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Dear Tante Jennie, I Am Having Trouble Finding the Marriage Records FALL 2018 Volume 27, No. 2 Ask Tante Jennie Algee™, Inside the genealogy maven (or at least she thinks so) This Issue Marriage Records Ask Tante Jennie 1-3 President’s Message Dear Tante Jennie, 4 I am having trouble finding the marriage records of a few of my an- Research Report 5 cestors. I am pretty sure that they married in Cuyahoga County, or at least in Ohio. I know about looking online for the volume and page, researching at Genealogy Giants 6 the Western Reserve Historical Society Library for marriage records up to about 1960, Cleveland Public Main Library, the Cuyahoga County Archives Adoption 7-8 for records up to 1944, and the Cuyahoga County Probate Court online dock- et search (probate.cuyahogacounty.us/pa/), but I have still not found all I Ethical Will 9 was hoping to find. Where else can I look? County Archives Juan Dringg 10-11 Dear Juan, Summer at WRHS 12-14 You have made a good start. There are a few things to think about before looking elsewhere. First, the name might have been misspelled in the Cleveland in Warsaw index. When looking for “Oif”, Tante Jennie found it under “Olf”. Second, 15 the first name you are looking for might be different from what you expect -- Lithuania e.g., “Jack” instead of “Jacob”. Third, consider the possibility that they may 16-22 have married out of state. Couples eloping from Cleveland went to places Poland like Ripley, New York, or Erie, Pennsylvania, to wed. 23-29 Tante Jennie will give you some other resources to check. If they do Program Calendar 30 not help, the last resort is to look at the marriage licenses one by one around the time you think they got married. (Not sure when they married? Announcements You might start looking one year before the birth of their first child. Or see if 31 there was an anniversary mentioned in the Cleveland Jewish News or one of its predecessors.) continued on page 2 Page 2 The Kol Ask Tante Jennie 2018 Officers Other places to look are: The index that Paul Klein compiled President Sylvia Abrams that is available on Ancestry.com: “US, Ohio, 1st Vice President – Programs Cuyahoga County, Jewish Marriage Record Stewart Hoicowitz Extracts, 1837-1934”. There are over 19,000 2nd Vice President – Membership extracted Jewish marriage records listed. If Don Golden you have a subscription or use it at a library Secretary Pamela Turner you can just search at the main search Treasurer Marilyn Baskin screen. Past-Presidents Familysearch.org for “Online United Amy Wachs and Charles Lissauer States Birth, Marriage, and Death Records Other past presidents are non-voting mem- 1733-1990”. This is only a name index to bers. small sets of marriage records from a few states within the United States. The image Board of Trustees (three-year term) may not be available, only the transcription. It is important to see the actual license or Murray Davis the image of the license, as mistakes can be ending December 2018 made in transcription. FamilySearch.org also Jane Reidel has "Ohio County Marriages, 1789 – 1994” ending December 2019 that contains a name index and images of Jeff Morris some Ohio marriage records. Not all Ohio ending December 2020 marriages of that time period are included, but you might find a family marriage you are Past presidents are also board members. looking for, and the image of the marriage license is shown. Editor of The Kol (appointed) Sean Martin MyHeritage.com has a 14-day free Webmaster Paul Wolf trial to search marriage and divorce Records, among others: myheritage.com/search- The Kol is published at least three times a year records?keyword=marriage. and is sent electronically to members, other This website shows some promise to JGS groups, and libraries. Paper copies are answer, “How do I find out if someone is kept in our library. Members may purchase married without having to pay a fee?” -- paper copies by pre-ordering. https://legalbeagle.com, but you need to know the county where the marriage took Editor’s Note: A Spring 2018 issue of The Kol place. You can go to the National Association appeared in May. There was no Summer 2018 of Counties website to find the public rec- issue. ords website of the county where you hope to find for the marriage license. Fall 2018 Page 3 Ask Tante Jennie There are plenty of sites that charge, like https://marriage.laws.com/free-marriage- records, where you can search for free, but then are redirected to a fee site, and the search did not go back very far in time. Some of the sources mentioned above: Cuyahoga County Archives Building 3951 Perkins Avenue (at E. 40th St.) Cleveland, Ohio 44114 publicworks.cuyahogacounty.us/en-us/archives.aspx 216-443-7250 Western Reserve Historical Society Library 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland www.wrhs.org 216-721-5722 Cleveland Public Library 325 Superior Ave., N.E. – E. Sixth St. and Superior Avenue, in downtown Cleveland. www.cpl.org In Ohio you must request a copy of a marriage license from the county probate court where the ceremony took place. Cuyahoga County charges $2. You can contact: Cuyahoga County Probate Court Marriage License Department 1 Lakeside Avenue West Room 129 (1st Floor) (note new room number) Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216-443-8920 Good luck, Tante Jennie Algee™ Page 4 The Kol Local and Ohio—Membership and Board President’s Message As I write this message, we are preparing to celebrate the Jewish New Year, 5779. I wish you and your families a Shanah To- vah, a Good Year, filled with health, happiness, and successful gene- alogy hunting. This issue features our Cleveland delegation to the IAJGS con- ference held in Warsaw in August. Congratulations to Ken Bravo, IAJGS president and our own JGSC past president for the success of the first such conference in Eastern Europe. Marlene Englander, Sean Martin and Russ Maurer presented at this IAJGS. Special kudos to Russ, for receiving the Rabbi Malcolm Stern Grant on behalf of the Litvak SIG. Your officers and board have instituted several new initiatives over the summer, based upon the results of our membership survey: Stewart Hoicowitz, First Vice-President, planned a field trip to the Cuyahoga County Ar- chives new building on Perkins Avenue for our August meeting. Twenty-five participated in this Sunday outing. Don Golden, Second Vice-President, published our 2018 membership directory, which you can access in the members’ section of our website. Our Treasurer, Marilyn Baskin, reports that we had a record number of members who chose to pay sustaining level member- ship dues. We thank you for your generosity. Secretary, Pam Turner, has acknowledged dona- tions to our JGSC library housed at Anshe Chesed-Fairmount Temple from Marv and Mary Ne- vans and our member Marilyn Bilsky. Trustee, Murray Davis, initiated our new quarterly series of interactive workshops with an Introduction to Ancestry.com in June. This month our second such workshop will feature JewishGen.org, led by Russ Maurer. We thank Murray for suggesting this pilot program to the board. Thanks to the efforts of our web master, Paul Wolf, and member Marlene Englander, we are debuting a new website at www.cleveland.jgs.org. Look for its unveiling sometime in Octo- ber. We welcome your feedback about the new look. Our second new initiative is Research Tip of the Month. This member benefit comes to you by email and is then stored in the members’ section of the JGSC website. We thank Richard Spector, Ken Bravo and Helen Wolf for serving as the first authors, along with myself. Septem- ber’s Research Tip of the Month will be on marriage documents and should have arrived in your email boxes. If you have a suggestion for a meeting, the website, the Research Tip of the Month, or the newsletter, please drop me a note at [email protected]. Sylvia Fall 2018 Page 5 Local and Ohio—Research Report The Research Report informs our members and friends of the work done by members in re- sponse to research requests. There is only one request to report on. We received an inquiry from a Sabrina Otto in Germany. Her grandmother was a German Catholic and her grandfather, Melvin Scott, was a Jewish soldier in the US Army, from Cleveland, posted in Germany in the early 1950s. Around the time of the birth of Sabrina's father, Melvin returned to Cleveland and all contact broke off. Sabrina was requesting help finding her grandfather or any information about him. We did find a Melvin Scott who seems to match the basic facts - a Jewish veteran, from Cleveland, born around the right time. Regrettably, this Melvin died in 1961. We suggested to Ms. Otto that she file for the military service of this Melvin Scott to see if it matches the places where she knows her grandfather was posted. That would confirm that we have found the cor- rect person. We also provided her detailed guidance on how to request the military service rec- ord. Submitted by Russ Maurer, July , 2018 Jewish War Veterans, Post 44, 1970s (WRHS) http://wrhs.saas.dgicloud.com/islandora/object/wrhs%3A5332 Page 6 The Kol Local and Ohio—May Meeting: Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Find- MySearch.com, MyHeritage.com Sunny Morton is a professional genealogist known for her award-winning contributions to the field. She lives and works in the Cleveland area and is Co-Editor of the Ohio Genealogy News. She con- tributes to Lisa Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems Podcast and Family Tree Magazine and speaks frequently on genealogy throughout the country.
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