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Trish
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Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:07 pm Post subject:

Hi Everyone,

I found this manifest. This is only a possibility for Isse. I just thought it was interesting for the father is Solomon. He is going to his Uncle's in New York. I would keep this record in the "possibility folder".

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Trish

Name Izaak Gross
Gender Male
Race Hebrew
Arrival Age 27
Record Type Arrival
Birth Date abt 1893
Birth Place Poland
Residence Place Canada
Arrival Date Nov 1920
Port of Arrival Buffalo, New York, USA
Line Number 15
Father Solomon Gross
Relative Name Louis Sintevity
Relative Relationship Uncle

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Sophia
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Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 6:44 pm Post subject:

Trish wrote:

Hi Trish,
It is an interesting manifest. As you pointed out, his father's name is Solomon which is a plus. His age is very close to what is expected. On the cautious side, he is from Łódź rather than Warsaw (or the Warsaw area) as expected. He is a tailor, which was a quite common trade for Jews in Łódź, a city where textiles was the major industry. I would guess that if you were a trained tailor as a young man, you would be likely to keep it up after you emigrated. I don't remember seeing anything in the records we have for Isse so far that would indicate he was a tailor. I agree with you that the "possibility folder" is the right place to keep this one.
Sophia

Trish
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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 10:53 am Post subject:

Sophia wrote:

Trish wrote:

Hi Sophia,
Thanks for the input on the manifest.

Enjoy your day!
Trish

CLPolish2024

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Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2024 10:55 am Post subject:

Thank you, that is really exciting! So what do you suggest I do next - it seems looking for those relatives and governorates would be useful? Are there Polish archives to look into?

CLPolish2024

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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 10:37 am Post subject:

Oh wow somehow I missed the manifest that's possible for Isse - that truly is interesting, and my mother actually thought that he was potentially from Lodz! We had found (but I am not sure where, sadly) info that Solomon and his wife had been living in Lodz. This very well may be the correct manifest!

If it says Poland on it - could this mean that he was, in fact, a Polish Jew?

From my mom re: the ship manifest for Isse -
"That could very well be the one. He was a tailor. I saw that entry, but I dismissed it because I was going by the marriage certificate that I had that used the name of Pearlstein for his father."

CLPolish2024

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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2024 3:34 pm Post subject:

That appears to be spam. Does anyone have suggestions of how to move forward now that we have all this documentation?

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