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Death Certs - Multiple Jurisdictions

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sarah (Slonimsky) Shane lived in Philadelphia when she died in 1912. Her husband had arrived in 1888 and her father and stepmother had been in the country from around the same year. We can now look for the records of Kalman and Bessie Slominsky who had to have been married by around 1870.

Death Certificate Information might be filled in differently for one family member than another
Four Years Earlier - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Kalman Slonimsky died at the end of 1907 just a few years before his daughter Sarah whose death certificate is shown above, and in the same place. His family knew his father's name and put it on his tombstone but the spaces for information related to parents is left blank on his form.

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Lechovicher Death Certificates in Multiple Jurisdictions
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Deciphering Death Certificate Informantion


Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Rabbi Benjamin Aduchowsky traveled to his married daughter in Cleveland Ohio in 1906, and died at her home in 1909. The death certificate states "Russia"as birthplace - you have to look to the immigration record to see a statement of "Lechowitz." His reported age to the government is now younger than when he immigrated, and the informant would like you to think that Benjamin's father who never emigrated, was called "Willie". But we now have enough information to look for a Wolf (Welvel) Aduchowsky of Lyakhovichi who was already married in the 1850s. And in fact Benjamin and his father can be found in the 1874 List of Males of Lyakhovichi

Houston, Harris County, Texas (with residence and burial in Mexico City)
Kiva Kantorovich was living in Mexico City but visiting in Houston Texas when he died in 1975. His parents Nathan Kantorovich and Rachel Gitlin were part of the large outflow of Lechovichers to the Caribbean, and to Central and South America in the 1920s and 1930s. As in the previous death certificate, the record does not state a particular town of birth but his temporary sojourns across the Mexican border to the US are documented with that information.

There are, as of July1, 2009, five Death Certificate pages.

Death Certificate Project

Death Certificate Database to Lechovichers who died NYC 1893-1943, w index

Death Certificate Indices of Extracted Parents, Spouse Names, and Parent Marriages


Death Certificate Chronological Lists of those buried in Lechovicher plots NYC 1893-1948

Lechovicher Death Certificates in Multiple Jurisdictions You are Here!

If you skip the information at The Death Certificate Project you do your search a disservice. It will tell you more than how this project began and how much we owe to the amazing Tina Levine of New York City. It tells how we approach these records and what kind of resources they offer and how to proceed.

Lechovicher Death Certificates in Multiple Jurisdictions
Ordered alphabetically under the place of death

by Deborah Glassman, copyright 2008 and 2009

This page is for Lechovichers (those born in Lyakhovichi) and their immediate families who were buried in places other than the New York City area official Lechovicher society plots. If you have info on your family members who were buried in a Workman Circle's burial site not associated with a Lyakhovichi lodge or if you have details on their burial in a family plot anywhere in the area, or if your family like mine, never lived in New York City and are buried elsewhere, please share that info here.

General abbreviations and Usages in this table:
Italicized notes initialed DGG are input from the webmaster Deborah G. Glassman, not comments in the original
NC = Not collected. The goals of the database have changed a couple of times so the same information may not have been sought consistently, and on some of the material, the contributors were unable to supply the information on material collected over long periods of time.

Decedant - this is the name as reported in the Death Certificate
Age - as reported in the death certificate
Marital Status=MarStat: W = widow or widower; M = married; S = Single; na = not applicable (usually children). When the certificate elaborated "housewife" "married two years" or other that is moved to "miscellaneous"
Father - as given including with notes in original as to where the father was born
Mother - as given including with notes in original as to where the mother was born
Death Date - as given in death certificate
Residence=Res: When it doesn't indicate "Street" or "Avenue" or other road designation, the default is Street.
Informant= Inform: Mostly the informants were the doctor who is named on the certificate. When the informant is a family member I have stated that but moved the informant's name and relationship info to the Miscellany column.

Cemeteries: = Cem: If the name of the cemetery is easy to abbreviate and yet remain clear it will be so posted, if not a list of cemeteries will be included and annotated.

Funeral Director= FunDir: If the name of the fun. dir. is easy to abbreviate and yet remain clear it will be so posted, if not a list of cemeteries will be included and annotated.

Doctor: cited in death certificate and the address given in the record.
Miscellaneous - this information varies widely always including cause of death but sometimes including birthdates, lenth of US and NYC stay, occupations, info on parents, other

I am also posting some info on people who I know died in these communities but for whom I do not yet have a death certificate. If you have any for them, or know of others in that community, please help!


 

Decedent

Age

Married?
spouse

Father

Mother

Date

Res inc Street, City, State

Cem

FunDir

Dr

Misc.

Death Cert Link

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

ADUCHOWSKY,
Benjamin

60

mar-?

Willie
b Russia

unk
b Russia

5/29/1909

4916 ScovillAve
Cleveland
Ohio

Fremont Str*

Ike Negin

B. Raskind

Inf-Cora Negin same res; Cause-pumonary edema; chronic bronchitis; contrib- bronchial asthma

death cert image

Berkovsky, Anna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burial info from Lansing Street (Fremont) Cemetery

cert - Cuyahoga Co, Ohio;
Cert 01150
Jan 17, 1919

Negin, Cora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leeds, England

HAVSY
Harry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pilnick
Max

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Los Angeles, California, USA

Pilnick,
Abram

 

mar
Jennie

 

 

April 1928

 

 

 

 

 

Wichter,
Abe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Bush,
Isidore

78

mar
Esther

Yossel Bushel
source Merle Lundy

Reizel Budovlia
source Merle Lundy

06-03-1963;

Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY

Kenessth Israel

Herman Meyer &Son

 

cert 14719. The burial of Isidore Bush appears in the database of the Herman Meyer and Son Funeral Home of Louisville 5/3/1963 as burial 11-044-631

Bush,
Katie

54

mar Isidore Bush

WEINBERG, Hyman

RING, Anna

1/3/1940

1331 S. First St; Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY

Kenneseth Israel

Herman Meyer &Son

David S. Traub

 The burial of Katie W. Bush appears in the database of the Herman Meyer and Son Funeral Home of Louisville 1/3/1940 as burial 11-001-4-1

death cert image

Bush,
infant

stillborn

x

BUSH, Isidore

BUSH, Katie

2/4/1913

1127 N. Market, Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY

Beth Midrash haGadol

D.S.Davis

H. A. Cottell

 

death cert image

Bush,
Esther

mar, Bush, Isidore

WEINBERG, Hyman

RING, Anna

 

 

 The burial of Esther W. Bush appears in the database of the Herman Meyer and Son Funeral Home of Louisville as burial

 

 

 

death cert image

Newark, Delaware, USA

PILNICK
Joseph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PILNICK
Anna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BECKER
Dora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PILNICK
Meyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PILNICK
Robert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New London, Connecticut, USA

BRODY
Reuben

 

 

 

 

1936

 

 

 

 

buried Ahavat Chesed Cem
New London Ct

BRODY
Etta

 

 

 

 

1941

 

 

 

 

buried Ahavat Chesed Cem
New London Ct

New York City, New York, USA

ADUKOFF
Mordechai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

death cert image

KAPLAN
Rachel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

death cert image

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Gavzy, Oscar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss, Harry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss, Ida

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Slonimsky, Kalman
Jerucham Kalmon Slonimsky

74y
1m
10d

 

? b Russia

? b Russia

12/24/1907

1137 S7th St

HarNebo

SGoldfas
331Pine

G.J.
Silverman

Arteriosclerosis;
Chronic Gastritis;
b. 11/15/1833;
Jew.Expo.
Obit

Shane, Sarah

42

mar

Kalman Slominsky
bRussia

Bessie
bRussia

10/5/1912

1410RidgeAv

Har Nebo

Joseph Emes
1022 S5

Dr. MS Potts
St Joseph's Hosp

Purerparal peritonitis

Brazina, Mary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Har Yehuda
Springfield PA

 

 

 

Greenblat, Bessie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wellington, New Zealand