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The Y-DNA Genetic Signature of the Savran-Bendery Chassidic Dynasty
#ukraine
A new Y-DNA study, entitled: "The Y-DNA Genetic Signature of the
Savran-Bendery Chassidic Dynasty: Connecting to the Great Rabbinic Families through Y-DNA," by Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull and Dr. Jeffrey Briskman, is the featured article in the new online issue of the Surname DNA Journal. The study focuses on the Y-DNA pedigree of documented descendants of the founders of the Savran-Bendery Chassidic dynasty, Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Giterman of Savran, Ukraine, and his brother, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Wertheim of Bendery, Bessarabia (now Bender, Moldova). Together, they founded one of the most prominent Chassidic dynasties to emerge >from the Russian Empire during the 19th century. The study presents the genealogical and genetic data that characterize this rabbinic lineage, and by which its descendants may be identified, thereby providing many Ashkenazi Jews with the essential genealogical and genetic information necessary to bridge the gaps in their own paper trails, and discover their lost heritage. "The Y-DNA Genetic Signature of the Savran-Bendery Chassidic Dynasty" may be viewed or downloaded >from the Surname DNA Journal website: http://www.surnamedna.com/?articles=y-dna-of-the-savran-bendery-chassidic-dy nasty. Jeffrey Mark Paull Moderator's Note: Please sign your posts with your full name and city.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine The Y-DNA Genetic Signature of the Savran-Bendery Chassidic Dynasty
#ukraine
A new Y-DNA study, entitled: "The Y-DNA Genetic Signature of the
Savran-Bendery Chassidic Dynasty: Connecting to the Great Rabbinic Families through Y-DNA," by Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull and Dr. Jeffrey Briskman, is the featured article in the new online issue of the Surname DNA Journal. The study focuses on the Y-DNA pedigree of documented descendants of the founders of the Savran-Bendery Chassidic dynasty, Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Giterman of Savran, Ukraine, and his brother, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Wertheim of Bendery, Bessarabia (now Bender, Moldova). Together, they founded one of the most prominent Chassidic dynasties to emerge >from the Russian Empire during the 19th century. The study presents the genealogical and genetic data that characterize this rabbinic lineage, and by which its descendants may be identified, thereby providing many Ashkenazi Jews with the essential genealogical and genetic information necessary to bridge the gaps in their own paper trails, and discover their lost heritage. "The Y-DNA Genetic Signature of the Savran-Bendery Chassidic Dynasty" may be viewed or downloaded >from the Surname DNA Journal website: http://www.surnamedna.com/?articles=y-dna-of-the-savran-bendery-chassidic-dy nasty. Jeffrey Mark Paull Moderator's Note: Please sign your posts with your full name and city.
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New JewishGen Success Stories !
#ukraine
Phyllis Kramer
We present four new inspiring stories in the latest issue of
JewishGen's SUCCESS! STORIES webzine. You can access these stories from the "About Us" button on our website or by following this link:http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/index.htm Peter Vanlaw learned that his family was Jewish when he was 51 years old. Through a connection he makes via JewishGen's Family Finder, he learns about the family that had been kept a secret >from him all those years. Stella Saperstein knew nothing about her American family while she was growing up in the former Soviet Union. After several unsuccessful research efforts, she connects with her previously unknown cousin through JewishGen's Family Finder. Carol Clingan obtains a copy of Sarah Cohen's obituary that lists two surviving sons. She knew of one of the sons, but who was Sam Bloom? She contacts another researcher who listed the Bloom name in JewishGen's Family Finder. It turns out he has the other piece of the puzzle! Robin Koerner updates her story >from January 2015, telling us of the Maniches family reunion in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was more than 100 years ago when the ancestors of these families had been together in Krynki, Poland. Now a connection through JewishGen's Family Finder brings them together. This issue was prepared by JewishGen volunteers -- Nancy Siegel, Editor and Anna Blanchard, Webmaster. We hope you will be inspired by these stories and we encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine New JewishGen Success Stories !
#ukraine
Phyllis Kramer
We present four new inspiring stories in the latest issue of
JewishGen's SUCCESS! STORIES webzine. You can access these stories from the "About Us" button on our website or by following this link:http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/index.htm Peter Vanlaw learned that his family was Jewish when he was 51 years old. Through a connection he makes via JewishGen's Family Finder, he learns about the family that had been kept a secret >from him all those years. Stella Saperstein knew nothing about her American family while she was growing up in the former Soviet Union. After several unsuccessful research efforts, she connects with her previously unknown cousin through JewishGen's Family Finder. Carol Clingan obtains a copy of Sarah Cohen's obituary that lists two surviving sons. She knew of one of the sons, but who was Sam Bloom? She contacts another researcher who listed the Bloom name in JewishGen's Family Finder. It turns out he has the other piece of the puzzle! Robin Koerner updates her story >from January 2015, telling us of the Maniches family reunion in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was more than 100 years ago when the ancestors of these families had been together in Krynki, Poland. Now a connection through JewishGen's Family Finder brings them together. This issue was prepared by JewishGen volunteers -- Nancy Siegel, Editor and Anna Blanchard, Webmaster. We hope you will be inspired by these stories and we encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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New JewishGen Success Stories !
#romania
Phyllis Kramer
We present four new inspiring stories in the latest issue of
JewishGen's SUCCESS! STORIES webzine. You can access these stories from the "About Us" button on our website or by following this link:http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/index.htm Peter Vanlaw learned that his family was Jewish when he was 51 years old. Through a connection he makes via JewishGen's Family Finder, he learns about the family that had been kept a secret >from him all those years. Stella Saperstein knew nothing about her American family while she was growing up in the former Soviet Union. After several unsuccessful research efforts, she connects with her previously unknown cousin through JewishGen's Family Finder. Carol Clingan obtains a copy of Sarah Cohen's obituary that lists two surviving sons. She knew of one of the sons, but who was Sam Bloom? She contacts another researcher who listed the Bloom name in JewishGen's Family Finder. It turns out he has the other piece of the puzzle! Robin Koerner updates her story >from January 2015, telling us of the Maniches family reunion in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was more than 100 years ago when the ancestors of these families had been together in Krynki, Poland. Now a connection through JewishGen's Family Finder brings them together. This issue was prepared by JewishGen volunteers -- Nancy Siegel, Editor and Anna Blanchard, Webmaster. We hope you will be inspired by these stories and we encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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Romania SIG #Romania New JewishGen Success Stories !
#romania
Phyllis Kramer
We present four new inspiring stories in the latest issue of
JewishGen's SUCCESS! STORIES webzine. You can access these stories from the "About Us" button on our website or by following this link:http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/index.htm Peter Vanlaw learned that his family was Jewish when he was 51 years old. Through a connection he makes via JewishGen's Family Finder, he learns about the family that had been kept a secret >from him all those years. Stella Saperstein knew nothing about her American family while she was growing up in the former Soviet Union. After several unsuccessful research efforts, she connects with her previously unknown cousin through JewishGen's Family Finder. Carol Clingan obtains a copy of Sarah Cohen's obituary that lists two surviving sons. She knew of one of the sons, but who was Sam Bloom? She contacts another researcher who listed the Bloom name in JewishGen's Family Finder. It turns out he has the other piece of the puzzle! Robin Koerner updates her story >from January 2015, telling us of the Maniches family reunion in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was more than 100 years ago when the ancestors of these families had been together in Krynki, Poland. Now a connection through JewishGen's Family Finder brings them together. This issue was prepared by JewishGen volunteers -- Nancy Siegel, Editor and Anna Blanchard, Webmaster. We hope you will be inspired by these stories and we encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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Newark, NJ Death Record from 1950's
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Moishe Miller
Dear Group,
I am trying to locate the death record and tombstone of Zlate ROSEN of Radwanitz & Siemiatycze, Belarus and after the 1920's, of the the Bronx. The 1930 Bronx census shows her immigration as 1926 and her name as Lottie, with her children Henry and Edith. I have not found her arrival manifest. Her husband was Abraham Isaac ROZIN and he passed away in Belarus (lived c1858 - c1910). After her children married and she was older, sometime in the late 1930's, she moved in with her daughter Edith Panken, in Newark, NJ. Later in life Zlate lost her sight. We know she passed away about 1950 at around the age of 90 and her yahrtzeit is Elul 26. Are there any online resources or indexes that might have her date of passing and the cemetery location of her final resting place? Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY moishe.miller@totalben.com
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(Iraq) June 1-2 is 74th Anniversary of Farhud- the Pogrom in Baghdad Iraq
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Jan Meisels Allen
Today is the 74th anniversary of the Farhud in Baghdad Iraq -the pogrom-or
the beginning of the end of the Jewish community in Iraq. Following the British victory in the Anglo- Iraqi war (The British campaign against the rebel government of Rashid Ali in the Kingdom of Iraq during the Second World War. Operations lasted >from 2 to 31 May 1941.) The riots occurred following the pro-Nazi regime of Rashid Ali. Over 180 Jews were killed and 1,000 injured and 300-400 non-Jewish rioters were killed. Looting occurred and over 900 Jewish homes were destroyed. It is alleged that the violence occurred that the Jews helped the Brits defeat Rashid Ali. The Farhud occurred during the holiday of Shavout. According to the United States Holocaust Museum in the early 1940's about 3 percent of the Iraqi population was Jewish-135,000 people with 90,000 living in Baghdad, 10,000 living in Basra and the remainder in small towns and villages dispersed throughout Iraq. Jews had lived in Iraq since the 6th century BCE. To read more about this see: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007277 The Forward has an article reprinted >from ten years ago (as the article talks about 64 years ago) on the Iraqi pogrom which may be read at: http://tinyurl.com/pty89d9 Original url: http://forward.com/opinion/world/308752/on-shavuot-memories-of-an-iraqi-pogr om/?utm_content=opinion_Newsletter_TopSpot_Title_Position-2&utm_source=Sailt hru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Opinion&utm_campaign=Opinion%20Redesign%202015 -06-01 Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Newark, NJ Death Record from 1950's
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Moishe Miller
Dear Group,
I am trying to locate the death record and tombstone of Zlate ROSEN of Radwanitz & Siemiatycze, Belarus and after the 1920's, of the the Bronx. The 1930 Bronx census shows her immigration as 1926 and her name as Lottie, with her children Henry and Edith. I have not found her arrival manifest. Her husband was Abraham Isaac ROZIN and he passed away in Belarus (lived c1858 - c1910). After her children married and she was older, sometime in the late 1930's, she moved in with her daughter Edith Panken, in Newark, NJ. Later in life Zlate lost her sight. We know she passed away about 1950 at around the age of 90 and her yahrtzeit is Elul 26. Are there any online resources or indexes that might have her date of passing and the cemetery location of her final resting place? Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY moishe.miller@totalben.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (Iraq) June 1-2 is 74th Anniversary of Farhud- the Pogrom in Baghdad Iraq
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
Today is the 74th anniversary of the Farhud in Baghdad Iraq -the pogrom-or
the beginning of the end of the Jewish community in Iraq. Following the British victory in the Anglo- Iraqi war (The British campaign against the rebel government of Rashid Ali in the Kingdom of Iraq during the Second World War. Operations lasted >from 2 to 31 May 1941.) The riots occurred following the pro-Nazi regime of Rashid Ali. Over 180 Jews were killed and 1,000 injured and 300-400 non-Jewish rioters were killed. Looting occurred and over 900 Jewish homes were destroyed. It is alleged that the violence occurred that the Jews helped the Brits defeat Rashid Ali. The Farhud occurred during the holiday of Shavout. According to the United States Holocaust Museum in the early 1940's about 3 percent of the Iraqi population was Jewish-135,000 people with 90,000 living in Baghdad, 10,000 living in Basra and the remainder in small towns and villages dispersed throughout Iraq. Jews had lived in Iraq since the 6th century BCE. To read more about this see: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007277 The Forward has an article reprinted >from ten years ago (as the article talks about 64 years ago) on the Iraqi pogrom which may be read at: http://tinyurl.com/pty89d9 Original url: http://forward.com/opinion/world/308752/on-shavuot-memories-of-an-iraqi-pogr om/?utm_content=opinion_Newsletter_TopSpot_Title_Position-2&utm_source=Sailt hru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Opinion&utm_campaign=Opinion%20Redesign%202015 -06-01 Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Nancy Holden
Get Ready to Publish Your Research May 29 - June 19
Are you ready to publish your family history and wondering how to get it organized and out to family and friends? JewishGen is offering a 4 week class in Preparing to Publish Your Family History Data. This class covers project organization, the report process, formatting, source and citation skills. It includes how to create and save media files, graphs and charts. In other words: Putting it All Together This class will consider the various ways of packaging your research, matching your material to your audience and figuring out what to include >from the research you have accumulated. We will consider the many kinds of publications >from photo albums to family history books, the self-publishing venues, and using professional publishers. Class is in a Forum setting private to JewishGen and open 24/7 to accommodate all time zones. Students will work on their family history with the instructor. Enrollment is by application. Students should have collected enough data and photographs to start their project. To apply send a one page document and include these points in your summary statement: 1. An Introductory Paragraph describing your project. (What will the project include, who is your audience and what kind of data you have compiled.) 2. Write a paragraph that begins: "I visualize it being presented in the following format...."(will it be printed, bound, electronic, one copy, multiple copies etc.) 3. If you have special needs, missing data, constrictions, obstacles now is the time to think them through. Write a paragraph that helps anticipate some of the parameters of your project. For example, I am waiting for data from....my files are in disarray, I have sources for some of my data but not all of it, I have large media files that I want to use (etc.) I am collaborating with...and want to include that data... Class size is limited. Tuition is $150 and is payable after the application process, through our online secure web site. For questions and to submit your application, please email the instructor, by clicking here: Nancy Holden, Instruction Manager JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org
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Phyllis Kramer
We present four new inspiring stories in the latest issue of
JewishGen's SUCCESS! STORIES webzine. You can access these stories from the "About Us" button on our website or by following this link:http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/index.htm Peter Vanlaw learned that his family was Jewish when he was 51 years old. Through a connection he makes via JewishGen's Family Finder, he learns about the family that had been kept a secret >from him all those years. Stella Saperstein knew nothing about her American family while she was growing up in the former Soviet Union. After several unsuccessful research efforts, she connects with her previously unknown cousin through JewishGen's Family Finder. Carol Clingan obtains a copy of Sarah Cohen's obituary that lists two surviving sons. She knew of one of the sons, but who was Sam Bloom? She contacts another researcher who listed the Bloom name in JewishGen's Family Finder. It turns out he has the other piece of the puzzle! Robin Koerner updates her story >from January 2015, telling us of the Maniches family reunion in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was more than 100 years ago when the ancestors of these families had been together in Krynki, Poland. Now a connection through JewishGen's Family Finder brings them together. This issue was prepared by JewishGen volunteers -- Nancy Siegel, Editor and Anna Blanchard, Webmaster. We hope you will be inspired by these stories and we encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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Nancy Holden
Get Ready to Publish Your Research May 29 - June 19
Are you ready to publish your family history and wondering how to get it organized and out to family and friends? JewishGen is offering a 4 week class in Preparing to Publish Your Family History Data. This class covers project organization, the report process, formatting, source and citation skills. It includes how to create and save media files, graphs and charts. In other words: Putting it All Together This class will consider the various ways of packaging your research, matching your material to your audience and figuring out what to include >from the research you have accumulated. We will consider the many kinds of publications >from photo albums to family history books, the self-publishing venues, and using professional publishers. Class is in a Forum setting private to JewishGen and open 24/7 to accommodate all time zones. Students will work on their family history with the instructor. Enrollment is by application. Students should have collected enough data and photographs to start their project. To apply send a one page document and include these points in your summary statement: 1. An Introductory Paragraph describing your project. (What will the project include, who is your audience and what kind of data you have compiled.) 2. Write a paragraph that begins: "I visualize it being presented in the following format...."(will it be printed, bound, electronic, one copy, multiple copies etc.) 3. If you have special needs, missing data, constrictions, obstacles now is the time to think them through. Write a paragraph that helps anticipate some of the parameters of your project. For example, I am waiting for data from....my files are in disarray, I have sources for some of my data but not all of it, I have large media files that I want to use (etc.) I am collaborating with...and want to include that data... Class size is limited. Tuition is $150 and is payable after the application process, through our online secure web site. For questions and to submit your application, please email the instructor, by clicking here: Nancy Holden, Instruction Manager JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org
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Phyllis Kramer
We present four new inspiring stories in the latest issue of
JewishGen's SUCCESS! STORIES webzine. You can access these stories from the "About Us" button on our website or by following this link:http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/index.htm Peter Vanlaw learned that his family was Jewish when he was 51 years old. Through a connection he makes via JewishGen's Family Finder, he learns about the family that had been kept a secret >from him all those years. Stella Saperstein knew nothing about her American family while she was growing up in the former Soviet Union. After several unsuccessful research efforts, she connects with her previously unknown cousin through JewishGen's Family Finder. Carol Clingan obtains a copy of Sarah Cohen's obituary that lists two surviving sons. She knew of one of the sons, but who was Sam Bloom? She contacts another researcher who listed the Bloom name in JewishGen's Family Finder. It turns out he has the other piece of the puzzle! Robin Koerner updates her story >from January 2015, telling us of the Maniches family reunion in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was more than 100 years ago when the ancestors of these families had been together in Krynki, Poland. Now a connection through JewishGen's Family Finder brings them together. This issue was prepared by JewishGen volunteers -- Nancy Siegel, Editor and Anna Blanchard, Webmaster. We hope you will be inspired by these stories and we encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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opticians in Budapest - Tropp and Bienenstock
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rv Kaplan
I have just returned >from a few days in Budapest, where a branch of my
Galitzianer family settled in the 1880s and met up with some of their descendants there. I have used the Hungarian database on JewishGen. Can anyone suggest any online sources, such as business directories, for tracing opticians in Budapest c1880s-1930s, called Tropp or Bienenstock? thanks Harvey L Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen opticians in Budapest - Tropp and Bienenstock
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rv Kaplan
I have just returned >from a few days in Budapest, where a branch of my
Galitzianer family settled in the 1880s and met up with some of their descendants there. I have used the Hungarian database on JewishGen. Can anyone suggest any online sources, such as business directories, for tracing opticians in Budapest c1880s-1930s, called Tropp or Bienenstock? thanks Harvey L Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland
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Kutno Death Records/Jewish Cemetery
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Amit N
Hi all,
My grandfather was born and raised in Kutno, and according to him, his maternal grandparents both died at quite a young age, leaving young children who were raised by their mother's family. I can only presume this happened in the early 20th century. However I couldn't find any death record for that incident. I wonder now if there was a Jewish cemetery in Kutno, and whether anything of it survived? Perhaps they were buried there. If you know anything about that or how can I continue this search, please help. Best Regards, Amit Naor Israel
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Kutno Death Records/Jewish Cemetery
#general
Amit N
Hi all,
My grandfather was born and raised in Kutno, and according to him, his maternal grandparents both died at quite a young age, leaving young children who were raised by their mother's family. I can only presume this happened in the early 20th century. However I couldn't find any death record for that incident. I wonder now if there was a Jewish cemetery in Kutno, and whether anything of it survived? Perhaps they were buried there. If you know anything about that or how can I continue this search, please help. Best Regards, Amit Naor Israel
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(US): Social Security Agency: are other records available?
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jeremy frankel
Dear Genners,
We all know that we can obtain a copy of a deceased person's SS-5 (social security application form) but I wonder if the SSA has any other documents and are these also accessible? Let me explain, I am assisting a friend in researching her family but even her father is a huge stumbling block as nothing is known about him. (He really covered his tracks.) We have his SS-5 form but we don't believe the names he provided for his parents (my friend never knew her grandparents, they supposedly died before she was born.) We don't believe his year of birth (1927) nor where he was born (California), nothing is showing up in the usual searches one makes. Hence my reasoning is, when he applied for his SS-5 (in 1951) what documents did he have to provide (if any) to prove who he was, and did the SSA make and keep copies? I'm thinking he may have had to bring in his birth certificate? If he did, this is obviously something that he couldn't have faked (well, I hope not). If anyone has had any success in obtaining any documents >from the SSA other than retrieving the SS-5 please let me know off-line. Thanks Jeremy -- Jeremy G Frankel ex-London, England now Folsom, CA Searching for: FRANKEL: Plock, Poland; London, England GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland; London, England KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania; London, England; NY, USA LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland; London, England Pinkus, Poland; London, England PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland; London, England; NY, USA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (US): Social Security Agency: are other records available?
#general
jeremy frankel
Dear Genners,
We all know that we can obtain a copy of a deceased person's SS-5 (social security application form) but I wonder if the SSA has any other documents and are these also accessible? Let me explain, I am assisting a friend in researching her family but even her father is a huge stumbling block as nothing is known about him. (He really covered his tracks.) We have his SS-5 form but we don't believe the names he provided for his parents (my friend never knew her grandparents, they supposedly died before she was born.) We don't believe his year of birth (1927) nor where he was born (California), nothing is showing up in the usual searches one makes. Hence my reasoning is, when he applied for his SS-5 (in 1951) what documents did he have to provide (if any) to prove who he was, and did the SSA make and keep copies? I'm thinking he may have had to bring in his birth certificate? If he did, this is obviously something that he couldn't have faked (well, I hope not). If anyone has had any success in obtaining any documents >from the SSA other than retrieving the SS-5 please let me know off-line. Thanks Jeremy -- Jeremy G Frankel ex-London, England now Folsom, CA Searching for: FRANKEL: Plock, Poland; London, England GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland; London, England KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania; London, England; NY, USA LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland; London, England Pinkus, Poland; London, England PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland; London, England; NY, USA
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