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Susan Weinberg
familyfinds@studio409art.com
MNJGS Meeting December 13, 2015
Stevemorse.org
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Who is Steve Morse?
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Architect of Intel 8086 microprocessor
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Created a better search engine for existing sites
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Started One-Step pages in 1997 and continues
to grow them
What It Includes
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Immigration *
Census – US, Canadian, British, NY
Soundex codes
Vital Records (B-M-D, Naturalization)*
Calendars & Maps *
Transliterating in Foreign Alphabets *
Holocaust
Genetic Genealogy
Puzzle # 1 Immigration: Where’s Alex?
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Family story says grandmother came to US
with younger brother, but he wasn’t on her
ship. Where was he?
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Her immigration record was in 1921 from
Boulogne-sur-Mer to Rotterdam to US
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Originally from Hotin, Roumania
Search Ellis Island libertyellisfoundation.org/
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Assume they came close to the same time
Seached Kishlansky- alternative spellings
Need to have a name input for Ellis Island
From Hotin
Arrival 1921
Left from Rotterdam
Search stevemorse.org
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Apply same criteria
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Now take away the name
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Elia Richlanski and Golda Richlanski
Stevemorse.org Result
Came one week later
Puzzle #2 – Missing Manifest
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Cannot find a manifest for Morris
Kishlansky
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Know he came from London to New York
Naturalization Record Info
Ellis Island Ship Lists
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Naturalization Petition gives the following:
Ship – St. Louis
Dates of Arrival – Nov 25 – Dec 3, 1898
Output from Ship List Search
Select Role and Frame nearest day of arrival
T715 Roll 42, Frame 198
Input into Missing Manifests
Missing Manifests
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T715 Roll 42 Frame 204
Puzzle #3 Finding a Marriage Record
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Searching for grandparents’ marriage record
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Grandfather arrived in 1913 and oldest child was
born in 1918 so looking 1913-18
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Go to Groom or Bride Index
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Searches Italiangen
Search Results
Marriage Record
Puzzle #4 –Confirming a Russian
record is the correct one
English to Russian: Transliterating names from English to Russian
in One Step
Shia Leib Lehman becomes
шая лаиб легман
Russian Print to Cursive: Converting from Russian Print to Cursive
in One Step
Puzzle #5 - Did great-grandfather leave Europe just after his father’s death?
Jewish On-line Worldwide Burial Registry
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Pesach Mordechai
Dunilovitchi
Belarus
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23 Elul 5664
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Conversion from Jewish Calendar
Translating Dates from Hebrew