Re: Seeking Death Place For Isadore Rakoff-New Montefiore #general
Joy Rich <joyrichny@...>
If Isadore's wife was Rose and their children were Adele, Allan, and Shirley
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(ages 40, 39, 15, 11, and 5), they lived in the Bronx at the time of the 1930 census - which doesn't prove that he lived (or died) there in 1938. For various reasons that we may or may not know, residents of New York City traveled outside of the city and outside of the state - and even outside of the U.S. to visit their countries of origin, as entries for the same person on more than one passenger list show. For people whose deaths occurred in any of the five boroughs of New York City through 1949, the Municipal Archives has indexes and death certificates issued by the Department of Health. The indexes also include deaths of New York City residents who died outside of the city, as long as those entities notified the NYC Department of Health. A letter code appears in place of the death certificate number indicating where the death took place - the state of New York, any other state, and, if I remember correctly, outside the U.S. If you want to hazard a guess that he died in New York City, you can go to the website of the Municipal Archives at http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/vitalrecords/death.shtml for instructions for ordering online. It helps that you have a death date. Or if you or someone else can look at the index and a code number indicates that he died outside of New York City: -- for a death in New York State but outside of New York City, go to http://www.health.state.ny.us/vital_records/genealogy.htm to see whether to order the DC >from the New York State Archives or elsewhere in the state. Also, the National Archives branch in Manhattan has microfiche of the death indexes for the state of New York outside of New York City. They're arranged by year. For a genealogy question, call (212) 401-1620 or e-mail newyork.archives@... and find out if they will accept a request for a lookup in the 1938 New York State death index. The death index will tell you which town he died in and what his death certificate number is. You can then contact the appropriate agency in that town. -- if the death occurred outside of New York State (maybe New Jersey or Connecticut, for instance), go to Cyndi's List at http://www.cyndislist.com/usvital.htm#States for contact information for each state. -- if the death occurred outside of the U.S., go to the NARA website at http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/vital-records/american-deaths-overseas.html. His probate file would show where he died, whether he left a will or not. But you then have the predicament of deciding which probate court to contact! Joy Rich Brooklyn, NY --
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