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<p>Kay Kreeger was nice enough to pass along the birth date for Rose
Kosak . 7 Feb 1904 is now added in my database.</p>
<p>So I looked through the online digitization of the birth returns
(the ones in the 1900 decade have mostly not been indexed yet but
have been scanned) and did not find any birth return records for
the other, early born Kosak kids. I also found a City Directory
entry for Josef Kosak in 1904 that had that same 42 Rural street
address as Mary Kosak 1905's birth return did. Luckily the city
directory had a street index and map at the back of each edition.
And the map still existed in the 1904 directory I first checked.<br>
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<p>Ends up in 1904-1905, Cleveland had not (re)named its streets
with the numbers yet. So instead of East 81st, we have Rural
Ave. I cannot quite read the written names for the other ones in
the St Lawrence neighborhood that are on the map. Key is the
family did not move. Just the street changed name.This gives me
more hope for walking through the images of the 1900 census by
hand to find the family. They still have not showed up there.
Looks like East 82nd was Strafford.<br>
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<p>And sure enough, the 1906 directory has a street name change
directory and indicates Rural St changes to 81st St SE. Looking
at other directories, it ends up the 1904 one I happened to first
see is the only one that included the Map in the scanned copy. The
rest, the map insert was not retained by time they scanned the
directory. Whew, was lucky there.<br>
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<p>So armed with this information, I went into the 1900 city
directory to look for the family. And discover why I had not found
them before. In the 1900 directory, the surname is listed in the
City Directory as Koshak. And for whatever reason (as the text and
scan was clean), most of the page did not automatically OCR to
extract the names in that section. Hence also why a search did
not find them. Know its them because the address is 46 Rural and
the name Joseph. The only surname spelled that way as well.<br>
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<p>So this is great. We now have records from roughly 1899 forward
with the first 20 years in that same neighborhood. Time to page
through the 1900 census by hand as they should be in there on
Rural St. Or was that the year I discovered a few years back that
the census taker missed a few houses including theirs? Need to go
back and look at my own old emails first I think.<br>
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<p>But the diligence paid off. Found the Ward and District on some
old maps. Looked up those 50 pages of census records, scrolling
through to find Rural St. Near the end and on the 4th page of
Rural St houses, the Kosak's appear as the last entry in this 1900
census for Rural St (see image below). Key is this gives a better
description of Joe Kosak Sr's birth year and month. The entry has
errors. Surname is spelled Cushock. Says they are from Germany.
But Anna's date info is spot on (month / year born, year arrived)
as is Joe Kosak Jr's. Finally!</p>
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Note it also indicates Anna has had 1 child and 1 child surviving.
So we are narrowing in on the time window the last child (that
likely died within a year of birth) was born. Time for some sleep
and to get back to other things ... a wild 48 hrs.<br>
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Randy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/28/2018 2:09 AM, Randy Harr wrote:<br>
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<p>It has been awhile since I communicated. There has been slow
but steady progress on the family. As I still do not have an
actual birth date nor village for Joe Kosak, we have not been
able to start the search in the Slovenian records for him.
There are issues related to this with the Rogelj side also.</p>
<p>There were some records very recently indexed and added to the
FamilySearch.org site that I just found today though.</p>
<p>I found the birth of another of the Kosak kids. You may
recall, in the 1910 census, it states Joe and Anna had 8
children but only 5 are surviving. The 5 are in the census and
include the kids except Mary "Mitzi" who is not yet born. I had
previously found one of the children via a death certificate
indicating death at birth for a Frances Kosak (29 Apr 1906).
Well, just added to the online archives in March 2018, a new
birth record has come about. It is indexed as the birth of a
"Joe Kosar, Male" in 16 Sep 1905. But the record image clearly
shows a "Marrey Kosar, Girl". The parents are Annie and Joe
Kosar with Annie's maiden name as Rogal. Their ages are correct
for the birth time. Clearly a poor speller filling out this
record. I am taking this to mean it describes a Mary Kosak is
born who dies before the 1910 census. Note this predates Mary /
Mitzi's birth by 6 years.<br>
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<p>This leaves one child left to find. Birth records only started
becoming more regular around 1906 so finding an earlier one is
very sketchy. There is a gap in ages of kids in late 1900 /
early 1901 or another in 1903. Oddly, I still do not have an
exact birth date for Rose Zabukovec nee Kosak. It may possibly
be on her detailed death certificate which I have not retrieved
yet. There is a third gap around Aug 1908 where another child
could have been born as well.</p>
<p>Also found a reference to a Joe Kosak who was naturalized in
1904 in Cleveland. Joe lists himself as still "Alien" in the
1910 census which would imply he was not naturalized. Another
key issue is the index states he emigrated from Bohemia (current
Czech Republic or possibly South Eastern Poland). There is a
Joe Kosar, born 1868, from Bohemia, in Cleveland. (note: our
Joe Kosak was born 1868.) But he naturalized in 1894 and
appears with his mother in the 1900 census (both from Bohemia).
But maybe this 1904 record is our Joe. Need to go to the
Cleveland Courthouse to see the actual record. It is usually the
Naturalization document that tells us more formally where their
birth village is and exact birth date.<br>
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<p>Below is what I now have for the Kosak kids (not including the
Zele girls in this depiction); as taken from <a
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href="http://old.modiharr.com/gen/family.php?famid=F12&GED=Kosak">http://old.modiharr.com/gen/family.php?famid=F12&GED=Kosak</a>.
Below that is the newly found birth record on a Mary Kosak born
1905.</p>
<p>I am finding it odd that Kosak could appear as Kosar in the
records. But this birth record as Kosar makes me really
question how the name was pronounced back then. Spelling it
Koshak or Kozhac or similar, I can understand. But Kosar? So
maybe Joe Kosak was mistakenly record on the index card as
Bohemia instead of Austria also?<br>
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<p>Randy<br>
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