Camilla, I can't speak to what records a synagogue would keep, there's a link from GENUKI for England and Wales, "Denominations in England and Wales 1867", listing all places of worship (except for those of the Established Church) be certified to the Registrar General on payment of a fee, to the superintendent registrar of the district. [Followed "The Places of Worship Registration Act 1855"]. http://hometown.aol.co.uk/stanmapstone/page21.html I would suggest you contact the Hampshire Record Office as well as the Portsmouth Museum and Records Service to inquire as to the existence of any synagogue records and their contents. Contact details on the GENUKI pages for Hampshire: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/ Current list of synagogues by city: http://www.mavensearch.com/synagogues/C3382Y0P217RA (see pp.17&18) Good luck! Julie Preston juliefpreston@sbcglobal.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Camilla Warton" <cynghanedd@gmail.com> To: <powys@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:47 AM Subject: [POWYS] Fwd: Jewish ancestors > Sorry - I've just realised I didn't give a proper subject in the subject > line before! > Camilla > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Camilla Warton <cynghanedd@gmail.com> > Date: 31 Jan 2008 13:45 > Subject: [POWYS] > To: powys@rootsweb.com > > > Hi, > > This is rather a tangential request - I believe my grandmother might have > been of Jewish background. I'd be really interested to know if she was - > how > would one be able to find out (eg. do synagogues keep genealogical > records, > and if so, how does one get access to these)? She came from the Portsmouth > area, but I'm only on this mailing list, and thought someone here might be > able to give me some tips. > > Thanks so much! > Camilla > > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: > www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you so much Julie - that looks great! Can't wait to get into those websites. Friendly regards, Camilla On 31/01/2008, Julie Preston <juliefpreston@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Camilla, > > I can't speak to what records a synagogue would keep, there's a link from > GENUKI for England and Wales, "Denominations in England and Wales 1867", > listing all places of worship (except for those of the Established Church) > be certified to the Registrar General on payment of a fee, to the > superintendent registrar of the district. [Followed "The Places of > Worship > Registration Act 1855"]. > http://hometown.aol.co.uk/stanmapstone/page21.html > > I would suggest you contact the Hampshire Record Office as well as the > Portsmouth Museum and Records Service to inquire as to the existence of > any > synagogue records and their contents. Contact details on the GENUKI pages > for Hampshire: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/ > > Current list of synagogues by city: > http://www.mavensearch.com/synagogues/C3382Y0P217RA (see pp.17&18) > > Good luck! > > Julie Preston > juliefpreston@sbcglobal.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Camilla Warton" <cynghanedd@gmail.com> > To: <powys@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:47 AM > Subject: [POWYS] Fwd: Jewish ancestors > > > > Sorry - I've just realised I didn't give a proper subject in the subject > > line before! > > Camilla > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Camilla Warton <cynghanedd@gmail.com> > > Date: 31 Jan 2008 13:45 > > Subject: [POWYS] > > To: powys@rootsweb.com > > > > > > Hi, > > > > This is rather a tangential request - I believe my grandmother might > have > > been of Jewish background. I'd be really interested to know if she was - > > how > > would one be able to find out (eg. do synagogues keep genealogical > > records, > > and if so, how does one get access to these)? She came from the > Portsmouth > > area, but I'm only on this mailing list, and thought someone here might > be > > able to give me some tips. > > > > Thanks so much! > > Camilla > > > > =================== > > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: > > www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: > www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POWYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >