Minnie,

There are databases on-line of incoming passenger manifests for many U.S. ports.

A manifest from 1882 will likely have no other info than a person's name and name of country of origin.  Although, it did vary by shipping line.

Later manifests contain much broader info, as manifest data was mandated by the U.S.

Here are some sites to try searching:

https://stevemorse.org/
A great site with many helpful databases.

www.familysearch.org
A site with a large number of genealogical databases, including passenger manifests.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ

-- Yes, mother's maiden name left blank on my great uncles death certificates. :(



Raylene Gurewich 
Port Jefferson Station, NY

Jessica Skippon is 100 percent correct.  In the 1950s NYC began putting up a lot of public housing complexes and in the process truncated or eliminated entire blocks of streets.  If you Google "30 Osborn Street, Brooklyn" you will see in a map the approximate location of that former address indicated by a red dot. It is just below Howard Housing, mentioned by Jessica.

Jeffrey Gee
Arizona 

I think they are available if you  physically go to an LDS Family History Center.

stevemorse.org had links that are supposed to work in a family history center.

MyHeritage definitely has some information that is not at Ancestry or FamilySearch.
One that I know is that the Ellis Island arrival manifests include in their index the name of the person that the passenger is going to.
At Ancestry & FamilySearch, that information is only available when you open the image and review it. Not searchable. 

The exact meaning of this surname is en epenthesis of the surname Korb which is a german word for basket.
Now, "belnik" is a yiddish suffix for a person´s occupation. Therefore, the epenthesis occurs when you add or substract a letter from a surname. In this case an "a" was added and that is  how Korabelnik means "a basket maker or seller".
Best
Alex

Rifkeh (רבקה) is actually Rebecca in  Hebrew and probably Yiddish. The parents probably preferred Rose.

Risha in Russian

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Susan Goldsmith
San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
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Researching GOLDSHMIDT, F(P)ILVINSKY, SHLIOMOVICH, GITTES (GADIE,GADYE, GIDUSH, GITES) Seta, Jonava, Kaunas, Adustiskes, Zemaiciu Naumiestes, Keidainiai, Ukmerge, Vandziogala, Lithuania

Can somebody help me to find the birth certificate of MODLINGER ( may be another name) Israel Jacob, born on  5th December 1906 at Przemsyl (Poland) from Shraga and Miriam ? And if possible, a translation.

As I do not understand polish, it is very difficult to search in polish archives.
Thanks
J.KLEIN
Paris, France

The name change idea was perpetuated in the Godfather movie.  Vito says to the immigration agent "I am Vito Andolini from Corleone" and the agent writes down Vito Corleone.  Many families changed their name on the own.  My maternal great grandfather came over as Morris Shimishelovitz.  Within his lifetime the name became Similovitz and then they said the heck with it, it's Simmons.
Bob Malakoff

I tried to answer this question about possible fatal accidents your "cutter" ancestor might have suffered earlier but the moderator misunderstood my reference to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and rejected my message.  But no one else has mentioned more common kinds of industrial accidents and I thought I'd try again.  

My  family had a clothing manufacturing business in Philadelphia for 70-80 years.  They had their own cutting shop where material was cut in bulk and sent out for sewing to a jobber.  They used electric saws to cut many layers of cloth at one time.  There were the occasional accidents with the saws but I never heard of a fatality.

More concerning were fires.  There was always a lot of dust in the air from cut fabric.  Scraps of fabric were everywhere, often in bins under the cutting tables.  Rolls of cloth -- weighing 100s of pounds -- were stacked on racks (maybe another accident waiting to happen).  And finished clothes hanging from racks.  All told, a lot of fuel for a fire, which could be started by any number of common sources.  The Triangle fire is the most famous but we still see reports of fatal sweatshop fires. 

If not fire, cutting shops were still industrial sites with plenty of opportunities for injury and death.

Lee Jaffe

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Barbara Ellman
Secaucus NJ USA
HASSMAN, SONENTHAL, DAUERMAN, LUCHS - Drohobycz, Ukraine
HIRSCHHORN, GOLDSTEIN, BUCHWALD - Dolyna, Ukraine
ELLMAN, COIRA, MAIDMAN - Minkovtsy, Ukraine
KAGLE, FASS - Ulanow, Poland

Did you try looking for death certificates?