tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19740693311948781272024-03-15T20:09:46.019-05:00TransylvanianDutchConcerning personal genealogy and family history researchJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16874952946606709532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1744125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974069331194878127.post-26692544294743349332024-03-04T00:30:00.044-06:002024-03-04T00:30:00.198-06:00Amanuensis Monday: Biography of Martin Deutsch - 1963<p><b style="font-size: 15.73px;">Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. </b></p><div><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>After a long hiatus, I continue my </i><i><a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2010/05/amanuensis-why.html" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;">project</a> to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below I transcribe an article found at <a href="http://Newspapers.com">Newspapers.com</a> providing a nice biography of my maternal grandfather, late in his career.</span></p></div><hr width="50%" /><br /><div><br /></div><div>
<blockquote data-embed-url="https://www.newspapers.com/embed/141730311/" id="newscom-article-:r1:"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"> <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-crane-chronicle-martin-deutsch-bio/141730311/">Martin Deutsch, bio</a> </p> Article from Apr 18, 1963 The Crane Chronicle (Crane, Missouri) <!--- <img src="https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?clippingId=141730311&width=700&height=511" style="display:none">--> </blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://www.newspapers.com/nextstatic/embed.js"></script>
Meanwhile, for the local postal dedication, the Postmaster announced that the principal speaker will be Mr. Martin J Deutsch, Director, Engineering and Facilities Division. St Louis Regional Office. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Deutsch was raised in Chicago where he attended the public schools, including a technical High School and Junior College. He received a LLB from DePaul University and is a member of the Illinois Bar. He has been with the Postal Service during his entire adult life, starting out as a postal clerk in the Chicago Post Office in 1925. He was a Postal Inspector (St. Louis Division) for about 25 years, specializing in buildings and facilities in Missouri, Iowa, and Arkansas. Subsequently, he was re-assigned as Real Estate Officer in the St. Louis Region. He has occupied his present position as Director Engineering and Facilities Division, St Louis Region, since establishment of the office in late 1962. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mr. Deutsch served in Africa and the Caribbean Area with the Air Transport Command during World War II. He has two married daughters _______, Pt Washington, New York, and _______ Lincoln, Nebraska.</div><div>
<hr width="50%" /><b>Notes</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>1) I continue my practice of leaving out the names of living relatives. However I will note that in both instances the individuals were residing in locations they were only in briefly, so it was a well-timed newspaper article.</div><div><br /></div><div>2) I am fascinated by the detail the newspaper article went into the career and family of my grandfather when he was simply a speaker at a building dedication.</div><div><br /></div><div>3) This does suggest he maintained his membership with the Illinois Bar Association even though he never practiced as a lawyer.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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Family lore:
</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Morris Blatt (Moshe son of Jacob) and Belle Wyman were married in Łosice, Poland. </li><li>They had two daughters: Blanche and Annie. </li><li>Belle died of a bee sting in Poland, but likely after Morris and Belle had separated/divorced. </li><li>Morris, Blanche, and Annie immigrated to America (St. Louis, Missouri). </li><li>Morris married Mollie Kellner in St. Louis, and they had two more children. </li><li>Blanche married Joe Wyman, and there were family jokes about whether she married a cousin.</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Earlier Research</b>:
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Early in my research, I received well-cited research done by a cousin stating a Moshe (son of Yankiel) Blatyta married Chaia Beila Boksern in Losice. Yankiel is a common nickname for Jacob. When I uncovered the actual marriage record, it confirmed that this was the first marriage for both individuals.
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How could Chaia Beila’s daughters be confused about their mother’s maiden name to the point that a family joke developed? Perhaps there were Wymans in her family tree, but there seemed to be some certainty that Belle was a Wyman herself. Could there be two Moshe sons of Jacob? We did not have birth records for Blanche or Anna. The records for their years of assumed birth do not appear to have survived. Even for years that records survived, the records are likely not complete.
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Morris arrived in America in September 1889. In 1900 he, Blanche, Anna, his second wife, and their one son, are all living in St. Louis. (Morris and Mollie’s second child, a daughter, would be born in 1903.) Additional records uncovered there was a son of Morris and Molile who died as an infant in the intervening years.
</p><p>Of course, there's an 11-year gap between 1889 and 1900. The missing 1890 census rears its ugly head.</p><p><b>Recent Research:</b></p><p>
Recently I uncovered the immigration records for Blanche and Annie – in 1899. Ten years after their father. They were traveling under the Hebrew names of Breine and Chana, with Esther Winterman and her children, Yankel (Jacob), Abram, and Masche (Mary).</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5bhxO8CwFXNlouiTHFI5tm4-8-qDlyLWKox-96c1Erm_yp-dKaXgzlVFF3Dvll-9H5sNqN_SyO28qsUSfBp_eSlXegmUbTK-JS44axKuhSgc50mQdZGdIFloSiYK_zLEL-G95arKEaBZuurAcwRXBP98MWpodMnezI_8Z9cJ7ez7QsjKtwOAjVva-8fQr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="376" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5bhxO8CwFXNlouiTHFI5tm4-8-qDlyLWKox-96c1Erm_yp-dKaXgzlVFF3Dvll-9H5sNqN_SyO28qsUSfBp_eSlXegmUbTK-JS44axKuhSgc50mQdZGdIFloSiYK_zLEL-G95arKEaBZuurAcwRXBP98MWpodMnezI_8Z9cJ7ez7QsjKtwOAjVva-8fQr=w400-h337" width="400" /></a></div><br />The manifest records them all as meeting a B. Winterman in St. Louis, with him identified as Esther’s husband, and the father of both the Winterman and Blatt children. In 1900 Esther and her children are living in St. Louis with Henry/Harry Winterman. (Confusion of first names isn’t impossible. Multiple names are common.)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hOWOyibCI25lyJ3OrsM4knxvza-abBjJkBcq1r_DCd3N7PhW7HR1ng5uBerjjEipabgN9dadC5qRoSaOx_v1oUDVLdPGLQTPvDN05_qt0r-TdBCcfwWgVooYy32CG8F9kK0_Zz7iuK53uTXfEnMcZmJM6ZH871pTbZxo-cndvk_glRfiyC1aD7DMbb24/s859/ManifestClipping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="102" data-original-width="859" height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_hOWOyibCI25lyJ3OrsM4knxvza-abBjJkBcq1r_DCd3N7PhW7HR1ng5uBerjjEipabgN9dadC5qRoSaOx_v1oUDVLdPGLQTPvDN05_qt0r-TdBCcfwWgVooYy32CG8F9kK0_Zz7iuK53uTXfEnMcZmJM6ZH871pTbZxo-cndvk_glRfiyC1aD7DMbb24/w640-h77/ManifestClipping.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>We were familiar with the Winterman family. We knew them as some sort of Wyman cousins. We hadn’t yet identified how.</p><p>
It’s possible if Morris and Belle really did separate as family lore suggests, the children remained with the mother. After Chaiia Bella died, it appears Blanche and Annie were raised by the Wintermans. So they could easily have viewed Esther as sort of a mother figure, even if they knew it wasn’t biological. </p><p>According to her death certificate, Esther’s maiden name was Wyman. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjnH15s1z3Jnli4gXvK1G5B1Ji0pZZOw9zDSSwjgP0rNeh-JJpdYtvXXoGqX3jgfBm-dfB2BZyf9nRqbczcp157qyz326S6PX6r0vxalgxB9r7AHBnX-YCCThtFLVzsVw2ATGWuaoLsdiVaoDrjCaMXHg7iQnDLvOBdBgIJ_Ot63aIUJLTSuLzY9q6BYWJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="454" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjnH15s1z3Jnli4gXvK1G5B1Ji0pZZOw9zDSSwjgP0rNeh-JJpdYtvXXoGqX3jgfBm-dfB2BZyf9nRqbczcp157qyz326S6PX6r0vxalgxB9r7AHBnX-YCCThtFLVzsVw2ATGWuaoLsdiVaoDrjCaMXHg7iQnDLvOBdBgIJ_Ot63aIUJLTSuLzY9q6BYWJ=w400-h85" width="400" /></a></div><br />With the assistance of the cousin I mentioned in the first paragraph, we have uncovered Esther Wajman’s birth record in Polish archives, along with the birth records for two of her three children on the manifest. <p></p><p>
It isn’t difficult to hypothesize confusion – not on the maiden name of their mother – but a confusion of details between biological and adoptive mothers.</p><p>
I still need to figure out how Esther Wyman Winterman and Chaia Beila Boksern Blatyta were related, if they were. But absent birth records for Blanche and Annie, I am more confident Chaia Beila was their mother. We may never be able to find those records, so we need to do the best we can with the records that have survived.
</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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The dates for all events in Poland are based on when anniversaries were observed, or dates recorded on later records.</div><div><i><u><b><br /></b></u></i></div><div><i><u><b>Timeline for my 2nd great grandfather, Samuel Joseph Newmark</b></u></i></div><ul></ul></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>1862 - Samuel Joseph Newmark was born to Israel David & Leah in Warka, Poland </li><li>Dec 17, 1880 - married Rose Cantkert </li><li>Sept 15, 1882 - Son, Solomon born in Warka </li><li>March 25, 1886 - Son, Barney born in Warka </li><li>Dec 25, 1886 - Daughter, Nellie, born in Warka </li><li>March 4, 1890 - Daughter, Bella, born in Warka </li><li>Aug 16, 1892 - Son, Meier/Max, born in Warka </li><li>1893 - Family immigrates to London, England </li><li>October 1893 -- Nellie and Bella enroll at Westminster Jews Free School in London. (Boys records did not survive)</li><li>Nov 27, 1894 - Daughter, Kate, born in London </li><li>Aug 16, 1896 - Daughter, Cecile, born in London </li><li>August 1898 - Nellie and Bella leave Westminster Jews Free School (Reasons given: Required at Home/Work) </li><li>Aug 31, 1902 - Son, Solomon, marries Sarah Nathan at the Great Synagogue in London</li><li>Apr 3, 1903 - Son Israel David born in London </li><li>Nov 30, 1903 - According to a passenger manifest, Samuel may have traveled to the US. </li><li>March 9, 1904 - Granddaughter, Minnie Bertha, born to Sol and Sarah in London</li><li>March 21, 1905 - Grandson, Israel David, born to Sol and Sarah in London</li><li>Aug 27, 1906 - Grandson Moses (Maurice) born to Sol and Sarah in London</li><li>May 11, 1907 - With son, Barney, visited North America. Landed in Quebec. Crossed the border to the US in July. Returned to London.</li><li>Oct 14, 1908 - With sons, Sol & Barney, arrived in the US</li><li>March 21, 1909 - Rose and the remaining children and grandchildren arrive in the US.</li><li>April 19, 1909 - Granddaughter Esther born to Sol and Sarah (dies as an infant)</li><li>Jan 30, 1910 - Daughters Nellie and Bella marry Morris Fudemberg and Charles Cohen in a double wedding in St. Louis</li><li>Feb 7, 1911 - Granddaughter Bess born to Bella and Charles Cohen</li><li>Aug 27, 1911 - Son, Barney, marries Bertha Cruvant</li><li>April 27, 1912 - Granddaughter Sylvia born to Nellie and Morris Fudemberg</li><li>Aug 27, 1912 - Grandson, Melvin, born to Barney and Bertha</li><li>Feb 6, 1913 - Daughter Kate marries Phillip Jacobs in St. Louis, MO</li><li>Feb 7, 1913 - Son, Max, marries Dora Neustetter in Chicago, IL</li><li>Dec 16, 1913 - Daughter Natalie born to Kate and Philip Jacobs in Chicago</li><li>About 1914 - Daughter Cecile marries Hyman Gold in St. Louis</li><li>April 14, 1914 - Grandson Adolph Abraham (Andy) born to Bella and Charles Cohen</li><li>June 27, 1914 - Grandson Nelson born to Max and Dora Newmark</li><li>Dec 23, 1914 - Granddaughter Nellie, born to Sol and Sarah</li><li>Sept 26, 1915 - Granddaughter Bernice, born to Cecile and Hyman Gold in St. Louis</li><li>Dec 17, 1915 - Grandson Harold Carl, born to Nellie and Morris Fudemberg</li><li>July 27, 1916 - Grandson Harold Irving David born to Kate and Philip Jacobs in Chicago</li><li>April 6, 1918 - Grandson Harold born to Max and Dora Newmark</li><li>Oct 11, 1918 - Grandson Paul William born to Nellie and Morris Fudemberg</li><li>Feb 24, 1923 - Granddaughter Minnie Bertha dies.</li><li>Feb 27, 1923 - Grandson Irving born to Nellie and Morris Fudemberg</li><li>July 13, 1923 - Granddaughter Bernice born to Bella and Charles Cohen</li><li>Jan 1927 - Son Israel David marries Clara Rubin </li><li>Sept 25, 1928 - Grandson Victor born to Cecilie and Hyman Gold, in East St. Louis, IL</li><li>Dec 9, 1928 - Grandson Philip born to Israel David and Clara</li><li>Jan 31, 1931 - Son, Max, died. (Shot by burglar) </li><li>March 28, 1932 - Grandson, Mark, born to Israel David and Clara</li><li>Dec 4, 1934 - Son, Sol, died. </li><li>1936 - Grandson, Melvin, marries Belle Feinstein</li><li>1938 - Great Grandson, ___, born to Melvin and Belle </li><li>July 20, 1940 - Samuel Joseph died. </li></ul><div><b><u>Notes</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div>1) Samuel Joseph and his wife, Rose, were my only 2nd great-grandparents to live to see a great-grandchild. (I tend to leave out names and dates for living kin.)</div><div><br /></div><div>2) February 6th and 7th 1913 was a Thursday and a Friday. Did Sam and Rose manage to attend both of their kids' weddings, one in St. Louis, and one in Chicago, one day apart? What about the siblings? It's a six-hour drive, and there were trains, so it's not impossible. Couldn't the couples have arranged that better for the family?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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Chloe Cooley was a young black woman held as a slave in Fort Erie and Queenston, Upper Canada in the late 1700s, as the area was being settled by Loyalists from the United States. Her owner forced her into a boat to sell her in 1793 across the Niagara River in the United States.
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This incident was observed by several witnesses, who petitioned the Executive Council of Upper Canada. Although charges were dropped against Cooley's owner, the incident is believed to have led to passage of the Act Against Slavery, 1793, in Upper Canada. It prevented slaves from being imported into the province and provided for gradual abolition of slavery within a generation among those held there. </i></blockquote><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Who was the Loyalist owner? Adam Vrooman. (Some sources give his name as William)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Cooley">Source</a> (Wikipedia entry)</p><p>About 1784 Adam Vrooman and my ancestor, McGregory Van Every likely shared a lot. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshx4DcrKdl8pd4lUlleOK51uBazhRMhoM9b4_p_P57eCz1MSSF6arJ0oZPCrFLPzpDqYlLuBpObezp5HWEDGPLE6q6Q27GwdHn7MWh0PLjXfU11wxSQpBFOzb23o1kifJxLZ6NendcQMuPLylq8osXSUyUNSxF44VpyfHKeomL2O9M50rXdN1PEz6qA/s693/1784.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="693" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshx4DcrKdl8pd4lUlleOK51uBazhRMhoM9b4_p_P57eCz1MSSF6arJ0oZPCrFLPzpDqYlLuBpObezp5HWEDGPLE6q6Q27GwdHn7MWh0PLjXfU11wxSQpBFOzb23o1kifJxLZ6NendcQMuPLylq8osXSUyUNSxF44VpyfHKeomL2O9M50rXdN1PEz6qA/w640-h286/1784.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Source: <a href="https://www.notlmuseum.ca/research/society-publications">Niagara Historical Society</a> Publication Number 27.</p><p>Geo Vanevery is almost certainly McGregory. No known son or close kin of McGregory was named George. McGregory is listed as one of the original 1782 settlers in the First Census of Niagara, 25th of August, 1782. </p><p>In that census there was one male slave, belonging to Thomas McMicken. That slave had been incorrectly assigned to McGregory by some researchers, which I clarified in <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2012/10/following-citations.html">Following the Citations</a> in 2012. Vrooman isn’t in the original census, so he arrived between 1782 and 1784. </p><p><b>Why would Adam Vrooman and McGregory Vanevery share a lot?</b></p><p>Good question. I have a couple possible answers. </p><p>1) They were cousins. Or at least the families were close.</p><p>Looking at my family tree, it suggested a Sara Meyndertse married a Jacob Vrooman in the early 1700s. There was no specific date, and no source. It's continually frustrating that I wasn't very good at citing sources in early research. </p><p>Sara appears to be the great-granddaughter of Myndert Fredericksen. McGregory was the great-grandson of Myndert, so second cousins with Sara. His children would have been third cousins with any children of Sara and Jacob.</p><p><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vrooman-128">Wikitree </a>says Adam’s parents were Jacob Vrooman and Rachel Van Woert. And that Jacob and Rachel were married in 1743. </p><p><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Iveren-20">Wikitree </a>has no definite spouse of Sara Meyndertse, but questions whether she married Jacob Vrooman. If you look at the entry, you will see I added her entry in 2011. Since then someone has questioned her spouse. Did I make a mistake? </p><p><a href="https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/2H61-MB2/sara-van-iveren-1709">FamilySearch agrees with me</a>, as does Ancestry, and they both cite New York Marriages, 1686-1980 for a 1742 marriage. So I have now added that as a source. </p><p>So there is a possibility there was a brief marriage between Sara and Jacob Vrooman, and that Jacob's children, including Adam, were not actually DNA cousins with my ancestors, though the families may have remained close. There is also a possibility there were two Adam Vroomans, marrying separate women.</p><p>2) There are also suggestions that Abigail VanEvery, daughter of McGregory married either a Peter Vrooman or an Isaac Vrooman. There are also suggestions that this Vrooman spouse died in 1782 in New York. I am not certain what Abigail and a possible child did at that time, but joining her father in Niagara is certainly a possibility. Possibly along with some Vrooman kin. </p><p><b>Back to the events of 1793. </b></p><p>There was growing sentiment in Canada to free slaves, and owners were deciding to sell before being forced to free. Vrooman arranged a sale across the Niagara River in New York. Cooley fought back. </p><p></p><blockquote><i>Vrooman beat Cooley, tied her up and forced her into a small boat, aided by two other men. </i>(Wikipedia entry above)</blockquote><b>
Who were the two other men? </b><p></p><p>Adam’s brother, Isaac, and one of the sons of McGregory Van Every. (<a href="Source: Canadian Encyclopedia ">Canadian Encyclopedia</a>)</p><p>[Another Isaac]</p><p>Which son of McGregory? Every source I can find refers to the third individual in the same format. I suspect there is no document that specifically identifies him</p><p>Records suggest, when Adam arrived in Niagara, he had another slave named Tom. Even if Adam was the owner, if the lot was a partnership with my ancestor, and they had familial ties, my ancestor likely directly benefitted, and likely approved. McGregory died in 1786, but at least one of his sons was close enough with Adam Vrooman ten years later to provide his assistance in what Canadians call the Chloe Cooley Incident. </p><p>Chloe Cooley <a href="https://niagaranow.com/featured.phtml/exploring-photos-chloe-cooley-takes-spotlight/">received a postage stamp</a> earlier this year. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8VW94TKkMGt709DZA_h9CoqfNkm3PoQVgpZKiQnOE7HFQT0UEDof3W-uV4CVe5BExTGkAicopgVf26Foyxxw6rkD9l_v8bE1Ng2ZOjU8sQRFTWPFYAw9dmyq_QsZQiaYYWgioh04F17mAdA8DpllU4hMT1HTvDbDODeW7d7ozfqR5idD3UrZHPiRkw/s1494/Chloe-stamp-scaled.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1494" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8VW94TKkMGt709DZA_h9CoqfNkm3PoQVgpZKiQnOE7HFQT0UEDof3W-uV4CVe5BExTGkAicopgVf26Foyxxw6rkD9l_v8bE1Ng2ZOjU8sQRFTWPFYAw9dmyq_QsZQiaYYWgioh04F17mAdA8DpllU4hMT1HTvDbDODeW7d7ozfqR5idD3UrZHPiRkw/s320/Chloe-stamp-scaled.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><b>Note</b>: <i>There are no known images of Cooley, so all images are artistic renderings.</i></p><p>Other resources:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href=" https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=75858">Historical Marker Database</a></li><li><a href="http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/slavery/index.aspx">Archives of Ontario</a></li><li>Recognizing the Legacy of Chloe Cooley, <a href="https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/blogs/personal/perspectives/chloe-cooley-black-history-month/">Canada Post Magazine</a>, Jan 30, 2023</li><li><a href="https://parks.canada.ca/culture/designation/personnage-person/chloe-cooley">National Program of Historical Commemoration</a></li></ul><p></p><p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cLPMlNSQjOg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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I thought I would do that again.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOiNmGjxprz2PgmoM1AM-u04QoqccEETQ6-pGT8pYvRPASSnUa-MHjPoXqW0rVuuT-4xHUb41v6JGc7uD9sNuJTVoDuMbLHfo4v9SaalyzF47YiMRRrJCI0jR9lLSSY92aiJRxhsOjv0hFdnhVRa3wEa5xQMTeJTgaaysSpQVbI1Noqa9R8Jl6wBwJLA/s612/istockphoto-470738658-612x612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="612" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOiNmGjxprz2PgmoM1AM-u04QoqccEETQ6-pGT8pYvRPASSnUa-MHjPoXqW0rVuuT-4xHUb41v6JGc7uD9sNuJTVoDuMbLHfo4v9SaalyzF47YiMRRrJCI0jR9lLSSY92aiJRxhsOjv0hFdnhVRa3wEa5xQMTeJTgaaysSpQVbI1Noqa9R8Jl6wBwJLA/s320/istockphoto-470738658-612x612.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Here are 30 databases I can use to research genealogy courtesy of my library card. For most of them I can access the database at home, though a few are in-library only. Unfortunately, I don't get to the library very often, as the location closest to me is under construction.</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A to Z Maps Online<br />2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A to Z the USA<br />3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AAS Historical Periodicals Collection<br />4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academic Search Elite [EBSCO]<br />5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Access World News<br />6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>African American History Online<br />7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>African American Newspapers: 19th Century<br />8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Ancestors <b>(In Library Only)</b><br />9.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Indian History Online<br />10.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ancestry Library Edition <b>(In Library Only) - </b>Ancestry provided remote access for the first couple years of the pandemic, but they have stopped doing so.<br />11.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Archion (vital records for Protestant churches in Germany)<br />12.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective<br />13.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>eBooks on EBSCOhost<br />14.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ethnic NewsWatch [ProQuest]<br />15.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Factiva<br />16.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>FindMyPast <b>(In Library Only)</b><br />17.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fire Insurance Maps Online (Missouri and Illinois)<br />18.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fold3<br />19.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HeritageHub (Formerly America’s Obituaries and Death Notices)<br />20.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HeritageQuest Online<br />21.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Historical New York Times (ProQuest)<br />22.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Historical Newspapers US Major Dailies (ProQuest)<br />23.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Historical St Louis Post Dispatch (ProQuest)<br />24.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>History Vault: Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War 1 & 2<br />25.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MyHeritage Library Edition<br />26.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NewsBank<br />27.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>NewspaperArchive<br />28.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newspapers.com<br />29.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nineteenth Century US Newspapers<br />30.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ProQuest Digital Microfilm (NYTimes, St. Louis Post Dispatch)</p><p>AmericanAncestors, Ancestry, FindMyPast, Fold3, MyHeritage, and Newspapers.com are all major subscription genealogy websites. Having free access to even basic/library versions is excellent.</p><p><b><u>However - the St. Louis County Library system card is not the only library card I have.</u></b></p><div>Six months ago I started employment at a local university. </div><div>So now I have access to their databases as well. Here's a selection:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academic Search Complete (1975-present)</div><div>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Adams Papers Digital Edition (Rotunda) (John Adams' papers)</div><div>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>African Americans, Communists, and the National Negro Congress (Archives Unbound)</div><div>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>African American Newspapers (ProQuest)</div><div>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>African American Newspapers: 19th Century</div><div>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Al-Ahram Digital Newspaper Archive (Egyptian newspaper)</div><div>7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society (Archives Unbound)</div><div>8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, The Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Archives Unbound)</div><div>9.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>America’s Historical Imprints</div><div>10.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Civil War: Letters and Diaries</div><div>11.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Hebrew and Hebrew Messenger 1867-1922 (New York newspaper weekly)</div><div>12.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society</div><div>13.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Israelite 1854-2000 (Cincinnati newspaper weekly)</div><div>14.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American National Biography</div><div>15.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Periodicals 1740-1940</div><div>16.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>American Religion: Denominational Newspapers</div><div>17.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ancestry Library Edition (<b>Still has Remote Access</b>)</div><div>18.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Associated Press Collections Online</div><div>19.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Atlanta Constitution 1868-1945</div><div>20.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Atlanta Daily World 1931-2000</div><div>21.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Australian Dictionary of Biography</div></div><div><br /></div><div><i><u>And that's just a selection of resources starting with the letter A!</u></i></div><div><br /></div><div>The larger someone's family database is, the more it is true:</div><div><i>you never know where someone's name will appear.</i> </div><div>The university has over 1,100 online databases.</div><div>I'm finding a lot of interesting things, even though I haven't been writing about them.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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<p><i>To view the original visit <a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com">TransylvanianDutch</a></i></p></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16874952946606709532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974069331194878127.post-16907847567196678642023-01-10T12:32:00.001-06:002023-01-10T12:32:56.588-06:00Tombstone Tuesday: Robert Lee (1895-1971) and Mabel Ada (1901-1991) Gober<p> Robert Lee Gober (1895-1971) and Mabel Ada (Fulkerson) Gober (1901-1991) were my wife's great grandparents. The photograph below was taken July 3, 2015.</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>At the age of 14, Mabel <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2012/11/amanuensis-monday-feat-of-heroism-1915.html">helped prevent a train wreck</a>. Other husbands included Lester Berry (1898-1972) and James Samuel Usrey (1876-1929)</li><li>Robert Gober was 6'4" tall. Here he is on the <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2020/05/1913-benton-basketball-team-robert-lee.html">Benton, Missouri basketball team at age 18</a>. He <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2015/07/amanuensis-monday-robert-lee-gober.html">served in the army in WWI</a>.</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebvyz9YnCtamcSh8LUorIyReBtkAIVnIHkTynGemrxDBddesHqg8ydvgyv63tUFWbaEQtbP6Wxdwnr-q9a_zXSRDXajataipL9Ssc16XwHZD95HtfzM3k9xq2YL5kxPpyeUNWPrpmXhnd1srnM-byafzU8k9OG-ysQfHK406IvzLOZT-_hCuCiR_qyA/s937/RLGoberMabelGrave.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="703" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebvyz9YnCtamcSh8LUorIyReBtkAIVnIHkTynGemrxDBddesHqg8ydvgyv63tUFWbaEQtbP6Wxdwnr-q9a_zXSRDXajataipL9Ssc16XwHZD95HtfzM3k9xq2YL5kxPpyeUNWPrpmXhnd1srnM-byafzU8k9OG-ysQfHK406IvzLOZT-_hCuCiR_qyA/w480-h640/RLGoberMabelGrave.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below I transcribe an article found at <a href="http://Newspapers.com">Newspapers.com</a> mentioning my maternal grandmother. It's very brief, but corroborates some photographs I have in my collection.</span></p></div><hr width="50%" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15.73px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">El Paso, Texas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">28 Jun 1925, Sun</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Page 13</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.73px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.73px; text-align: center;">Myrtle Van Every, formerly of El Paso and now of St Louis, is visiting her aunt Mrs. A.A.. Benold, of 908 Octavia street Last week Miss Van Every visited her sister at Fort Hancock. She will leave soon for California, stopping at the Grand Canyon. She will also go over the Canadian Rockies while she is away</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15.73px; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><hr width="50%" /></div><b>Notes</b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">1) Mrs. A. A. Benold (Minnie) was my grandmother's sister. Not her aunt. There were 16 years separating them in age. There were eight years separating my grandmother from her sister, Eva, who lived in Fort Hancock. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div>2) I have some photographs from the Grand Canyon. I do not know who her companion was.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EZuMDekeb6eutsTXOAcnaa74fgvr2q567CeG2YLDuOsprgYADZcwq1LSjk6NgOKSytz_8z6s6GJkz8ZwT_LV777KlWkZ_OcyO75i5Iepiy-h6py_f92AE8vyMSwsyVF9TenYVUs-W_3vYgQX5R3H8_Gi6oDbc_m-wzMeNqSqncLJhV7dRWZ4VsW6LQ/s622/MyrtleGrandCanyon1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="380" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EZuMDekeb6eutsTXOAcnaa74fgvr2q567CeG2YLDuOsprgYADZcwq1LSjk6NgOKSytz_8z6s6GJkz8ZwT_LV777KlWkZ_OcyO75i5Iepiy-h6py_f92AE8vyMSwsyVF9TenYVUs-W_3vYgQX5R3H8_Gi6oDbc_m-wzMeNqSqncLJhV7dRWZ4VsW6LQ/s320/MyrtleGrandCanyon1.jpg" width="195" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqerFYm_DQmETYcAcd9Z-PsoTmtBkYTNzCuzXXZuUnCM_UpszbUtAkSZqO0qd61gNTKP3R5YylOk2tJlyUkOJYLhrpgPVfqAcPcKnIPVrNhTdJMkYzJmc2VfyuYo9Tg50Ju1-AxXIEJHXXvKillMCazruOSHJsTPLvHxhC7r3ImHFzqt3m6Oj2juRC3g/s648/MyrtleGrandCanyon2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqerFYm_DQmETYcAcd9Z-PsoTmtBkYTNzCuzXXZuUnCM_UpszbUtAkSZqO0qd61gNTKP3R5YylOk2tJlyUkOJYLhrpgPVfqAcPcKnIPVrNhTdJMkYzJmc2VfyuYo9Tg50Ju1-AxXIEJHXXvKillMCazruOSHJsTPLvHxhC7r3ImHFzqt3m6Oj2juRC3g/s320/MyrtleGrandCanyon2.jpg" width="182" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3) I also have a photograph I believe is from California. While I suspected she was in Hollywood from the caption, the article confirms she went to California as part of the same trip. I don't know her companions here, either. However, I do know she had first cousins living in California, and there is a good chance these may have been them. (Her father was one of over 20 siblings. While not all lived to adulthood, she had a lot of cousins.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6oRXe0UxlHTaWzGa-cHWVruDIIAFyp1ckfmHpNzTYPvmVOKcCwN3vyrjPr553Gm_9_ZfdYkl21nlqCmAVBGk7plCQQnW67RhaXsYJ2YQAFXE7quODwzvv_lfAgihFG7iQVB-DwWDHGveHgTKHCR4zNMXX4Y2o_aO01_1sRqIYkXz-AOIu5TzkhfjSNg/s682/Myrtle%20Smoked%20Glasses.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="682" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6oRXe0UxlHTaWzGa-cHWVruDIIAFyp1ckfmHpNzTYPvmVOKcCwN3vyrjPr553Gm_9_ZfdYkl21nlqCmAVBGk7plCQQnW67RhaXsYJ2YQAFXE7quODwzvv_lfAgihFG7iQVB-DwWDHGveHgTKHCR4zNMXX4Y2o_aO01_1sRqIYkXz-AOIu5TzkhfjSNg/s320/Myrtle%20Smoked%20Glasses.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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Unfortunately, while the index survived, the actual microfilm records for the particular month in 1908 did not survive.
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So I contacted the cemetery. Only the book containing names and dates survived. The book with other information, such as parent names, did not.
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That left me contacting the County Clerk. I was trying to avoid that until I verified that the infant was a kin. There are a limited number of potential fathers with the surname in the area, but not all are related to me. And I really do not like spending money on documents for non relatives, even if it is minimal. And in this case it was $20 plus VitalChek’s processing fee, which I do not consider minimal.</p><p>
I emailed the clerk and asked if they had any other process than VitalChek for non-certified copies. I got a very kind “Not usually, but I checked to see if we had the record, and there’s not much info on it. Here’s the scan. Happy New Year!” (Not exact wording.)</p><p>
It never hurts to ask. The clerk was correct - there wasn’t much info, but it did have the birthplace for both parents. (Not their names - just the birthplaces.) If that info is correct, the infant was not related to me. Related to somebody, though, so I will save it in my files in case I ever run into a researcher for that family. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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I am not in contact with their descendants.)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>____ in the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index </b></div><div><br /></div><div><table class="table tableHorizontal tableHorizontalRuled" id="recordServiceData" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #262626; font-family: ui-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-top: 0px; width: 464.438px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Name:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><br /></td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Gender:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;">Female</td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Race:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;">White</td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Birth Date:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;">26 Nov 1915</td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Birth Place:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;">St Louis, Missouri</td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Death Date:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;">14 May 1986</td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Father:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><br /></td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Mother:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><br /></td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">SSN:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"><br /></td></tr><tr style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit;"><th style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; padding: 5px 8px 2px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; width: 176.484px;">Notes:</th><td style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;">Nov 1936: Name listed as ________; Oct 1943: Name listed as _____; : Name listed as _______; 24 Mar 1988: Name listed as _______</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div>Here is what I see on my iPhone app for the exact same record:</div><div><br /></div><div><b>U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Name:</div><div>Gender: Female</div><div>Birth Date: 26 Nov 1915</div><div>Birth Location: St. Louis, Missouri</div><div>Death Date: 14 May 1986</div><div>Father:</div><div>Mother:</div><div><br /></div><div>As you can see there are a handful of fields that are completely left off of the record on the app. </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Race</li><li>SSN</li><li>Notes</li></ul></div><div>There is absolutely no indication on the app that they have expurgated this information from the record. Some sort of warning would be nice - informing the researcher they need to use a web browser to view all available information. (Or even better, include all of the information on the app.)</div><div><br /></div><div>In this case, the Notes information is critical. This is an index, and transcription errors can occur easily. While there is no reason to call into question the death date when viewed on the app, when viewed on the browser, the Notes section clearly indicates something is fishy. Why is a change in how the name is listed recorded two years after the supposed death?</div><div><br /></div><div>The tombstone and obituary for this individual indicate that the date of death was indeed in March of 1988. I fully suspect that something did occur in May of 1986. Possibly the change in name listing that has no date in the notes. And this somehow got recorded as the death date in the indexing. However, without having the additional records to refer to, if I relied solely on the information presented on the app, I would enter the wrong information into my tree, without questioning it at all.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.</i></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15.73px;">Below I transcribe an article found in <a href="https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/newspapers/jpress">The Historical Jewish Press</a> archives at the National Library of Israel.</p></div><hr width="50%" /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15.73px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyseKW8_TyR51MWVVQzrXoKCKUHuRkMr3TCNgb07kRjRaD06SoF31SjvmYLg21B6UKE6eLxkgDYAjQ6PRxPf5YeAzqlVSkw42Tu3W0jdmgElPtZ-2OWy9xQlHjoMzggI2s6-cmuoHf_t62rayjmm6iH2GE_WoXdTVqiVsOTVWc95U7FP16O6KXyXeQBQ/s1156/JPOST-1976-10-15_01_0009.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1156" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyseKW8_TyR51MWVVQzrXoKCKUHuRkMr3TCNgb07kRjRaD06SoF31SjvmYLg21B6UKE6eLxkgDYAjQ6PRxPf5YeAzqlVSkw42Tu3W0jdmgElPtZ-2OWy9xQlHjoMzggI2s6-cmuoHf_t62rayjmm6iH2GE_WoXdTVqiVsOTVWc95U7FP16O6KXyXeQBQ/s320/JPOST-1976-10-15_01_0009.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Print Date: 29 October 2022. Source: Page 9, <i>Indiana Jewish Post & Opinion</i>, 15 October 1976 *** "Historical Jewish Press", The National Library of Israel and Tel Aviv University</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15.73px;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>Your Name</b></span></div><div>By NORBERT PEARLROTH</div><div><br /></div><div>Dear Mr. Pearlroth: I would like to know the meaning of, and whatever information you can give me on the following: KROOVAND - Father born in Lithuania. Very sincerely, William H. Kroovand.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Kroovand is a family name of geographical origin. It is derived from the name of the district of Kruwonda located near Kovno in Lithuania. Kroovand is apparently an anglicized version of the geographical name. The district contained no villages or towns. It embraced 15 landed estates belonging to 15 land owning families. Your ancestor who adopted the name in 1804 was probably an employee of one of those landowners. </b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><hr width="50%" /></div><b>Notes</b></div><div><br /></div><div>1) Norbert Pearlroth (1893-1983) was the primary researcher for <i>Ripley's Believe it or Not</i>, 1923-1975, and wrote the weekly <i>Your Name</i> column for the Jewish Post of New York, researching origins of Jewish surnames.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>2) William H. Kroovand (1915-1987) was my second cousin twice removed. His father, Clarence, was indeed born in Lithuania in 1885 according to my records. The ancestor who adopted the surname in 1804 was either my 4rh great grandfather, Me'er Kruvand, who we only know was born before 1790, or his father, whose name we do not know.</div><div><br /></div><div>3) I wondered as to Pearlroth's source for the surname adoption in 1804, as well as the information on the number of estates. Pearlroth seems to imply the 15 estates existed around the time of the surname adoption. Though this is not clear. My ancestors left in the 1880s.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The 1804 date turns out to almost certainly be based on <a href="https://avotaynuonline.com/2015/08/the-jewish-surname-process-in-the-russian-empire-and-its-effect-on-jewish-genealogy/">Czar Alexander I's Edict of 1804</a>, which</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>required all Jews living in the Pale of Settlement (the territory where Jews were permitted to live in the Russian Empire, encompassing modern Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova) to adopt permanent surnames</i>.</div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Using the spelling of the town Pearlroth uses, which appears to be a Polish spelling, I found a source for the 15 landowners: <a href="http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_IV/744?full_text&volume_id=4&page_id=3603">Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich. T. 4, Warszawa : nakł. Filipa Sulimierskiego i Władysława Walewskiego, 1880-1914</a> (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries. T. 4, Warsaw: nakł. Filip Sulimierski and Władysław Walewski, 1880-1914)</div><div><br /></div><div><u>Computer translation of 2 entries:</u></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Kruwonda, n. , the left tributary of the Łazdona, which flows into Dubissa, near her sink with the Nemunas. </i></li><li><i>Kruwondy, the area of gentry, on the riverside Kruwonda, poviat, Kaunas, parish Czekiszki, it has a wooden chapel, 15 owners, a loamy, fertile ground</i></li></ul></div><div>This may actually have been Pearlroth’s source, as bios say he knew multiple languages. If Polish was one of them, this is a likely book to be on his shelf if he’s going to write this weekly column. It's still not clear what year(s) the 15 owners references, but it seems to suggest it was true in the 1880s when my ancestors left. This adds to some <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2017/08/on-towns-of-kruvandai-and-cekiske-as.html">information I learned about the town a few years ago</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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1664 - The British annex New Netherland<div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>It is difficult to ascertain the exact date of the British annexation of New Netherland beyond “late summer, 1664,” because at that time there was a difference of ten days between the calendar used by the Dutch and that used by the English. The Netherlands had already switched from the Julian (Old Style) to the Gregorian (New Style) calendar in 1583, while the English would not do so until 1752. Thus in 1664, the Dutch settlers’ calendars were ten days ahead of the ones used by their new government. </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>With Peter Stuyvesant’s surrender, therefore, the calendar went back to Old Style in the Hudson Valley, and the dates of the previous week or two were relived for a second time by the Lutherans and everyone else who was already there. (P. 15) </i></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>1673 - The Dutch retake the colony. </div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Since the Dutch naturally retook the colony with every intention of holding on to it, the restoration of the Dutch calendar (New Style) quickly resulted. The ten days that were added in 1664 were taken away again: anyone in New Orange or Willemstadt who had a birthday during the changeover lost it in 1673. (P. 20)</i></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>1674 - Less than a year later, the Dutch lost the colony again. </div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>The days of the week were the same on both calendars, and the actual day of the changeover — October 31 (OS) November 10 (NS) was a Saturday. This made the transition easier, but it also meant, since the difference was not 14 but only 10 days, that the dates of the month which then had to be repeated fell on different days of the week than they had the first time around. Here is how the month of November was actually observed in the year 1674, as we have reconstructed the situation: (P. 21)</i></div></blockquote><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGwn949011fdhbeFol617aA-QoKiKp5CSl7bgJKsDISF1yIN800lwwOTWWcUmqFX2h6qcxgwoy39MDEkQy5WozdiSA2qNVyLQtePzR4RiiWnda43PIE71ewQbPBJHc5YAMaV_KXAnYryzzBAZ4WnusJq_0MngQcmMTvGUI09mDmSL0kJPj8fPu-mlMg/s2959/IMG_8188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2911" data-original-width="2959" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCGwn949011fdhbeFol617aA-QoKiKp5CSl7bgJKsDISF1yIN800lwwOTWWcUmqFX2h6qcxgwoy39MDEkQy5WozdiSA2qNVyLQtePzR4RiiWnda43PIE71ewQbPBJHc5YAMaV_KXAnYryzzBAZ4WnusJq_0MngQcmMTvGUI09mDmSL0kJPj8fPu-mlMg/s320/IMG_8188.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The author then explains that this was at the tail end of the Trinity season on the liturgical calendar. Apparently there are 27 readings for a potential 27 Sundays between Easter and Advent, though a 27th Sunday is rare. Unfortunately, Easter fell early in 1674, and a November with Six Sundays created a 28th Sunday before Advent. The author wonders whether the pastor preached the same sermon twice. </div><br /></div><div>Any dates for events in this time period for the Dutch colonies need to be looked at carefully to ascertain what calendar is most likely being used.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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The number of times he was stabbed in his own home varies between news articles. Somewhere between 75 and 200 times. The killer admitted to fleeing, and then returning the next day and attempting to burn the body and all the evidence.<br />
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The killer was convicted of arson and sentenced to a handful of years in jail.<br />
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He was found not guilty of murder, despite his confession.<br />
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Different newspaper accounts use different terms for his defense. One has him claiming that the victim attacked him. Another has him claiming that the victim made a pass at him. All reports indicate the victim was unarmed. Completely unarmed from his head to his feet, by most accounts. The exact details of the claim I have yet to uncover. I do know the two met in a bar, and the victim invited the killer back to his home. One would think the number of stabbings was a bit excessive if the intent was merely to escape the attack, even if that word was appropriate. (Drug use by both parties was indicated.)<br />
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The victim is/was a cousin of mine. First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, I’m not going to state. Nor am I going to state the location, beyond the United States, prior to Lawrence v Texas (2003). But in my lifetime. I am hopeful the results of the trial would have been different today. I fear there are people trying to move our country backwards to the culture that influenced these events and the outcome of the trial. <br />
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The victim had no offspring, but close kin are still living.<br />
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From an internet search, it appears the killer is also alive. The given and surname combination isn’t common.<br />
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If you believe you know the particulars of the case, please do not add any information in the comments. I don't want readers to know the particulars; they don't matter. I have intentionally phrased this so that this blog post will not come up in searches, nor will it be easy for readers to figure out the identities.<br />
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I've downloaded lots of newspaper articles that will not appear in upcoming Amanuensis posts. My cousin's death will be documented for any family members who view my research.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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[<a href="https://www.cem.va.gov/cem/history/bivouac.asp">Read the full text of the poem</a>.]<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the civil war), it was expanded after World War I to include American casualties of any war or military action. [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day">source</a>]</span></blockquote>[More on the <a href="http://www.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/">history of Memorial Day</a>]<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZu5bQgPMJ4SceL1tUPExY-c8e6JudKhS9hLMPpv0k-pER_24qXEDnasUbnBbANolFmIBq-VSJGgqE2Ct3eTn8FOK55XTRTByr1Xz1i3kzX6G9f2Nllc9n_OXaJ_ukmz0qKA94WKSXfAnj/s1600-h/onDecorationDay.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204875590754944578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZu5bQgPMJ4SceL1tUPExY-c8e6JudKhS9hLMPpv0k-pER_24qXEDnasUbnBbANolFmIBq-VSJGgqE2Ct3eTn8FOK55XTRTByr1Xz1i3kzX6G9f2Nllc9n_OXaJ_ukmz0qKA94WKSXfAnj/s320/onDecorationDay.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier</span> - by Walt Whitman (From '<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/229/">Specimen Days</a>')<br /><br />OF scenes like these, I say, who writes—whoe’er can write the story? Of many a score—aye, thousands, north and south, of unwrit heroes, unknown heroisms, incredible, impromptu, first-class desperations—who tells? No history ever—no poem sings, no music sounds, those bravest men of all—those deeds. No formal general’s report, nor book in the library, nor column in the paper, embalms the bravest, north or south, east or west. Unnamed, unknown, remain, and still remain, the bravest soldiers. Our manliest—our boys—our hardy darlings; no picture gives them. Likely, the typic one of them (standing, no doubt, for hundreds, thousands,) crawls aside to some bush-clump, or ferny tuft, on receiving his death-shot—there sheltering a little while, soaking roots, grass and soil, with red blood—the battle advances, retreats, flits from the scene, sweeps by—and there, haply with pain and suffering (yet less, far less, than is supposed,) the last lethargy winds like a serpent round him—the eyes glaze in death—none recks—perhaps the burial-squads, in truce, a week afterwards, search not the secluded spot—and there, at last, the Bravest Soldier crumbles in mother earth, unburied and unknown.<br /><br /><i>The cartoon above is by John T. McCutcheon - published circa 1900</i><br /><i><br /></i>I have many ancestors and kin who served in their nation's armed forces during war-time. I honor them on Veterans Day.<br /><br />However, the closest relative who was killed in action was my grandfather's brother, my great-uncle, Mandell Newmark.<br /><br />Mandell was born Jan 31, 1923. He was almost certainly named after his great-grandfather Mandell Mojsabovski. He enlisted in the army on Feb 22, 1943, and served as a Sgt. Technician Fifth Grade, in the 163rd infantry. He was killed in action on April 15, 1945. Less than a month prior to VE Day<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9C_o7C_r8U05s3xjGetr01p_YJToIBHc75oqIOWQNnxbO_wtb0AcA8izBuh4T_A2qTMhqI9b_s2-lsc9Vowv1x5l8hDxgZFVZOBfSb4Y5kZSEHhfkaMKEByPlSQw59yTbxxDXGA7/s1600/MandellNewmarkWithFlagReduced.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9C_o7C_r8U05s3xjGetr01p_YJToIBHc75oqIOWQNnxbO_wtb0AcA8izBuh4T_A2qTMhqI9b_s2-lsc9Vowv1x5l8hDxgZFVZOBfSb4Y5kZSEHhfkaMKEByPlSQw59yTbxxDXGA7/s640/MandellNewmarkWithFlagReduced.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>My grandfather also had a second cousin, <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2019/06/d-day-plus-75-years.html">Arnold Kruvant, who was killed in action during the D-Day invasion</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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I’ll have to wait for human indexing on most other kin. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Below is the 1950 census record for my maternal grandparents, mother, and aunt. (I have deleted the information for my mother and aunt from the image, as they are still alive.) My grandmother's sister was recorded with them. According to my mother’s recollection, she was still living primarily in Texas, and working as a teacher, but my grandmother was sick (Colon Cancer) and her sister would visit when she could. I’m guessing it was “Spring Break.” The third no in Minnie's line may be wrong. Columns 16 & 17 ask about employment during the past week. However, 18 asks, if they didn't work in the past week, do they still have a job. If my mother’s recollection is accurate, the answer should have been, "yes," and her employment as a teacher should have been recorded.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm slightly curious if she got recorded in Texas as well. It probably depends if she usually resided with someone else, like one of her children. If so, they may have mentioned her. If she usually lived alone, then her home may have just been marked "vacant." I will need to wait for Texas records to be better indexed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtGM1gCZ14mRCzdyP2nRfaDxxgkqAlKjHACDyv1o1SirrWN_791BoMNe2uH0Bv5e13onQsQ_uMc6CMw--lHJ_oltgOuvnrQrCemMWstpLR2O4xdmeLJ9wT7mSnIiY7pm-BJM3x-D9U9cewAg5ScSdPeU8Z4VMC5NfcihlPjiD3WZQM_2-cX6zvcxU3XA/s4480/1950CensusDeutschClipping.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="4480" height="86" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtGM1gCZ14mRCzdyP2nRfaDxxgkqAlKjHACDyv1o1SirrWN_791BoMNe2uH0Bv5e13onQsQ_uMc6CMw--lHJ_oltgOuvnrQrCemMWstpLR2O4xdmeLJ9wT7mSnIiY7pm-BJM3x-D9U9cewAg5ScSdPeU8Z4VMC5NfcihlPjiD3WZQM_2-cX6zvcxU3XA/w640-h86/1950CensusDeutschClipping.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>A few houses down from my grandparents - Fred and Marjorie Helmkampf. They were good friends of my grandparents, and were mentioned a lot in the letters they wrote back and forth during WW2. My grandmother died in 1951. Fred would die in 1962. In 1965 my grandfather married Marj. I was born 4 years later, and would grow up thinking of her as my grandmother.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaTgRqRa4qQngLCMSiugAJB6I2okiVHaVKq6c9DksBkHtklUHLqjP_L11spzCcREbtNKUgBSob4VPGMzf_afM9ArTAtxHn0NN97bjE320NV-1jeNlMa3J5sghot3EbmXSnysOQd0PFTNTXDp29haN7i-gbiRo0D2yZrPVXa-Z1Plnvo5Xr6m5JckAjQ/s4480/1950%20Census%20Helmkampf%20Clipping.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="4480" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqaTgRqRa4qQngLCMSiugAJB6I2okiVHaVKq6c9DksBkHtklUHLqjP_L11spzCcREbtNKUgBSob4VPGMzf_afM9ArTAtxHn0NN97bjE320NV-1jeNlMa3J5sghot3EbmXSnysOQd0PFTNTXDp29haN7i-gbiRo0D2yZrPVXa-Z1Plnvo5Xr6m5JckAjQ/w640-h40/1950%20Census%20Helmkampf%20Clipping.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are my paternal grandparents. My father's info has been removed, but his brother passed away in 1997. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxGOzP-Lu__xbsYqehTNgmNZfmqoIwVsRIinjZ-34bgkIOFvpWp-oFl1wwV7zKsf27WAuRvXx0T_Hd-5hAGZQBCDXX9WBIfe1LRkHtPlMsDDLS17p805zzwbJE8uN1bb26HIZsZuYt2XtTyUkfLZzpAaQu1doBXBpbCtugdMg1R3zJC3JP5wgA7-IKQ/s4480/1950%20Census%20Clipping%20Melvin%20Newmark.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="4480" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxGOzP-Lu__xbsYqehTNgmNZfmqoIwVsRIinjZ-34bgkIOFvpWp-oFl1wwV7zKsf27WAuRvXx0T_Hd-5hAGZQBCDXX9WBIfe1LRkHtPlMsDDLS17p805zzwbJE8uN1bb26HIZsZuYt2XtTyUkfLZzpAaQu1doBXBpbCtugdMg1R3zJC3JP5wgA7-IKQ/w640-h92/1950%20Census%20Clipping%20Melvin%20Newmark.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My grandmother was on one of the "Sample" lines and was asked additional questions.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Both of her parents were born in Russia. (Actually, one was born in Losice, Poland, and the other Volhynia, which is now part of Ukraine.) She completed 12th grade. Being over 30 years old, she didn't have to answer whether or not she attended school in the past two months. She did indicate that in the past year she worked 42 weeks outside of the home. Though she earned no money from it. She probably was referring to volunteer work.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqVaOT3AgrzMF_wl5ThInxBe0u1sV7MrTUuF4ME5N9N1B2JfDjVs8CnaZgM30q2VRIID-DDG8L8iuypCkmPFuDSlZy-n0PnoobvzzAn3WA8LCOzqgohwAsryEKX4_6ctSpdT-wswMQL-p46TK-UQZNC_eaTpxbX9Mv35UCSpVadeaetuVT5KJtv334g/s2850/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.05.11%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="2850" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfqVaOT3AgrzMF_wl5ThInxBe0u1sV7MrTUuF4ME5N9N1B2JfDjVs8CnaZgM30q2VRIID-DDG8L8iuypCkmPFuDSlZy-n0PnoobvzzAn3WA8LCOzqgohwAsryEKX4_6ctSpdT-wswMQL-p46TK-UQZNC_eaTpxbX9Mv35UCSpVadeaetuVT5KJtv334g/w640-h92/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.05.11%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My paternal grandmother's parents, Herman and Annie Feinstein.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here, it is properly recorded that Annie was born in Poland. It is indicated that in the past week, Herman only worked 24 hours as manager of a laundry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuO5xcyl_ESw7sdbpoZ-5UN2ihlmaHVnHnrJc52y03JGnP5iQic9b8eAj9OFj91EYprt_FRj1dQvs07VuOL2ohY6XGcAhef2z8Nb3DV_DfIZMk6cQJnpYadHHjQG1k0uyEQks9AeWGD130v4sB1EGk7Rh9xWu2zewAqHW3V7UrzLrvnJyBvDs0JFQfQ/s4394/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.12.16%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="4394" height="36" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuO5xcyl_ESw7sdbpoZ-5UN2ihlmaHVnHnrJc52y03JGnP5iQic9b8eAj9OFj91EYprt_FRj1dQvs07VuOL2ohY6XGcAhef2z8Nb3DV_DfIZMk6cQJnpYadHHjQG1k0uyEQks9AeWGD130v4sB1EGk7Rh9xWu2zewAqHW3V7UrzLrvnJyBvDs0JFQfQ/w640-h36/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.12.16%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My paternal grandfather's parents, Barney and Bertha Newmark, barely get recorded. A lodger has all their information recorded. However, my great grandmother doesn't have her name recorded, and all of the other columns are blank. In the notes section, it is stated that a neighbor claimed their census was taken in Miami Beach, Florida. It is recalled that they were simply on vacation, so this is unlikely. I’ll have to wait until Miami records are better indexed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMt2yM73sG486nFlBMDaWQ8lFl8anucdEw1dTUY62NQ0iQRaouJD3jL7FR-JSNVzN9lhmuShlplKenIZdJZ4IlAHJkZxhMGpn-hkwkRNHH31vv_5VKAUtUrH0IhCCbAYbUPJRfp0u6E1Nyd5ZRc2zTWmXbXagkK0gi3orWtSeQaxjPQPOMTdDa4Lxjw/s2662/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.17.32%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="2662" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMt2yM73sG486nFlBMDaWQ8lFl8anucdEw1dTUY62NQ0iQRaouJD3jL7FR-JSNVzN9lhmuShlplKenIZdJZ4IlAHJkZxhMGpn-hkwkRNHH31vv_5VKAUtUrH0IhCCbAYbUPJRfp0u6E1Nyd5ZRc2zTWmXbXagkK0gi3orWtSeQaxjPQPOMTdDa4Lxjw/w640-h90/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.17.32%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLq41L5qTnF9Zo2tVWPeWVYyi1cbT1XGE3IzOhh2ECRj95r6gLuA4rJ9zNQgrl4yID5-G63jw92uCx7V43Ljm_o9zJRhiwKpMTLhJ4yUt6At3lvWDgzthp-HKyFEuXHeK6wW59ow0zFvoFK5bgC9Kwxi5Vn0SzdiJKUE90AohlboOMolv2ZFinaPU8A/s3540/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.18.07%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="3540" height="22" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLq41L5qTnF9Zo2tVWPeWVYyi1cbT1XGE3IzOhh2ECRj95r6gLuA4rJ9zNQgrl4yID5-G63jw92uCx7V43Ljm_o9zJRhiwKpMTLhJ4yUt6At3lvWDgzthp-HKyFEuXHeK6wW59ow0zFvoFK5bgC9Kwxi5Vn0SzdiJKUE90AohlboOMolv2ZFinaPU8A/w640-h22/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-07%20at%209.18.07%20PM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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<p><i>To view the original visit <a href="http://transylvaniandutch.blogspot.com">TransylvanianDutch</a></i></p></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16874952946606709532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974069331194878127.post-63680055046463019392022-03-04T11:13:00.009-06:002022-03-04T11:21:13.974-06:00More Tax Assessments for Selig and Anna Feinstein - And Fun with OCR<p>A <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2022/02/amanuensis-monday-1910-tax-assessment.html">month ago</a> I found the 1910 Tax Assessment for my second great grandparents Selig and Annie Feinstein published in the St. Louis Globe Democrat </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5-SRu1WvtB-2vh4AWS4lFp1YX_pqnuXvLpOnkhIvfGjijsXpgjxmKBMA50IHEiSZ7T74weto8FtyzlsTv9J2dv8scPMZFNLQz6wUDLdH00OIrFL_NmcNCoz6NPk9i6ng_ZQWx3NZCSjqPF3PL8dllN9lFDRBNXJPc5ZPFQcLzkkTsX2BFt2xGdlroYg=s441" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="441" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5-SRu1WvtB-2vh4AWS4lFp1YX_pqnuXvLpOnkhIvfGjijsXpgjxmKBMA50IHEiSZ7T74weto8FtyzlsTv9J2dv8scPMZFNLQz6wUDLdH00OIrFL_NmcNCoz6NPk9i6ng_ZQWx3NZCSjqPF3PL8dllN9lFDRBNXJPc5ZPFQcLzkkTsX2BFt2xGdlroYg=s320" width="320" /></a></div>I had been searching <a href="http://Newspapers.com">Newspapers.com</a> on his name and it came up. It was the only year it came up for, and I didn't dig much deeper.<div><br /></div><div>This past week I was searching for his business partner, fellow blacksmith, Max Wieselman. A tax assessment list for 1907 came up:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDB0qJvJ3g2s0aXnsvgAw3kE94-qOH68P2TOvCfyRcsRY3ocEm6mtiZXfMaHpMGorJbUKJ8bgQ_oDhPhg_a2z4YbWcgn2nyq7bs6lcIxNwYhUpLSAokXhClZdOHbbkse5rmT_R7J_69ExpcM14zIMppspTYB3KzWFyICO2syMff242qhvWECDu232yTg=s614" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="76" data-original-width="614" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDB0qJvJ3g2s0aXnsvgAw3kE94-qOH68P2TOvCfyRcsRY3ocEm6mtiZXfMaHpMGorJbUKJ8bgQ_oDhPhg_a2z4YbWcgn2nyq7bs6lcIxNwYhUpLSAokXhClZdOHbbkse5rmT_R7J_69ExpcM14zIMppspTYB3KzWFyICO2syMff242qhvWECDu232yTg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><p>I scrolled back a few pages and found my second great grandfather.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSIghe8qHshwEyDEhUSQtOy8dijCQtsT4dZ0DgaCQGITm0kC1FRXJ2w1l6L7QHZYPQxlh-lESeLSx4nYcAnlzplNNt9X9iBb2sjr2WWEEt128SEkd6wO6yrr5zFnhv8XOZcgBkCAIV0W6js4yzt8jZBias7_ULfYj8i-uCapPbCIIOWuGgzCmj0zlEVQ=s472" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="472" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSIghe8qHshwEyDEhUSQtOy8dijCQtsT4dZ0DgaCQGITm0kC1FRXJ2w1l6L7QHZYPQxlh-lESeLSx4nYcAnlzplNNt9X9iBb2sjr2WWEEt128SEkd6wO6yrr5zFnhv8XOZcgBkCAIV0W6js4yzt8jZBias7_ULfYj8i-uCapPbCIIOWuGgzCmj0zlEVQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>One nice thing about Newspapers.com is you can view the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text. Since I knew that it wasn't reading it as, "Feinstein," I was curious what it was reading it as. Felnatein. Reading an "i" as an 'l' isn't surprising. Neither is reading an 's' as an 'a.' So I started conducting more searches with various character replacements.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then I went to the header on the first page. I wanted to find the list for as many years as possible. The opening sentence in the body of the article says "The Globe-Democrat, following its custom of many years, presents the complete list of St. Louis Taxpayers whose assessments are $5000 or more." How long was this custom?</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz1BGXmV5h1wibNmoBYfUZfTAT-eiQ-HN4V8ZUjGGM3TfSB7jrZIo3fjUiypPrZ3dPzz7Nz8Z5g4HJVYW-EGEuFpILuunDkJe7l7SVf5Q3yOW1Qd2vsscTTuEdfH9sw0mK8o1Zaf4iReCv67ZfQ5xdw0q2U6fZZhHNoR16XXc9NTEizJHbVtqQh8gW0g=s1709" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1709" data-original-width="1655" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz1BGXmV5h1wibNmoBYfUZfTAT-eiQ-HN4V8ZUjGGM3TfSB7jrZIo3fjUiypPrZ3dPzz7Nz8Z5g4HJVYW-EGEuFpILuunDkJe7l7SVf5Q3yOW1Qd2vsscTTuEdfH9sw0mK8o1Zaf4iReCv67ZfQ5xdw0q2U6fZZhHNoR16XXc9NTEizJHbVtqQh8gW0g=s320" width="310" /></a></div>Searching for "Assessments for Taxation" yielded no lists.</div><div>Searching for "St. Louis Taxpayers Who Are Listed" yielded none of the lists.</div><div>So I wondered - what was being indexed for the clipping above?</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRVRkzTlWiTW40D1Eo_0Z_OK9mLLPVKKDcJWo_xE5IXfbcp5whB6yRnUPiNzSnRvFuvKWjCHC9jfMs2dCRtL2Czp03Xlu23BwxeEfT5cWlLHKWXd7oq_1868wUyUhvJywVA9mBiQe-PEISQffYcEnGCunNfeZ4hc1MOzfTf3cH5qS2QBjMMSVr-oQyIA=s1410" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="1410" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRVRkzTlWiTW40D1Eo_0Z_OK9mLLPVKKDcJWo_xE5IXfbcp5whB6yRnUPiNzSnRvFuvKWjCHC9jfMs2dCRtL2Czp03Xlu23BwxeEfT5cWlLHKWXd7oq_1868wUyUhvJywVA9mBiQe-PEISQffYcEnGCunNfeZ4hc1MOzfTf3cH5qS2QBjMMSVr-oQyIA=w640-h126" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>It looks like headline-size text is not read very well - which is the opposite of what I would expect. I searched for "Increase over last year" without much success. </div><div><br /></div><div>So far I have only uncovered 1902, 1907, 1909 and 1910 listings in my search from 1900-1915. I have found references to the listing in other years saying something to the effect "this list appears in today's paper," but the list isn't there. I think some years it may have been published in a separate pull-out section that didn't get scanned when the microfilm was made, and thus didn't get digitized. Though it is possible there are some years that have been digitized, but I just haven't had any luck finding the listings yet.</div><div><br /></div><div>1902</div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Selig and Anna Feinstein didn't make the 1902 list</div><div><br /></div><div>1907</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWo0Hhdg0wKMhXdpbV8vATUsPXIvJQu46dOzdJCPjaIWx_GOowzIF83_RqThi7CEW6DGI4YCsD3cBQCGi_32lLPzNExFT2L3fruWE1DF6WVCu7KdbTXdCw3otnXImuwMxXLBA2gUzTOTJ7DeG2qc0xHcpyASHTXRI35sj94KN4y1mb0MGzxG4iED_s9w=s472" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="472" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWo0Hhdg0wKMhXdpbV8vATUsPXIvJQu46dOzdJCPjaIWx_GOowzIF83_RqThi7CEW6DGI4YCsD3cBQCGi_32lLPzNExFT2L3fruWE1DF6WVCu7KdbTXdCw3otnXImuwMxXLBA2gUzTOTJ7DeG2qc0xHcpyASHTXRI35sj94KN4y1mb0MGzxG4iED_s9w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><p>1909</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyWkKQGDBO-GkuVDFJvhHTZVKAqZw4MZYRUB6p8gSeJINvHpyLSOYi5PrOWkmFI9iby_10gmU11u1_KX0yZJ0vojqlkSNqmVDgmdxeq1ln901np5wHjifLoCSnCKCAx6rQXPHjBUQlpnh0z0OTfCt0qZ6t-8Mj8L3rkpuj3i-FPezzV62oBmSiV_4N9g=s443" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="92" data-original-width="443" height="66" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyWkKQGDBO-GkuVDFJvhHTZVKAqZw4MZYRUB6p8gSeJINvHpyLSOYi5PrOWkmFI9iby_10gmU11u1_KX0yZJ0vojqlkSNqmVDgmdxeq1ln901np5wHjifLoCSnCKCAx6rQXPHjBUQlpnh0z0OTfCt0qZ6t-8Mj8L3rkpuj3i-FPezzV62oBmSiV_4N9g=s320" width="320" /></a></div>1910</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5-SRu1WvtB-2vh4AWS4lFp1YX_pqnuXvLpOnkhIvfGjijsXpgjxmKBMA50IHEiSZ7T74weto8FtyzlsTv9J2dv8scPMZFNLQz6wUDLdH00OIrFL_NmcNCoz6NPk9i6ng_ZQWx3NZCSjqPF3PL8dllN9lFDRBNXJPc5ZPFQcLzkkTsX2BFt2xGdlroYg=s441" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="121" data-original-width="441" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5-SRu1WvtB-2vh4AWS4lFp1YX_pqnuXvLpOnkhIvfGjijsXpgjxmKBMA50IHEiSZ7T74weto8FtyzlsTv9J2dv8scPMZFNLQz6wUDLdH00OIrFL_NmcNCoz6NPk9i6ng_ZQWx3NZCSjqPF3PL8dllN9lFDRBNXJPc5ZPFQcLzkkTsX2BFt2xGdlroYg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div></div><div><p>Selig's assessment dropped a little from 1907-1909, but a joint assessment with his wife appeared. From 1909 to 1910 the individual assessment remained the same, but the joint assessment grew. So far, this is all I know about the financial success of his real estate business.</p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Combining the individual assessment for my second great grandfather, with the joint assessment with his wife, the total is $29,860. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN5TMyxZxuO9jL_OkYfCH-QwYB_ESmXGiiqlAZxiCJ9yOXV_LuHXCYnuIw4-HBRdPuw9M4092jeAwH1CZQTsWltLilZGMkQOER7SP3MPYbjb5MH0SBPlzDtW34i_NHHP_izL97N0mAOMedT_1fvQ_IISEhyYuyd4rMa1ztb2g3ZTa-f3xXVNwn2SJaxg=s426" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="426" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN5TMyxZxuO9jL_OkYfCH-QwYB_ESmXGiiqlAZxiCJ9yOXV_LuHXCYnuIw4-HBRdPuw9M4092jeAwH1CZQTsWltLilZGMkQOER7SP3MPYbjb5MH0SBPlzDtW34i_NHHP_izL97N0mAOMedT_1fvQ_IISEhyYuyd4rMa1ztb2g3ZTa-f3xXVNwn2SJaxg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><b>Notes</b></div><div><br /></div><div>1) The <a href="https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm">CPI Inflation Calculator</a> begins with January 1913. $29,860 in January of 1913 is equivalent to $849,492.62 in December of 2021. I do not know how many pieces of property they owned, or the difference between the property Selig owned individually, and what they owned jointly. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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This yard, which covers nearly a half block, is situate on Eighth street, between Carr and Biddle.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">St Louis Post Dispatch, January 6, 1895</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9lu-nqdbXswlBwy5fvpLV1QFAHuXSiKbE37_xzpkADWGW7Si1e3wi9uDBIsgzdOtmEivNVI-RtUOtZ1P3IZREH_31iQY5NTw6pxjYdadg101gzYMcA85pq9otkN8LMy-Na9MdRAwxvl69UmY4EC5h_pK8wdLIye6keek2KIY8qFu24sa4RO4=s1088" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="756" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9lu-nqdbXswlBwy5fvpLV1QFAHuXSiKbE37_xzpkADWGW7Si1e3wi9uDBIsgzdOtmEivNVI-RtUOtZ1P3IZREH_31iQY5NTw6pxjYdadg101gzYMcA85pq9otkN8LMy-Na9MdRAwxvl69UmY4EC5h_pK8wdLIye6keek2KIY8qFu24sa4RO4=w278-h400" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>There are only four blocks in this territory, but within its sacred precincts are located Castle Thunder and the Eighth Street Yard, both of which have done more than their share toward making local history...It is one of the hardest beats in the city, and for one man to walk it alone at night would be an extremely hazardous undertaking.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Where exactly was the Eighth Street Yard? The first clipping above says it covered half a block on Eighth Street between Carr and Biddle. The clipping below provides an address.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 6, 1893</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR6Wiku-Z6NwykmFyO_LeG3mSa_xsBhO8s2lBI22I93j6WPbzzHd3D6k4bNA0OpqxvMjjKdLrqUAeQxWFk4BclS56v1li5s9NzEoCe1tXUVHO2NUlvnDl67wCwJqSIu1PSTnWdlsFj6cankRHIrVDrTRlguuTfxoefqa2QMngUWyIGkWJTG5c=s828" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="828" height="57" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR6Wiku-Z6NwykmFyO_LeG3mSa_xsBhO8s2lBI22I93j6WPbzzHd3D6k4bNA0OpqxvMjjKdLrqUAeQxWFk4BclS56v1li5s9NzEoCe1tXUVHO2NUlvnDl67wCwJqSIu1PSTnWdlsFj6cankRHIrVDrTRlguuTfxoefqa2QMngUWyIGkWJTG5c=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>1122 North Eighth. </b>The tenement my 2nd great grandfather, Selig Feinstein, lived in, and owned, according to the 1900 census. The Eighth Street Yard appears a lot in the news between 1890-1895. Then it disappears. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When and how was the 8th Street Yard, one of the toughest police beats, cleaned up? When did Selig Feinstein purchase the address? What was his role? In the early 1890s he is listed in city directories as residing on Seventh Street, but working as a shoer/blacksmith at 1106 North Eighth. So he would naturally have had an incentive to move to the same block he worked. Once he owned the property, did he just kick out the rowdy residents and recruit new ones?</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I hoped to get to the library this weekend to research deeds on microfilm, to pinpoint the exact year he purchased the property, and whether he purchased any other property in the area. There is some family lore that he may have. I do know that he went into the Real Estate business with his children starting in 1905, but he may have been a landlord of multiple properties before then. It doesn't look like I will get to the library this weekend due to weather and other factors. Maybe next weekend. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p>© John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch</p>
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