I believe that the town of residence is Chabowka Poland which is about 35 miles south of his birth city of Krakow Paul Chirlin

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This website: www.chicagogenealogy.com/find-chicago-naturalization-records.html reports "Get Circuit, County, Criminal, and Superior court naturalization records from the Circuit Court Archives by mai

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The number listed for Spouse 760952439, is not a SSN. Per the SSec website ssa.gov/employer/stateweb.htm where you can look up the place where a SSN was issued by its first three numbers 750-772 Not I

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Ifyou use google scholar and set the date range to end at 1900 then use your search term "terminal dementia" you will get several hits. The best description is in this article which reports on a patie

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What is the difference between a bold town and a not bold town? Could you explain the criteria for adding a new town? Paul Chirlin

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Thank you for this "how to". I would hope that JewishGen will see how often this issue of how to use the file notation arises as an indication that it would be very helpful for step by step instructio

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Thank you. That makes sense. Now I understand that to find Chazen in case 25 I need to examine the 319 pages in that case. I am willing to do that. However, it would be helpful if I knew which column

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On the Ukrainian archive material recently discussed I worked my way to the Berdychev 1897 census page https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B8/%D0%94%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%9E/384/

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I found this comment in a 1868 Lithuanian military revision list "for this family in 1844 recruited DREYSHPUL Iosel son of Girsh" and similar entries. I have found information that the conscription wa

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In researching a tree I found the JewishGen record for Sheva [Sylvia] and Srul Yisroel [Isadore] Shnayder [ Snyder] listed as twins born on 5/3/1891 or 7 Adar 2 In Kishinev. Using a date converter, th

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I'd look at the rest of the document not shown in the snip provided. The mystery is the final letter. I'd hope that same typewriter key was needed elsewhere on the document and can be deduced from con

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There is a fairly well documented tree with Israel Noah Halper[in] https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/158391132/person/342079124950/facts?_phsrc=FPl2925&_phstart=successSource Paul

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Do all descendants of your great-grandfather all have similar Jewish DNA markers? If they are only seen in one of his children's line it suggests differing parentage. Is your father not DNA related to

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Perhaps his father's formal Hebrew name was Abraham but he used Meier as his given name for example Abraham Meier Cohen. As an aside I do not like the term "non-observant Jew" This man was religious e

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I also think that the "feather" is a leaf, an oak likely. If you look at the original image on findagrave memorial 140651431 and view the enlarge image in color, there are many acorns and other oak le

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Minor correction. On the 1940 census WD is used for widowed not just W. The top of the column shows the options available. Of course the individual enumerator may not always follow directions.

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The enumerator first wrote M for married, then struck it and wrote WD for widow. Look at the name 2 above where exactly the same thing happened. The W is easier to see on that one but provides an exam

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The index card is a duplicate of the information on the manifest https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1075/m1464_368-0714?pid=5987201&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26db

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You may have a problem with who is chosen as the preferred spouse in a marriage where one or both persons had multiple spouses. The program defaults to the one entered first I believe. It can be chang

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