Of course! Note the assumptions underlying the claim: the immigration officials were ignorant hicks who just didn't get them foreigners [half were themselves naturalized, and understood 40

This "meme" as you call it, is discussed at length in an official statement from the Immigration Service, and is available at some .gov web page. I suggest you reconsider your skepticism until you

Check marks were most of what the officials did write on the manifests, and they're generally quite large. What manifests are you referring to? Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ USA research coordinator,

As each new immigrant was processed at Castle Garden, Ellis Island, or other reception center, how did officials keep track of who had passed through? Why didn't the clerk put some sort of check-mark

Mazal Tov = that’s wonderful. Thanks for all of your perseverance Esther Levine Brill Looking for Jablonsky – Jankel,(Elchanan David), Mortchaj , Chaja ; from Szcuczyn and Golberg -Estera,

An idea You can ask to be a member of fb SIGHET GENERATIONS, and find other people with Spenta roots Peninah Zilberman Fundatia Tarbut Sighet +40 74 414 5351 www.ftsighet.com

Hi, What are you looking for? There is the Jewish cemetery in Spenta Location 20 km. from the major city Sighet. I stay in Sighet spring to fall Except of this year due to COVID-19 Regards Peninah

Some of the microfilmed Hungarian birth records I'm looking at have what appears to be an additional name (?) column(s) in Hebrew. Are these indeed names. And if they are, are they religious names

According to family lore, when my father age 13 and/or uncle Morris age 15 first attended public school, their teacher could not pronounce their last name (Goichmann). The G sounded like "huh" and

HELLO, YONKERS! Reclaim The Records has won our Freedom of Information fight for the birth and death records from Yonkers, New York! They're now online, and free! After literally years of negotiating

Trying to make contact with the family of Eliot (Eli) Pollak who died in 2010 and was a member of Congregation Etz Chaim in Midwood, NY. His children - Gloria married Simon (Sy) Belsy who died in

It is a fallacy that names were changed at Ellis Island. Immigration personnel used the names on the passenger manifest. They were forbidden to change any name as that might be contributing to

I'd like to ask people to reserve judgment until I have received the document I requested from NARA. If it is what I expect it to be, it should resolve any serious questions about the

I'm grateful that JewishGen-created indexes to microfilmed Hungarian birth (and other vital) records contain so much data. But I understand that with limited resources only part of the data in the

Most if not all names were changed by the immigrant after arrival in the US. Clerks were very careful not to change or modify names. Since the manifest was used as proof of legal arrival immigration

Souza Mendes Foundation is live streaming two interesting events on the next week-ends: On June 28 the event is on the extraordinary life of concert pianist and Holocaust survivor Alice Herz Sommer

"However, family lore is that they had to buy papers to travel from Lithuania to the United States, and could not get their own so bought them from someone named Goldberg" The thing is, there was no

Seeking siblings Arthur, Ruth & Ada BENJAMIN in New York. All 3 were born between 1905-1915 approx. However, the siblings may have gone under their mother's maiden name. Thus they’d have been

These birth two records for the same person, registered in the same town, each give a different birthplace. How did this happen and why? I can see that they’re from two different microfilmed

The two records below are clearly the same marriage for the same two people, but registered in two different towns. Is this because the bride and groom were residents in different towns and hence from