Dear List   Apart from Christmas, today is Hannukah. So Hannukah Greetings to all.   I have a Jewish friend in Lampeter whose siblings went to a Jewish boarding school (she thinks) in Llandyssul.  Has anyone any knowledge of this, and of any 18th/19th/early 20th century (or older) Jewish people in Dyfed ?  I think this school may have had links with Brighton/Hove or Surrey coastal area as well.   Jen

Hi Jen, You probably already know about this website for Jewish Communities and Congregations in Wales. http://www.jewishgen.org/SIGs/JCRUK/wales_counties.htm . I ran across it while taking a genealogy course recently. I was interested in your comment about a connection between the Jewish boarding school in Landyssul and Brighton/Hove. My Davies ancestors weren't Jewish, but in 1861 my Gr. Grandfather and two of his brothers (from Tal-y-bont) were in boarding school in Brighton. I'm curious to learn more about boarding schools, how they were chosen etc. It's on my list of things to learn, when I first learn how to pack a 30 hour genealogy day into a real-time 24 hour day!! Lynne