Thank you for your info Eve I will follow those sites up. Mary > You are quite right Terry. And I think we are all guilty of thinking that > Google is the answer to everything! > > I went through Altavista and found the following references to Jewish > Schools in Yorkshire: > > 1. The Leeds Civic Trust www.leedscivictrust.org.uk had "Jewish Schools in > Leeds 1880 - 1930" > > 2. www.localhistory.co.uk has a reference to "A Jewish School in Victorian > Leeds" in on of it's publication > > and > > www.geoffkolnick.tripod.com refers to the first Jewish marriage in > Yorkshire. > > I hope this helps Mary and encourages others to think outside Google - as it > did me! > > Best wishes > > Eve > > From: "TERRY HOPKIN- SUNDBY" <terrysundbya0felan3@hotmail.com> > To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 4:49 PM > Subject: Re: [WRY] Jewish school in Yorkshire in the 1800's > > >> >> Hi >> there is an ignorance amongst many as to how search engines work and their >> limitations. All search engines have catalogues that they search within. >> Most search engines Google included have "national" catalogues so a search >> in the UK for example may not give the same results as one in Australia, >> or searching with "Asak Jeeves" may well give a result which maybe Google >> doesn't or vice versa. >> There exist multi search engines such as Copernic which prove to avoid >> some of the difficulties experienced with single search engines. >> But going onto a spesalist search on a British Jewish site may well give >> you a much better result than writting into GOOGLE jEWISH >> SCHOOLS+YORKSHIRE, especialy as you are searching from Australia. >> regards >> Terry >> Norway >>> From: roy.stockdill@btinternet.com >>> To: west-riding@rootsweb.com >>> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:12:03 +0100 >>> Subject: Re: [WRY] Jewish school in Yorkshire in the 1800's >>> >>> From: Mary Heppell >>> >>>> I am hoping someone will know if there was a Jewish School in >>>> Yorkshire probably a secondary school] for the years after 1871.> >>> >>> Which part of Yorkshire? I am sorry but I have to say it again - some >>> enquirers seem to have no concept of how BIG a county Yorkshire is! >>> >>> There may well have been a number of Jewish schools but are you >>> talking about the West Riding only, or what? >>> >>> Try entering "Jewish schools+Yorkshire" into Googe. >>> >>> -- >>> Roy Stockdill >>> Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies >>> Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org >>> Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: >>> www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html >>> >>> "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, >>> and that is not being talked about." >>> OSCAR WILDE >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! >> http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message