The Rabinowitz family in Jewish Harlem

Discovery Notebook

Does his burial location give a clue about the Rabinowitz family origin story?
Our family members were mistakenly connected to Philadelphia lawyer Jules Robbins.

Here are photos of the gravestones of Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Queens…

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We've always known that Julius Rabinowitz and his wife Annie had two children—Abner, born in…

Catching up with more of the materials sent by Harriet Berkowitz, I'll begin with photos of…

Fueled with new information from Harriet Berkowitz, and by Walter's plan to visit Mt. Hebron…

Somehow on my first several perusals of Harriet's trove of Rabinowitz materials I missed the…

Harriet Berkowitz followed through on her promise and yesterday I received her package…

Wrong again
  • Sep 19, 2008

Phooey! The death certificate that I ordered for the Joseph Rabinowitz buried Sept. 2, 1920 at…

Walt, I started looking at the Mount Hebron cemetery records again, and am feeling hopeful that…

Events are moving faster than my ability to write them up, especially since I have another job.…

An email update about Washington DC death records from the…

Back in mid-August, I left the following posting on RFHP:

Wow--the 1900…

This is exciting because it shows Joseph Rabinowitz gaining his citizenship in 1892 and it also…

Wow! The 1900 census has Joseph born in about 1855 and Lena in 1857, which is really getting…

Tracking Blossom and Meta is harder since we don't have married names for them, but the…

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