I located a September 1928 list of donors to the Home for the Aged in Boston. Abraham Kaslick is on the list. David Rosen Boston, MA

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In 2010 I was one of several contributors indexing records for JDC. Included were Remittance Lists names. Today I checked a few names that I know should be there, and they were. There is a search box

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In 2010 I was one of several contributors indexing records for JDC. Included were Remittance Lists names. Today I checked a few names that I know should be there, and they were. There is a search box

#poland #general #russia

I have a record of one of those marriages. The story of the arrival and the marriage was written up in the June 2012 issue of : "MassPocha" the Newsletter of The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater

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I made an error in the numbers- 18,000 ships. Sorry David

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As a member of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) https://www.immigrantships.net/ I have seen thousands of ship's passenger list pages. Check marks, BSI notations, X marks, brief notations

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Your cousin may have changed the spelling at the suggestion of the immigration officer, but the immigration officer, himself did not do it. David Rosen Boston, MA

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Immigration inspectors did not ask an immigrant what his name was. It was already right there on the ship's passenger list and on the immigrants tag. One name was changed at Ellis Island. A woman was

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Few Board of Special Inquiry hearing records survived. There are 18 rolls of microfilm for Philadelphia, 1893- 1909. You can look through this collection and get an idea of what hearings consisted of.

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While indexing the nine reels of LDS microfilms for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Boston Arrival Card Database I came across a number of unusual and interesting examples. This is the only one for a stowawa

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This is a record for a stowaway, arriving in Boston in 1915. He was aided by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in a Special Inquiry case, as Yale Zussman decribes. HEBREW SHELTERING and IMMIGRANT AID S

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Alan: I see Byten as part of this database. Is this what you are looking for? https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor/ David Rosen Boston, MA

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You cannot see a list of all the entries in a database and scroll through it. You can search for a name or a place or other (depends on the content of the database) using: (1) The Unified Search. This

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The answer is Yes. "Seeking Kin" or similarly named ads were placed in Jewish newspapers by social service organizations including the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Union of Russian Jews, the Nati

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A name that is lined out either (1) was not on board the ship at all or (2) is on another page of the manifest. I have seen where a family does not get to the ship on time, or a family member is too s

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I can't find these entries on the original Montezuma manifest, arriving New Brunswick, Canada on Mar 23, 1906. The handwriting on your list does not resemble anything on the original and must have bee

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Dov is a common Hebrew name. Named for the bear. See: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/GivenNames/slide21.html David Rosen Boston, MA

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Looks to me to be Sana followed by the title HaCohen, then YALEN. The symbol of the open hands giving the priestly blessing is for a descendant of the Cohens the tribe of priests from ancient Israel.

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The FEUERLICHT family can be found on the JewishGen USA Database by searching the surname and using the Fuzzy Match option. Thanks to the work of Dr. Howard Relles and a group of dedicated volunteers

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The records for the Hebrew National Orphan Home are at the American Jewish Historical Society / Center for Jewish History in NYC. David Rosen Boston, MA

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