JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Best approach to determining port of entry to US #general
Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:13:53 UTC, hilary@... (Hilary
Henkin) opined: Dear Howie,Censuses, of course, can be tricky, because the information is the unsubstantiated word of the interviewee. An example is that of my late grandparents. In the 1900 census, they informed the numerator that they arrived in 1898. In 1910, their arrival date was in 1896, and they had been US citizens since 1902 (two years earlier than would have been possible had they stuck with the 1898 arrival date; these data were repeated in the 1920 census. One might think the difference represents a subterfuge to enable them to become citizens a little earlier than the calendar would otherwise warrant. Oddly enough however, a thorough search of the records of the various courts by which they might have been naaturalized (conducted by another of their grandchildren who is an attorney practicing in those courts) failed to find any evidence of naturalization whatever. You can tell an enumerator anything, and he will write it down; that's the nature of censuses. Census data needs to be confirmed by an independent source of the same information. -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the URL is: http://www.hashkedim.com For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form there.
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