Robert Hallion's Blog (5)

“If anyone knows the whereabouts of my daddy who was last seen behind a tombstone please contact me because I miss him!” These are the words of Sonia Rosenblatt from a letter she wrote to the Irish Jewish Genealogical Society which was founded by her father Stuart over 14 years ago,so its safe to say Stuarts family life has suffered since he started…

 I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stuart Rosenblatt  for an upcoming "radio package" on the Irish Jews and their roots and I will shortly post a link to that interview.Stuart has spent the last 14 years painstakingly researching the family trees of the Irish Jewry and his Family History Database contains  information on over 48,000 individuals.If anyone needs…

Hello everyone,I am researching Isaac Herzog,the first Chief Rabbi of the Irish Free State and I would be grateful if anyone has any info,thank you all.

I was just looking back over some old research and I came across a record of my grandfather from WWI.In the record it stated he had been charged with "leaving his post",this was while he was in hospital in England after been wounded in the Battle of the Somme.He was gone for 2 hrs,unfortunately it doesn't say where he went but my thoughts are he slipped out of the hospital…

Hello everyone,I have a lot of info on the Dublin branch of the "Hallion" family so if anyone has info to share please contact me here,thanks,Bob Hallion.