by marlenetrestman | Sep 1, 2023
Annie & Bernard Schneider Russian immigrant Morris Schneider lived with his wife, Fannie, and his children, Lena, Bernard, and Annie, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he worked as a barber. In 1914, following Fannie’s death, Morris admitted ten-year-old...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 29, 2023
Dora, Bessie, and Jack Margolin In 1905, Harry Margolin journeyed from Kiev to Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York. By 1907, he had earned enough money from carpentry jobs for his wife, the former Rebecca Goldschmidt, and their young daughter, Dora, to join him. Two...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 28, 2023
Jennie, Dora, & Rosalee Gordon Nathan and Yetta Nobedrick immigrated from Chodorkov, Russia with their young daughters Jennie (Czerne), Dora (Dobe), and Rosalee (Marie) in 1900. Unable or unwilling to pronounce the surname, immigration officials gave the family...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 28, 2023
Jacob (Dubinski) Dubin By the time of the 1910 census, Henry Dubinski, a peddler, and his wife Rachel, had moved from Houston to San Antonio with their four children. Just five months later, Henry died. Rachel, with the support of San Antonio’s B’nai...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 26, 2023
Golda Schonbach Born in Austria, four-year-old Golda Schonbach immigrated to the United States with her mother Anna in 1910 and settled in New Orleans. In 1912, according to news accounts, Anna died by suicide, leaving a short note for her husband in Yiddish and...
