tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11369305214128915232024-03-05T05:10:28.194-08:00Heritage and Memory: a Public Historian's Family HistoryRebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053007548843850948noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136930521412891523.post-83241955996579291042015-06-24T21:35:00.000-07:002015-07-16T09:43:55.856-07:00Leonid's Story<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[Notes: 1. Much of the narrative about Leonid's life an the initial search was written by Mara. 2. Many names of the youngest generations are not mentioned to protect the privacy of those involved].</span><br />
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years since I’ve been able to work on my own family history research. I’ve
dabbled a little here and there when Ancestry.com had a free week, but didn’t
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But back in October, my friend, Mara, approached me about
a genealogy/family history project that she needed help with. She knew I liked
history and had done my own family research, so she thought I’d be a good brain
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mara had recently returned from visiting Belarus and Poland,
on a trip to help <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">young people learn about their past. They toured
Holocaust sites and had the privilege of meeting individual Holocaust survivors
and hearing their stories. One man, Leonid Rubinstein</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was an 87-year-old, living
in Minsk, Belarus. Not only did he survive the Minsk ghetto, which he
adamantly states was "worse than any death camp," but he survived
five concentration camps including Auschwitz and Dachau, where he was liberated
in 1945. While Leonid lived in the ghetto, he lost 28 of his family members, at
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Leonid returned to his homeland in Belarus at 18 years old. Surprisingly, the
Red Cross contacted Leonid and said that he had an aunt in America who had
contacted them. Leonid's aunt and cousin, Tamara, had immigrated to America in
the 1920's before the war. Immediately, Leonid began corresponding with them,
and his aunt started sending him care packages. However, the Soviet Union began
interrogated Leonid and reprimanded him for receiving care packages and letters
from their "enemy" (America). They forced him to write a letter,
which they dictated, cutting off all communication with his only living
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family a second time, Mara agreed to do as much as she could to help Leonid
find his family. Alt<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">hough Leonid had recorded his family’s
history in a short book, he didn’t have very clear details about his cousin and
aunt, but he was able to tell Mara <u>four </u>specific things about his cousin:
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1.Her
name was Tamara (unfortunately, he didn’t know her last name), 2. She served as
an U.S. army, and was a gynecologist/doctor in the liberation of Dachau in
April, 1945. 3. Her husband was also a doctor in the army (but didn’t know his
name), and 4. They lived in Brooklyn, NY when they were able to write letters
back and forth</i>.</b> He also had two photographs: one of Tamara and her
husband (in military uniform), and the other of her family on her wedding day. And
additional info about his parents was given as well.</span></span></div>
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it turned out, not all of these things were true, but I’m getting ahead of
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returning from Eastern Europe, Mara started searching. She contacted national
and international archives, multiple Holocaust museums, the Red Cross, the
International Tracing Service, military libraries and museums, and census
records, which all yielded no results. </span></span></div>
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Sukkot service, Mara shared this all with me, and I agreed to jump on board as
well. I was in the middle of a busy school semester, and had been dealing with
some difficult health issues, but if you know me, I cannot say no to a research
project! </span>Mara helped me pay for a month’s subscription to Ancestry.com’s
World Membership, and I jumped right in. For the whole month, every spare
minute I had was spent thinking, praying, and researching about Tamara and her
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creating a family tree on Ancestry.com, to see if any hints would appear. Them
I posted a short description of the inquiry and the photographs of Tamara and
her family on various message boards on Ancestry.com. One person responded and
identified Tamara's uniform. They suggested the U.S. Army Enlistment records,
found at the National Archives (NARA) and on Ancestry.com. There were four people
with the first name Tamara who lived in New York when they enlisted. Two of those
women were born in the former Soviet Union. The first served as an aviation
cadet, but Leonid had told me that Tamara served in a medical unit so we knew
she couldn't be the one. That left one Tamara: Tamara K.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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information with Mara in late October. She was optimistic but also unsure how
we would actually contact this Tamara or any of her relatives. Through Public Records
and Phone Directory Records on Ancestry.com, I was able to give Mara a list of outdated
phone numbers and addresses for all the "Tamara K's" in New York. </span></span></div>
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one by one. There were many wrong numbers, as I expected. For the last Tamara,
there was a phone number but no area code. However, this Tamara was born in
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the phone calls, we decided that "Tamara K." was not the correct
Tamara, and went back to scouring Ancestry.com for anything to “click.” I
looked at census records (hallelujah for the 1940 census!), military, and
immigration records on Ancestry.com; military history websites and I even went
to the library and looked up books about the Army units that liberated the
Dachau concentration camp, in case Tamara was important enough to get
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before the subscription ran out, I received another response from the message
board, encouraging us to reconsider "Tamara K." The person also
sent a link to a K family tree on another genealogy website (Geni.com). Geni’s
family tree for the Klein family showed the connections I was looking for!
Tamara’s mother’s name was Marya, and her father was Moti, the same name as
Leonid’s father! When Tamara and Marya (Alyoshina) had migrated from Minsk in
the 1920s, they (unknowingly to us), stopped in Turkey for a while. Therefore,
many of their immigration records noted Turkey as their last location (which
originally turned me off to a whole line of inquiry!). Crossing borders into
the United States, their last name was changed. This information all came from confirming our
speculation about Tamara Klein being the right Tamara. It was only then that I
was able to confirm connections going both back, and forward in time. It was an
amazing moment of discovery!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But back to my
original side note: in all this we discovered that Tamara was never at Dachau,
nor a gynecologist/doctor. She was in the U.S. Army, but served in a home-front
capacity, as she was pregnant with her daughter Judith at the time. Her husband
Michael K. fought in WWII, but also did not make his way to Dachau either.
What we thought was vital information, was not true at all</i>.]</span></div>
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information, I turned to Google. I found Tamara K.’s obituary (she must have
been the Tamara who was born in 1919 who didn't have an area code!), as well as
her daughter’s (Judith) obituary. I anticipated the fact that Tamara had passed,
but I was saddened to learn that Leonid’s next best connection was as well. But
through the wonders of Facebook and Google, I found out that Judith and her husband
moved from New York to San Francisco to begin a social service agency, where
their three grown children still work today! I sent Mara the information right
away, and she began calling the siblings. Finally, after a few weeks, the
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questions about his grandmother, and then she sent him the photograph of Tamara
and her husband. He was floored, “ <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Oh!!
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call, we realized we forgot about trying to contact Tamara’s son, who is still
living. So Mara emailed him, and it turns out that he had the most interest in
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all of this with Leonid (through an interpreter), he listened quietly while she
spoke, and then tears started streaming down his face. "Unbelievable,
unbelievable," he said. Leonid had been trying to reestablish connections
with his relatives since Belarus became independent from the Soviet Union in
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began writing a letter to Tamara’s son, the form of communication he last had
with Tamara. Everyone laughed, telling him that he could email or video chat
with his American family! Later in January, they did just that, and began
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Leonid said, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I would like to
invite you to come to Minsk so that I can put my arms around you and hug you. I
want to take you through the ghetto and show you where your great grandparents
died, where your aunts and uncles died, where your cousins died." He
asked, "What could 6 million people have done? Perhaps one of them could
have found the cure for cancer. Perhaps one of them could have written the next
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continue telling the stories of those who had passed away. "Someday, I
will be gone, but these stories must live on.” And said, "It's not my
story. I'm no hero. All I did was survive. And because I survived, I have to
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crew stood waiting at the airport. Leonid joined them, proudly wearing a suit,
and appearing 10 years younger than he had earlier. Leonid’s son was there, as
well. More people began arriving: the rabbi who along with his wife started the
congregation in Minsk that has cared for the Holocaust survivors for the past
20 years; the woman who had coordinated all the survivor visits; the
translator. They all stood in a half circle, in front of the glass doors,
waiting for Leonid's family to walk through them and into his life. </span></span></div>
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son (with his wife), grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. The camera flashed
and Leonid began meeting his family one by one. Tamara had written Leonid
letters and sent care packages almost 70 years ago, and today, they were meeting
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family pictures. When the meal began, Leonid stood up for a toast: “I will not
speak here about the tragedy that took place in Minsk in the ghetto. I will not
even say right now how many of my relatives died. I will save that for
tomorrow. Today is a day of joy. At my table at home, I always had more friends
than relatives. And today, I’ve got 8 people who are my relatives, and
honestly, it’s still hard for me to believe that you’re here from such a far land
in America. My dear relatives. Tomorrow, I will share about the tragic things but today, I wish
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This weekend I attended the National Council on Public History/Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, WI. While there, I had the opportunity to present a poster/board about my Family History research and it's connection to Public History (also the topic of my Master's Essay in 2009). It was super fun putting the board together over the last couple weeks and then getting to share my information with fellow public historians.<br />
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053007548843850948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136930521412891523.post-38314462810823230932012-04-02T21:30:00.002-07:002012-04-02T21:30:56.700-07:00My first find: Isadore (Robert) SilvermanBecause the 1940 census is being released online first, before going to
microfilm, there is not an index yet. That means you can't just search for names
like you can with other censuses on Ancestry.com (or similar sites). The only search fields are for State, County, City and Enumeration Districts. So you need to know
addresses.<br />
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I was determined to be a super-slueth and find at least one of the
Silverman family members the super hard way. I decided to start with California, and as
luck would have it, that was ones of the first states ready to
look at today. Last week I scoured City Directories for all the
Silvermans who moved out to California, and I found quite a few good matches.
But for Robert/Isadore, I found one for San Mateo, CA in both 1939 and
1940. Today I found the San Mateo Enumeration Map and paged through
lots of tiny font and curvy roads until I found the street that had been listed in the city directory
(Bellevue). Then I went to the 1940 Census and searched by the
enumeration district. Easy enough, but I still had to find the family. It's not exactly clear how the enumerators scoured their neighborhoods, but I eventually figured out their rhythm (one side of the street, cross streets, and then the other side of the street). I had to scroll through 38
pages (only had a minor heart-attack about even-odd numbered houses), but I finally found the listing for 1429
Bellevue, the home and work place of Isadore, Anna and one of their
sons, Albert (lines 6-8). You can not begin to imagine my excitement! Not only that I found their record, but that I found it the old-fashioned way! Woohoo for the technological age making us do grunt work for a change.<br />
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Here are two images to remind you who we're talking about. Isadore (Robert) is my maternal grandmother's uncle. <a href="http://heritageandmemory.blogspot.com/p/family.html" target="_blank">Click here for more details about the family.</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Isadore (Robert) when he was younger, living in Montreal, Canada</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this is Isadore (Robert) closer to 1940.</td></tr>
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Here are some images from my search:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1940 City Directory (close-up)-- Burlingame, San Mateo, California </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1940 Enumeration Map (close-up)-- Burlingame, San Mateo, California-- 1429 Bellevue Ave.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1940 U.S. Census (close-up)-- Burlingame, San Mateo, California-- Isadore, Anna and Albert Silverman</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the full image of the 1940 Census</td></tr>
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053007548843850948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136930521412891523.post-48802873312894076282012-04-02T18:38:00.001-07:002012-04-02T19:12:57.752-07:00The 1940 Census is Here!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Please forgive me while I bombard you with all things 1940 Census, but this is a perfect place to share some of the great images and videos I've seen in the last week or so.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I almost forgot this one! I found this on Ancestry's Facebook Page this morning. These are the hard drives holding all the Census data, right before NARA staff began uploading it online. Crazy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ancestry.com has a pretty fun blog called Sticky Notes. It's a great
space for every-day people and Ancestry staff can post things they find
and share stories. This specific page is high-lighting the 1940 Census record of the great Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pretty exciting. Click on the image to visit the site.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is one great example of photographs depicting a 1940 Census enumerator, going to the farthest corners of the country to make sure everyone got recorded.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And lastly, this is a pretty great site that I stumbled upon last week. It's a site sponsored by public and private genealogical organizations
who are devoted to making the 1940 Census accessible and understandable.
I signed up to be a blogger and indexer, and I'm super excited to join
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Get excited folks, we're less than a week away from the release of the 1940 Census! But before your get too carried away, there's some important things you need to know. <b><a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54263" target="_blank">This article </a></b>describes some of the things you'll encounter. Unlike previous censuses that were released first on micro-film, the 1940 census is primarily going to be available on the internet. The effects of this much information entering the world-wide-web won't be evident right away, however, because there won't be a searchable index for at least six months. But be patient--the index will come eventually, and with it, the joy of finding your family's history!<br />
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053007548843850948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136930521412891523.post-57034113330536683562011-12-29T19:28:00.000-08:002011-12-29T19:28:13.543-08:00Exciting New Records at Ancestry.com in 2012This week Ancestry.com posted a list of 12 things we can look forward to in 2012. Personally, the most exciting is the release of the 1940 U.S. Census! But there will be thousands of new records and documents to peruse and examine. Click on the image below for more details.<br />
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<br />Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053007548843850948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136930521412891523.post-25523457977781941242011-10-09T15:53:00.000-07:002011-10-09T15:57:28.768-07:00Rebecca Silverman Triber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is all my collected information on Rebecca "Beckie" Silverman Raichlin Triber, my great grandmother and namesake.<br />
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<li>Beckie was born in 1896 in Chudyn, Austria (Which today is called Chernivtsi, Ukraine) to Rachel Katz and Nathan Silverman. She was one of nine children, seven daughters and two sons.</li>
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<li>Around 1903 Beckie, her mother Rachel, and some of her siblings emigrate from Europe to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</li>
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<li> The 1911 Canadian Census records the family living in Montreal.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1911 Census. Silverman Family</td></tr>
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<li>1914: Beckie marries Nathan Rachlin, an immigrant from Belarus. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beckie Silverman</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nathan Raichlin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beckie and Nathan's Wedding Kettuba, 1914</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beckie and Nathan's Marriage Record, 1914</td></tr>
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<li>1916: They give birth to a daughter, Jennie.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennie, 1916</td></tr>
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<li>Later that year, Nathan Raichlin dies from the influenza epidemic.</li>
<li>1918: Beckie marries Charles Triber</li>
<li>1920: They give birth to a son, Abraham.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beckie, Abraham and Jennie, 1920. The picture excludes Florence Triber, Beckie's step-daughter.</td></tr>
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<li>Later that year Beckie, Charles, Jennie, Abraham and Charles' daughter Florence move to Florence, South Carolina.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Border Crossing Record, from Canada to U.S., 1920</td></tr>
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<li>1923: Abraham tragically dies after being hit by a car.</li>
<li>1924: They give birth to another son, Harry.</li>
<li>The 1930 U.S. Census records the family (minus Harry, for an unknown reason) living in Florence, S.C. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1930 U.S. Census</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beckie with her mother, Rachel and daughter, Jennie. Sometime in the 1940s.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beckie (top right) with her mother, Rachel (next to her) and six of her siblings.</td></tr>
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<li>1948: Charles takes his own life, in front of a train. </li>
<li>1949: Beckie passes away, most likely from depression and grief.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beckie Triber's Obituary, 1949</td></tr>
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<li>From the time they moved to South Carolina until shortly after Beckie's death, the family ran and operated a Shoe Store in Florence, S.C.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Advertisement for the Triber's Shoe Store, bottom left</td></tr>
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Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04053007548843850948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1136930521412891523.post-58994414431879465382011-09-24T21:27:00.000-07:002011-09-24T21:27:07.523-07:00Census Records<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sophie Silverman Dorfman, 1911 Canadian Census</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert and Anna Silverman, Harry and Pearl Rosenblatt, 1920 U.S. Census</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nathan Triber, Beckie Silverman Triber and Family, 1930 U.S. Census</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Max and Mary Silverman Rosenblatt, 1930 U.S. Census</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lewis and Sylvia Silverman Stock, 1930 U.S. Census</td></tr>
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