There was the Hawthorne School of the Jewish Protectory and Aid Society was formally opened yesterday in the assembly hall of the school at Hawthorne, Westchester County. The school will be used as a

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I was a long term camper: HILI at White Lake, NY in 1959 Delwood in Honesdale, PA for several summers in the 1960s USY camp at Ramah in Glen Spey, NY in 1967 Delwood was where most of my school friend

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In the 1930 census, my mother's family was recorded, but the relatives living the in semi-attached home were not. And the rest of the block was omitted as well. My mother's friends were no where to be

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Sherri, Neither had death notices in the NY Times

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The Metrical books are the original records. Any other form such as an index or an extract are derivative. At the appropriate time after the birth, the witnesses and usually the midwife went to the de

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Rebecca, The inventory of what records had been at the Kamenets Podolsk archive at the time of the fire can be found at https://www.rtrfoundation.org/results.php?townName=NOVAYA%20USHITSA&testing=0 Wh

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The history of the Jewish community of Barbados is described on the ANU website. The Sephardic population was no longer on the island as of 1929. https://dbs.anumuseum.org.il/skn/en/c6/e189275/Place/B

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Civil Registration records for Buenos Aires are not online. The info file on Jewish Gen has information on the requesting of records https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/argentina.html I had tried once

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The records of the Baron de Hirsch Fund which covers Woodbine are located at the Center for Jewish History in NY. https://archives.cjh.org//repositories/3/resources/18299# Additionally, you might cont

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Bernard, There was a program called the Industrial Removal Office that was created to encourage Jewish immigrants to move out into the country. The program provided the fare to relocate the people and

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Gary asked about the OAC-790 form received from Social Security. This form was the request for the Earnings Report within SSA. It is no longer used. Online references for the codes (which may have cha

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Jorge asked about lists of deportees during WWII. Yad Vashem holds many such lists and has been adding these names to the searchable Shoah names database. The lists that have not been indexed as yet a

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The image is available on familysearch.org. Do a records search for the name.

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If the landsmanshaften is still active, the papers would still be with the society's contact. Check with the cemetery where the society has a plot for a contact. Sometimes the contact can be very help

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The NYC Board of Health changed the length that the vital records could be held without being transferred to the archives. For death certificates, it is now 75 years. For birth records, 125 years. The

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I came across this posting from American Ancestors regarding military records for Galicia (1865-1918): https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2021/03/galician-military-records/?utm_campaign=The%20We

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Not all shtetls had an official registrar. If the town1 didn't have a registrar, it would require travel to the town2 where the official registrar for town1 was. Since this effort usually fell to the

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The oldest synagogue in NY is Congregation Shearith Israel. It is a Sephardic congregation. The Lazarus family was a prominent member of the congregation. The congregation has several cemeteries - it

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In my research, I have several instances where Markus was shortened to MAKS.

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Due to COVID, the NJ State Archives are closed to the public until further notice. The NJ Death index 1901-2017 is online at Ancestry. A Death index 1878-1900 is available online at the NJ State Archi

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