Another find

Another interesting find, this is from 1930 US Census. I was able to locate records for Ruth and Gene. Here is what we learn from this little gem:

• Ruth was 2 years older.


• Sisters did not disclose their real age, Ruth would have been 25 and Gene 27 not 25 and 23 as the record indicate here.


• Both of the sisters worked as seamstresses; Ruth sewing sporting goods and Gene curtains.


• They lived with a man named Benjamin Krantz and his wife Sarah, 2 sons Milton and Herbert and daugther Charlotte Bressler with her husband Michael Bressler.


• They listed their country of birth as Russia


• They listed date of immigration as 1922, we assumed it would be 1921, because in Ruth's passport there is a stamp from Dover, England on October 5, 1921. This means that they took their time crossing the Atlantic, or took it easy in England for a while.

If the landowner's family knew our sisters and it probably is safe to assume so, and the youngest of them, Herbert (b. 1919), would be alive now, he would be 87 years old. The others are amost certainly dead, his brother Milton would be 96.

I am still trying to figure out if the address can be placed based on the census form.

Benjamin Krantz was a tailor in 1920 and became a real estate agent in 1930. He died in Tazewell, Illinois in November of 1966.