Alex Calzareth
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Alex Calzareth
@alcalz.bsky.social
Genealogist in New York, NY focused on German-Jewish, Czech-Jewish and Southern Italian families, FOIA enthusiast, CPA
www.calzareth.com
Board Member at : www.jgsli.org and www.reclaimtherecords.org
There's a Mary Emmett who died on 21 August 1964 buried in the "Choniker" Independent Aid Association at Montefiore Cemetery in Queens. There's also a Morris Budofsky in the same section, who died in July 1967.
March 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day I'm remembering my great-great-grandfather, Friedrich Fried, and my maternal grandparents' aunts, uncles and cousins along with another 400+ relatives of varying degrees in my extended family tree who were all killed in the Holocaust.
January 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Here's a file for a distant cousin that I got from the VA, with 482 pages (25 MB): tinyurl.com/BPragerXCFile. This entry from the 1938 version of Who's Who in American Jewry gives basic information on his military service, but the VA file has even more. (Benjamin's widow and daughter are deceased.)
December 25, 2024 at 5:26 AM
One of the more interesting finds was the diagram/description of a cousin's tattoos from his 1899 enlistment.
November 23, 2024 at 9:56 PM
I agree with your take on this. So far I've only tried 3, but it seems to like the idea of taking a recognized object in the photo and adding another one, but make it move. Here's my example. Another seems to have added a medieval horseman galloping in the background of a photo of my mom on a horse.
November 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
From The Reporter Dispatch, May 23, 1982 - will send more via email.
November 22, 2024 at 2:20 AM
I figure I'll join in with my #familytree. Many more details on my website at www.calzareth.com/tree/ , although the tree there is a few years overdue for an update. #genealogy
November 20, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Examples might be useful. Below is my great-grandfather's 1951 passport application for Argentina to visit his two brothers. (Luckily survived the passport purge of the 1980s because he was foreign-born.)

Alien File (10MB) & a VA Claims File (15MB) examples: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
November 12, 2024 at 5:05 PM