Jewish Genealogy Society of NE Florida€¦ · 11.12.2019 · Why use the Steve Morse Site? Tools...
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Jewish Genealogy Society of NE Florida
Bernie GrossmanMarla WestbergDecember 11th, 2019
Ellis Island etc. How to research our family’s immigration
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Agenda: December 11, 2019
❖ Introductions (first timers) ❖ Society Business❖ Presentations
❖ How to research Ellis Island (and other) records❖ Adjourn
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Society Business❖ Happy anniversary to us! We started this group 2
years ago.
❖ Have you paid your dues?
❖ $10 per person or $15 for a family
❖ Email sent with program ideas. Please give us your feedback and ideas for future meetings.
❖ IAJGS 2020 meeting August 9-14th San Diego
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Ellis Island - a little history❖ The governors of New Amsterdam bought it in 1630 and
named it Little Oyster Island (after the seafood they harvested there)
❖ In 1667 it was bought by Dutch colonist Isaac Bedloe
❖ Samuel Ellis, a merchant, bought it during the American revolution.
❖ In 1808, still owned by the Ellis family, the federal government bought it for $10,000 and it became a fort.
❖ After the war of 1812, it was used for munitions storage, until 1890
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Ellis Island - a little history cont.❖ The Statue of Liberty arrived in 1885
❖ The House committee on immigration thought Ellis Island could help with problems faced at Castle Island
❖ At Castle Island, prospective new citizens slept on the floor, went hungry and were swindled by con artists
❖ In 1892, after spending $500,000, the first immigrant entered at Ellis Island (a 15-year-old girl from Ireland)
❖ In 1956 Bedloe’s Island was renamed Liberty Island
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Ellis Island Jewish History
❖ The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) was formed in 1902 by former Russian immigrants
❖ HIAS reps served as mediators and interpreters
❖ They found new immigrants housing
❖ They fed them until relatives showed up
❖ They searched for relatives and friends who didn’t show up
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Do Your Homework❖ Before researching records, gather information
❖ Many people had similar names
❖ Your relatives probably had a slightly different name than what you heard
❖ Who are you looking for?
❖ When did they come? Do you have a date range?
❖ Who came together?
❖ Where did they come from?
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Looking for Records
❖www.stevemorse.org
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Why use the Steve Morse Site?❖ Tools for researching immigration records, census
records and more
❖ Many more search options make it more likely that you’ll find someone
❖ Front ends to various websites in one place
❖ Ellis Island, Castle Garden, Baltimore, Boston, Galveston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Canada, Hamburg
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Why use the Steve Morse Site?
We’ll use the Gold Form
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Searching Ellis Island Gold Form
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Create Ellis Island Account
❖ Searching Ellis Island records is free
❖ But you need to create an account
❖ You can do that right at the bottom of the Gold Form
❖ If you have an account, enter your User name and Password
❖ Check box to remember and not enter each time
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Flexible Search Criteria
❖ Searching Ellis Island records is free
❖ But you need to create an account
❖ You can do that right at the bottom of the Gold Form
❖ If you have an account, enter your User name and Password
❖ Check box to remember and not enter each time
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Example: Easy to Find
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View the Manifest
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Manifest Viewing Tips❖ If the icon is still spinning, click a small image on the right
❖ Look at the page before and the page after to see the entire record
❖ Click “Full Image” to see a larger image
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My grandfather, with his mother and brother❖ Look at every column
❖ Last permanent residence
❖ Name of nearest relative or friend in country where alien came
❖ Final destination
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Look for the 2nd page!❖ Look for the correct line number for more info
❖ Whether going to join a friend or relative - with the address
❖ Place of birth
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Tips for Search Criteria❖ When you have a common name, try to narrow down search results
❖ Naturalization Records often have date of entry, port of entry and name of Ship
❖ Ship name is usually correct
❖ Date may be inaccurate, but close
❖ Census records often had year of entry to US or how many years in US
❖ Not always accurate, but can narrow it down a bit
❖ Look at multiple census records for better estimates
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Finding more Clues❖ If the town name is unusual, look for everyone from
that town
❖ If the name is unusual, look for everyone with that name
❖ Use “Sounds like” for the name and/or place
❖ Once you find your relatives, look for everyone on the ship from the same place. They may have come with other relatives or friends
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A More Difficult Example
❖ My grandfather Joe Wax
❖ I knew his name was Voskoboynik
❖ Looked for Joseph Voskoboynik
❖ Couldn’t find the Ellis Island record after many tries
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A More Difficult Example❖ “Sounds like” did not bring up the record
❖ “Is phonetically” worked
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A More Difficult Example❖ The record says Jossie Voscoboinique
❖ And that he came from Romania
❖ We heard he liked to have fun with people that way! So he made things up.
❖ Age and place of birth were fictional
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A Really Tough Example
❖ My great grandfather
❖ Mendel Kirson
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A Really Tough Example❖ Naturalization record says he arrived 25 January 1909, on the vessel Lucania from
Liverpool
❖ Not all records are indexed, or indexed correctly
❖ I was not able to find the passenger record
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Back to SteveMorse.org❖ Help finding the Microfilm roll
❖ 25 January 1909, Ship Lucania
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Finding the Microfilm for the Ship❖ Help finding the Microfilm roll
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Back to SteveMorse.org❖ It returns the roll number 1189
❖ Volume 2616
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Browsing Ellis Island Records❖ FamilySearch.org..... Search…. Records
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Browsing Ellis Island Records❖ FamilySearch.org..... Search…. Records
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Browsing Ellis Island Records❖ Must sign in to view
❖ Rolls organized by date
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❖ Browsing Roll 1189
❖ 887 images - Yikes!
Browsing Ellis Island Records
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❖ It takes a lot of digging and zooming in
❖ Look beyond the name
❖ This says friend or relative is brother-in-law Abram Dubroff 1710 Fulton St
❖ Abe Dubroff was the husband of Mendel’s sister, his brother-in-law
Browsing Ellis Island Records
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❖ Going back one image, the name is Leib Batlanow
❖ My great-grandfather used a different name
❖ Probably had papers belonging to someone else
❖ This is the reason I couldn’t find his record
Browsing Ellis Island Records
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❖ Searching for my grandfather Isadore Grossman who arrived in 1912 from Berezin (Berezino) Russia (Belarus)
Searching Ellis Island Records for Isadore Grossman
❖ 451 records found
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❖ Searching for my father Rubin Grossman who arrived at age 17 in 1927 from Berezin (Berezino) Russia (Belarus) traveling with his sister Sara (16 years)
❖ Searched ship records on Ancestry
Searching Ellis Island Records for Rubin Grossman
❖ Needed to search through entire file to find main entry
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❖ Initial search didn’t seem to pan out
❖ Several years later redid the search and looked more carefully at alternate spellings
Searching Ellis Island Records for Ruben Grossman
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Questions?
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Upcoming Meetings
❖ January 15th
❖ February 12th
❖ Special Guest speaker Cindy Potter Taylor, President of the JGS of Palm Beach County
❖ March 18th
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One more thing ….Happy Chanukah!