Shalshelet A Publication of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon

Spring 2012 Volume 22 ARE YOU READY FOR THE 1940 CENSUS?

The 1940 census will be released on April 12 with no available name index. However, do not despair! Steve Morse will be our speaker at our brunch to teach us how to search the census by enumeration district, using his One Step pages, until the name index is complete and on line. As an extra bonus, in the afternoon, Steve will present a new program about using the Ketubah (marriage contract) as a genealogical tool. Please see the flyer about the entire program, and Steve’s background, which is included in this issue.

DATE: Sunday, March 11, 2012

PROGRAM STARTS AT: 10:30 p .m

PLACE: Ahavath Achim, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland, OR

FULL DAY WITH BRUNCH: $18 for JGSO members; $25 for non members

MORNING PROGRAM ONLY – Free for members, $10 for non members

1 SOME FACTS ABOUT THE 1940 CENSUS by Debbi Korman

I am holding my breath, waiting for the release of the 1940 census. Release of a census is a really big deal for a genealogist. I still recall the release of the 1920 census, when we had to order the microfilm rolls of indexed names and enumeration districts from the main Salt Lake City library. And then there was the 1930 census, released with no index at all. I think that we waited nearly 2 years to have the census fully indexed and searchable.

For the 1940 census, initially we will have census pages without any citizens, what languages they spoke, index. That means we will have to and whether they could read and write English. The hunt for our families by knowing questions in 1940 are significantly enumeration district numbers and different. We were in the depths of other alternate methods. Steve the Depression, unemployment was Morse will give us these tools at very high, people were migrating our March meeting. However, I throughout the US looking for work, suspect that before the end of the people were working on government summer there will be a searchable projects and due to WW1 and name index for the entire census. quotas, immigration had been low since the 1920s. The questions What does the 1940 census tell focus much more population mobility us? and on employment, including employment in 1935 vs.1940. One aspect of each census that is interesting to me is that the The 1940 census questionnaire was questions reflect information that the printed on 23 3/4" x 12 1/2" paper. It federal government felt that it was a double sided form, with the needed at the time. From the 1890s same columns on both sides. It had to the start of WW1, immigrants were space for 40 entries on each side pouring into the United States and plus two additional lines for the 5% the federal government wanted to sample questions (explained below). compile statistics about where the immigrants came from, when they arrived, when they became

2 These are the questions asked: 18. Residence as of APRIL 1, 1935: County 1. Street, avenue, road, etc. 19. Residence as of APRIL 1, 2. House number (in cities and 1935: State (or Territory or towns) foreign country 3. Number of household in order 20. Residence as of APRIL 1, of visitation by the census 1935: On a farm? (Yes or No) taker 21. Employment (for persons age 4. Home owned (O) or rented 14 and older): whether the (R) person worked for pay or 5. Value of home, if owned, or profit in private or monthly rental, if rented nonemergency Govt. work 6. Does this household live on a during week of March 24-30? farm? (Yes or No) (Yes or No) 7. Name of each person whose 22. Employment (for persons age usual place of residence on 14 and older) : If not, was he April 1, 1940, was in this at work on, or assigned to, household. public emergency work (WPA, 8. Relationship of this person to NYA, CCC, etc.) during week the head of the household, as of March 24-30? (Yes or No) wife, daughter, father, mother- 23. Employment (for persons age in-law, grandson, lodger, 14 and older): Was this lodger's wife, servant, hired person seeking work? (Yes or hand, etc. No) 9. Sex — Male (M), Female (F) 24. Employment (for persons age 10. Color or race 14 and older): If not seeking 11. Age at last birthday work, did the person have a 12. Marital status — Single (S), job or business, etc.? (Yes or Married (M), Widowed (Wd), No) Divorced (D) 25. Employment (for persons age 13. Attended school or college 14 and older): Indicate any time since March 1, 1940 whether engaged in home (Yes or No) housework (H) in school (S), 14. Highest grade of school unable to work (U), or other completed (O) 15. Birthplace – U.S. State, 26. Employment (for persons age Territory, or possession. If 14 and older): Number of foreign born, the country in hours worked during week of which birthplace was situated March 24-30, 1940 on January 1, 1937. 27. Employment (for persons age 16. Citizenship of the foreign born 14 and older): Duration of 17. Residence as of APRIL 1, unemployment up to March 1935 - city, town, or village 30, 1940 - in weeks having 2,500 or more 28. Employment (for persons age inhabitants. "R" was entered 14 and older): Occupation: for all other places

3 Trade, profession, or 40. Veterans: If child, is veteran- particular kind of work father dead (Yes or No) 29. Employment (for persons age 41. Veterans: War or military 14 and older): Industry: service Industry or business 42. Whether the person has a 30. Employment (for persons age Federal Social Security 14 and older): Class of worker Number? (Yes or No) 31. Employment (for persons age 43. Whether deductions for 14 and older): Number of Federal Old-Age Insurance or weeks worked in 1939 Railroad Retirement made (Equivalent full-time weeks) from this person's wages or 32. Employment (for persons age salary in 1939? (Yes or No) 14 and older): Income in 44. Usual occupation 1939: Amount of money 45. Usual industry wages or salary received 46. Usual class of worker (including commissions) 47. For women who are or have 33. Employment (for persons age been married: Has this 14 and older): Income in woman been married more 1939: Did this person receive than once? (Yes or No) income of $50 or more from 48. For women who are or have sources other than money been married: Age at first wages or salary? (Yes or No) marriage? 34. Number of Farm Schedule 49. For women who are or have been married: Number of Supplementary questions would children ever born (Do not be asked of a random sampling include stillbirths) of individuals on each page:. Symbols – a circle with an x in it 35. Name identified the person who was 36. Birthplace of father providing information about the 37. Birthplace of mother family to the census taker. 38. Native language 39. Veterans: Whether the person a veteran of the United States military forces; or the wife, widow, or under-18-year-old child of a veteran? If so, enter "Yes"

4 A key to the abbreviations used by the census takers

Census takers used many abbreviations and codes on the census pages. Here are some of the most significant ones:

Column Number Codes Used Code Meaning and Heading

W White Neg Negro In Indian Column 10: Chi Chinese Color or Race Jp Japanese Fil Filipino Hin Hindu Kor Korean

11/12 April 1939 10/12 May 1939 9/12 June 1939 8/12 July 1939 7/12 August 1939 Column 11: 6/12 September 1939 Age at Last Birthday 5/12 October 1939 4/12 November 1939 3/12 December 1939 2/12 January 1940 1/12 February 1940

0 None Column 14: 1 to 8 Elementary School, 1st to 8th Highest Grade of H-1 to H-4 High School, 1st to 4th year School Completed C1 to C4 College, 1st to 4th year C-5 College, 5th year or more

Na Naturalized Column 16: Pa Having First Papers Citizenship of Al Alien the Foreign Born Am Cit American Citizen Born Abroad

PW Wage/Salary Worker in Private Work Columns 30 and 47: GW Wage/Salary Worker in Gov't Work

5 Class of Worker E Employer OA Working on Own Account NP Unpaid Family Worker

W World War S Spanish-American War; Philippine Column 41: Insurrection or Boxer Rebellion War or SW Spanish-American War & World War Military Service R Regular Establishment or Peace-Time Service Ot Other War or Expedition

More information about the census may be found at the National Archives website and the Family History website, among others. The links to these two websites are: http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/ and https://www.familysearch.org/1940census

Steve Morse’s website, as he will discuss at our March meeting, has many tools for searching the 1940 census, even before it is indexed. This information may be found at http://stevemorse.org

US census map 1940 - population density

[The 1940 census poster shown on page 2 came from an article on the census in Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. The codes/abbreviations chart came from the National Archives website – Ed.]

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Included in the collection are a Berlin Quick bytes address books from 1798-1943, and address books for Vienna and Zurich. As the URL implies, it is part of a German genealogy Wiki. The home page is at http://wiki- de.genealogy.net .

BUCHENWALD-MITTLEBAU- DORA VICTIM LISTS ON LINE from a post on Nu? What’s New? NEW ISRAEL GENEALOGY SOCIETY IS FORMED The Buchenwald Memorial abstracted from a post on Foundation has placed a list of JewishGen 38,000 confirmed victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp at Israel’s newest genealogy society is http://www.buchenwald.de/totenbuch The Israel Genealogy Research The website is in German. There is Association (IGRA). IGRA seeks to also a link to a separate list of bring new technology, new energy Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and new excitement to genealogy in victims at http://totenbuch.dora.de. Israel and welcomes participation from everyone inside and outside of To use the site, click ―Namen‖ at the Israel. One of IGRA’s goals is to left to browse through the list open up as many data sources to the alphabetically. Click ―Recherche‖ to public as possible. search by name. On the search page ―Vorname‖ means ―given name,‖ and IGRA’s website, at ―Name‖ is the box in which to place www.genealogy.org.il will host the surname. Click ―Suchen‖ to videos, webinars, articles on search. The search engine will genealogy, research guides, and provide results of all persons whose more. The website is in English but name starts with the search "multi-lingual" with a translation parameter. There is no wild-card option into several additional search capability. Information languages. provided is birth date and place and death date. GERMAN ADDRESS BOOKS ONLINE To appreciate the content of the from a post on GERSIG digest entire site, start at http://www.buchenwald.de. To the There are a large number of address left is the link to the Buchenwald books for German cities online at death list. Below it is a link to http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/ numerous photographs of the camp. Kategorie:Online-Adressbuch. Then there is the link to the

7 Mittelbau-Dora site followed by a link The "Certificate of Release or to photos of that camp. Next is a link Discharge from Active Duty", to a site about forced labor generally referred to as a "DD 214", (Zwangsarbeit). Finally there is a is a document of the United States photo exhibit and then a link to Department of Defense, issued information about Topf & Sons, the upon a military service member's manufacturer of the ovens at retirement, separation or discharge Auschwitz. from active‐duty military. The form still has to be printed out, Some users had difficulty linking to signed and faxed to complete the the various sites using Internet process.‖ Genealogy is an Explorer and Firefox, but no difficulty acceptable reason for requesting the using Chrome. DD‐214.

Photos Buchenwald Records at least 62 years old from http://www.buchenwald.de/fotoarchiv date of separation are archived at e/buchenwald/ the National Archives and open to Photos Mittelbau/Dora the public. They may be ordered http://www.buchenwald.de/fotoarchiv online for a fee: e/dora/ http://tinyurl.com/bv988cy. Forced Labor http://www.ausstellung- Records for discharges in 1949 or zwangsarbeit.org/ later are maintained under the Photo Exhibit Federal Records Center program. http://www.buchenwald.de/fotoausst ellung/index_en.html NEW UK RECORDS ON LINE Topf & Sons http://www.topfundsoehne.de/cms- Gibraltar Jewish Records www/index.php from a post on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter US MILITARY DISCHARGE PAPERS AVAILABLE Jewish ancestral records from the from JGS of Conejo Valley and Gibraltar are going online following Ventura County newsletter an historic agreement between the Gibraltar Jewish Community and the As reported by Phil Goldfarb, JGSGB (Jewish Genealogy Society president of JGS Tulsa, of Great Britain). The records are to your own US Military records (as well be maintained on the JCR-UK as military records for individuals for (Jewish Communities and Records) whom you are next of kin) web pages at www.jewishgen.org/jcr- may now be ordered online at uk/gibraltar.htm. http://tinyurl.com/2o3pa8. Other individuals seeking documents The first group of vital records are in should download and complete the database already, covering 2,820 Standard Form 180 available at births from 1808 to 1894; 554 http://tinyurl.com/39aued marriages from 1810 to 1883; and

8 3,095 deaths from 1829 to 1931. FHL PRICE FOR MICROFILM Many more will be added once they LOANS INCREASES have been transcribed from the from a post on Eastman’s Online original registers and census Genealogy Newsletter documents. The work is being co- ordinated by Louise Messik of the FamilySearch has raised the price of JGSGB, who also carried out the film loans to family history centers. negotiations with the Jewish Short-term film loans now cost Community’s registrar and archivist, $7.50. Prices for short-term film loan Mesod Belilo. extensions, extended film loans, and microfiche loans will also increase. Gibraltar’s Jewish community is unique, being made up of The price of raw microfilm stock has predominantly Sephardi Jews - those skyrocketed and now raw microfilms of Spanish, Portuguese, and North are almost impossible to find as the African ancestry. UK Jews are microfilm manufacturers are shutting mainly Ashkenazi of Eastern down their production lines. In European origin, making the response FamilySearch has already Gibraltar records a particularly converted to all-digital production for valuable additional resource. all new products and is converting older products to digital images as Manchester Burial Records rapidly as possible. from Nu? What’s New

Manchester (England) and District Council of Synagogues, which calls itself the Representative Body of A big THANK YOU to our Orthodox Synagogues in the Greater JGSO member, (who Manchester Area, has created a website of burials at prefers to remain http://www.mdcs.org.uk/searchburials.aspx. anonymous) who made a

Searching provides the name of the generous contribution deceased, year of death and towards the cost of our cemetery where buried. Additional information requires registration and new projector. This new payment of a fee. Lorna Kay, equipment will greatly Chairman of the Manchester enhance JGSO

Regional Group of the Jewish programs!! Genealogical Society of Great Britain states there are about 30,000 JGSO welcomes records and is not comprehensive— it is a "work in progress" according to donations for programs, the webmaster. equipment and special projects.

9 ON-LINE DIRECTORIES FOR 1894 Lwow City Directory {d80} GALICIA 1883 Lwow Address and Business from a post on the Galicia SIG Directory {d2} 1871 Lwow Address Directory {d49} There are two sources for directories of towns in Galicia. First is the 1891 UPDATES TO THE ALL GALICIA Galician business directory on DATABASE JewishGen. Second, is Logan from a post on JewishGen Kleinwaks' site for his Genealogy Indexer at Gesher Galicia is happy to announce http://genealogyindexer.org which that the All Galicia Database contains a Search Engine for (the AGD) has just been updated Online Historical Directories. with new content. This is Gesher Galicia's free public online multi- The List of Directories for Galicia database search engine, available at includes: http://search.geshergalicia.org/ .

1914/1915 Galicia and Bukovina The following new databases have War Refugees Address Directory, just been added: Vol. III 1912 Galicia Telephone Directory - Grodek Jagiellonski School (1916) - {d12} - (now Horodok, Livivska oblast, 1901 Galicia Industry Directory {d6} Ukraine) 1926 Krakow Address and Business - Husiatyn School (1912) -- (now Directory Husiatyn, Ternopilska oblast, 1917 Krakow Calendar {d79} Jozefa Ukraine) Czecha Kalendarz Krakowski - Jaroslaw School (1919-1921) -- 1914/1915 Krakow War Refugees (now Jaroslaw, Subcarpathian Address Directory {d33} Voivodeship, Poland) 1910 Krakow and Podgorze Address - Kalusz School (1911) -- (now and Business Directory {d10} Kalush, Ivano-Frankivska oblast, 1907 Krakow and Podgorze Address Ukraine) and Business Directory {d9} - List of Rabbis in Galicia (1868) 1892 Krakow and Suburbs Address - Nadworna Tax List (1932) -- (now Directory {d4} Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivska oblast, 1914/1915 Lwow War Refugees Ukraine) – AGD’s first tax list! Address Directory {d34} - Tarnobrzeg School (1915) -- (now 1913 Lwow Address Directory {d13} Tarnobrzeg, Subcarpathian 1910 Lwow Address Directory {d11} Voivodeship, Poland) 1902 Lwow Address and Business - Tlumacz School (1920) -- (now Directory {d7} Tlumach, Ivano-Frankivska oblast, 1897 Lwow Address and Business Ukraine) Directory {d5} - Zolkiew Jewish Death Records (1855-1870) -- (now Zhovkva, Lvivska oblast, Ukraine)

10 There were also major updates / Jewish Genealogical Society record additions to the following of Oregon (JGSO) existing databases: [email protected] - Lviv Jewish Birth Records (1805- 1868) Membership is open to all, - Lviv Jewish Death Records (1805- regardless of religious background or 1870) level of experience. Members range - Lviv Jewish Marriage Records from those just starting in genealogy (1801-1860) to long-time family researchers. - Zbaraz Jewish Birth Records Membership is for the calendar year. (1815-1876; 1897; 1899) -- (now Zbarazh, Send checks to: Ternopilska oblast, Ukraine) - Zbaraz Jewish Death Records Jewish Genealogical Society of (1804-1858; 1894-1907; 1912-1942) Oregon (now Zbarazh, Ternopilska oblast, PO Box 19736 Ukraine) Portland, Oregon 97280

Note that updates to the Lviv birth, Yearly dues marriage, and death records $23 for individuals databases are ongoing and will $30 for family continue throughout 2012. $10 student

And there were minor updates to this Membership benefits include a free copy of Getting Started in Jewish existing database: Genealogy: A Handbook for Beginners

Quarterly newsletter Shalshelet - Mielnica Jewish Marriage Records Meeting notices (1858-1876) -- (now Monthly meetings Sept-June. Melnytsya-Podilska, Ternopilska Access to JGSO reference library oblast, Ukraine) with checkout privileges.

JGSO BOARD THANK YOU TO OUR NEW VOLUNTEERS! Barbara Hershey, President Golda Edwards, 1st VP nd Bev Lipsitz will be updating Joe Mayer, 2 VP Randi Markiz,– Treasurer and maintaining the JGSO Debbi Korman, Secretary website and Nancy Tauman Toby Blake, Membership will be our new librarian. Nadene Goldfoot, Publicity Barbara Hershey, Programs JGSO is currently looking for Debbi Korman, Newsletter Ron Doctor, Member at Large a volunteer to send out publicity notices.

11 12 Note: parking in the lot is available, but not abundant. We strongly encourage carpooling and public transportation. According to Tri-Met, bus 12 runs every 15 minutes on Sundays and bus 44 every half hour. Street parking is available off Barbur just north and south of the building. If you are able to leave parking lot spots for those with more difficulty walking, please do.

Cost to JGSO Members: $18 for lectures and lunch Cost to those who are not members of JGSO: Lunch and lectures $25. Morning lecture only is $10.

If you are not yet a member of JGSO for 2012 and want to register at member’s cost, please submit a membership form for new and renewing members. It will be attached to this email. Please note that no outside food is allowed in the building.

For more information about this event, please write to [email protected] or call Barbara Hershey at 503-249-1976. ------

JGSO Lunch Reservations for March 11, 2012 Please make check out to JGSO and mail to P.O. Box 19736, Portland, OR 97280 DEADLINE: March 5, 2012 Name (s) ______JGSO Member □ non-member □ Email address (please be clear): Telephone: Check enclosed for (amount): $

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