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A search of the complete 1920 and 1930 US census has only
revealed one Mayoff family is all of the United States.
Discovering only one Mayoff family is disappointing and raises
a number of questions.
[*Accuracy is questioned as an entry for a George Mayoff and family immigrating from Australia appears. A closer look at the handwriting shows unreadable characters in the name, which the Indexer has attempted to interpret.]
A digital image of the entry as it appears in the 1930 census, including the top and bottom of the enumeration page, appears below.
The following is the content of the enumeration.
Comments in [parenthesis] are added for clarity purposes
by the webmaster.
State: New York
County: Bronx
Block No: I [The letter I]
Enumeration District No: 3-241
Supervisor's District No: 25
Enumerated by: Mrs. Ray [unreadable]lekowitz [possibly Hirshkowitz]
PLACE OF ABODE:
[Number shown is the Column Number and in some cases
is followed by additional info and then finally followed by the
handwritten enumerated entry.]
1-Street or Avenue: Dawson Street [not
shown on excerpt below, but appears at top of column on actual document]
2-House Number: 819 [not shown on excerpt
below, but appears at top of column on actual document]
3-Number of Dwelling House in order of visitation: 15 [not shown on excerpt below, but appears at top of
column on actual
document]
4-Number of Family in order of visitation: 290 [not
shown on excerpt below, but appears at top of column on actual document]
NAME of each person whose
place of abode on April 1, 1930, was in this family. Omit children
born since April 1st.
5-Mayoff Solomon [in Blue type]
5-Rose [in Red
type]
5-Sarah [in Green
type] Note: Color coding does not appear on the census. It has
been added here for clairity]
RELATION of this person to the head
of the family
6-Head
6-Wife
6-Daughter
HOME DATA
7-Home Owned or Rented: R [for Rented]
8-Value of home if owned, or Monthly rental if rented: 53 [$53
per month rent]
9-Radio Set: - No entry [enter "R" if yes, make
no entry for families having no radio set]
10-Does this family live on a farm? [no entry]
PERSONAL DESCRIPTION
11-Sex
M
F
F
12-Color or Race
W
W
W
13-Age at last birthday
45
42
11
14-Marital condition
M
M
S
15-Age at first marriage
21
18
[no entry]
EDUCATION
16-Attended school or college any time since Sept 1, 1929
No
No
Yes
17-Whether able to read and write
Yes
Yes
Yes
PLACE OF BIRTH Place of birth of
person and parents of each person enumerated. If born in the United
States, give the State or Territory. If foreign birth, give the
country of birth.
18-PERSON 19-FATHER 20-MOTHER
Russia Russia Russia
Russia Russia Russia
New York Russia Russia
MOTHER TONGUE (OR NATIVE LANGUAGE) OF FOREIGN
BORN
21-Language spoken in home before coming to United States
Yiddish
Yiddish
[no entry]
CODE For office use only. Do
not write in these columns. [The meaning of the office
codes in columns A, B, C and D has no importance to genealogical
researchers. A short explanation appears here.]
A- State or M.T.
35
35
56
B- Country
19
19
19
C- Nativity
V
V
O or D [not
quite readable]
CITIZENSHIP
22-Year of immigration to the United States
1906
1906
[no entry]
23-Naturalization of alien
No
No
[no entry]
24-Whether able to speak English
Yes
Yes
Yes
OCCUPATION AND INDUSTRY
OCCUPATION
25-Trade, profession or particular line of work as spinner,
salesman, riveter, etc.
Business [I
believe this to mean that they owned their own business- see line
"D" and 27 below.]
Business
[no entry]
INDUSTRY
26-Industry or business, as cottonmill, dry goods store, shipyard,
public school, etc.
Laundry
Laundry
[no entry]
CODE (For office use only. Do not write in this column) [The
meaning of this office code follows the entry. For additional
info, click here.]
D-
7298
7298
[no entry]
[ 72=Owners, operators, and proprietors
(manufacturers) 98=Cleaning, dyeing, or pressing shop]
27-Class of Worker (For all persons for whom an occupation is
reported in Col 25)
E [The
meaning of this code is "Employer"]
E
[The meaning of this code is "Employer"]
[no entry]
EMPLOYMENT Whether
actually at work yesterday (or the last regular working day)
28-Yes or No
Yes
Yes
[no entry]
Lines 29-32: [No entries]
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