Who do you think you are?
Speakers: Hazel Atlass, Gina Marks and Anita Benson
Three members of Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (JGSGB) will give a brief
introduction to Jewish Family History.
Hazel Atlass has been a member of JGSGB for 12 years and was Membership Secretary for
6 years. She is now the convenor for JGSGB’s Chilterns Regional Group and a member of
JGSGB’s Programme Committee. She first met her cousins, Gina and Anita, through her
research into the Mendoza family. Her research on her Sephardi side led to discoveries
in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Holland and on her Ashkenazi side to Poland and Latvia. She
has also carried out research into her husband’s family who came from Galicia in the Austro-
Hungarian Empire, Vienna and the Ukraine.
Georgina Marks has been a member of JGSGB for about 16 years and has been very
involved in the Society from the start, having been on the Library, Programme and
Publications committees and Cemetery Photographer for the group. She has also done a
vast amount of indexing of marriage and burial records plus creating lists of Jewish names
found in old trade directories, police records, hospitals etc. Her own personal genealogy
interests are Anglo-Jewish, all branches of her Ashkenazi families having been in London
since the late 1700’s or early 1800’s, Sephardi from Spain, Portugal, Morocco & Gibraltar
and Italy.
Anita Benson lives in Hendon and has four sons and five grandchildren. She has been a
member of JGSGB since 2001. She is a JGSGB Council member with the responsibility of
looking after Special Interest Groups (SIGS) and Regional Groups. She is also a member of
the JGSGB Programme Committee. She is researching her mother’s Anglo-Jewish family
which is a mixture of early Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. She is also researching her
father’s Galician family from Tarnow and Krakow. She has recently started researching her
late husband’s Middle Eastern family (The Jews of Aden) which is turning out to be a
challenge.
For more information please contact Janet Goodman.