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American Jewish Historical Society

Ancestry.com. USA, register för Industrial Removal Office, 1899-1922 [webbaserad databas]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

Originaldata: Industrial Removal Office. Records of the Industrial Removal Office. AJHS microfilm I-91 (66 rolls). American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, New York City.

USA, register för Industrial Removal Office, 1899-1922

Industrial Removal Office var en organisation baserad i New York City i början av 1900-talet. Syftet var att hjälpa judiska immigranters assimilering i det amerikanska samhället och att försöka hjälpa dem till en anställning och vid behov förflyttning till annan stad. Databasen innehåller register från Industrial Removal Office för åren mellan 1899 och 1922. Här finns administrativa och finansiella uppgifter, statistik, uppgifter om immigranternas placering och flytt, undersökning av judiska livsförhållanden och korrespondens. Registren är skrivna på antingen engelska eller jiddisch.

In the early 1900’s large amounts of Romanian Jews fled to New York. The Rumanian Committee was organized in New York City as a result of this. The Committee’s aim was to help relocate the immigrants to other cities and help them find employment. The Rumanian Committee soon became the Industrial Removal Office (IRO), under the Jewish Agricultural Society. The IRO was a much broader organization and assisted any Jewish immigrant needing employment, regardless of nationality or origin. The IRO sought to help immigrants assimilate into American society, in addition to relocating them and helping them find work.

This database contains records of the Industrial Removal Office from 1899-1922. This includes administrative and financial records, statistical records, immigrants’ placement and removal records, Jewish life conditions surveys, and correspondence. Records may be written in either English or Yiddish.

The records have been organized into 11 series, according to record type. The series that will be most valuable to genealogists is Series II, so it is recommended that research begins there, before looking into the other series.

Ancestry.com has reproduced these records courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) where this collection is available on microfilm.

Updates:
11 Sep 2019: Changes were made to improve the performance of this collection. No new records were added.