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What kinds of landmarks in a photo will help you identify an intersection in an historical New York City photo?
I have this photo from around June 1958 that I'm pretty sure is in New York City and I'm trying to identify the intersection.
The reflection of what is off camera across the street to the right may ...
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Trying to find dates for cabinet cards with Brooklyn business information and addresses?
We have 2 cabinet cards and a cabinet-card-esque photograph that I believe are from the early 1900s that we are trying to date more concretely based on writing on the three cards.
The first image has ...
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What is this man's uniform and probable decade of photograph?
This is a photograph of a man whom I suspect is Stephen Caldwell Roach, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, 1839 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9RF-YGM The photo is from an older relative ...
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Is Frances CHADWICK also Catherine Pearl?
My great-grandfather, James C. Siegel of Schenectady, New York (30 AUG 1884 - 13 DEC 1951) was married to a Catharine Pearl Chadwick on June 30; I don't have the year and this information from a ...
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Finding original surname of 20th Century Russian immigrant to United States?
My Great Grandfather Abraham moved here from Vilna Russia in early 1900's with his wife Udis Rose and two children, Arthor and Bella. They started in New York City and at some point changed the last ...
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Finding people who have moved within the same geographical area?
In an answer to the question How would you handle a census record that is almost certainly the target family but which has too many discrepancies? I wrote about a family in my research area for which ...
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How to find a passenger who left NYC to europe around 1885-1913.
How to find a passenger manifest who left New York City to Europe around 1885-1913? I know he arrived to New York City, and there are 4 records at Ellis Island of people who would match him almost ...
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Locating a 20th century New York Death record
My Spanish great uncle was born Salvador Mouris Campos and naturalized as Compos. He was born July 1, 1886 and traveled from Havana to New York in 1917. Was subsequently drafted for WW1 that year. In ...
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Where else might I find a ship going from New York to London in Spring/Summer, 1911?
I am looking for the ship on which the following party traveled from New York to London in Spring or Summer, 1911:
Charles Jay Foster
Minna Cramer Foster
Marie-Louise Foster
Enid Foster
Minna Van ...
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Who killed Katherine Ann (McFee/McPhee) Stevens?
Katherine Ann (McFee/McPhee) Stevens, was the wife of Mr. Byron E. Stevens. The couple resided in Brooklyn Ward 7, New York, USA with their 5 daughters(1). Story has it that Katherine was killed in ...
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Name change records for New York City (NYC)?
One of the people I am researching appears to have changed her name: in the 1915 NYC census she appears as Reva Osernoff, living with the Axel family:
Similarly in the 1920 federal and 1930 censuses:
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