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E-mail Adress : GeneralSlocum@aol.com
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Date : August 21, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Hi Joan, Sorry for the long delay. I checked all my sources and could find no record for the name Braunstein or for the name Hennige.
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : GeneralSlocum@aol.com
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Date : August 21, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Hi Hank, I found a record for a Moller family perishing on the Slocum. The address was listed as 45 2nd Avenue. Listed are: Anna
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : M, 13, Death Certificate number 3568; Catherine, 39, Death Certificate number 3642 (disinterred); and Catherine L, 2, listed as missing.
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : GeneralSlocum@aol.com
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Date : August 21, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Hi Carol, I checked all my sources and could not find a record of anyone named Ehmann on the General Slocum.
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : GeneralSlocum@aol.com
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Date : August 21, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Hi Lovejoy, I found a record for a Klenck family at 113 St. Marks PL.
John, 13, survived uninjured.
Bertha, 40, died (DeathCert#3087).
Charles, 8, died (Cert. # 3088).
William, F, 20, died (Cert. #3449).
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : GeneralSlocum@aol.com
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Date : August 21, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Hi Kathryn, I found information on a Wohlfert family at 107 7th St.
Charlotte M, 8, died (Cert. #3635)
She was disinterred.
Eva L, 35, died (Cert. #3609)
She also was disinterred.
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : Robert C, 12, died (Cert. #3652)
No mention is made of Charles.
I also found a listing for a Kruger at 106 7th St.(denoted as Brooklyn).
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Comment Continued (to be safe,go to the next box) : Kruger, Eva, 57, died (Cert. #3196).
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : GeneralSlocum@aol.com
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Date : August 21, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Joseph, There is no complete passenger list available. There are several lists from old books and newspapers and they differ from each other. I check all my sources and found no record
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : of anyone named Schlenner or Schlener being aboard the General Slocum.
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Name : Edward Frank
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E-mail Adress : edlfrank@msn.com
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Date : 25 Aug 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : My g.grandparents, Peter Jaeger and Elisabeth Gass were married and lived in this area. I always wondered why all of the Germans, them included, moved to Yorkville. My grandmother and her siblings were confirmed in St.
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : Marks Ev Ch on E.84th St. He and his brother Adolph owned meat stores. Adolph's sons, Adolph Jr. and Charles owned 2 stores; 1569 2nd Ave and 1577 Ave A. They placed an ad in the program for the "Carneval Herold des Mainzer Carneval Verein, 1900". I have
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Comment Continued (to be safe,go to the next box) : "Carneval Herlold des Mainzer Carneval Verein, 1900". I have an original copy of the program.
I would enjoy hearing from anyone who may be related or from their neighborhood on East 84th Street.
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Name : Edward Frank
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E-mail Adress : edlfrank@msn.com
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Date : 25 Aug 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Can anyone tell me about a Protestant Episcopal Congregation St. George's GERMAN Chapel at 91 Second Street? My g.grandparents were married there 10 Jun 1867. They lived at 444 13th Street at the time. Pastor Charles Schramm.
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : They moved to Yorkville and attended ZION St. Marks Ev. Lutheran Church on East 83rd St.
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : General Slocum@aol.com
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Date : 9/2/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Joanna, I found no record of Charles or Elizabeth Below as being passengers on the General Slocum.
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : General Slocum@aol.com
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Date : 9/2/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Elin, I found the following info:
Behrens family at 134 E. 28th St:
Henry,6(another source says 5), missing.(Other source says he died)
Frederick (Fritz), 9, survived, taken to Lincoln Hospital.
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : Another source shows the family's address as 22 St. Marks Place.
There is no information on Elizabeth or any parents being aboard wiith them. They might have gone with another family or with friends.
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : General Slocum@aol.com
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Date : 9/2/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Peggy, No passengers named Feller or Elmore are listed. I found only two young survivors named Margaret. One was Margaret Heckert,9. She was with relatives names Eva, 32, and Cecilia,6, who both survived,
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : and Anna K, 11, & Julia,
8 months, who both died.
The other was Margaret Kunath, 15, who had no one of the same family name listed as with her.
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : General Slocum@aol.com
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Date : 9/2/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Ernest, Nobody named Zeh appears on any of my lists.
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Name : steve moran
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E-mail Adress : smeyer145@aol.com
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Date : 9/2/2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : My mothers maiden name is Henrich. She said she lost several cousins in the disaster. Would you please check out this name for me? Thank you
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : General Slocum@aol.com
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Date : September 2, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Steve,
I found a Henrich family from 416 Brook Avenue, The Bronx.
Theresa (Tessie), 16, died, death certificate number 3,493.
Amelia, 18, died, death
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : certificate number 3,492.
Another source shows the address as 316 Brook Avenue.
No other Henrich's are listed as passengers, but if you know of any other possible family names for
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Comment Continued (7 more lines) : the cousins, let me know and I can check them.
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Name : EILEEN SAYER
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E-mail Adress : FLADOR@AOL.COM
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Date : 09/04/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : PLEASE ADVISE IF THE NAMES PROBST OR ROEPKE APPEAR ON THE LIST OF VICTIMS. I WAS TOLD THAT MY GREAT AUNT WAS KILLED IN THIS DISASTER, BUT CANNOT REMEMBER HER NAME
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Name : Rob
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E-mail Adress : General Slocum@aol.com
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Date : Sept. 5, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Eileen,
There was a Catherine (Kate, Katie) Probst, 24, on board. She died. Her death certificate number is 3137. Her address was 515 E. 12th Street.
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Name : Ken Leib
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E-mail Adress : lazerken@aol.com
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Date : 9/7/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : HI ROB; Saw comment about Behrens family. One of our group (GSMA) found the unmarked grave in Jersey City,New Jersey. He has traditionally, said a little prayer and toled a bell at the site since finding it, on the afternoon after our memorial service.
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : Keep up good site Rob.
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Name : Heather Doyle
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E-mail Adress :
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Date : 9-6-02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : My great grandfather and his mother and sister were on the boat and unfortunatly his mother and sister perished...he did however save a young girl he thought was his sister due to the color of her hair ribbon.
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Name : John Perillo
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E-mail Adress : j.j.perillo@att.net
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Date : 10/13/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : I was just told about a relative who perished in a maritime disaster, while enroute to a "joyous event". It sounds like the Slocum disaster, but the person who told me of it was quite old and not sure if it was the Slocum. It was a baby named John Weis, w
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Name : Frank Duffy
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E-mail Adress : Helo98@AOL.Com
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Date : Oct. 18, '02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : It is with great sadness that the Maritime Industry Museum announces the passing of Mrs. Catherine Connelly,on October 17th at 109 years of age, one of two survivors of the General Slocum disaster.
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Name : KEN lEIB
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E-mail Adress : LAZERKEN@AOL.COM
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Date : 18 oCTOBER 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : ROB: i WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU COULD TELL YOUR WRITERS THAT cATHERINE cONNELLY, 109, DIED LAST NIGHT. SHE CAN BE VIEWED AT GALLEGHERS IN GREENWICH,CT, FROM 2-4 ON SAT & SUN. THANK YOU
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Name : Katharine Smith
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E-mail Adress : ksmithwar@hotmail.com
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Date : 10/19/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : According the the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 16, 1904, my grandfather, John E. McAllister was the captain of the tug that saved many people. Most accounts do not mention his name other than the Eagle.
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : Do you know of any other sources?
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Name : Dianne T. Reyes
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E-mail Adress : dreyes@gpc.edu
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Date : 10/21/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : I just read the story of the death of one of the last survivors of the General Slocum and wanted to read more.
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Name : Andrew F. Saxe
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E-mail Adress : asaxe@tier.com
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Date : November 6th, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : I am trying to get information on the Devine Burtis shipyards which built the General Slocum in 1891. My understanding is that the Shipping Board found that the boat had not been poorly built, just
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : built to the specifications of its day which were then determined to be insufficiently safe.
Looking for report of Maritime Board or Shipping Board
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Comment Continued (7 more lines) : Also, did the Devine Burtis shipyards go bankrupt as a result of the disaster. That is also my understanding
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Name : R Milliken
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E-mail Adress : chaigle@aol.com
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Date : 11/08/2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : My grandmother had cousins, the Ruthinger family on board. Any info on that family?
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Name : Jinna
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E-mail Adress : hig274@cox.net
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Date : November 9, 2002
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : Anyone by the names of GEISS or RENZ on board? Thanks!
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Name : joann freburger
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E-mail Adress : barley-dog@prodigy.net
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Date : 11/10/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : While cleaning my bookshelves I found a 326 page book entitled "New York's Awful Excursion Boat Horror" edited by John Wesley Hanson, published in 1904 as a memorial edition telling the accounts of the General
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : Slocum's survivors and rescuers. The book has photos and includes lists of the dead and missing with their ages and addresses. Can anyone tell me about the author and this book? Thanks
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Name : Lori Windolf
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E-mail Adress : Lori@BollingerInsurance.com
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Date : 11/11/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : I was thrilled to see your site. My great grandfather, William Blohm, lost his first wife, child and sister in the Slocum disaster. He was a butcher in Brooklyn at the time. I look forward to the 100th anniversay. Thanks!
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Name : Judi Braddick
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E-mail Adress : jabscout@netscape.net
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Date : 11/12/02
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Comment (after 7 lines go to next box) : In my fa,ily the expression "she missed the boat" is a good thing. As family history goes my great grandmother and my grandmother (and probably other siblings) we supposed to go to the picnic but they "missed the boat" I grew up in
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Comment (only the 1st 7 lines per box will print) : Glendale and my grandmother lived in Middle Village. The walk to her home took us right past the Slocum Memorial, we never failed to stop a moment and reflect on the event. On my most recent trip to NY I showed the Memorial to my daugter.
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Comment Continued (7 more lines) : There is also a monument in Manhattan in Tompkins Park.
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