London synagogue seat-holders 1920-1939

An announcement from The Genealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk) that I missed last month:

Jewish Seatholders

TheGenealogist has released online 99,500 records of London synagogue seat-holders spanning the years from 1920 to 1939.

• Covering the records from 18 Synagogues around London with many connected guilds, societies and charities etc.
• Additional information found in these records include names of gentlemen eligible for office, life member of the council, women who are seatholders in their own right and seatholders who are not eligible to vote.
• Fully searchable by name, keyword, synagogue and address, the Jewish Synagogue Seatholders has been extracted from various years of: "Seatholders for Synagogues in London"

Those with Jewish ancestors from London will welcome this fascinating new release from TheGenealogist. Revealing details of positions held by forebears, researchers will be able to track ancestors who became wardens, council members, or served on committees of their synagogue, as well as seatholders in synagogues from around the capital city. These fully indexed records allow family historians to search by name, keyword, synagogue and address and with one click see an image taken from the pages of Seatholders for Synagogues in London.

Chris

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