Author: Alex Feller
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Visit to NARA II in College Park
As you may have guessed from my previous posts, my current focus on my ancestry is on immigration. I am probing further into the application process to discover what other documents may exist. Knowing that my grandfather had to make his visa application at the US consulate in Warsaw and that my great-grandfather had addressed…
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Affidavit of Support from Abraham Rothen
In my first blog, I discussed my interest in researching the visa file for the immigration of my grandfather, Max Faust, and his family. I was intrigued by the details (as seen above) of the visa information on the ship manifest stating that the Quota Immigrant Visas were issued by the US Consulate in Warsaw…
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Max Faust’s 1938 Address Book
I woke up on Christmas morning and thanked G-d for creating Christmas so that I can have a day off. The holy day of Shabbat has lost its significance as I have worked on Saturdays for many years. Even the Sunday Sabbath for the rest of the staff has taken a back seat as Sunday…
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Lackawanna County, PA Wills and Marriage Licenses
During our pre-Hannukah Hannukah party, my cousin asked for immigration information on her great-grandmother, Bertha Rothen, for her daughter’s school project. Bertha Rothen was my maternal grandmother’s eldest sister. It was easy to provide my cousin with images of ship manifests for Bertha Rothen and her soon to be husband, Louis Kornfeld. Bertha Rothen was…
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Visa Files
I have been using the little bit of free time I have to delve more into my own family history and retrace some of the steps I took many years ago. I thought at the same time I would write about my methods and findings in some sort of blog. Hopefully it will…
Genealogy by Alex 