Jewish Data Times Issue 6 February 2004

Jewish Data Times- Focused on records and images posted at www.jewishdata.com Issue number 6- February 4, 2004 1. New records from Saratoga County, NY. 2. New records from Kings County, NY 3. Growth rate. 1. New Declaration of Intention filed by Jewish immigrants who lived in Saratoga County have been posted recently. There are 128 of these records and images. Most of these Jews lived in Saratoga Springs, and some lived in surrounding areas such as Eze Laizer Katzel, who is listed as a farmer living in the Town of Providence. These records include an unusual high number of Rabbis for such a small group. Perhaps several Rabbi's served the Community for brief periods. The following individuals are listed as Rabbis: Moris Sofer, Joseph Shultz, and Morris Abelson. Morris Shub Shapiro is listed as having been born in Jerusalem and employed as a teacher. To view these records enter "Saratoga County" in the Record location field at the Member's search page. Another option is to simply type "Saratoga" and then the search engine will also retrieve Cemetery records from the Saratoga Springs Jewish Cemetery. 2. The latest posting of Declaration of Intention records from Kings County were filed by Jewish immigrants during the end of 1909 and the first quarter of 1910. This batch includes 1,250 records and images. Here are some of the records that stand out. Israel Littman is listed as a "Rabbi", Samuel Feldman as a "minister", Joseph Sandelman and Israel Max Rubin are listed as "Hebrew school teacher". Bernard Greenberg- "wax figure maker", Reuben Kazimersky- "teacher of music" , Joseph Gottlieb- "sexton", Jacob Schaya Halpern- "guard", Harry Gladstein- "umbrella handle maker", Benni Posner- "human hair dealer", Lazer Goldstein- "fish peddler", and Harry Rosenblum- "herring dealer". Some of the immigrants could not sign their names in English, so they signed in Hebrew instead, as can be seen in the Declaration documents of Morris Zeiman and Morris David Felt. To view these records enter "Kings County" in the Record location field at the Member's search page. 3. New records are posted at the website at the average rate of between 100-200 records every day of the week.