Thanks to everyone for he ideas/alternative explanations. a few more details - this was isolated to the 1930 census. It was the inventory of the house my Grandparents lived in for many years and the l

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The 1930 U.S. census lists three children in my (HERSHKOWITZ) family that never actually existed. They are listed at ages 4yrs, 2 yrs and 6 months with the youngest named Dave Jr, after the head of th

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A Detroit free press article in July 1913 describes a family of a wife and three children being held at Elis Island for potential deportation back to Russia having been described as potentially indige

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