ADOLF E. SCHWARTZ:
Documenting a Life
from Miskolc to New York

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Adolf Schwartz

These are selected documents from the life of Adolf Schwartz (born Miskolc, 1880; died New York, 1948), son of Farkas Schwartz and Celia Weiss. From this selection, researchers whose relatives emigrated from Hungary to the United States may get an idea as to what documents may be available that are relevant to their own families and what may be learned from these documents that is of genealogical interest.

Note: To increase legibility, these documents have been intensively cleaned and restored.

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(1) Civil registry birth record of Adolf Schwartz
(Miskolc: May 7, 1880)
(2) Jewish community registry of birth of Adolf Schwartz
(Miskolc: May 7, 1880)

(3) Civil registry death record of Farkas Schwartz,
father of Adolf (Miskolc: October 16, 1891)

(4) Passenger manifest from port of embarkation by Adolf Schwartz
(Hamburg, Germany: February 23, 1892)
(5)Passenger manifest from port of arrival by Adolf Schwartz
(New York: March 7, 1892)

(6) Civil death record of Celia Weiss Schwartz,
mother of Adolf Schwartz (New York: December 12, 1898)

(7) Civil record of marriage of Adolf Schwartz to
Pauline Cohen (New York: November 2, 1902)
(8) Declaration of Intention by Adolf Schwartz to become
a US citizen (New York: June 22, 1911)

(9) Petition by Adolf Schwartz to become a
citizen of the US (New York: August 12, 1913)
(10) World War I military registration of Adolf Schwartz
(New York: September 12, 1918)

(11) US census record for the family of Adolf Schwartz
(New York: January 23, 1920)

(12) World War II military registration of Adolf Schwartz
(New York: 1942)
(13) Civil death record of Adolf Schwartz
(New York, May 21, 1948)

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