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• 27 Oct 2026 · Mendel Szron and Chana Szylc (married 1846): three of their children very probably married at Ostrów Mazowiecka, Sora (1873), Abram Szmul (1879) and Chaja Eta (1883); the family moved from Goworowo to Ostrów about 1860. Likely
• 27 Oct 2026 · 24 new people. Abe Shron’s children Louis, Maurice (Moshe Mendel) and Ritta, with Louis’s wife Bertha and Maurice’s wife Rose, two Finkelstein sisters; Maurice’s stone gives Abe’s Hebrew name, Shmuel Abba. Confirmed
• 27 Oct 2026 · Lena Schron’s husband Barnett Wolkis and their five children: Anne, Milton, Jeanette, Herbert and Richard. Barnett’s birth year is uncertain; the records disagree. Likely
• 27 Oct 2026 · Fannie Schron’s husband Sigmund Okin and their children: Harold O’Kin, who died in 1917 aged about 4, David, Martin, Murray and Beatrice. Fannie and Sigmund’s graves at Montefiore. Confirmed
• 27 Oct 2026 · Hyman Rakower’s children as their own people: Fay, Louis (died 1935, aged 17), Joseph, Abraham, Molly and Anna. And Isaac Bick, son of Sylvia (Zisel) Bald and Rabbi Moshe Bick. Confirmed
• 27 Oct 2026 · New facts: Lena’s 1954 naturalization (born 27 May 1891, Warsaw), Freda Galin’s birth narrowed to 15 Aug 1907, Isidore Bald’s Hebrew name R’ Yisroel Boruch, and the 1937 marriages of Max Shron’s children Louis and Doris. Likely
• 26 Oct 2026 · Twenty-one Schron family records are now in the gallery: Morris’s 1920 household, Benjamin’s 1942 draft card, Eva’s 1936 naturalization (born 15 Jan 1903 in Maków; came in 1920 on the Nieuw Amsterdam as Chawa Szymkowicz; her witness was Joseph Schron), Benjamin and Eva’s 1923 marriage certificate, Clara’s 1921 marriage and Tauba’s 1937 death certificate, with Abe, Sophie and Max Shron’s papers marked Likely. Confirmed
• 26 Oct 2026 · Frieda’s death certificate, read in full, names her parents Mendel Chenick and Deborah. Confirmed
• 26 Oct 2026 · Changed: Abraham Shron is now only possibly Morris’s brother (it was Likely). His death record names his father Joseph, Morris’s names Julius. His widow Sarah Breine Shron’s 1944 death certificate is in the gallery. Possible
• 26 Oct 2026 · The 1846 and 1851 Szron marriages of Goworowo are now read in the original pages and shown. They go back to a Julek, born about 1760–1790, possibly an ancestor of Morris; nothing proves it. Possible
• 26 Oct 2026 · New: Sara Weinstein, born 1902 at Sokołów, likely Dora’s half-sister (her father Boruch’s second marriage). Dora’s mother Chane Chaje had likely died by December 1894. Likely
• 26 Oct 2026 · Five original certificates are now in the gallery: Isidore Bald and Bella Wank’s 1926 marriage (it names Bella’s mother as Dora Weinstein and Isidore’s as Taybe M. Ochs; Rabbi Michel Leiter married them), Isaac Bald’s 1939 death certificate, Elkunah Ochs’s 1920 death certificate, Sarah Wank’s 1930 marriage to Samuel Fisch, and Harry Bald’s 1933 marriage to Celia Wietschner. The medical sections of the death certificates are blanked out. Confirmed
• 26 Oct 2026 · Tillie’s parents Shapse Ochs and Frieda Schleider are now confirmed, from her brother Elkunah’s original death certificate. Isaac’s parents Pincus and Sylvia Bald are confirmed from his. Confirmed
• 26 Oct 2026 · “Mestretyn”, the society plot of Isaac and Tillie, means “of Stretyn”: the Stretyn society. The gate of Kalman Wank’s Dunajewer society at Mount Zion is in the gallery. Confirmed
• 26 Oct 2026 · Harry Bald likely died in April 1986 in Brooklyn (Social Security index, born 10 Jan 1907). Likely
• 26 Oct 2026 · The Goworowo society’s gate at Mount Zion possibly names Morris, “Chaim Moshe b. Yoel, Ex-Pres”, and Frieda, “Frayda Ester b. Menachem”. If so, Morris’s father’s Hebrew name was possibly Yoel and Morris was possibly a past president of the society. The gate carries no surnames. Two gate photos are in the gallery. Possible
• 26 Oct 2026 · Corrected: Max Shron’s son Louis died in 1993 and his daughter Doris (Dora, later Cohen) in 1991, by the Social Security index. They were shown as living before. Likely