:golink("/cgi/information.pl?r=9650093&d=bmd_1206548711")> Scan available - click to view <javascript:golink("http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=9650093&d=bmd_1206548711")> EDWARDS Edward Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9654652&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> <javascript:golink("/cgi/information.pl?r=9654652&d=bmd_1206548711")> Scan available - click to view <javascript:golink("http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=9654652&d=bmd_1206548711")> HEWSTON Ann Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9667657&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> <javascript:golink("/cgi/information.pl?r=9667657&d=bmd_1206548711")> Scan available - click to view <javascript:golink("http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=9667657&d=bmd_1206548711")> MARYGOLD Elizabeth Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9682400&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> <javascript:golink("/cgi/information.pl?r=9682400&d=bmd_1206548711")> Scan available - click to view <javascript:golink("http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=9682400&d=bmd_1206548711")> MORRIS James Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9685746&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> <javascript:golink("/cgi/information.pl?r=9685746&d=bmd_1206548711")> Scan available - click to view <javascript:golink("http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=9685746&d=bmd_1206548711")> MORTON William George Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9686005&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> <javascript:golink("/cgi/information.pl?r=9686005&d=bmd_1206548711")> Scan available - click to view <javascript:golink("http://www7.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=9686005&d=bmd_1206548711")> POWER Sarah Ann Shoreditch <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=9693336&d=bmd_1206548711")> 2 420 <javascript:gopage(1845,4,2,'2','420',0)> Dec refers to October, November and December. It may just be coincidence that these people are entered in pairs but I would be inclined to consider Sarah Ann Power as a candidate for Salome, if any of them are her. I haven't been following the thread so I don't know if you have information on Salome's death, but I found Deaths Mar 1858 (>99%) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Morton Salome Neath <javascript:golink("/cgi/districts.pl?r=26254956&d=bmd_1206548711")> 11a 376 <javascript:gopage(1858,1,1,'11a','376',1)> The district *Neath* spans the boundaries of the counties of *Breconshire* and *Glamorgan*; This is Wales, I believe, so perhaps it isn't relevant to your search. Sorry if it's a red herring. I tried to search for other deaths, but the site must be busy and I can't get results just now. Eve Richardson Toronto