Jewish Data Times Issue 7 February 16, 2004

Jewish Data Times- Focused on records and images posted atwww.jewishdata.com Issue number 7- February 16, 2004 1. New documents from Boston, MA posted. 2. New Leonard L. Rosenthal archive posted. 1. New Declaration of Intention Documents from Boston. A new batch of more than 1,800 new Declaration of Intention records and images from the Boston area has been posted. In the early 1900's there were two places for Boston area immigrants to apply for Citizenship, the Circuit Court, or the District Court. Previous postings were all from the Circuit Court 1906- 1910, and some of this batch are from the District Court beginning in September 1906. To mention a few of the records that stand out: Hyman Greenfeld is listed as a "clergyman", Albert Epstein is listed as a "designer", and there are several musicians, for example -Samuel Sorokin, Samuel Harris, and Max Radonsky. There are a few teenagers listed, such as Louis Orenberg- "newsboy", and Abraham Pollack- "elevator boy". The are at least several documents of the following families in this batch: Abramovitz, Alpert, Berman, Bloom, Brown, Cohen, Epstein, Feldman, Fine, Finkelstein, Fogel, Freedman, Friedland, Gilman, Ginsburg, Glassman, Glisserman, Gold, Goldberg, Golden, Goldfarb, Goldman, Goldstein, Goodman. Gordon, Green, Greenberg, Gross, Herman, Hyman, Kahan, Kaplan, Katz, Klein, Levin, Levine, Levy, Miller, Nissenbaum, Pollack, Rosenthal, Schwartz, Shapiro, Shuman, Silverman, Sugarman, Swartz, Toib, Weiner, Weinstein, Weiss, and Yaffe. 2. The Leonard L. Rosenthal archive has been posted . This collection was compiled by the late Leonard L. Rosenthal (1910- 1992). Mr. Leonard Rosenthal conducted extensive research on his family roots. There are many old photographs, some from the 1880's, which Jewish Data has indexed. Information on the following extended families from Troy- Albany NY, and Springfield MA may be found in these records: Aginsky, Coplon, Dorenbaum, Friedman, and Rosenthal. In addition to the valuable family information, these records also provide a good picture of what life was like a century ago for a middle-class Jewish immigrant family living in upstate NY. The businesses of Samuel Harris Rosenthal and his son Jacob C. Rosenthal are well documented. The preliminary index covers only the main names that appear in these records. The plan is to have these records fully searchable by clicking to the next page as one would view pages of a book, and this will be announced when it is ready. Meanwhile, much of the archive is searchable, and searches can be narrowed by entering "Rosenthal" in the "record location" field on the member's search page. Special thanks to the Rosenthal family for submitting these records to Jewish Data, with permission to make them available to the public. Until recently there was only one original of this archive, and now it can be viewed from almost anywhere in the world at the website. Individuals who would like to see their Jewish family archive posted at the website, where it can be indexed together with many thousands of other records, and made accessible to a multitude of interested people- are invited to contact Jewish Data at info@jewishdata.com