JGSGB German SIG will have speaker Ben Forman on: "Rabbit Holes and Rothschilds: My Grandmother's Family Tree and the World of the Court Jews"
Tracing my grandmother’s family tree led me to the world of the Court Jews, financiers to Europe’s princes. Their families, businesses and charity spanned the Jewish world, and their networks still quietly
link many of us to each other and to places we know. Discover how genealogy leads to history, and how close my family came to the Rothschilds.
About Ben Forman
Ben Forman is a London-based technologist and genealogist. After 25+ years in live streaming, latterly as Global Head of Live Channels Architecture at Amazon Prime Video, he now provides
consultancy support to small companies in the industry. He edits JGSGB's Shemot magazine, is JRI-Poland Town Leader for Kałuszyn, and built HistoryMapper, mapping 500+ Court Jews in the Holy Roman Empire.
If time, the talk will be followed by our usual presentation on some of the new developments and recent discoveries in German-Jewish genealogy ( German-speaking Jewish people and all the places they may have visited or travelled to.)
As ever, the presentation from the meeting will be made available after the meeting, and the meeting will end with an opportunity for you to ask any questions about your own family history research.
It would be helpful if you could email any questions before the meeting to gersig@jgsgb.org.uk and I or others attending our virtual meeting will be able to help you and answer them.
The JGSGB German SIG future meetings for 2027 are Mar 7th, Jun 6th, Sep 5th and Dec 5th; all at 2-5pm.
If you have problems joining, please email programme@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts.
JGSGB members, please remember to log in to the members’ area of the JGSGB website before booking, and your £5 fee will be waived.