Dear Genners, I'm wondering if anyone can share some tips on navigating the 1940 census. I'm searching for a relative who lived on W. 70th Street in Manhattan. I found the proper Enumeration District

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Thanks to the help of several Genners, I tracked down the documents pertaining to my relative's arrival in NYC on July 11, 1939. But several new questions have arisen. The "states immigrant inspector"

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Thanks to the help of several Genners, I tracked down the documents pertaining to my relative's arrival in NYC on July 11, 1939. But several new questions have arisen. The "states immigrant inspector"

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According to family letters, a relative of mine named Shalom Tvi (or Hersch) Kaganovich (various spellings including Kahanowicz) left the Polish port of Gydnia on July 1, 1939 and arrived in NYC on Ju

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According to family letters, a relative of mine named Shalom Tvi (or Hersch) Kaganovich (various spellings including Kahanowicz) left the Polish port of Gydnia on July 1, 1939 and arrived in NYC on Ju

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A relative of mine named Shalom Tvi left his village in Poland (now Belarus) in July, 1939 and came to stay with my mother's family in the Bronx. The story is Shalom Tvi came first with the intention

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A relative of mine named Shalom Tvi left his village in Poland (now Belarus) in July, 1939 and came to stay with my mother's family in the Bronx. The story is Shalom Tvi came first with the intention

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I have been given a series of letters written by relatives of mine in Poland to other relatives in Palestine in the 1930s. The letters were originally in Yiddish but my Israeli cousins had them transl

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I have been given a series of letters written by relatives of mine in Poland to other relatives in Palestine in the 1930s. The letters were originally in Yiddish but my Israeli cousins had them transl

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I believe a cousin of mine who died young in 1930 married the nurse who took care of him at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. There was no mention of a wife on the death notice on Augusut 5, 1930. Does any

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I believe a cousin of mine who died young in 1930 married the nurse who took care of him at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. There was no mention of a wife on the death notice on Augusut 5, 1930. Does any

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I am trying to connect with descendants/relatives of William, Moses and Ellis ROSENTHAL. William, who was born in the shtetl of Rakov, married my great aunt Ida Cohen (nee Itel Kaganovitch) after they

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I am trying to connect with descendants/relatives of William, Moses and Ellis ROSENTHAL. William, who was born in the shtetl of Rakov, married my great aunt Ida Cohen (nee Itel Kaganovitch) after they

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I am trying to connect with descendants/relatives of William, Moses and Ellis ROSENTHAL. William, who was born in the shtetl of Rakov, married my great aunt Ida Cohen (nee Itel Kaganovitch) after they

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I am trying to connect with descendants/relatives of William, Moses and Ellis ROSENTHAL. William, who was born in the shtetl of Rakov, married my great aunt Ida Cohen (nee Itel Kaganovitch) after they

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Thanks to those who contacted me about Zelig Kost. According to family lore, Kost became a partisan after the Nazis killed his family. I found the following citation on the US Holocaust Memorial Museu

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Thanks to those who contacted me about Zelig Kost. According to family lore, Kost became a partisan after the Nazis killed his family. I found the following citation on the US Holocaust Memorial Museu

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Thanks to those who contacted me about Zelig Kost. According to family lore, Kost became a partisan after the Nazis killed his family. I found the following citation on the US Holocaust Memorial Museu

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Thanks to those who contacted me about Zelig Kost. According to family lore, Kost became a partisan after the Nazis killed his family. I found the following citation on the US Holocaust Memorial Museu

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Zelig Kost was a Holocaust survivor >from Rakov (presentday Belarus) who wrote movingly about returning to the shtetl in 1944 and coming upon the ruins of the synagogue where so many died. His account

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