Hi, as I said, I searched so much abt GB, the surname in all spelling, and I know that all real GB that I found had own life and no one is our GB...
My idea, by 1940 census, it is that GB immigrated when little child.. and abt the Russia birthplace anyone know that the immigrants said Russia but the Russia was a Empire in 1900s and until the 1917 October revolution... and many countries was a part of russian empire...
Knowing abt GB and him behavior, and searching more, I found this record:
U.S. City Directories (Beta) about Geo Broudy
Name: Geo Broudy
Residence Year: 1940
Residence Place: Oakland, California
Occupation: Mech Hl
Publication Title: Polk's Oakland California City Directory
http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?ht...674&fn=Geo&ln=Broudy&st=r&ssrc=&pid=254407203
1818 Harrison st Oakland CA; now I know not if is a
residence address or a work address...
this name with this spelling is just on this record.. no further records... no before no after of 1940 ...
the 1940 census was of 3 Apr 1940, and at this address nobody Geo Broudy
http://interactive.ancestry.com/244...1940-census&ssrc=#imageId=M-T0627-00444-00513
now the directory( 1940) showing the address in 1940 ( Jan-Dec) or last part of 1939 year and first of 1940 year? who know?
However the only possible Geo Broudy that I found was born in Russia ( in Gorodno*) and is a possible record, matching with my idea, (
so it is just a my idea of our GB ), well was born in 1903 ( and that is no a problem, because our GB changed always him birthyear becoming more young in the passing time), hebrew, son of Russian-polish parents, immigrated in 1905;
Name:
Gerson PrudofskyArrival Date: 27 Sep 1905
Birth Year: abt 1902
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race¬/Nationality: Hebrew
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Caronia
the surname was no Broudy originally, but the siblings used Broudy and sometime also the mother.
The mother of this GB and children, at arrival, well the final destination was Providence, RI, where lived the husband and where the last child born also, but in 1910 they lived in Manhattan;
the parents was divorced in 1920 census, and found Geo/George (but really him first name was Gerson) living with mother and sibling.
I believe that I found it on the 1930 census ( Brooklyn, NY) with the father, remarried or just joined at a woman.. I am positive that the 1930 census is abt this GB, the father, the new wife and another person. They was naturalized.
Instead on 1930 census of mother ( Bronx, NY), she lived with the 2 daughters and the last son.
So this GB preferred to live with father.
In WWII draft registration card
(1942) of this GB father, well the next of kin was the son: GB (using a wrong spelling of original surname) living at
1817 Mohegan Ave, Bronx NY
I cannot find this GB at this address on 1940 census of Bronx ....
Now, if I remember well, our GB also lived in SF (1970s/1980s), but on him unclaimed money record he had a Oakland address...
If I remember well all of this case, obviously...
So the idea is: because
our GB is on 1940 census of Oakland,
any possible GB cannot be on 1940 census of residence in previous census
(1930)
This
possible GB could be very possible; so my dilemma is:
-it is possible that our GB is Geo Broudy appearing in 1940 Polk's directory? The address is a work address?
This Geo Broudy is not on the 1940 census of Oakland. So the address 1818 Harrison st Oakland CA must be a work address....
The different work ( our GB was a mason or so but the " PW" on the 1940 census meaning Private Work) is no a problem, because really our GB never had a true work, and if I remember well, Annasmom said also that GB spoken abt a work in a garage or similar ...
-It is possible that our GB had also a NY address?
I read abt research assistant profession on the other addresses in Oakland; we know that our GB was a lier, and the only Brody that I found in Oakland as research assistant or so, it was a chemistry assistant and no related at our GB....
sorry for long post, sorry for my bad english,
raf
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*various spelling:
Gorodno [Rus],
Horodno [Pol],
Horodnia [Yid],
Haradnaja [Bel],
Horodna,
Horodne)
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