Except for the father, Leisar Rosen, I am unable to find immigration/naturalization records for the family. They came from Russia/Poland, lived in England for several years and some of the family memb

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Har Nebo and Mitchell Collier, yes Mitch you are correct. The old cemetery looks old, not decayed, but decaying. You have come across a process, not an end. You have come across the remains of Shakesp

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The Belz Bessarabian Sick Beneficial Association section at Har Nebo Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has an extraordinary limestone arch and fence to set off the section. The name of the associat

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Hi Terry, A number of indexes are available to locate these records: Ancestry.com - paid subscription required Italiangen.org - free Familysearch.org - free Reclaim the Records: free - https://www.rec

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There is a Harry and Mollie Rosen in the 1920 census living in Brooklyn if this helps. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4313494-00278?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=5a35

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Three Ditmis Avenue as now exists was built around 2012.

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Terry, Steve Morse's site https://stevemorse.org/ contains all the links you'll need to search for NYC marriages, and much more. Some links are for marriage index only, others contain some transcripte

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Henry, You can use https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html to find 3 Ditmas Ave on the Federal census. Since you say they lived at that address in the 1920's, you can try the 1920 and the 1930 cens

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For NY city marriage certificates prior to 1938 and death certificates prior to 1949, you can get a copy at a Mormon Family History Library. They have some kind of legal agreement that prevents them f

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FamilySearch.org and GermanGenealogy.org (or ItalianGen but I don't like their search) are among the most useful sites, although Ancestry is catching up. None are complete, and be aware of transcripti

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Have you searched familysearch.org And ancestry.com using phonetic options not exact?? Also, try the NYC databases on stevemorse.org. for birth, marriage, death, and naturalization indexes , passenger

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NYC Marriage Certificates are public record up to 1937 and copies can be ordered or gotten in person at the NYC Municipal Archives, 31 Chambers Street in lower Manhattan. First, you should search on s

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I would like to research some possible NY marriage certificates of family members, but am not sure where to find these certificates. Please advise as to the website/sources where they can be found. Ma

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Henry: from what you write, the person you are seeking sent packages to his cousin during WWII. The Joint Distribution Committee has a searchable database that includes the names of recipients of pack

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In the 1920’s , my grandmother received a heartfelt request by her brother in-law Shloyme Karmazin to find his half-brother Mishchune “ Chune” Rosen ( or Roisen ) and he gave an address of Mr. Rosen 3

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After 118 years, the Jewish Advocate announced they are ceasing their print publication on September 25th. The paper was founded by Theodore Hertzel in 1902. It has been published in the Greater Bosto

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I think those numbers are pretty good. 10% of Americans don't have a high school diploma or GED. Less than 40% have a bachelors degree. Less than 3% of Americans are Jewish. Ignorance of history exten

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I went to school in New Jersey in the 50's and there was very little taught about World War II and later. I guess they made the ridiculous assumption that since it was relatively recent we all knew ab

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Prof. Lipstadt hits the nail on the head when she states: "These lessons remain relevant today in order to understand not only anti-Semitism, but also all the other 'isms' of society. There is real da

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I don't agree that the example cited is a distortion in any way. Perhaps include those who thought 20 million in those who were aware of the magnitude of the disaster - but if the question is, "how ma

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