The Labun 1912 Duma Voters' List

Those of you who follow this blog may have noticed that I spend a good deal of time researching New York immigrants from the community of Labun (Lubin in Yiddish, and today called Yurovshchina, Ukraine). For several years now I have been methodically researching immigrants whose graves I recorded in the three landsmanshaft plots in cemeteries in New York. The main reason I have been doing this is because there are few records in Eastern Europe for the Jewish portion of this community. Vital and full census/revision lists records from Labun have all been either destroyed or lost (I recently posted about two supplemental revision lists from the community). That's why I was so excited to receive a copy of one of the few records we could find: the 1912 Duma Voters' List from Labun.

It's not much - just a list of names and patronymics. But, I believe that if records are scarce for one's town, one must find ways to love what you can find.

This record is listed among the inventoried Jewish records for archives compiled by Miriam Weiner on her Routes to Roots Foundation website. A few years ago I asked Alex Dunai to get a copy  for me when he was next in the archive in Zhitomyr. He did so in 2014 (and, while I have shared it with other Labun researchers on my mailing list, I have been remiss in not posting this sooner.). The images are of the voter list, followed by transliterations of listed names.

If you had ancestors from Labun and you find family names in the list, please leave a comment and tell us about them.

Russian Empire voters' lists were published in Russian newspapers and identified those who were qualified to vote in Duma elections (voting for representatives to the Russian legislature). Qualifications to vote included being a male at least 24 years old and paying taxes. Within that demographic, those who were professionals or successful merchants or who held membership in guilds were included.

1008 Stanislav Adomovich, son of Benedikt - Russian
1009 Mikhel Averbuch, son of Volko
1010 Mordko Leib Agres, son of Itzko
1011 Itzko Aizenshtejn, son of Leib
1012 Simkha Averun, son of Nakhman
1013 Moshko Agipis, son of Itzko
1014 Itzko Baram, son of Nakhman
1015 Khaim Barinshtejn, son of Meier
1016 Khaim Barlenshtejn, son of Leiser
1017 Borukh Yankel Bokser, son of Volf
1018 Yankel Brotzkiy, son of Khaim
1019 Meilakh Bitbrojt, son of Mojse 
1020 Srul Barinshtejn, son of Lipa
1021 Mikhel Itzek Boiblat, son of Ber
1022 Eizik Vitbroit, son of Itzko
1023 Srul [torn page], son of Nuta
1024 Borko [torn page] lman, son of Falik
 

1025 Yankel Gersh Vorona, son of Shaje
1026 Mendel Vaisman, son of Gersh
1027 Ios Veisman, son of Avrum
1028 Itzik Veitzman, son of Nuta
1029 Khaim Veisman, son of Tevje
1030 Munya Vajnshtejn, son of Yankel
1031 Adolf Grenbetzkiy, son of Peter - Polish
1032 Moshko Goltfarb son of Gedalje
1033 Shmil Duvid Gorenshtejn, son of Borukh
1034 Zus Groiskop, son of Khaim
1035 Mordko Goldenbarg, son of Gedalje
1036 Alter Grobdruk, son of Peisakh
1037 Shmul Gozerman, son of Aron
1038 Mordko Gitman, son of Shmul
1039 Avrum Goltshtejn, son of Nakhman
1040 Moshko Graiskop, son of Khaim
1041 Duvid Gelfman, son of Zelik
1042 Pinkhas Khaim Gelman, son of Tevje
1043 Gershko Grinshtejn, son of Moshko
1044 Anshel Desyatnik, son of Nakhman
1045 Mikhel Aisik Danzker, son of Ber
1046 Meier Diporshtejn, son of Naftuli
1047 Khaim Yankel Dorfman, son of Duvid
1048 Manus Zak, son of Volko
1049 Berko Zabara, son of Shlomo
1050 Shmul Zak, son of Ioino
1051 Yankel Zendler, son of Khaim
1052 Gdal Yankel Zabara, son of Volf
1053 Leizor Zaidman, son of Moshko

1054 Itzko Zukin, son of Shlomo
1055 Gershko Zaidelman, son of Tzale
1056 Ios Zastavkir, son of Ios
1057 Itzko Kutziskin, son of Srul
1058 Itzko Kargman, son of Srul
1059 Srul Kaplan, son of Zelman
1060 Moshko Kuzminskiy, son of Leizor
1061 Kelman Kuzminskiy, son of Leizor
1062 Shmul Kleiner, son of Aron
1063 Alter Katz son of Volko
1064 Shimon Kelman, son of Borukh
1065 Froim Nukhim Kantor, son of Lipa
1066 Avrum Kargman, son of Moshko
1067 Ikhil Kaplun, son of Lipa
1068 Leizor Kutziskin, son of Meier
1069 Shaya Avrum Kalika, son of Itzko
1070 Srul Krasilovskiy, son of Berko
1071 Eizor Kelman, son of Berko
1072 Khaim Bir Kasha, son of Yankel-Iosev
1073 Yankel Keselman, son of Khaim
1074 Mordko Kargman, son of Meier
1075 Gershon Katz, son of Pinkhas

1076 Shmul Kapsun, son of Mikhel
1077 Leivi Itzko Krasilovskiy, son of Berko
1078 Shmul Khaim Kapsun, son of Duvid
1079 Volko Kargman, son of Tevje
1080 Tevija Kalika, son of Shaje
1081 Gershko Kantor, son of Froim
1082 Ikhil Kopelyuk, son of Moshko
1083 Ios Kargman, son of Moshko
1084 Itzek Leib Kiporshmid, son of Nukhim
1085 Mikhel Kapsun, son of Moshko
1086 Gershko Kapsun, son of Zelman
1087 Shmul Kargman, son of Tevje
1088 Ios Kestelman, son of Naftuli
1089 Aba Kurman, son of Duvid
1090 Martin Kalenskiy, son of Ivan
1091 Mendel Kleiner, son of Aron
1092 Ilya Kargman, son of Tevje
1093 Aron Kargman

1094 Yankel Livak, son of Gershko
1095 Avrum Lerner, son of Simkha
1096 Duvid Lysyi, son of Srul
1097 Froim Lerner, son of Khaskel
1098 Aron Markman, son of Mosko
1099 Avrum Matzevitzkiy, son of Shlomo
1100 Leib Srul Muravskiy, Avrum
1101 Moishe Elya Matzevitzkiy, son of Shimon
1102 Moshe Ios Nuchpalskiy, son of Ber
1103 Ios Novak, son of Itzko
1104 Zkharia Neiman, son of Elye
1105 Gershko Nudelman, son of Shoel
1106 Aron Oksman, son of Shoel
1107 Duvid Oifman, son of Leib
1108 Fishel Polonskiy, son of Yudko
1109 Yankel Polonskiy, son of Leib
1110 Yankel Plishin, son of Aizik
1111 Mordko Potashnik, son of Nekhim
1112 Nukhim Potashnik, son of Nekhim

1113 Itzko Podkidysh, son of Itzko
1114 Benyumin Plishin, son of Aizyk
1115 Simkha Roizenshtejn, son of Khaim
1116 Pinkhas Roizenfeld, son of Usher
1117 Volko Revreba, son of Duvid
1118 Faivel Roizman, son of Yankel
1119 Khuna Rakhman, son of Shmul
1120 Elya Reznik, son of Mordko
1121 Zelman Duvid Roikhman, son of Leib
1122 Yankel Ryfman, son of Leizor
1123 Gershko Roizman, son of Leib
1124 Moshko Roizenfeld, son of Usher
1125 Irion Reznik, son of Mordko
1126 Itzko Yankel Solomyaniy, Ios
1127 Mikhel Sandler, son of Mendel
1128 Mordko Ber Solomyaniy, son of Itzko

1129 Mordko Traibman, son of Duvid
1130Avrum Fertel, son of Leib
1131 Leivi Faishenblat, son of Aba
1132 Yankel Faishenblat, son of Shmul
1133 Ios Gersh Farberman, son of Mendel
1134 Shama Leivi Fershtman, son of Itzko
1135 Shevel Friman, son of Ioel
1136 Volf Finkel, son of Berko
1137 Gersh Mendel Farberman, son of Iosef
1138 Berko Moshko Freinkel, son of Mordko
1139 Yankel Frenkel, son of Ios
1140 Moshko Leivi Chaitman, son of Itzko
1141 Aron Leivi Chaitman, son of Itzko
1142 Gershon Leivi Chaitman, son of Itzko
1143 Berko Leivi Chaitman, son of Itzko

1144 Gershko Sheinkerman, son of Mordko
1145 Leizor Sheinfeld, son of Shlomo
1146 Shmul Shtejn, son of Froim
1147 Yankel Shkolyar, son of Manashe
1148 Shlema Shinkerman, son of Khaim
1149 Pinkhas Shikhman, son of Gedalje
1150 Yankel Shister, son of Shiov
1151 Yankel Shprintz, son of Gershko
1152 Srul Shvartzapl, son of Gershko
1153 Ios Shamis, son of Moshko
1154 Meier Shinkerman, son of Shlomo
1155 Ios Shklyar, son of Tzale
1156 Shaya Shraer, son of Irov
1157 Ios Khaim Shkolyarman, son of Dov
1158 Leib Ber Shvartzapel, son of Gershko
1159 Nakhman Moishe Shnaiderman, son of Aron

1160 Duvid Shikhter, son of Pante
1161 Leib Tzap, son of Evshi

The nice thing about this list is that it is dated late enough (1912) that we may be able to directly link to some of these names. Some of these people later became emigrants (Although, names on this list probably indicate that the individuals had the wherewithal to stay in Labun, rather than emigrate). Some had relatives who immigrated in the United States within a decade of this list (earlier or later). Many of these surnames are represented within the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association landsmanshaft burial plots in Montefiore and Beth David Cemeteries in Queens and Long Island, NY.

For me, the names that stand out are Keselman and Kestelman (1073 and 1088), which was my great grandmother, Ida's (Chaie Sura's) maiden name, and Mazevitzkiy (1099 and 1101), the surname of two of my great grandparents [my grandparents, Jack Garber and Dora Morris (Mazevitzky) were first cousins]. So, far I have not been able to link ancestors or relatives to the Keselman and Kestelman on this list.


With regard to Mazevitzkiy, my cousin Hal Blatt once told me that my great grandparents, Khana Mazevitzkiy Garber and Isidor Mazevitzkiy (Morris), had brothers named Monia and Moishe who remained in Labun. Isidor's father's name on his death certificate was Solomon. On his gravestone, his father's name is shown as Shlomo (the Hebrew equivalent of Solomon). It appears that Avrum Monia (1099) was my great grandparents' brother. Moishe Elya Matzevitzkiy's (1101) father's name was probably erroneously listed as Shimon and should have been Shlomo. If so, then he was my great grandparents' brother Moishe Mazevitzkiy.

Members of my Mazevitzkiy were discussed further in a previous post.

Tombstone Tuesday: Boris Bondar, Beth Moses Cemetery

I have not found much about the life of Boris Bondar.

I typically try to provide a bit of biographical information about those who were interred in the graves of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plots in Montefiore and Beth Moses Cemeteries in New York.

Boris, however, has been difficult to track.

BORIS

BONDAR

BELOVED HUSBAND

JUNE 19, 1898

AUG. 25, 1981

Boris' gravestone does not include the usual Hebrew name and patronymic. Rules for accessing New York City death records do not allow non-relatives access to one so recent. 

Online searches at Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage have not located any census records (the most recent available would be 1940), directories, or any other records that I can tie to this man. I have searched online indices on the Yad Vashem website (seeking any relatives he may have identified as victims), on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website (for currently online records for survivors). I have searched the online Joint Distribution Committee Archive and HIAS. I have searched online newspapers for obituaries or any other articles in which he might have been mentioned.[1] Nada!

The only record I have found for him thus far is his application for Social Security card (Form SS-5), which I ordered from the Social Security administration.

Boris' mother was Lyuba and his father was Shlema Bondar. Boris reported that he was born in Odessa. I have check JewishGen's unified database and have not found any records available yet for him Boris or his parents.

He registered for Social Security when he was 80 years old (probably on November 6, 1978). At that time, he lived in Manhattan at 225 Park Avenue South. His Social Security Death Index record (in this case located on Ancestry) indicates his last residence was in Brooklyn.

His gravestone indicates he was mourned by his wife. There are no other Bondar's in this plot. I checked recent indexes for marriage licenses in New York City (thank you Reclaim the Records!) - there are no records for Boris Bondar. We do not know his wife's name. 

Without further information, it is not possible to say why his grave was included in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Beth Moses Cemetery. More often than not I have been able to identify a kinship connection between those who were not from the town of Labun yet were buried in one of the landsmanshaft plots. This one is, so far, still a mystery

Since Boris signed his name in Cyrillic, it is possible that in 1978 he was a fairly recent immigrant. That would account for the paucity of records.

Boris Bondar's grave is in the the Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York, First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association Plot, Block 24, Maccabee Road.

Notes:

1. It is certainly possible that other records, such as those in probate files, might be located onsite in NYC. Those kind of searches will have to wait until I next plan a visit. One possible next step would be to call the cemetery and see if they have any information they might share regarding Bondar family contacts.

Tombstone Tuesday: Israel and Sarah Cohen, Montefiore Cemetery, New York

Tracking a couple named Cohen is not for the faint of heart. I avoided tackling the genealogy of Israel and Sarah for several years, but, recently, I made some progress in locating them in New York City records. So, here's what we know.

Here lies

My husband and our dear father

Yisrael BenTzion son of Shloma Yitzchak

Died

24 Elul 5699

May his soul be bound in the bonds of life

BELOVED HUSBAND

AND DEAR FATHER

ISRAEL

COHEN

DIED SEPT. 7, 1939

AGE 62 YRS

FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

Here lies

Our beloved mother

Zissel daughter of David

Died

16 Elul 5705

May her soul be bond in the bonds of life

BELOVED MOTHER

SARAH

COHEN

DIED AUG. 24, 1945

AGE 62 YRS

FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

Both Israel and Sarah (usually called Zissel) were likely born in Starokostyantyniv, a larger community 32 kilometers SSW of Labun (the hometown of those who were members of the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association landsmanshaft in New York City). I have not been able, thus far, to identify Israel and  Zissel's tie to the landsmanshaft and, therefore, why their graves are within the landsmanshaft's plot. I have noted, however, that Starokostyantiniv was a common choice for those who wished to leave Labun and settle in a larger, nearby community.

Israel was born in the late 1870s to Shloma Yitzchak Kucuszyn and Sylvia Katz (her name was clearly not Sylvia but, that is the name shown on Israel's death certificate and I have not yet found any additional sources).[1] Zissel was born about 1882 to David Sachnovetsky and Bessie (likely Basya or Basha) Gold.[2]

Israel, Sarah and their children Hencia (later, Adele), Chana (Anna) and Mejer (Meyer) left Antwerp aboard the S.S. Lapland on 14 September 1922 and landed in New York on 23 September. Srul (Israel) was identified as a laborer. The family was headed to Israel's sister, Jetta Besfuchna, who then lived at 162 Houston Street in lower Manhattan. I have not located Jetta, thus far, in any other records.[3]
[*update (15 Jan 2018): I believe this may have been Yetta Bespechney who died on 24 Sep 1952)]

The 1925 New York State census enumeration found the family at 451 Grand Street, New York, NY.[4] They continued to live at that address through at least 1928.[5] Israel sold furniture; Adele Cohen was a milliner; Anna was a machine operator making suits; and Meyer was in school. Israel eventually opened his own furniture store.

Adele married Mischa Pugatche on 31 October 1927.[6] The officiant at their marriage was Labun Rabbi Yoer Lerner, whose immigration in 1924 had been paid for and sponsored by the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association.[7] Mischa (later known also by the first name Morris), was a pharmacist from Starokostyantiniv. Perhaps Mischa and Adele were acquainted with each other in the old country.

When Israel died in 1939, he and Zissel had been living at 862 Jennings Street in the Bronx. Zissel died in 1945 after a four-month stay at the Manhattan State Hospital, Wards Island. This was a psychiatric hospital. Her home address was reported on her death certificate as 1504 Longfellow Avenue, Bronx, NY. He son Meyer, the informant on her death certificate, lived at 976 Tiffany Street, Bronx, NY.

Israel and Zissel's children were:

• Adele Cohen Pugatche b. 12 March 1906, d. April 1988;
• Anna Cohen, b. ca. 1908; and
• Meyer Cohen, b. 22 July 1911, d. April 1966.

Israel's and Zissel's graves are located in block 5, gate 567W. Israel's is in line 1R, grave 5. Zissel (Sarah) is in line 1L, grave 5. Their son Meyer is also interred in the Montefiore Cemetery plot with his wife, Basha.
 
Notes:
1. For the original surname, see the family's passenger manifest: Manifest, S.S. Lapland, 23 September 1922, list 6, lines 25-29, Srul (age 46), Zisla (41), Chane (13), Hencia (17), and Mejer (9) Kucuszyn; images, "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 January 2018). For Israel's parents' names, see the his gravestone, above, and death certificate: Bronx County, New York, death certificate no. 8265 (1939), Israel Cohen, 7 September 1939; Municipal Archives, New York City.
2. Bronx County, New York, death certificate no. 18388 (1945), Sarah Cohen, 24 August 1945; Municipal Archives, New York City.
3, Nothing found for anything resembling this name or anyone named Yetta in 1920 census New York enumeration district 627. Also nothing in the 1925 NY State census in A.D.8, E.D. 4.
4. 1925 New York State Census, New York County, New York, enumeration of inhabitants, Manhattan, assembly district 1, election district 1, p. 41, Israel and Sarah Cohen family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 3 January 2018); citing New York State Archives, Albany.
5. Adele Cohen Pugatche, naturalization file no. 138461 (1928), U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; NARA record group 22.
6. New York County, New York, marriage certificate no. 30492 (1927), Mischa Pugatche and Adele Cohen, 31 October 1927; Municipal Archives, New York City. 
7. For Rabbi Lerner's arrival, see: Manifest, S.S. Cedric, 11 March 1924, list 7 [stamped], lines 2-3, Fre (age 61) and Rebeka (62) Lerner; images, "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 January 2012). For information about the sponsorship of his immigration, see this post. 

Tombstone Tuesday: Carl Kaimowitz, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinlawn, New York

Carl Kaimowitz was the eldest son of the couple I profiled last week, Morris and Anna Kaimowitz.

 CARL

KAIMOWITZ

DEVOTED

HUSBAND - FATHER

SON - BROTHER

MARCH 31, 1924

JULY 18, 1969

Carl was born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents.[1] David, his younger brother, was born on 30 July 1929.[2] The 1930 census found the family in Brooklyn in an apartment at 3426 41st Street, Long Island City, Queens C0unty, New York.[3]

When Carl was in high school, his family (including his mother's parents, Israel and Molly Marcus) lived in a two-family house at 3056 37th Street in Long Island City.[4]

Carl acquired a Brooklyn license to marry Mildred Shenkman on 18 February 1950.[5] They, likely, married soon after. They had two daughters: Susan and Barbara.

When Carl died suddenly in 1969 at the age of 45, he was vice president of John Thallon and Co., Inc, a meat importing-exporting firm based in Rockville Center, New York.[6]

Carl's grave is located in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, Nassau County, New York

Notes:
1. "New York, New York, Births, 1910-1965," images of index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 December 2017), entry for Carl Kaimowitz, birth certificate no. 14113, 31 March 1924, Brooklyn, New York; citing Department of Health, New York City.
2. "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 December 2017), entry for David Kaimowitz, 5 January 2009, Scotch Plains, Union County, New Jersey.
3. 1930 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, population schedule, Long Island City, enumeration district 41-75, sheet 12A, dwelling 44, family 223, Carl Kaimowitz; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1585.
4. Kaimowitz family members' first names and ages and grandparents names indicate that the census enumerator did not write the surname correctly. 1940 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, pop. sched., Long Island City, e.d. 41-77, sheet 9A, household 168, Carl Kilmwitz; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 December 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2721.
5. "New York City, Marriage Licenses, 1907-1995," images of index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 December 2017), entry for  Carl Kaimowitz, 18 February 1950, Brooklyn, NY; citing Municipal Archives, New York City.
6. Kaimowitz - Carl, "Deaths," New York Times (New York, NY), 20 July 1969, p, 57, col. 4; images, New York Times (https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/20/90113397.html?pageNumber=57 : accessed 23 December 2017).

Tombstone Tuesday: Morris and Anna Kaimowitz, Beth Moses Cemetery, Pinelawn, New York

Last week I posted about my two-for-one discovery that there are three Marcus sisters interred in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot at Beth Moses Cemetery - and none of them are from the town associated with this landsmanshaft organization: Labun/Lubin. The link among them is via Labun native, Jack Lerner, husband of sister Edna Marcus. You may read about Jack and Edna here and here.

This week, the subject is one of Edna's sisters, Anna Marcus Kaimowitz, and her husband Morris.

KAIMOWITZ

MORRIS

BELOVED HUSBAND

DEVOTED FATHER

AND GRANDFATHER

AUG. 20, 1896

JULY 18, 1972

ANNA BELOVED WIFE

DEVOTED MOTHER

AND GRANDMOTHER

DEC. 9, 1905

DEC. 6, 1982

SHE LIVED WITH

PRIDE AND DIGNITY

Both Morris and Anna were from Lomza, Poland and married in Brooklyn on 3 June 1923.[1] 

Morris was the son of Kadish Kaimowitz and Yospa Kassowitz. I located an indexed Lomza birth entry recorded in 1906 for Moszk Kajmowicz, son of Kadysz, on the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland webpage. The record was recorded consecutively along with two other siblings. Moszk's birth record was likely a delayed entry. Perhaps his parents did not travel to the records office to document his birth until a younger sibling was born. An index of the 1987 Lomza census, shows the family with son Mojsej Kajmowicz, age 3.[2] So, it is likely that Morris was born in about 1893-4.

Morris' World War I draft registration card showed a birth date of 20 August 1894. His Social Security Death Index record indicated 20 August 1895. His World War II registration showed 20 August 1896.[3] So, there is consistency for the 20th of August. The year is still a question.

I have yet to locate Morris' immigration or naturalization records, but his census records in 1920 and 1930 indicate he arrived in the U.S. between 1912 and 1914.[4] In New York he initially worked as a tailor in a clothing factory.

Anna's typed passenger manifest showed her as Chona Liba Mareyk (probably mistranscribed from something like Marcyk).[5] She was 14 and traveled with her older sister Perra from Liverpool to New York, landing on 19 July 1920.

Anna and her later arriving family members all went to her elder brother Jacob Marcus' home at 377 Hinsdale Avenue in Brooklyn. Anna was still at that address in 1923 when she married Morris Kaimowitz. Their marriage ceremony was performed there, as well.[6] 

By 1930, Morris and Anna lived at 3426 41st Street in Long Island City, Queens County, NY. Their son Carl had been born 31 March 1924 (died 18 July 1969) and David was born on 30 July 1929 (died on 5 January 2009).[7]

In 1940 they lived at 3056 37th Street, Long Island City, Queens Co., NY, with their two sons and Anna's parents Israel and Molly Marcus.[8]

On his World War II draft registration card, Morris reported that he owned his own tailoring business at 32-31 Steinway Street in Long Island City and lived at 30-62 37th Street.[9]

Morris and Anna's son, Carl's, grave is in the same Beth Moses Cemetery plot.

Notes:
1. Kings County, New York, marriage certificate no. 6674 (1923), Morris Kaimowitz and Anna Marcus, 3 June 1923; Municipal Archives, New York City.
2. 1897 Russian Census, Lomza District, entry for Mojsej Kajmowicz, age 3; index, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland (http://www.jri-p.org : accessed 17 December 2017); citing Polish State Archives, Fond 19, sygnatura 22, p. 27. 
3. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918," images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2017), entry for Morris Kaimowitz, no. 309, draft board 87, Kings County, New York. 
   "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://wwww.familysearch.org : accessed 17 December 2017), entry for Morris Kaimowitz, July 1972. 
   "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942," images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2017), entry for Morris Kaimowitz, serial no. 2559, Queens County, New York. 
4. 1920 U.S. Census, Kings Co., NY, pop. sched., Brooklyn, e.d. 91, sheet 5A, dwell. 50, fam. 77, Morris Kemowitz; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 December 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1146.   1930 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, pop. sched., Long Island City, sheet 12A, e.d. 41-75, dwell. 44, fam. 223, Morris and Anna Kaimowitz family; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 December 2017); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 1585.
5. Manifest, S.S. Caronia, 19 July 1920, p. 16, line 30, Chona Liba [indexed as Lida] Mareyk, age 14; images, "New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 December 2017). 
6. Kings Co., NY, marriage certificate no. 6674 (1923), Morris Kaimowitz and Anna Marcus, 3 June 1923.
7. 1930 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, pop. sched., Long Island City, sheet 12A, e.d. 41-75, dwell. 44, fam. 223, Morris and Anna Kaimowitz family.
   Carl's dates of birth and death are from his gravestone in the First Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association plot in Beth Moses Cemetery, Suffolk County, New York.
   For David's dates of birth and death, see "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," index, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 17 December 2017), entry for David Kaimowitz, 5 January 2009, Scotch Plains, Union Co., NJ.
8. 1940 U.S. Census, Queens Co., NY, pop. sched., Long Island City, e.d. 41-72, sheet 9A, household 168, Morris and Anna Kelmwitz; images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 December 2017); NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 2721.
9. "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Card, 1942," entry for Morris Kaimowitz, serial no. 2559, Queens County, New York.