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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She actually would have been naturalized under her husband's application in 1906. If she applied again separately, I would check the indexes at https://www.italiangen.org/databases/search/?db=natural

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Early naturalization records have very little information on them. Basically, what is on the index card is pretty much it. Not to say that you shouldn't look for the actual papers. They can be rather

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My grandfather and his brothers were in real estate in NYC with many apartment buildings. The brothers employed all of their relatives as they arrived as shmirers (house painters). The relatives worke

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US newspapers have included obituaries from the 1600s. These increased as the size of newspapers grew. My experience is that obits or paid announcements of death on our immigrant relatives did not beg

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Mark Horowitz is searching for his grandfather's naturalization. No first name was provided. Apparently from the writing, he lived in Ohio. After 1927, naturalizations had to be issued in Federal Cour

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Rick posed a number of questions on Naturalizations in the US. 1. A woman marrying a naturalized citizen in 1921 would have become naturalized as a result of that marriage. This changed shortly after

She could have been naturalized under her father's naturalization. After age of 18 she could applied for citizenship herself. With law changes in the 1920s, she could not get naturalization through ma

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I think the issue is that our matches do not have trees on MyHeritage so there is no frame of reference or starting point. I don't have any matches in Relativity. When I look at the match page, there

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The Galicia in Eastern Europe was a kingdom in early 1200s well before the Inquisition and dispersal of Jews from Iberia. Per Wikipedia - The area was named after the medieval city of Halych,

All records not identified on the Municipal Archives site are still held by the Health Department: Births after 1909 Marriages certificates after 1937 Marriage Licenses after 1949 Deaths after 1948 Ma

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This presentation was about the Ukrainian Orthodox Church records held in Somerset, NJ. It was not about research in Ukrainian archives in Ukraine.

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I found 2 references to an orphanage: Hebrew Orphans Home Hebrew Orphanage and Sheltering Home (141 Lincoln Ave.) The references were found in the Rutgers Library Newark Archives Project http://nap.ru

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Phil has asked: Is there information on the record image that's not in the index? I'd love to know any or all of these facts from the image: Who made the original record? Birth location (hospital or h

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