A message was left on the JGSLA phone line from a woman in Santa Barbara who is requesting help from someone in finding out about her family, many of whom were lost in the Holocaust.
If this is something you would be interested in, please contact me for details at president@jgsla.org.
I need someone to go the the County Court house and pull some records. If you know anyone who could do this service please let me know. Thank you
Matt
champ2@satx.rr.com
I am Joe Manning, an author and historian. Since 2006, I have been conducting a research project to track down and interview descendants of some of the child laborers who were photographed by Lewis Hine in the early 1900s. There are 5,000 of these photos posted on the Library of Congress website. I have been successful for over 200 children. My Lewis Hine Project was the subject of a story on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
In one of the photographs, taken in 1913 in Dallas, TX, Morris and Louis Shuman are pictured as newsboys. They were Russian-Yiddish immigrants who entered the US about 1903. They eventually settled in Los Angeles. I am trying to find living descendants of this family, and I thought someone might be able to help. Here is what I know so far.
The family appears in the 1930 census in LA. They are parents Max and Rebecca Shuman, and their children, Louis, Morris, Solomon and Freida. Max is listed as a butcher. They had other children including Moses, Sophia and Sarah, who were listed in earlier records. According to California Death Records, Max died in 1940, Moses in 1948, Morris in 1955, and Louis in 1970. I was unable to obtain any of their obituaries, but all died in LA. According to the census and California voter registrations records, these are some of the addresses in LA where members of the family lived:
Louis was an auto mechanic, and his wife may have been named Ruth.
To see the photo of the Shuman boys, go to this link on my website:
www.sevensteeples.com/dallas1.html
Joe Manning
575 Bridge Rd, Unit 9-1
Florence, MA 01062
413-584-0679
Mt. Zion Cemetery, East Los Angeles
I have been contacted by a gentleman in Great Britain who is requesting a photo of a tombstone in Mt. Zion Cemetery in East Los Angeles.
If you are planning a trip there in the near future, or if you are willing to go to get the photo, please contact me at president@jgsla.org for the details.
Sandy Malek
To the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles:
My name is Eliana Aizim, 66, and I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I’m doing genealogy research of one of the branches of my maternal family that immigrated to Canada from Ukraine. Some of my cousins moved to the United States. The main web site that I use for searching are JewishGen and Ancestry.
Podolia Gubernia
I have just found out on Ancestry.com / California Death Index, that Miriam White (her married name was Miriam Glickel) died in Los Angeles in February 4, 1951. She was born in the town of Pistchonke, Podolia Gubernia, Russia, in June 17, 1903. Her Social Security number is 069-16-6616.
I would like to know if you have any further information about her. Or maybe you can suggest some web site addresses where I may continue searching. One of the things I need is to see an obituary related to her. I would really like to find Miriam White’s descendents, if there are any. It would be wonderful if you could give me any help, specially because I don’t live in the United States.
If this envolves any payment, I can only do it by credit card.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Eliana Aizim
aizim@uol.com.br
Lodz
I am writing from Melbourne, Australia and trying to find research information about my uncle and aunt Henry and Bess Fischer and family who emigrated to the USA in 1949 from Bremerhaven, Germany to Boston, Massachusetts disembarking in Philadelphia…destination the United Service for New Americans (USNA), Jewish Family Services in Spruce street.
Henry was originally from Lodz in Poland.
The family was assisted through the International Refugee Organisation (IRO), spent some time in NY and then settled in Los Angeles, California.
I am hoping to find immigration records, shipping records. I do have the name of the ship, death records or any details to assist with research.
I have tried ancestry.com.
As I am unfamiliar with finding/accessing information in the USA, any assistance you can provide, or links to find info would be greatly appreciated.
I have taken note of the excellent section on your site re suggested links.
I am wondering if perhaps the family was known to your organisation and may be further able to assist.
Many thanks,
Freda Leiba
leiba@iprimus.com.au
