Jewish Data Times Issue 5 January 2004

Jewish Data Times- Focused on records and images posted at
www.jewishdata.com

Issue number 5- January 13, 2004

1. New records from Kings County, NY
2. New records from a large Montreal Jewish Cemetery
3. New records from the Jewish World, Albany NY
4. New records from U.S. Circuit Court District of MA, Suffolk County.

1. New Declaration of Intention Document records and images from Kings County have been added recently, and this brings the total so far to more than 4,000 records and images from 1906-1910. The Jewish immigrants list their occupation in the documents along with their detailed personal information. Here are some of the interesting occupations: Israel Haft, Abraham Gold, and Michael Kreisel are listed as "Hebrew teacher". Zemel Sherman is listed as "Rabbi", Schulim Greenspan as "Clergyman", Hirsh Leib Levy and Berl Reiter are listed as "Minister".

The most common occupation of these Jewish immigrants during this time period was "tailor", but there are many others such as carpenter, painter, builder, plumber, machinist, and so many more. Following are some of the records that stand out: Benjamin Posner- "instrument maker", Morris Atlas- "Flower maker", Philip Feigenbaum- "egg Candler", Max Cohen- "nickel plater", Morris Alterman- "wagon builder", Solomon Rosenthal- "badge maker", Heyman Solomon Sacks- "waist cutter", Maer Slutsky- “very stable”, Israel Horowitz- "soda water maker", Harry Israel- 'brewer", Abraham Rabinovitz- "messenger", Simon Appel- "gold chaser", Harry Levy- "signalman", Hyman Silberman- "operator on waists", Abe Geller- "harness maker", Harry Silberman- "suspender maker", Jules Levy- "gun powder agent". Samuel Goldfarb- "teacher of languages", Nathan Kreps- "wood turner", Louis Becker- "truckman".

There are at least five documents of these families: Abramovitz, Abrahamson, Altman, Berger, Berkowitz, Berman, Bernstein, Block, Cohen, Epstein, Finkelstein, Frankel, Friedman, Goldberg, Goldstein, Goodman, Gordon, Greenberg, Gross, Grossman, Halpern, Hoffman, Jacobson, Kaplan, Katz, Katsman, Kaufman, Klein, Kramer, Levin, Levine, Levy, Marcus, Margolis, Mauer, Miller, Moskowitz, Rabinovitz, Rosen, Rosenberg, Rosenthal, Rubin, Sacks, Schneider, Schulman, Schwartz, Shapiro, Siegel, Silberman, Silverman, Simon, Slutsky, Smith, Stein, Weinberg, Weinstein, Weiss, and Wolf. To limit your search to these records, enter “Kings County” in the location field on the member’s search page.

2. There are a number of large Jewish Cemeteries in Montreal, and so far portions have been photographed and indexed. The newest records are from a significant portion of the Baron De Hirsch Cemetery, on Savane St.

To date, more than 20,000 records and images are posted. The oldest tombstone is that of a young woman named Hilda Joseph who died in 1828. The oldest monuments are located at the Shearit Israel- Spanish and Portuguese Jews Cemetery.

Here are some of the early Montreal families (before 1900) of which there are at least several tombstones: Albert, Aronson, Ascher, Benjamin, Bercovich, Blumenthal, Brodsky, David, De Sola, Friedman, Goldberg, Goldstein, Hart, Hyman, Isaacs, Jacobs, Joseph, Kellert, Lazarus, Levine, Levy, Michaels, Morris, Moss, Rothschild, Saxe, Silverman, Silverstone, Vineberg, Workman and Youngheart. To limit your search to these records, enter “Montreal” in the location field on the member’s search page.


3. New records have been posted from the Albany NY- Jewish World weekly newspaper. These records are images of Births, Bar Mitzvahs, Weddings, Anniversaries, and obituaries from 1979- 1980. So far more than 3,000 records and images from the Jewish World have been posted. To limit your search to these records, enter “Jewish World” in the location field on the member’s search page.


4. Another 1,000 Declaration of Intention Document records and images have been posted from the U.S. Circuit Court District of MA, Suffolk County. So far more than 4,000 of these records between 1906- 1910 have been posted. For more details on these records, see Issue 4. To limit your search to these records, enter “Circuit Court” in the location field on the member’s search page.