Morris (Movshe) SWERDLOVE #1437, birth name Movsha Sverdlov (Russian), German name Moishe (Yiddish), Hebrew name Mosheh, census name Swerdlove (1930),^[i] born abt 1854 in Vitebsk gubernia, Russian Empire, religion Orthodox Jew, resided 1909 on Jatkowski street, Bialystok, Grodno gubernia, Russian Empire, (Yiddish, Bialistok) immigrated 1911,¹ census 1-Jan-1920 not located, naturalized after 1930, census 1-Apr-1930 from Manhattan, New York, New York, resided 1930 at 41 Gouverneur Street, New York, NY,¹ occupation broommaker in Brooklyn factory, cause of death meningitis.

He married Mary (Masche) SCHAFT #2777, Hebrew name Miriam (guess), married 1880 in Russia,¹ born 12-Apr-1854 in Vitebsk gubernia, Imperial Russian Empire, (formally part of Poland) resided in Bialystok, Grodno gubernya, Russian Empire, (Yiddish, Bialistok) emigrated Sep-1911 from Liverpool, Merseyside, England on the S.S. "Merion",^[ii] immigrated 3-Oct-1911 to the Port of Philadelphia,^1,2 resided 1911 at 968 North F Street in Philadelphia,^[iii] naturalized after 1930, resided 1930 at 41 Gouverneur Street, New York, NY,¹ died 18-Jun-1937 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY.

I. Jennie SVERDLOVE,^[iv] #4271, born 25 Jan 1882 in Minsk gubernia, Russian Empire,^{[v],[vi],[vii]} (b.1882 on 1-Jan-1920 Census, 1883 on 1-Apr-1930 Census, 1884 on SSDI) emigrated 1901,⁵ resided 1906 at 606 Franklin Street, resided 1909 at 303 Wood St., census 15-Apr-1910 from Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania,^[viii] census 1-Jan-1920 from Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey,⁵ resided 1920 at 1319 Arctic Ave,⁵ naturalized 1921 - 1929 in NJ, resided 1923 at 110th Street & Lexington Ave with Selig family,⁴ census 1-Apr-1930 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,⁶ resided 1930 at 223 Rhode Island,⁶ occupation 1930 sewing, dressmaker,⁶ died Aug 1966 in 08401 Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey.⁷

She married Morris BAKST,⁴ #4281, also known as Maurice (Selig's 1906 Manifest),^[ix] married 1903 in Philadelphia?,⁶ born 1881 - 1882 in Bialystok, Grodno gubernya, Russian Empire,^[x] (Byalistock, [Yiddish, Bialistok], Grodno gubernya, Poland b.1881 on 1910 Census; b.1882 on 1920 Census, b.1883 on 1930 Census.) immigrated 1901,¹⁰ occupation carpenter,⁴ resided 1-Dec-1906 at 606 Franklin Street, Philadelphia, PA,⁹ (from Brother-in-Law, Selig Swerdlow's Manifest) census 15-Apr-1910 from Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania,^[xi],[xii] census 1-Jan-1920 from Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey,¹⁰ resided 1920 at 1319 Arctic Ave,^4,10 occupation 1920 Merchant, Clothing Store,¹⁰ resided 1923 at 110th Street & Lexington Ave with Selig Sverdlove family,⁴ naturalized 1921-1929 in NJ, census 1-Apr-1930 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,⁶ resided 1930 at 223 Rhode Island,⁶ (rent $42/month) occupation 1930 carpenter, general.⁶

A. Harry BAKST #4288, census name Heyman (1910),^[xiii] born 14 Jul 1904 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,^5,7 (or 1903) census 15-Apr-1910 from Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,¹³ census 1-Jan-1920 from Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey,⁵ resided 1920 at 1319 Arctic Ave,⁵ census 1-Apr-1930 at Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,^[xiv] resided 1930 at 1105 Arctic Ave,¹⁴ occupation 1930 Proprietor, Hotel s(illegible),¹⁴ resided in 11570 Rockville Centre, Nassau, New York,⁷ died Apr 1976 in Rockville Centre, Nassau, New York.⁷

He married Fanny "Fay"? UNKNOWN #4292, married 1928 - 1929,¹⁴ born 31 May 1907 in Pennsylvania,^14,7 (or 1907 - 1908) census 1-Apr-1930 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,¹⁴ resided 1930 at 1105 Arctic Ave,¹⁴ died May 1972 in 11570 Rockville Centre, Nassau, New York,⁷ (or Francis, born 3 Jan 1905, died May 1986 in 07712 Asbury Park, Monmouth, New Jersey).

B. Charles BAKST #4289, born 1908 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,^5,6 census 15-Apr-1910 from Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA,¹³ census 1-Jan-1920 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,⁵ resided 1920 at 1319 Arctic Ave,⁵ census 1-Apr-1930 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,⁶ resided 1930 at 223 Rhode Island.⁶

C. Ruth BAKST #4290, born 1913 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,^5,6 census 1-Jan-1920 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,^[xv] resided 1920 at 1319 Arctic Ave,⁵ census 1-Apr-1930 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,⁶ resided 1930 at 223 Rhode Island.⁶

D. Leonard BAKST #4291, born 13 Jul 1921 in Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,^6,7 census 1-Apr-1930 from Atlantic City, Atlantic, NJ,⁶ resided 1930 at 223 Rhode Island,⁶ resided 2005 in West Bloomfield, MI, died 6 Apr 2003 in 08406 Ventnor City, Atlantic, New Jersey,⁷ yartzeit 4th of Nisan, 5763.

II. Selig "Samuel" SVERDLOVE #1844, Hebrew name Shmu'el ben Moshe, census name Samuel (1910), also known as Zelik or Zelig (Means "blessed, happy" in Yiddish), born 1882 -1883 in Imperial Russian Empire,^13,[xvi] (b. 1878 per Manifest) resided 1890 in Bialystok, Grodno gubernya, Russian Empire,^[xvii] (in Russian: Belostok. Bialystok, Bialostocki Poviat, Podlasksi (Poland)

) event 1905 in active in Bund. Spent time in Siberia. Meet his wife through the Bund., resided 1906 in Bialystok, Grodno gubernya, Russian Empire,¹⁷ (Bialystok, Poland today) emigrated 1-Dec-1906 from Antwerp, Belgium on the S.S. "Samland",^{[xviii],[xix],17} immigrated 13-Dec-1906 to the Port of New York,^{16,[xx],[xxi]} (possible 60-62 East 9th Street, Philadelphia ) description 1906 black hair, blue eyes and 5 foot 2-1/2 inches tall,⁹ resided 1906 c/o Maurice Bacsh, 606 Franklin Street, Philadelphia, PA,¹⁷ resided abt 1909 at 60-62 East 9th Street, census 15-Apr-1910 from Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,^[xxii],16 resided 1910 at 859 North 6th Street,¹⁶ occupation 1910 presser in a shirt factory,¹⁶ resided 1911 at 466 North F Street,^[xxiii] emigrated abt 1914 to Montreal, Quebec, Canada,¹⁸ (Went to live with wife's sister, Rose Yellen Bernstein.) emigrated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, immigrated abt 1921 to Manhattan, New York County, New York, emigrated abt 1923 to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA, occupation tried being a grocer in LA, emigrated abt 1925 to Manhattan, New York County, New York, died abt 1925 in Manhattan, New York County, New York.⁴

He married¹⁸ Eva (Yeva) YELLEN #396, census name Eva (1910), married abt 1909 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,¹⁶ (daughter of unknown YELLEN #4282) born 1886 -1887 in Imperial Russian Empire,¹⁶ immigrated abt 1907 to Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,¹⁶ census 15-Apr-1910 from Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,¹⁶ resided 1910 at 859 North 6th Street,¹⁶ emigrated abt 1914 to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, medical condition Tuberliosis, died abt 1919 in Laurentians, Quebec, Canada.

A. Leon SVERDLOVE,¹⁸ #233, census name Leo Swerdlove (1930) Marriage Certificate name Swerdler,¹ (listed as "relative" living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary) born 14-Dec-1910 in Calahan Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,^{[xxiv],1,[xxv],[xxvi],[xxvii]} resided in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, emigrated about 1912 to Montreal, Quebec, Canada,²⁶ resided abt 1921 in Canada, emigrated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada,¹⁸ immigrated abt 1922 to Manhattan, New York, New York,²⁶ resided about 1922 on 180th Street & Daily Avenue near Bronx Zoo with Lukin's,⁴ resided about 1923 on 110th Street & Lexington Ave with Baskt family,⁴ (First experience with bed bugs.) resided about 1924 at 223 Henry Street,⁴ (a tenament) resided abt 1925 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA ?,²⁶ occupation 1926 apprentice diamond setter,^[xxviii] emigrated abt 1927 to New York, census 1-Apr-1930 in Manhattan, New York, New York,^[xxix] (Living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary) resided 1930 at 41 Gouverneur Street,¹ event 1933 joined Local 1, resided 1936 at 321 Ave O, Brooklyn, NY,²⁷ resided 1938 at 110 Christopher Street, New York, NY,^[xxx] event 1938 - 1943 member of the IWO (International Workers Organization),³⁰ occupation 29-Oct-1941 Daily Worker. Article about Leon as Recording Secretary of Local 1, Jewelry Workers Union,³⁰ event 1942 elected Business Representative, resided 1942 at 338 East 13th Street, New York, NY,³⁰ citation 16-Mar-1943 in Daily Worker. Leon going into the army,^[xxxi] military 1943 - 1945 Army Air Force, repairing the gun turrets on B-26 bombers in England and France, military 1943 stationed at Lowry Field in Denver, Colorado,³⁰ resided 1945 - 1953 at 166 Second Ave., New York, NY,³⁰ citation 6-Jun-1946 in Daily Worker. Member of Executive Committee of the American Jewish Labor Council, 22 East 17th Stree,³⁰ event American Labor Party (per Board of Electrion records),³⁰ event 27-Aug-1949 in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York attended the Paul Robeson concert-turned-riot,^[xxxii] event 4-Sep-1949 Cortlandt, Westchester County, New York attended the 2nd Paul Robeson concert,⁴ citation 3-Dec-1951 in Daily Worker, pg. 6, one of the sponsors of the Provisional Trade Union Committee for the Repeal of,^30,[xxxiii] citation 15-Jan-1953 Daily Worker. appealed to the President (of USA) to save the lives of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg,^[xxxiv] resided 1955 at River Road, Scroon Lake, NY 12870; Tele: 518-532-7203,^[xxxv] occupation 1945 - 1959 Business Representative of Local 1, International Jewelry Workers Union,³⁰ occupation 1959 elected Vice-President, Local 1 IJWU, event 1959 expected to testify before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (Subversive Control). Never di,³⁰ description 1959 5 foot 6 inches, brown hair, green eyes,³⁰ event 1963 heard Martin Luther King in Washington, D.C.,²⁶ citation 1967 in Personal Name Index to New York Times Index,^[xxxvi] occupation 1960 - 1980 President, Local 1 IJWU, occupation 10-Nov-1971 President and Secretary-Treasurer of the International Jewelry Workers Union,²⁵ citation 1971 National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Trade Union Division,³⁰ citation 1971 in National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace; National Peace Action Coalition,³⁰ event 23-Oct-1979 Interview by Debra Bernhardt,^[xxxvii] occupation 1980 merger of IJWU with Service Employees International Union, occupation 1980 Director Jewelry Workers Division S.E.I.U., retirement circa 1981,²⁶ resided 1953 - 1995 at 39-49 44th Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104,^[xxxviii] (purchased two family home with help of GI load) resided since 1996 in Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, NY, event 12-May-2004 feature article appeared on Newsday.com.²⁶

He married Sema POSNER,^25,[xxxix] #1352, also known as Simone (Marriage Certificate & 1930 Census),²⁷ married 8-Sep-1936 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York,^26,27 (daughter of Jacob POSNER #4297 and Felicia LAIL #4298) born 18-Mar-1918 in NY,^[xl],27 census 1 Apr 1930 from Brooklyn, Kings County, NY,^[xli] resided 1930 at 1319 45th Street,⁴¹ resided 1936 at 1358 47th Street, resided 1938 at 110 Christopher Street, New York, NY,²⁷ resided 1942 at 338 East 13th Street,, resided 1945 - 1953 at 166 Second Ave, resided 1953 - 1995 at 39-49 44th Street, Sunnyside, Queens, NY, died ?-Jan-1982 in Whitestone, Flushing, Queens, NY.^[xlii],26

1. Marc Selig SVERDLOVE,²⁵ #3192, born 11-Aug-1947 in Manhattan, New York County, NY,^25,[xliii] resided 1947 at 166 Second Avenue , Manhattan, NY,^25,[xliv] resided 1954 - 1972 at 39-49 44th Street, Sunnyside, Queens County, NY,²⁵ graduated 1970 from Queens College (CUNY), Queens County, NY,⁴⁴ graduated 1972 from Queens College with an MA, Queens County, NY,⁴⁴ graduated 1983 from University of Cincinnati a Ph.D. in Geology and Oceanography,⁴⁴ occupation abt 1983 - 1988 Schering-Plough (pharmaceuticals), in Kenilworth NJ, as an Information Technology analyst,⁴⁴ occupation 1988 - 2005 Revlon Research Center, Edison, NJ,⁴⁴ (Marc's specialty is creating global Standard Operating Procedures for the Global Information Technology department) event 1982 Fairbanks, R.G., Sverdlove, M.S., Free, R., Wiebe, P.H. & Bé, A.W.H. (1982): Vertical distribution a,^[xlv] event 1985 in Journal of Foraminiferal Research. Article.^[xlvi]

He married Louise BRANDES,^[xlvii] #3972, married 20-Jun-1976 at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY,⁴⁴ born 7-Oct-1947 in Manhattan, New York County, NY,⁴⁴ event a lifetime member of the Arts Students League in Manhattan where she studied anatomy and life drawin.

a. Max Samuel Franklyn SVERDLOVE,²⁵ #1503, born 5-Jun-1984 at Tarrytown Memorial Hospital , Westchester County, NY,²⁵ brit mila ?-Jun-1984 grandfather Leon was his Shaliach,⁴⁴ education studied with Lewis Kaplan from the Juilliard School of Music and a few of his students.,^[xlviii] education class of 2005 Penn State University, School of Music,^[xlix],44 (Bryce and Jonelle Jordan Music Scholarship for entrance audition to the School of Music (2001-2005) - $24,300) occupation 2005 Violinist, Penn State University Philharmonic Orchestra,⁴⁹ education 1998 - 2005 studied with a faculty member, The Juilliard School of Music who is a Co-founder of The Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine,⁴⁸ resided 2004 in NJ,^[l] event 2004 biographical material on web site www.sverdlove.com.

2. Eve "Evie" SVERDLOVE,³¹ #2748, born 27-Mar-1954 in Manhattan, New York, New York,^[li],25 resided 1954 - 1995 at 39-49 44th Street, Sunnyside, Queens County, NY,²⁵ resided abt 1995 in Yorktown Heights, NY, occupation supervisor of occupational therapy at Hudson Valley Hospital Center.⁴

She married Eric SHOENTHAL,²⁵ #4238, born abt 1950.

a. Matthew SHOENTHAL #4239, born abt 1982.^[lii]

b. Michael SHOENTHAL #4240, born April 27, 1984.⁵²

B. Harry SVERDLOVE #657, census name Harry Swerdlove (1930),¹ (listed as "relative" living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary) born ? Mar-1912 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,^1,26 emigrated abt 1921 to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, emigrated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, immigrated abt 1922, emigrated abt 1925 to Los Angeles County, California, USA, emigrated abt 1927 to New York, census 1-Apr-1930 in Manhattan, New York, New York,^[liii] (Living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary) resided 1-Apr-1930 at 41 Gouverneur Street, New York, NY,¹ occupation est 1934 - 1977 High School French Teacher in Brooklyn,^[liv] resided 1940 at 300 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY,^[lv] resided 1993 at N322 Camden P., W Palm Beach, FL 33417, resided est 1950 at 2825 Lakeview Rd, Lake Luzerne, NY 12846,^[lvi],52 resided est 1960 - 1994 at 1354 E 15th St., Brooklyn, NY 11230; Telephone: 718-336-3415,⁵⁶ event excellent dancers, they danced (as a hobby) all over the world,^[lvii] retirement 1995 to West Palm Beach, FL,⁵⁴ resided 2005 at 110 Wellington E, West Palm Beach, FL 33417-2550 Tel: 561.683.7764,^[lviii] medical condition diabetic since age 21.⁵⁴

He married Frieda UGER #1843, nickname Freddy,¹⁸ other name Feida, Freda, married abt 1938 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,⁵⁴ (daughter of Samuel UGER #4295 and Sonia (Sarah) KLIGER #4304) born 1916 in New York City,^[lix] event 16-Jun-1992 in Correspondence,¹⁸ event 1959 certified dance instructor,^[lx] resided 1993 in N322 Camden P., W Palm Beach, FL 33417,¹⁸ resided 2005 in 110 Wellington E, West Palm Beach, FL 33417-2550 Tel: 561.683.7764,⁵⁸ event 1955 - 2005 in Scottish Country Dance Groups, West Palm Beach,^[lxi],59 event Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Orlando Beach, occupation special ed teacher in the NYC school system.⁵⁹

1. Laurie Evelyn SVERDLOVE,^[lxii] #3193, born 12 Nov 1944 in Brooklyn?,⁶² resided in NY, resided in CA, occupation bef 1997 executive director of Strybing Arboretum Society,^[lxiii] occupation 2005 Director of Planning and Analysis, U.C. Berkely,^[lxiv] occupation artist,^[lxv] event 1998 in Los Angeles art show , Zolita Sverdlove, heard about Laurie, resided 2000 - 2004 in Berkeley, Berkeley County, California.

She married Robert Philip GOLDMAN,^62,57 #3194, married 1965,⁶² divorced 1984,⁶² born about 1944, resided 2000 - 2005 in Berkeley, Berkeley County, California.

a. Jesse Matthew GOLDMAN,⁶² #4269, born 25 Apr 1973,⁶² resided 2000 - 2004 in Berkeley, Berkeley County, California.

b. Seth Rafael GOLDMAN,⁶² #4270, born 9 Oct 1978,⁶² resided 2000 - 2004 in Berkeley, Berkeley County, California.

2. Ronald SVERDLOVE, Ph.D. #659 title: Dr., born 06-Dec-1948 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY,^[lxvi] graduated 1969 from Princeton University,^[lxvii] education Stanford University. Ph.D. in mathematics,^[lxviii] event 1990 coauther "Applications of Neural Networks in Video Signal Processing",^[lxix] (informatik.uni-trier.de) resided 1993 in 52 Harley Ave, Princeton, NJ 08540, occupation 1993 Rider University. acting assistant professor - management sciences,^[lxx] resided 2000 in 2 Lakeview Drive, Lake Luzerne, NY 12846 Tel: 518.696.2657,^[lxxi] occupation 2005 Rutgers University. Student, Faculty. Dissertation.,^[lxxii] occupation Sarnoff Corporation, occupation RCA Lab at Princeton,⁴ event Citations.^[lxxiii]

He married Melissa UNKNOWN,^[lxxiv] #3033.

a. Rachel SVERDLOVE,^[lxxv] #3959, born abt 1978.

b. Michael SVERDLOVE,^[lxxvi] #3960, born abt 1984, education Rutgers University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Piscataway, NJ 08854,⁷⁶ occupation ?-May-2004 undergraduate teacher of "Robust Image Registration".⁷⁶

C. Lillian (Lilly) SVERDLOVE #313, also known as Lilly, born 1915 - 1916 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,^[lxxvii] emigrated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, immigrated abt 1921 to New York, naturalized 1922,⁷⁷ resided abt 1925 in California, emigrated abt 1927 to New York, census 1-Apr-1930 from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York,⁷⁷ resided 1930 at 1575 East 4th Street,⁷⁷ (after Selig died, she was raised by her aunt and uncle Lukin) naturalized 01-Jul-1943 in USDC NY, Eastern District, Brooklyn NY.^[lxxviii]

She married Hy DAVIS formerly BERKOWITZ,^[lxxix],25 #3098, (son of unknown BERKOWITZ #4308 and unknown DAVIS #4309) born est 1912, graduated in law school,⁵² occupation lawyer.

1. Barbara DAVIS,²⁵ #3958, born est 1942.

She married William "Billy" ANSON #4276, resided 1994 at 1305 E Bloomington St., Iowa City, IA (319) 351-5894, resided 2005 at 2046 9th St., Coralville, IA 52241-1590 (319) 351-5894.⁵⁸

a. Julie ANSON #4277, resided 1994 at 1535 Grant St., Muscatine, Muscatine County, IA 52761 Phone: (319) 264-5738, (Julie M.)

b. David ANSON #4278, born abt 1970, resided 1994 at 3013 Avenue K, Co Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, IA 51501 Phone: (712) 323-5653,⁵⁶ resided 2005 at 1905 Oneida Ave, Muscatine, IA 52761-1647 (563) 288-3489.⁵⁸

c. Steve ANSON #4279, resided 1994 at 216 Roscoe Ave, Muscatine, Muscatine County, IA 52761 Phone: (319) 263-0538.⁵⁶

III. Rachel "Rae" (Risha) SVERDLOVE #4272, Hebrew name Racha'el bat Moshe, German name Raisel, census name Ray (1930),⁷⁷ also known as Reisic Swerdlow (Manifest),¹⁷ born 1889 - 1892 in Russian Empire,^13,77 (b. 1889-1890 per 1910 Census; b. 1891-1892 per 1930 Census.) resided 1909 on Jatkowski street, Bialystok, Grodno gubernya, Russian Empire,¹⁷ education first language Yiddish,⁷⁷ resided 1909 in Bialystok, Grodno gubernya, Russian Empire,¹⁷ emigrated 20-Nov-1909 from Antwerp, Belgium on the S.S. "Kroonland",¹⁷ immigrated 30-Nov-1909 to the Port of New York,^77,[lxxx] (1908 on the 1930 Census) description 1909 5 foot tall, red hair and blue eyes,¹⁷ resided 1909 to 303 Wood St., Philadelphia,¹⁷ census 15-Apr-1910 from Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,¹³ (Living with sister Jennie and brother-in-law Morris Bakst) census 1-Jan-1920 from Bronx, Bronx, NY,^[lxxxi] resided 1920 at 908 East 181st St,⁸¹ census 1-Apr-1930 from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York,⁷⁷ resided 1930 at 1575 East 4th Street.⁷⁷

She married Osias (Yeshia) LUKIN #4273, also known as Ossias, married 1918,⁷⁷ born 23-Jul-1893 in Semiatiz, Russia,^77,[lxxxii] education first language Yiddish,⁷⁷ immigrated 1912,⁷⁷ military 5-Jun-1917 World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Card,⁸² resided 1917 at 1076 Cauldwell Ave., description 1917 short, lender, brown eyes, dark hair,⁸² occupation 1917 - 1920 diamond cutter, Cubelsky & Co., 284 Pearl St.,^81,82 census 1-Jan-1920 from Bronx, Bronx, NY,⁸¹ resided 1920 at 908 East 181st St (10460),⁸¹ census 1-Apr-1930 from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York,⁷⁷ resided 1930 at 1575 East 4th Street,⁷⁷ (Owned home. Worth $11,500.) occupation 1930 dealer in diamonds.⁷⁷

A. Basil LUKIN #4275, born 1919 in New York,⁷⁷ census 1-Jan-1920 from Bronx, Bronx, NY,⁸¹ resided 1920 at 908 East 181st St,⁸¹ census 1-Apr-1930 from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York,⁷⁷ resided 1930 at 1575 East 4th Street,⁷⁷ resided 2005 in Savannah, GA.

B. David B. LUKIN #4274, born 1920 - 1921 in New York,⁷⁷ census 1-Apr-1930 from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York,⁷⁷ resided 1930 at 1575 East 4th Street.⁷⁷

C. Lillian (Lilly) SVERDLOVE #313, also known as Lilly, born 1915 - 1916 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,⁷⁷ emigrated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, immigrated abt 1921 to New York, naturalized 1922,⁷⁷ resided abt 1925 in California, emigrated abt 1927 to New York, census 1-Apr-1930 from Brooklyn, Kings County, New York,⁷⁷ resided 1930 at 1575 East 4th Street,⁷⁷ (after Selig died, she was raised by her aunt and uncle Lukin) naturalized 01-Jul-1943 in USDC NY, Eastern District, Brooklyn NY.⁷⁸

She married Hy DAVIS formerly BERKOWITZ,^79,25 #3098, (son of unknown BERKOWITZ #4308 and unknown DAVIS #4309) born est 1912, graduated in law school,⁵² occupation lawyer.

1. (see children above),

IV. Rose SWEETLOVE formerly SWERDLOVE,^[lxxxiii] #3196, born 1890 - 1895 in Russia,¹ immigrated 1906,¹ (on 1930 Census Rose said she immigrated 1906) naturalized aft 1930, census 1-Apr-1930 from Manhattan, New York, New York,¹ resided 1-Apr-1930 at 41 Gouverneur Street, New York, NY.¹

V. Milton (Micha'el) SWERDLOW,^[lxxxiv] #176, Hebrew name Micha'el ben Moishe, also known as Michel (1911 Manifest) or Mikha'eil, born 01-Jul-1893 near Vitebsk guberniya, Russian Empire,^{[lxxxv],[lxxxvi],[lxxxvii],[lxxxviii]} (n.1898 per 1930 Census) resided 1909 on Jatkowski street, Bialystok, Grodno gubernia, Russian Empire, resided in Grodno, Russia, emigrated Sep-1911 from Liverpool, Merseyside, England on the S.S. "Merion", immigrated 03-Oct-1911 to Port of Philadelphia,^[lxxxix] resided 1911 in going to Mr. Selig 466 North F Street, Philadelphia, PA, (He was going to Mr. Selig SVERDLOVE) resided 1915 at 211 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (Swerdloff),^[xc] occupation 1915 buttonhole maker,⁹⁰ naturalized 1916 Declaration of Intention,^[xci] description 1916 Fair. 5 ft-5 in. 118 lbs. brown hair, blue eyes, resided 1916 at 50 Jefferson Street, New York, NY, occupation 1916 Confection Store, census 1-Jan-1920, resided 1920 at 370 Bedford Street, Brooklyn, New York, event 1929 as an active Communist he estranged his family, census 1-Apr-1930 from Bronx, Bronx, NY,^[xcii] resided 1930 at Swerdloff, Milton (May) 1115 Grant Ave.,⁹² ("Bessie Swerdlow" lives with them. Probably Bessie Ashkenofsky his mother-in-law. Rent is $68/month.) occupation 1933 Swerdloff, Milton (May) furrier,^[xciii] (Active in furrier's union.) resided 1934 at 1620 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY, died 13-Jun-1980 in Cole-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90046.^[xciv],[xcv]

He married (1) Mae "Minnie" ASHIN #177, nickname Minnie, May (1930 Census), also known as Mattel Swerdlow, married 8-May-1929 in Manhattan, New York County, New York,^[xcvi] divorced 1934, (daughter of Hyman ASHENOFSKY #337 and Bessie RUBIN YUZEFOVSKIJ #338) born 1898 in Bialystok, Poland, Russia,^[xcvii] immigrated 1912 - 1913 in New York,^[xcviii],92 census 1-Apr-1930 from Bronx, Bronx, NY,⁹² resided 1930 at 1115 Grant Ave.,⁹² resided 1920 at 370 Bedford Street, Brooklyn, New York.

He married (2) Sarah GINTER #4280, born 10 Jan 1896,⁸⁸ (daughter of unknown GINTER #4294 and unknown COHEN #4293) died 4 Mar 1984 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.⁸⁸

A. Herman "Hy" SWERDLOW,^[xcix] #178, nickname Hy, born 29-Jan-1918 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY,^[c],86 census 1-Jan-1920, resided 1920 at 370 Bedford Street, Brooklyn, New York,^[ci] census 1-Apr-1930 from Bronx, Bronx, NY,⁹² (Living with father and step-mother) died 15-Feb-1966 in Queens, Queens, NY,^{[cii],[ciii],[civ]} resided 1930 at 1115 Grant Ave.,⁹² yartzeit 25th of Sh'vat, 5726.

He married Kaye UNKNOWN #799, also known as Kay Swerdlow (SSDI), married 31 Mar 1996, born 27 Sep 1917,⁷ died 31 Mar 1996 in Woodbury, Nassau, New York 11797,^[cv] yartzeit 11th of Nisan, 5756.

1. Barbara H. SWERDLOW #292, born 06-Jul-1942 in Bronx, Bronx, New York,^[cvi] resided 1994 at 15240 Laurel Grove Drive, Alpharette, GA 302.

2. Marsha SWERDLOW #925, born 1945 - 1946.

3. Andrea B. SWERDLOW #475, born 14-Jun-1955 in Queens, Queens, NY,^[cvii] resided 1992-1994 at 28 Laurel Place, Bethpage, NY 11714.

B. Bernard SWERDLOW #240, Hebrew name Baruch, (NAME: Use of Bernard as middle name was common honorific when Anglicizing the Hebrew name Baruch.) born 30-Nov-1930 in Bronx, Bronx, New York,^[cviii] occupation electrical/ sound engineer,^[cix] resided 1994 - 2004 at Nesconset, Suffolk County, New York,^[cx] medical condition heart.

He married Eleanor JANKOWITZ,^[cxi] #782, married 24-Nov-1955 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY, born 24-Jan-1932 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY,^102,109 (daughter of Jacob JANKOWITZ #915 and Minnie (Mrs.) JANKOWITZ #916) resided in Nesconset, Suffolk County, New York.

1. Stewart A. SWERDLOW,^[cxii] #399, born 05-Nov-1956 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY,^[cxiii] occupation Writer, resided 1993 - 1994 at 72 E Woodside Ave, North Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York,^{[cxiv],[cxv],56} occupation 2001 Expansion Publishing, St. Joseph, MI,¹⁰⁹ emigrated Aug-2001 to St. Joseph, St. Joseph, Michigan, event 2004 in Lake Grove, NY (formerly Email@dreams-are-us.com),^[cxvi] resided 2005 in Northridge, CA 91324, occupation 2005 Stewart & Janet run www.stewartswerdlow.com. Focusing on the Multidimentionality of the Soul. He gives lectures on tour.

He married (1) Michele L. KITTLER,¹¹¹ #805, married 05-Apr-1981 in Huntington, Suffolk, NY, divorced abt 1991,¹⁰⁹ born 10-Oct-1957 in Manhattan, New York, New York,¹⁰² (daughter of Irving KITTLER #851 and Estelle TAYLOR #852) resided in N. Patchogue, Suffolk, NY.

He married (2) Janet Diane MOURGLIA,¹⁰⁹ #3946, married 7-Jul-1996,¹⁰⁹ born 23-Jan-1956 in Seattle, King County, Washington,¹⁰⁹ emigrated Aug-2001 to St. Joseph, St. Joseph, Michigan.¹⁰⁹

a. Matthew SWERDLOW #847, born 05-Feb-1983 in Bayshore, Nassau, NY,^[cxvii] resided at 72 E Woodside Ave., N. Patchogue, NY 11772, resided 2005 at Beaumont, TX 77706.

b. Jeremy SWERDLOW #848, born 20-Mar-1985 in Bayshore, Nassau, NY,¹¹⁷ resided in North Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York.

c. Daniel SWERDLOW #849, born 21-Oct-1987 in Bayshore, Nassau, NY,¹¹⁷ resided in North Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York.

d. Zachary David SWERDLOW,¹⁰⁹ #3947, born 16-Mar-1996 in Stony Brook, Suffolk County, New York,¹⁰⁹ emigrated Aug-2001 to St. Joseph, St. Joseph, Michigan.¹⁰⁹

e. Jonathan Joseph SWERDLOW,¹⁰⁹ #3948, born 10-Dec-1998 in Stony Brook, Suffolk County, New York,¹⁰⁹ emigrated Aug-2001 to St. Joseph, St. Joseph, Michigan.¹⁰⁹

2. Maureen Joy SWERDLOW,¹⁰⁹ #850, born 01-Dec-1959 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY,^[cxviii],109 occupation Teacher, resided 1988 - 1997, resided 1994 at 5 Woodcrest Drive, Roslyn NY (516) 248-8460,⁵⁶ resided 1997 - 2005 in Nesconset, Suffolk County, New York.¹⁰⁹

She married (1) unknown DAUMAN #917, married abt 1984, born abt 1959, occupation Nesconset, NY.

She married (2) Corey SCHWARTZ,¹⁰⁹ #3949, married ?-Jul-1997,¹⁰⁹ resided 2005 in Nesconset, Suffolk County, New York.¹⁰⁹

a. Alexander DAUMAN #853, born 10-Jun-1988 in Suffolk County, NY,^[cxix] resided 1988 - 1997 in Nesconset, Suffolk County, New York, resided 1997 - 2005.

b. Rebecca Jo SCHWARTZ,¹⁰⁹ #3950, born 4-Aug-1998,¹⁰⁹ resided 1998 in Nesconset, Suffolk County, New York.

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^[i] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census: Manhattan, New York County, New York ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000).

^[ii] IMMIGRATION: Philadelphia, Index (Soundex) to Passenger Arrivals; Port of Philadelphia; 1883-1948 , NARA, microfilm T526 (FHL Computer Number 0175209).

^[iii] IMMIGRATION: Port of Philadelphia; 1883-1921, Passenger Manifest , NARA, microfilm T840 (FHL Computer Number 0475209).

^[iv] BIOGRAPHY: Interview, Leon Sverdlove conversation with Andrew Ira Sverdlove, 11-Mar-2005.

^[v] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census - Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey , [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-, Bakst, Jennie Roll: T625_1015 Page: 2A ED: 19 Image: 0726.

^[vi] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census - Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Bakst, Morris Roll: T636_1308; Page: 5B; ED: 4; Image: 171.0.

^[vii] DEATH-BIRTH: U.S. Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File , [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2003-.

^[viii] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania 1910 Miracode Index , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000., Original data: Pennsylvania Miracode. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration. Bakst, Morris Series: T624 Roll: 1394 20th Ward Part: 1 Page: 15B.

^[ix] IMMIGRATION: Index (Soundex) to Passenger Arrival Lists; Port of New York; 1902-1943, NARA, microfilm T621 (FHL Computer Number 0092040), National Archives, Northeast Region, 201 Varick St, 12th Flr New York, NY, microfilm T621, Roll 660, Selig Swerdlow.

^[x] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census - Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey , [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-, Bakst, Morris Roll: T625_1015 Page: 1B ED: 19 Image: 0725.

^[xi] Ancestry.com., 1910 United States Federal Census: Philadelphia (City), Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania , [database on-line]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Name: Morris Bakst Age in 1910: 29 Estimated birth year: 1880 Home in 1910: 20-WD PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Race: White Gender: Male, Bakst, Morris T624_1394 Part: 1 Page: 15B Image not found.

^[xii] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania 1910 Miracode Index , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000., Original data: Pennsylvania Miracode. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration. Name: Morris Bakst Birthplace: Russia State: PA Age: 29 Color: W Enumeration District: 0333 Visit: 0298 County: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Relation: Head of Household. Others

Relation Name Age Birth Place

Wife Jennie 28 Russia

Son Heyman 05 Pennsylvania

Son Charles NR Pennsylvania

Sister Rachel Swedlow 20 Russia .

^[xiii] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania 1910 Miracode Index , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000., Original data: Pennsylvania Miracode. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration.

^[xiv] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census - Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Bakst, Harry Roll: T636_1308; Page: 13B; ED: 13; Image: 599.0.

^[xv] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census - Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey , [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-, Bakst, Jennie.

^[xvi] Ancestry.com., 1910 United States Federal Census: Philadelphia (City), Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania , [database on-line]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Sverdlove, Samuel Roll: T624_1390 Part: 1 Page: 283A.

^[xvii] The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., American Family Immigration History Center (Ellis Island On-Line) (www.EllisIsland.org), Site contains immigration records from Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.

^[xviii] CORRESPONDENCE: Sverdlove, Freda (Freddy) Unger, Personal Correspondence, 16-Jun-1992 , Dear Mr. Sverdlove:

During last winter, while residing in West Palm Beach, Fla, I had the good fortune to meet and work with Mrs. Zela Reinblatt.

When Zela heard my name, she immediately, thought that our family must be part of the family tree that you have developed.

My husband is Harry Sverdlove and his father was Zelig Sverdlove. Leon Sverdlove is Harry's brother and my sister-in-law is Lilly Sverdlove.

My husband, Harry and his family came to the United States from Montreal, but we do not know any of the Sverdloves from Montreal.

We are interested in knowing more about the family tree.

We would appreciate hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Freddy Sverdlove, letter to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession.

^[xix] IMMIGRATION: Index (Soundex) to Passenger Arrival Lists; Port of New York; 1902-1943, NARA, microfilm T621 (FHL Computer Number 0092040), National Archives, Northeast Region, 201 Varick St, 12th Flr New York, NY, microfilm T621, Roll 660.

^[xx] IMMIGRATION: Index (Soundex) to Passenger Arrival Lists; Port of New York; 1902-1943, NARA, microfilm T621 (FHL Computer Number 0092040), National Archives, Northeast Region, 201 Varick St, 12th Flr New York, NY, microfilm T621, Roll 660, Port of Entry, New York, SS "Samland", from Antwerp, 01-Dec, 13-Dec-1906; NOTE: left Bialystock to Philadelphia, Bro in-law Maurice Bacsh ? black hair, blue eyes 5' 2-1/2" 606 Franklin St, Philadelphia PA. Selig Swerdlow.

^[xxi] IMMIGRATION: Port of Philadelphia; 1883-1921, Passenger Manifest , NARA, microfilm T840 (FHL Computer Number 0475209), IMMIGRATION: Index to Passenger & Crew Lists Arriving in Philadelphia; ; Port of Entry, New York, SS "Samland", from Antwerp, 01-Dec, 13-Dec-1906; National Archives; NOTE: left Bialystock to Philadelphia, Bro in-law Maurice Bacsh ? black hair, blue eyes 5' 2-1/2" 606 Franklin St, Philadelphia PA. NARA Archives. Index to Passenger & Crew Lists Arriving in Philadelphia for daughter and wife. Daughter? Michel is male?, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 07-Dec-1994; Source Documentation.

^[xxii] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania 1910 Miracode Index , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000., Original data: Pennsylvania Miracode. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration. Name: Samuel Sverdlove Birthplace: Russia State: PA Age: 27 Color: W Enumeration District: 0174 Visit: 0331 County: Philadelphia, Philadelphia Relation: Head of Household Other Residents: Relation:Wife Name: Eva Age: 23 Birth Place: Russia, Sverdlove, Samuel ED: 0174.

^[xxiii] IMMIGRATION: Port of Philadelphia; 1883-1921, Passenger Manifest , NARA, microfilm T840 (FHL Computer Number 0475209), Baby brother Milton's Manifest stated he was going to Mr. Selig. Selig's son, Leon Sverdlove, said in March 2005 that meant Selig Sverdlove not Mr. Selig. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 13-Mar-2005; Source documentation.

^[xxiv] CITATION: Sverdlove, Leon, Who's Who in Labor 1976.

^[xxv] CORRESPONDENCE: Marc Sverdlove, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 3-Sep-2004, From: Marc Sverdlove [mailto:marc@!sverdlove.com]

Sent: Fri 9/3/2004 8:29 PM

To: Andrew I. Sverdlove

Cc: 'Laurie Sverdlove Goldman'; 'Zolita Sue Sverdlove'; 'Myra Broodney'

Subject: Sverdlov Geneology

Dear Distant Cousin Andrew,

I can confirm and expand upon some of the information you have sent me. I am the son of Leon Sverdlove (born December 14, 1910? in Philadelphia) who married Sema Posner. He was the President of the International Jewelry Workers Union. My full name is Marc Selig Sverdlove and I have a younger sister named Eve Sverdlove Schoenthal. I was born, August 11, 1947 and Eve was born March 27, 1954. We lived at 266 Second Avenue and moved to 39-49, 44th Street in Long Island City (Sunnyside), Queens when my sister was born.

My son’s name is Max Samuel Franklin Sverdlove and he was born June 5, 1984 at Tarrytown Memorial Hospital in New York.

Laurie’s brother’s name is Ronald and their father is Harry who married Freddie. Lily’s husband is Hy Berkowitz, which he changed to Davis, and they have a daughter Barbara.

Hope this helps you. I wish everyone a healthy, happy, prosperous New Year.

- Marc, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession.

^[xxvi] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Leon, Volunteers of America - Greater New York, http://www.voa-gny.org/AboutUs/article.asp?id=37, Vintage Volunteer

5/12/2004

Jim Fitzgerald

This feature article appeared on Newsday.com on May 12, 2004.

VINTAGE VOLUNTEER

Throughout his long, left-leaning life, Leon Sverdlove has been guided by one idealistic principle _ "the idea that by helping our fellow man, we can have a better world."

The age of 93 is no time to give it up, he says.

"I'm never going to abandon the idea," Sverdlove said in an interview before serving lunch to the homeless at the Yorktown Country Residence, a shelter in northern Westchester County. After spending a couple of hours there, he drove to the Hudson Valley Hospital Center in Cortlandt, where he checks on former patients by phone.

It's his regular Monday-to-Friday routine, nearly 20 hours a week. Andrew Martin, a spokesman for the Volunteers of America, says Sverdlove is probably the oldest volunteer in the state doing that much work.

"You know how it is these days," Sverdlove jokes. "You need two jobs to get by."

At the lunch, Sverdlove dons a white apron and clear plastic gloves and dishes out hot dogs, sauerkraut, tangerines, fruit juice and the occasional wisecrack to the clients, some of them addicts or mentally troubled.

One woman flirts with him, saying, "Aren't you my sweetheart?"

"Definitely," he says.

Andrea Jarrett, the program director, said, "Leon is wonderful. He's so respectful of the clients. When he tells us he's going on vacation, we say, "What are we going to do without you?"

Suzanne Scott, director of volunteers at the hospital, says Sverdlove calls 800 former patients a month for "satisfaction surveys" and gets fan letters from patients he's contacted.

"We're like his second family and to us he's like our grandfather," she says.

Sverdlove looks and acts about 70 years old. Besides driving, he does his own shopping and cooking. He has his own rooms in a house in Yorktown Heights he shares with his daughter's family of four.

He says his diet in unremarkable, except that his favorite dish is filet mignon and "I'm overeating it, never mind the price." He generally has a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and meat or fish for dinner.

Sverdlove, born in Philadelphia in 1910 to Russian immigrants and raised in Montreal, Los Angeles and Manhattan's Lower East Side, said he and his younger brother and sister were orphaned as teens and relied on other relatives as hard times descended. Sverdlove left school after ninth grade.

"The Depression made me a socialist," Sverdlove says. "I became socially conscious."

He remembers "when we didn't have anyplace to go, when we didn't have enough to eat." When he talks to schoolchildren about his experiences, "They always ask me, `Why didn't you go on welfare?' and I have to tell them there was no welfare then. We had to go to the police station for some bread or rice."

When he was 15 or 16, Sverdlove became an apprentice stone setter in the jewelry district, then centered on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. He quickly began militating for a union _ "it cost me a job now and then," he says _ and helped found the International Jewelry Workers Union, which won its first contract in 1936.

From 1941 on, he was employed by the union and eventually became international president, the position he held when the union was merged with the Service Employees International Union. He then served on the SEIU's executive board.

Meanwhile, he got married in 1936 and served during World War II in the Army Air Force, repairing the gun turrets on B-26 bombers in England and France, he said.

"Sometimes they came back (from bombing missions) pretty shot up," he said. "The worst was when they didn't come back at all."

He was older than most of the airmen _ 34 when the war ended _ but even then didn't look his age, he said. In his time with the jewelers, he said, he heard a lot of, "We can't have a kid running the union."

Sverdlove admits to a youthful flirtation with radicals _ the dance at which he met his wife-to-be "was organized by some left-wing group, maybe the Communists." He lost faith in the Soviet Union in the 1950s but holds fast to many of the tenets of socialism.

"I marched in every demonstration," he said. "I was always interested in making things better for the poor. The right to organize, civil rights. I think being interested in people, in how people are doing, helped me live this long. I want to see how things turn out."

He speaks with pride of some landmark gatherings _ he went to the Paul Robeson concert-turned-riot in Peekskill in 1949 and heard Martin Luther King in Washington in 1963, he said.

"I bought 500 Paul Robeson stamps when they came out," he says. "Everybody I write to gets a Paul Robeson stamp."

He demanded to see his FBI file and received "about 35 or 40 pages, two-thirds of it blacked out," he says. "What I could read was mostly innocuous, `Sverdlove opposed the Rosenberg executions' or `Sverdlove signed this petition.' They didn't really have anything on me."

He does not try to hide his dismay over the war in Iraq.

"This was a pre-emptive kind of war," he said. "That's not what we should be doing. I was opposed from Day One. Vietnam, too."

Sverdlove travels widely, and expects to attend the SEIU convention in San Francisco next month. He takes cruises with his daughter's family and recently surprised his 92-year-old brother with a visit to his Florida home.

"He doesn't get around as well as I do," Sverdlove says. His sister is also still alive, at 88.

After he retired in 1980, Sverdlove remained available to the union for such troubleshooting chores as becoming trustee of a troubled upstate local, he said. But it wasn't enough. His wife, Sema, died in 1982, and "I realized it wasn't enough just doing chores, taking care of the trees and the flowers. You can read The New York Times every day, but then what do you do?"

Six years ago, he pounced on an ad for the Volunteers of America and has been happily engaged ever since in what he finds to be a logical extension of his career.

"All those years in the union, I fought for things like Social Security, pensions, all the things people needed. Now I'm helping to feed the hungry and help the sick.", Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[xxvii] MARRIAGE: Certificate, Certificate and Record of Marriage of Leon Swerdler and Simone Posner (NYC Dept. of Health, Certificate 15399, Brooklyn, September 8, 1936), Married by Cantor M. Crell, 321 Ave. N, Jewish Center.

^[xxviii] CORRESPONDENCE: Sverdlove, Zolita, email Correspondence, 8-Jul-2004 , From: Zolita Sverdlove [mailto:zsverdlove@earthlink.net]

Sent: Thu 7/8/2004 11:21 PM

To: Sverdlove, Andrew

Subject: Geneology

Dear Andy;

Laurie's uncle Leon was born in 1910 in Philadelphia and ended up being head of the jewelery union in New York. He is still alive and does volunteer work at 93. I asked her to send me her father's name. Apparently her Uncle Leon's son is whom Myra accessed but they are estranged because of the wife.The old

man has never met his grandson who is a musician at the U. of Penn. He has a website.

Love,

Zolita, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession.

^[xxix] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census: Manhattan, New York County, New York ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000), Leon Sverdlove. Living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary, who was born Sverdlov according to my notes although I don't have a source. Listed as a 19 year-old "relative" which means it could be either Morris or Mary. Working as a Setter - Jewelry. His 18 year-old brother Harry is with him. They are listed as born in Pennsylvania. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 2-Sep-2004; Source Documentation.

^[xxx] CITATION: Leon Sverdlove, F.B.I. Files (release under the Freedom of Information Act).

^[xxxi] BIRTH: all Boroughs, Birth Index; 1898-1975 , City of New York, Department of Health, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Genealogy Reading Room 315S, call APRN 1947 Vol 2 L-Z and NYC Dept of Health, Vital Records, 125 Worth Street, Rm. 133, New York, NY 10007.

^[xxxii] BIOGRAPHY-CITATION: Paul Robeson, Riot at Paul Robeson concert , [online database] http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_454.html, "Go on back to Russia, you n-----." (Cortlandt, New York, September 4, 1949)

In the 1920s and '30s, Paul Robeson achieved worldwide fame as a singer and stage actor. The son of a runaway slave, Robeson attended Rutgers University, where he was an All-American football player and graduated at the head of his class. He later received a law degree from Columbia University, but because of the lack of opportunities for African Americans in the legal profession, he became an actor. In 1924, his appearance in the title role of Eugene O'Neill's play The Emperor Jones caused a sensation, and he soon became known the world over for his powerful bass-baritone singing voice. He spoke out tirelessly against racial discrimination and joined the Communist Party, visiting the Soviet Union in 1934 and openly supporting left-wing causes. As the Cold War intensified after World War II, he came under increasing fire for his leftist views. On August 27, 1949, a concert by Robeson and other left-wing singers in Peekskill, New York, was called off after a mob smashed chairs and beat concertgoers. In the aftermath, Roberson was invited back to Westchester County, this time to play in a field in Cortlandt, just outside of Peekskill. On September 4, more than 10,000 people turned out to see Roberson sing songs like "Go Down, Moses," "Song of the Warsaw Ghetto," and "Ol' Man River." Police and civilian guards kept anti-communist protestors at bay during the performance, but violence broke out after the concert, with concertgoers having to run a gauntlet of rock throwers as they attempted to drive away. No one was killed, but hundreds were injured. In 1950, Robeson refused to sign an affidavit disclaiming his membership in the Communist Party, and the U.S. State Department took away his passport. Blacklisted in the United States and unable to travel abroad to perform, he was effectively silenced until 1958, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the affidavit ruling. He then spent five years traveling and living in Western and Eastern Europe, returning to the United States in 1963. He died in Philadelphia in 1976.

^[xxxiii] CITATION: Weinstock, Louis, Guide to the Papers of Louis Weinstock 1910-1994 , [online search] http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/weinstockb.html, Louis Weinstock was born in Hungary in 1903 and emigrated to the United States in 1923. He settled in New York City and in 1925 joined the Painters’ Union, Local 499. Weinstock became one of the leaders of the “Rank and File” movement in District Council 9 of the International Painters and Paperhangers. Weinstock fought for Social Security and initiated the drive for unemployment insurance. Weinstock also led the Rank-and-File painters caucus in a fight against corruption in the union. Weinstock defeated the corrupt leadership of the infamous Lepke-Gurrah racketeer gang and was elected to the office of Secretary-Treasurer. In 1951, Weinstock was charged with conspiring to violate the Smith Act while teaching a trade union class; he was found guilty and sentenced to three years in jail. Weinstock retired from the union in 1963 and died in 1994 from heart failure., Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012.

^[xxxiv] CITATION: Leon Sverdlove, F.B.I. Files (release under the Freedom of Information Act), "JULIUS and ETHEL ROSENBER were convicted in the the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, March 29, P951, of conspracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. They were sentenced to death on April 5, 1951.

JULIUS and ETHEL ROSENBERG were legally executed at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, On June 29, 1953.".

^[xxxv] RESIDENCE: Telephone Directory; 1995, ProPhone, Select Phone CD-ROM , 1st Ed 1995, New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Library, 2nd Flr, L. Sverdlove, River Road, Scroon Lake, NY 12870 518-532-7203. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 06-Mar-1996; Source Documentation.

^[xxxvi] CITATION:, PERSONAL NAME INDEX TO THE NEW YORK TIMES INDEX 1851-1974 (Falk; 1851-1974), Call APRN 93-4290 Vol 19 Sk-Sz; ; The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan 2nd flr, 5th av & 40th St, NOTE: Sverdlove, Leon - 1967, p 1127.

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^[xxxvii] INTERVIEW: Interview by Debra Bernhardt 10/23/79 of Leon Sverdlove, Leon Sverdlove On the Taft-Hartley Act , Wagner Labor Archives/Tamiment Library [online] http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6930/, Guide to the New Yorkers at Work Oral History Collection, 1979-2000. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives; Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, The Taft-Hartley Act, passed in 1947, symbolized the anti-labor climate of postwar America. The act expanded the power of employers and the government to prevent union organizing and strikes, and made it difficult for unions to take industrial action. The most difficult aspect of the bill for many unions to swallow required labor leaders to declare themselves to be non-Communist if they wanted to participate in NLRB elections. While many union members, like Leon Sverdlove of the Jewelry Workers union in New York, resented having to divulge their political views, they accepted the act’s requirement in order to protect what union rights they had left. As Sverdlove found, however, even accepting the act’s dictates did not protect unions and their members from accusations of communism, and many unions and workers suspected as communist sympathizers were forced out of organized labor.

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SVERDLOVE: So people were looking down their noses at us, as having sold out, or betrayed the interests of the working class, but it made no sense to us. And it was even more dramatic when it came to the Taft-Hartley Act. If you didn’t sign the Taft-Hartley Act, you couldn’t have elections, you couldn’t present grievances against the employer for unfair labor practices. And a lot of unions, with people like myself, who felt the way we did, were heroic about it. “We’ll never sign. Why should we have to? Asking us our politics under the American constitution . . .” It all sounded good, but it wasn’t for real.; it just wasn’t for real. So, if we don’t sign, we’re going to leave ourselves wide open to charges by the International that we’re not protecting the interests of the members of the union, which would be very true. And it would make us subject to charges and possible expulsion and then what? So we’d have a group, a few of us left-thinking, progressive-thinking people who would be bounced out, after all the years of work... And then what? And that’s exactly what happened to so many left-wing unions. It’s as if somebody had just a few firecrackers to shoot off, and he shot’em off before the Fourth of July, and on the Fourth of July he had nothing. That’s the way we felt about it. So we signed the Taft-Hartley Act, you know, we signed whatever the document was that to be signed that could resort to the Labor Board. How could you exist? We would say, “How can we get along without the Labor Board?” You just couldn’t do it.

We made the turn, and we became, what shall I say — more moderate. But that didn’t prevent us from continuing to sponsor, to participate in anything that was progressive. I would say that the connection that was severed was one of a specific left-wing policy sponsored by the Communists at that time. That’s what we broke with. I’m not ready to dump that whole period, and flush it down the drain. I don’t think so. For me, it was a real developmental thing and I have to admit, depending on what you want to call it, any education that I had, was during the course of the years that I spent in the left-wing movement, closely associated and related to the Communist Party. There’s no question about it, that whatever inherent abilities I might have had were sharpened and developed in that period.

From 1947 to 1959 were the twelve years in which the political factor was used by those who were posed against us. But they had changed in character from being social democrats to being out-and-out racketeers. [In the 1947 election] we were defeated on the basis of speeches made that we were agents from Moscow — that was the height of the McCarthy period — it was just the beginning of that rather. That’s all they could say against us, that we were Communists. They dug up leaflets and they clobbered us. From then on, until 1959, it was one big struggle to get rid of them. We’d go to conventions really concerned for our physical well-being. Telephone calls to our homes, to our wives, three o’clock in the morning, “You want to see your husband tomorrow? He knows what he’s got to do.” Things of that sort. But we finally caught up with them and from then on out I would say that, first of all the racketeering locals disappeared — some left on their own, some we expelled — till we got rid of all of them. Some of them went to jail. Others are still under indictment. But that was the fight that took place in all those years up to '59. Then [Harry] Spodick was elected, and it was after that that I would say that the political atmosphere changed. We still battled, but it wasn’t what it had been before. It wasn’t a question of getting the racketeers out anymore. To the point where in 1968 when I ran, I ran unopposed. That was amazing. To run unopposed after all those years.

Source: Interview by Debra Bernhardt 10/23/79

Courtesy Wagner Labor Archives/Tamiment Library, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 9-Feb-2005; Source Documentation.

^[xxxviii] RESIDENCE:Telephone Directory, Queens County, NYNEX, Telephone Directory, Jun 1994-Aug 1995 , 39-49 44th Street, Sunnyside, NY 11104 718-784-3615.

^[xxxix] U.S. Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index; 1962-1993 , Family Search, CD-ROM ver 1.23, 1995.

^[xl] U.S. Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index; 1962-1993 , Family Search, CD-ROM ver 1.23, 1995, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 07-Dec-1994; Source Documentation.

^[xli] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census - Brooklyn, Kings County, New York , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Posner, Jacob Roll: T626_1511; Page: 19B; ED: 1186; Image: 374.0.

^[xlii] U.S. Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index; 1962-1993 , Family Search, CD-ROM ver 1.23, 1995, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 07-Dec-1994; Source Documentation.

^[xliii] BIRTH: all Boroughs, Birth Index; 1898-1975 , City of New York, Department of Health, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Genealogy Reading Room 315S, call APRN 1947 Vol 2 L-Z and NYC Dept of Health, Vital Records, 125 Worth Street, Rm. 133, New York, NY 10007, 1947; Births Reported in the City of York; p 1052;

Sverdlove male Certificate M33599, dtd 16-Jun-1947, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 01-Mar-1996; Source Documentation.

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^[xliv] CORRESPONDENCE: Sverdlove, Marc, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 23-Feb-2005, From: Marc Sverdlove [mailto:marc@sverdlove.com]

Sent: Wed 2/23/2005 7:42 PM

To: Andrew I. Sverdlove

Andrew,

Thank you for sending me the genealogy. It is fascinating.

However, I have a few corrections to make. I was born in Manhattan and lived at 166 Second Avenue, Manhattan. When I was 7 (after my sister was born) we moved to Sunnyside, Queens (39-49 44th St.). I graduated from Queens College (CUNY) in 1970 and received my MA degree from Queens College in 1972. I have a Ph.D. in Geology and Oceanography from the University of Cincinnati, 1983. I have worked at the Revlon Research Center (in Edison NJ) and for the past 17 years have been employed by Schering-Plough (pharmaceuticals), in Kenilworth NJ, as an Information Technology analyst. My specialty is creating global Standard Operating Procedures for the Global Information Technology department.

My wife Louise was born Oct 7, 1947 in Manhattan NY. We were married on June 20, 1976 at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center in Brooklyn, NY. She is a lifetime member of the Arts Students League in Manhattan where she studied anatomy and life drawing with Robert Beverly Hale and oil painting with Robert Brachman.

My son Max never attended Julliard. However he studied with Lewis Kaplan, one of the main violin teachers at Julliard. Mr. Kaplan was the co-founder of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, which is going into its 26th year. Max has attended the festival almost each summer since the age of 13. Max is currently 20 and will be graduating PSU this May. For more information visit Sverdlove.com

[Leon] has met his grandson (Max) and was present at his Bris where he was given the honor of being his Shaliach.

- Marc.

^[xlv] OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, M. S., National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) , [Online: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/hh1996/refs.html], Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[xlvi] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, M. S., and BÉ, A. W. H., Taxonomic and ecological significance of embryonic and juvenile planktonic foraminifera, p. 235. , [Online: http://cushforams.niu.edu/jfrindex15.htm] Index to Volume 15, 1985; Journal of Foraminiferal Research, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[xlvii] CORRESPONDENCE: Sverdlove, Max, email Correspondence, 9-Feb-2005 , From: Max Sverdlove [mailto:max@sverdlove.com]

Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:34 PM

To: 'Andrew I. Sverdlove'

Subject: RE: Sverdlove.com MailForm Submision

My mother's name is Louise and her maiden name is Brandes.

As a college student, it is almost a necessity to check email a few times a

day, so I have an email notifier running at all times.

Max, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession.

^[xlviii] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Max, email correspondence, 10-Feb-2005, My full name should be spelt Max Samuel Franklyn Sverdlove. I studied with Lewis Kaplan from the Juilliard School and a few of his students. I studied 1998-Present with a Faculty member, The Juilliard School of Music, Co-founder of The Bowdoin International Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine.

^[xlix] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Max, http://www.sverdlove.com/resume.html, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[l] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Max, PSU ASTA Forums, http://members.lycos.co.uk/psuasta/index.php?s=be5c075a8cf9b904f504f89074a71d95&showtopic=71&st=0&#entry93, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005, My name is Max Sverdlove and I am a violinist and am currently a junior Music Performance Major.

In my spare time: What spare time? My personal hobbies include: well obviously constructing and managing websites. I'm currently the webmaster for two organizations: PSU ASTA.

I also enjoy Audio Engineering and Video Production and am one of the Penn State School of Music Student Recording Engineers for Esber Recital Hall. In high school, I took an independent study in Television Production and produced a 45 minute documentary on being a violinst as well as several other projects directly involved with the school activities... When I can afford to buy.

^[li] BIRTH: all Boroughs, Birth Index; 1898-1975 , City of New York, Department of Health, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Genealogy Reading Room 315S, call APRN 1947 Vol 2 L-Z and NYC Dept of Health, Vital Records, 125 Worth Street, Rm. 133, New York, NY 10007, fiche 694; Sverdlove, Eve; Births Reported in Manhattan 1954; Sverdlove Eve, 3 27 4 Certificate M 11821.

^[lii] CORRESPONDENCE: Marc Sverdlove, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 27-Mar-2005.

^[liii] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census: Manhattan, New York County, New York ([database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000), 18 year-old Harry Sverdlove is living with 75 year-old Morris Swerdlove and his wife Mary, who was born Sverdlov according to my notes although I don't have a source. 19 year-old Brother Leo [sic] is working as a Setter - Jewelry. They are called "relative" which means it could be either Morris or Mary. They are listed as born in Pennsylvania. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 3-Sep-2004; 1930 Census Source Documentation.

^[liv] BIOGRAPHY: Interview, Leon Sverdlove conversation with Andrew Ira Sverdlove , 11-Mar-2005.

^[lv] RESIDENCE: tel dir, Brooklyn Telephone Directory, 1940 (Aug 1940), call *ZAN-G60 reel 12; pg 630; NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M. Sverdlove, Harry 300 Ocn Pkwy WIndsr 6-6924. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 05-Oct-1995; Source Documentation.

^[lvi] RESIDENCE: Ancestry.com, Phone and Address Directory , [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003., Original data: 1994 White Pages. Little Rock, AR: Acxiom Corporation, 19--.

^[lvii] CORRESPONDENCE: Barry Eisenberg, Email to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 04-Jan-2005, Hi Andrew --

I don't know much about my Uncle Harry Sverdlove's family. I am related to him by marriage. My grandfather was Charles Uger. One of his sisters, Freda (my aunt), married Harry Sverdlove. They live in Florida now and are in their late 80s. They lived in New York most of their life together and were excellent dancers - - they danced (as a hobby) all over the world. Laurie Goldman is their daughter. I think I have heard that Harry's ancestors came from the Siberia area of Russia.

If you have any specific questions, I could try to ask Harry for you.

Cheers,

Barry Eisenberg

Rockville, MD.

^[lviii] Switchboard.com, Phone and Address Directory, 2005 , [database online].

^[lix] CORRESPONDENCE: Laurie Sverdlove Goldman, Email Correspondence to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 17-Mar-2005, Dear Andrew:

Thanks so much for your e-mail with photos and the links to your website. A few corrections - My mother's name is Frieda Sverdlove and she was born in 1916 in NYC. Her profession was a that of a special ed teacher in the NYC school system, but she has been a scottish country dance teacher and choreographer for 50 years. Her age is 89. The photo you have next to her name on the site is not her, but rather my Aunt Sema, Leon's wife. I'll check more later.

Thanks again,

Laurie.

^[lx] OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Freddy, Teachers' Association (Canada). Seniors Class. , [Online: http://tac-rscds.org/Resource/index.php?RS=TRPdatatable.php&SPC=8], Freddy was fully certified in 1959 when Miss Milligan made her Teaching Tour in the U.S. She has taught in the New York, Brooklyn, and West Palm Beach, Fla. She currently has two seniors classes in Florida who enjoy the dance and love the music. Freddy was one of the founders of the New York City Branch., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxi] OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Freddy, Florida Scottish Country Dance Groups , [Online: http://www.scottishdancefl.org/map.html], Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxii] CORRESPONDENCE: Laurie Sverdlove Goldman, Email Correspondence to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 16-Mar-2005, This sounds great Andrew! Leon is the salt of the earth. Here's some info for me.

Laurie Evelyn Goldman ( I use Sverdlove now in place of Evelyn) Born Nov. 12, 1944. Married Robert P. Goldman 1965, divorced, 1984. Children: Jesse Matthew Goldman born April 25, 1973 & Seth Rafael Goldman born October 9, 1978.

I am going to see my parents in Florida in two weeks and will ask them about being interviewed.

Best,

Laurie

At 06:38 AM 3/16/2005, you wrote:

I had a wonderful day interviewing your uncle Leon last Friday. We spend seven hours together. I have not listened to the hours of .wav files I made but have corrected and updated your Zayde’s family tree to include all five children, all their grandchildren and most of the great-grand-children.

I scanned photos of Leon, Sema, their children, his daughters children, your parents when you were an infant, etc.

I would like to be more complete with your family.

I don’t have your husbands’ name; both your birthdates; your children. I have Seth but not his brother.

I am making a preliminary genealogy and would love to have more photos,

I found the “lost” descendants of Leon and Harry’s Uncle Milton.

Regards,

Andrew

Laurie Sverdlove Goldman

Director of Planning & Analysis

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

119 California Hall #1500

Berkeley, CA 94720-1500

TEL: 510/642-6671

FAX: 510/643-5620.

^[lxiii] OCCUPATION: Goldman, Laurie Sverdlove, University Of California Botanical Garden Newsletter Volume 22, Number 2 Spring 1997 , [Online: http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/garden/onlinespring.pdf], The Berkeley Natural History Museums Consortium, under the auspices of Vice-Chancellor for Research

Joseph Cerny, hired a full-time development officer a two-year position to assist each of the five museums. The Garden is especially pleased to welcome Laurie

Sverdlove Goldman (former executive director of Strybing Arboretum Society) to this position. The consortium also launched its annual lecture series., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxiv] OCCUPATION: Goldman, Laurie Sverdlove, Staff Contact Information, University of California, Berkeley , [Online: http://research.chance.berkeley.edu/page.cfm?id=23], Laurie Sverdlove Goldman. Director of Planning and Analysis. University/Industry Relations; Research Communications; Research Compliance; Strategic Planning; Museums and Field Stations; Development., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxv] OCCUPATION: Goldman, Laurie Sverdlove, East Bay Open Studios, 2000 , [Online: http://www.proartsgallery.org/ebos/archive/ebos2000/artists/LaurieSverdlove.html], For the last decade I have painted the American landscape. Grasslands, wasteland, and land altered by human intervention attract me. While my paintings are representational, they are not strictly so, nor is my concern to make a faithful replica of what my eye and my camera see. Rather, I am interested in the idea of landscape as a human construct - how people mediate the distance between the human and non-human, how the landscape expands our frame of reference and permits contemplation of the human condition., Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxvi] BIRTH: Index;1898-1975; NY City Health Dept Births Reported in Brooklyn 1948; Swerdlove Ronald 12 6 8 K 55589; microfiche call *XMG-1108, fiche 623, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M. K55589.

^[lxvii] OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Ronald, Princeton University Senior Theses Catalog Brief Display, 1969 , [Online: http://libweb5.princeton.edu/theses/thesesvw.asp?], Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxviii] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Ronald, New Faculty Joins Rider University Community, 9-Sep-2003 , http://www.rider.edu/news/newswire/fall2003/faculty.htm, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxix] CITATION: John C. Pearson, Clay Spence, Ronald Sverdlove, Applications of Neural Networks in Video Signal Processing. NIPS 1990: 289-295 (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sverdlove:Ronald.html).

^[lxx] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Ronald, New Faculty Joins Rider University Community, 9-Sep-2003 , http://www.rider.edu/news/newswire/fall2003/faculty.htm, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005, Dr. Ronald Sverdlove, acting assistant professor I – management sciences. Dr. Sverdlove has taught a myriad of courses, including engineering calculus, finite mathematics and mathematical bioeconomics. His primary research areas are credit risk modeling and option pricing. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University.

^[lxxi] RESIDENCE: Ancestry.com, Phone and Address Directory , [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003., Original data: 2000 White Pages. Little Rock, AR: Acxiom Corporation, 19--. Name: RONALD & MELISSA SVERDLOVE Address: 2 LAKEVIEW DR City: LAKE LUZERNE State: NY Zip: 12846 Phone Number: (518) 696-2657, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 8-Feb-2005; Source Documentation; Verifies wife is Melissa.

^[lxxii] OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Ronald, Rutgers University, Teaching Assistant , [Online: http://www.acs.rutgers.edu/pls/pdb_p/Pdb_Display.search_results], Ronald Sverdlove email address mathmus@alumni.princeton.edu, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxxiii] Ancestry.com, Biography & Genealogy Master Index , [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003., Gale Research Company. Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 2003. -American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. 15th edition. Seven volumes. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1982. (AmMWSc 15)

-American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. 16th edition. Eight volumes. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1986. (AmMWSc 16)

-American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. 17th edition. Eight volumes. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1989. (AmMWSc 17)

-American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 18th edition, 1992-1993. Eight volumes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1992. (AmMWSc 18)

-American Men & Women of Science(TM) (Bowker(R)). A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 19th edition. Eight volumes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1994. (AmMWSc 19)

-American Men & Women of Science(TM) (Bowker(R)). A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 20th edition. Eight volumes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1998. (AmMWSc 20)

-American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 21st edition. Eight volumes. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003. (AmMWSc 21), Accession Number: 4276465.

^[lxxiv] RESIDENCE: Telephone Directory; 1996, Phone and Address Directory, www.switchboard.com, Database America, Inc. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove, 11-Oct-1996; Source Documentation.

^[lxxv] BIOGRAPHY: Sverdlove, Rachel, New Jersey Mathematics League. 2000-2001 6th Grade Score Report Summary. , http://www.mathleague.com/reports/2000_01/grade678/NJ_6.HTM, Top Students in League. Rank: 13. Student: Rachel Sverdlove School: Princeton Charter School Town: Princeton Score: 35, Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxxvi] OCCUPATION: Sverdlove, Michael, Rutgers University, Curriculum Vitea, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2004 , [Online: http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~kdana/resume/cv.pdf], Google search for SVERDLOVE on 9-Feb-2005.

^[lxxvii] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census - Brooklyn, Kings County, New York , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Lukin, Ossias Roll: T626_1521; Page: 3A or 248; ED: 1349; Image: 1080.0.

^[lxxviii] Index to Naturalization Petitions of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1925-1957 , NARA, microfilm M1164, NARA Rolls M1164-28 to M1164-142, NATURALIZATION: Sverdlove, Lillian; Eastern District Court (Brooklyn & Queens) DOB 1916 Address 5598405 371307 July 1, 1943.

^[lxxix] CORRESPONDENCE: Marc Sverdlove, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 27-Mar-2005, Louise has some interesting information about Hy Davis. His original last name is Berkowitz. Davis is his mother’s maiden name. He changed it in order to get into law school, because he belonged to a communist group. The reason she came about this information is very interesting. Hy’s first cousin, Sylvia Berkowitz, worked for Louise’s father as a sale’s woman. Unfortunately one of Louise’s younger brothers was diagnosed with cancer when she was 16. In order to defray the cost of hiring somebody, she worked in her father’s retail store. She continued to do so after her brother died. When my cousin Barbara Davis announced her engagement, Sylvia told Louise the story of her cousin Hy.

^[lxxx] The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., American Family Immigration History Center (Ellis Island On-Line) (www.EllisIsland.org), Site contains immigration records from Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. First Name: Reisic Last Name: Swerdlow Ethnicity: Russia, Hebrew Last Place of Residence: Bialystok, Russia Date of Arrival: November 30, 1909 Age at Arrival: 20y Gender: F Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Kroonland Port of Departure: Antwerp Manifest Line Number: 0022, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 15-Mar-2005; Source documentation.

^[lxxxi] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census: Bronx County, New York , [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Lukin, Ossias Roll: T625_1140 Page: 23A ED: 375 Image: 0277.

^[lxxxii] Ancestry.com., World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2002., microfilm M1509, 20,243 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.

^[lxxxiii] BIOGRAPHY: Interview, Leon Sverdlove conversation with Andrew Ira Sverdlove, 11-Mar-2005, I have not found any records for Rose Sweetlove, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 14-Mar-2003.

^[lxxxiv] SOUR: Declaration of Intention Vol. 235 Page 173 #137087 Dated 15-Nov-1916 SOUR: Petition for Naturalization Supreme Couty, Kings County, New York.

^[lxxxv] CORRESPONDENCE: Swerdlow, Bernard, Personal Correspondence to Andrew I. Sverdlove , Aug-1994, Letter from Bernard Swerdlow, Aug 1994. Letter from Stewart Declaration of Intent listed dob 1-Jul-1893, pob Vitebsk.

^[lxxxvi] DEATH-BIRTH: U.S. Social Security Administration, U.S. Social Security Death Index; CD-ROM; 1962-1993 , LDS Church, CD-ROM ver 1.21, Family History Library. New York City Branch.

^[lxxxvii] Ancestry.com., New York County Supreme Court Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-1924 ([database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003.).

^[lxxxviii] Ancestry.com., California Death Index, 1940-1997. , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000 or RootsWeb.com (http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi), Original electronic data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, 19--.

^[lxxxix] SOUR: Index of Manifest. 5'4" Healthy, brown hair, grey eyes. Vol146 Pg73 Ln5 Manifest P SOUR: NARA Archieves. Index to Passenger & Crew Lists Arriving in Philadelphia.

^[xc] RESIDENCE-OCCUPATION: City Dir, Trow's City Directory, 1915 , Trow, 1915, FHL, Scarsdale NY, FHC microfilm #1267636.

^[xci] Ancestry.com, New York County Supreme Court Naturalization Petition Index, 1907-1924 , [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003., Original data: New York State Supreme Court. Declarations of Intention filed in New York County, 1907-1924. County Clerk's Office, New York County, New York. NATU: 1907-1924 Index to Declaration of Intent Name: Milton Swerdlow Declaration Volume: 279 Declaration Page: 352, <http://www.ancestry.com/search/srrd.asp?rd=db&dbid=7509>.

^[xcii] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census: Bronx County, New York , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Swerdlow, Milton Roll: T626_1467; Page: ; ED: 149; Image: 825.0.

^[xciii] RESIDENCE-OCCUPATION: City Dir, Trow's City Directory, (Manhattan)1933-1934 , Trow, 1933, New York Public Library, Central Research Library, Microform Reading Room 315M, Swerdloff, Milton (May) furrier h1115 Grant Ave.

^[xciv] DEATH-BIRTH: U.S. Social Security Administration, U.S. Social Security Death Index; CD-ROM; 1962-1993 , LDS Church, CD-ROM ver 1.21, Family History Library. New York City Branch. Milton Swerdlow; SSN 060-01-1939; Birth date/Issuance State- 01-Jul-1893/New York (Before 1951), Death date/state-Jun-1980/Cole, Los Angeles, California 90046.

^[xcv] Ancestry.com., California Death Index, 1940-1997. , [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000 or RootsWeb.com (http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi), Original electronic data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, 19--. Name: SWERDLOW, MILTON Social Security #: 060011939 Sex: MALE Birth Date: 1 Jul 1893 Birthplace: OTHER COUNTRY Death Date: 13 Jun 1980 Death Place: LOS ANGELES Mother's Maiden Name:, RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove, 03-Nov-2004; Source Documentation.

^[xcvi] MARRIAGE: Swerdlove, Milton & Ashkin, Mae, Manhattan Marriage Certificates, 1929, #11036 , NYC Dept of Records & Information Services, 31 Chamber St., Municipal Archives, 31 Chamber St.

NOTE: Milton Swerdlow Mae Swerdlow

RESI: 223 Henry St 223 Henry St

AGE: 35 years old 32 years old

Color: White White

Marr Status: Divorced Divorced

OCCU: furrier

BIRTH PLACE:Russia Russia

FATHER: Morris Hyman Askenofsky

MOTHER: Mary Bessie Rubin

CEREMONY: Marriage performed at the Municipal Bldg, Manhattan on May 8, 1929,

Witnesses, Sophie Golden and Gussie Golden. RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 14-Nov-1995.

^[xcvii] CORRESPONDENCE: Swerdlow, Bernard, Personal Correspondence; Aug-1995 , letter to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession and conversation.

^[xcviii] BIOGRAPHY: Bernard Swerdlow, conversation with Andrew Sverdlove , 06-Aug-1994, Mae arrived with mother, brother and sister.

^[xcix] .

^[c] BIRTH: NY, Bronx County: Birth Index, NY City Health Dept, Births Reported in The Bronx; 1898-1975 , City of New York, Department of Health, microfiche ###; [lastname, firstname], Certicifate #, dated DD-MMM-YYYY., NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M; microfiche call *XMG-1108, fiche 211; Swerdlow, Herman; Certificate 5314, dtd 29-Jan-1918.

^[ci] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census: Bronx County, New York , [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-.

^[cii] CORRESPONDENCE: Swerdlow, Stewart A, Personal Correspondence to Andrew I. Sverdlove , 31-Jul-1994, letter to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession.

^[ciii] DEATH-BIRTH: Death Index, Deaths Reported in New York City (All Boroughs) , New York City, Dept of Records and Information Services, original information from NYC Health Dept, New York Public Library, Central Research Division, Genealogy Reading rm 3rd fl, 5th av & 42nd St; or Municipal Archives, 31 Chamber Street, Suite 103, New York, NY 10007, 1966; Herman Swerdlow, Cert #Q2291, Queens NY, dtd 15-Feb-1966, age 48-years-old.

^[civ] DEATH-BIRTH: U.S. Social Security Administration, U.S. Social Security Death Index; CD-ROM; 1962-1993 , LDS Church, CD-ROM ver 1.21, Family History Library. New York City Branch. Herman Swerdlow; SSN 057-09-3910; Birth date/Issuance State-29-Jan-1918/NY, Death date/state-Feb-1966/??.

^[cv] DEATH-BIRTH: U.S. Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File , [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2003-. Name: Kay Swerdlow SSN: 113-03-3065 Last Residence: 11797 Woodbury, Nassau, New York, United States of America Born: 27 Sep 1917 Died: 31 Mar 1996 State (Year) SSN issued: New York (Before 1951), RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 25-Oct-2004; Source Documentation.

^[cvi] BIRTH: Index;1898-1975; NY City Health Dept Births Reported in The Bronx 1942; Swerdlow Barbara H 7 6 2 X 8951; microfiche call *XMG-1108, fiche 558, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M;.

^[cvii] BIRTH: Index;1898-1975; NY City Health Dept Births Reported in Queens 1955; Swerdlow Andrea 6 14 5 Q 14051; microfiche call *XMG-1108, fiche 703, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M. Q14051.

^[cviii] BIRTH: NY, Bronx County: Birth Index, NY City Health Dept, Births Reported in The Bronx; 1898-1975 , City of New York, Department of Health, microfiche ###; [lastname, firstname], Certicifate #, dated DD-MMM-YYYY., NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M; microfiche call *XMG-1108, Births Reported in The Bronx 1930; Swerdlow Bernard Nov 30 X 17200; microfiche call *XMG-1108, fiche 411.

^[cix] CORRESPONDENCE: Swerdlow, Stewart A, Personal Correspondence; 29-Dec-2004 , Here is the current info:

Stewart A. Swerdlow, remarried July 7, 1996 to Janet Diane Mourglia, born in Seattle WA 1/25/56.

New children:

Zachary David Swerdlow, born 3/16/96 in Stony Brook, NY

Jonathan Joseph Swerdlow, born 12/10/98 in Stony Brook, NY

All reside now in St. Joseph, MI since Aug, 2001.

Older boys still on LI.

My sister Maureen remarried July 1997 to Corey Schwartz. Had baby girl on August 4, 1998--named Rebecca Jo Schwartz.

Parents and sister still live in Nesconset, NY.

My sister's Name is Maureen Joy Swerdlow. Born 12/1/59. My ex-wife is Michele Kittler, born 10/10/57.

Alexander Dauman is my nephew, son of Maureen.

My mother was born 1/24/32. My father, Bernard, was an electrical/ sound engineer, not a doctor.

Hope this clarifies.

Stewart, email to Andrew I. Sverdlove in his possession.

^[cx] RESIDENCE: Telephone Directory, NYNEX Suffolk County, New York, White Pages , New York Telephone Company, 1992-1994,

, White Plains Public Library, White Plains, NY.

^[cxi] RESIDENCE: Telephone Directory; 1993, Telephone Directory PhoneDisc , 1993-94 PhoneDisc, New York Public Library - Central Research Library RESEARCHER-UPDATE: Andrew I. Sverdlove; 27-Jul-1994; Source Documentation.

^[cxii] CORRESPONDENCE: Swerdlow, Len, Personal Correspondence; 1996, K48134.

^[cxiii] BIRTH: NY, New York (Manhattan) County, Index to Births Reported in Manhattan, 1898-1975 , City of New York, Department of Health, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M; microfiche call *XMG-1108. Index; 1956; pg 692; call APRN 1956 Vol 2 L-Z; Swerdlow Stewart 11- 5- 6 K48134; Genealogy Reading Room 315S.

^[cxiv] RESIDENCE: Telephone Directory, NYNEX Suffolk County, New York, White Pages , New York Telephone Company, 1992-1994,

, White Plains Public Library, White Plains, NY, Steward Swerdlow 72 East Woodside Ave., Patchague, NY 11772 516-475-6230; and Bernard Swerdlow, 166 Alexander Ave., Nesconset, NY 11767 516-724-6387.

^[cxv] RESIDENCE: Telephone Directory, SELECT PHONE DIGITAL DIRECTORY, Northeast Region, 1994 , ProPhone, Select Phone CD-ROM, 1st Ed; 1995, FHL, 125 Columbus Av.New York, NY. NOTE: Swerdlow, Stewart A, 72 E Woodside Ave, Patchague, NY 11772-1314 516-475-6230.

^[cxvi] RESIDENCE: Telephone Directory; 2004, Phone and Address Directory, http://kevdb.infospace.com/home/wp/email/.

^[cxvii] Letter from his father, Stewart A., 31 JUL 1994.

^[cxviii] BIRTH: Birth Indices; 1898-1975, Births Reported in Brooklyn, City of New York, Department of Health, NY Public Library, Central Research Library, Microforms Reading Room, 315M or Genealogy Reading Room 315S; microfiche call *XMG-1108, Michelle J. Swerdlow, certificate number K52038.

^[cxix] Letter from his uncle, Stewart A., 31 JUL 1994.