My maternal grandparents, Isaac Kolnik and Sarah Karp, emigrated to New York City around the beginning of the 20th century. They do not appear in the U.S. census for 1900, and I have not been able to locate their arrival […]
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Ask the Experts: Summer 2008
I need help finding more information about my father’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Sinberg (possibly Zinberg originally). Most of all, we would like to know where he is buried, where he was born, when he immigrated to the United States, and […]
A Window into the Galveston Immigration Plan at the Central Zionist Archives
Two thousand index cards of Jewish immigrant families to Galveston, Texas, (1907–14) repose at the Central Zionist Archives (CZA) in Jerusalem. They are part of a collection of documents generated by the Galveston Plan, a project of the Jewish Territorialism […]
Ask the Experts: Spring 2008, by Randy Daitch and Eileen Polakoff
I have hit a wall and hope you can help. My mother’s parents, Leib (Louis) Klukovsky and Beila (Bella) Aronin, both came to the U.S. in 1914. Each came to a brother-in-law, my grandfather to Benjamin Lieberman and my grandmother […]