There are several good ones. A photo book about tenement life called How The Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, World Of Our Fathers by Irving Howe, a comprehensive book about the Jewish immigrant experi

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I believe I have found my 74 year old 2xg grandfather and his 68 year old second wife living separately with different married daughters in NYC in the 1900 federal census. His status is married, while

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In our family, which lived in Also-Orlich, Austria-Hungary (pre Trianon Treaty), my grandfather Shaiya was short for Yeshaiyahu or Isaiah. On his birth record from Nyiregyhaza, he was Samu, and after

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Here is a possible reason immigrants might not have made it to America. While visiting Glasgow in 1997 I attended Rosh Hashanah services there. I was told by my host family, which had been in Scotland

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Dear H-Sig, I am searching for the source material for this record. All the other entries on the page give an LDS Film number, but a few, like these, only say Presov in that column. I have browsed the

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