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Bernard Selig
Born about 1906; death not recorded
Bernard Selig was born in Brooklyn about 1906, a son of Samuel Selig and Gussie Nathanson, both of whom had come from the Russian Empire as children. He was 14 when the 1920 census found the whole family at home in Assembly District 12 — with their grandmother Fannie Nathanson, then seventy-three, living under the same roof. The brothers and sisters were Sydney (1902), Arthur (1905), Florence (1908), Edward (1910), Mildred (1912).
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Bernard Selig was born in Brooklyn about 1906, a son of Samuel Selig and Gussie Nathanson, both of whom had come from the Russian Empire as children. He was 14 when the 1920 census found the whole family at home in Assembly District 12 — with their grandmother Fannie Nathanson, then seventy-three, living under the same roof. The brothers and sisters were Sydney (1902), Arthur (1905), Florence (1908), Edward (1910), Mildred (1912).
Born at Brooklyn, New York City, New York
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- Brooklyn, New York City, New York
- New York City, New York
- New York
- Russia
- United States
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Aged 14 in Brooklyn
Entered as Bernhard, son, 14, born New York, in Samuel and Gussie Selig's household — sheet 4B, household 88. Their grandmother Fannie Nathanson, 73, was living with them.
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What the records say
2 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Samuel and Gussie Selig household, 1920 United States census, Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Assembly District 12, ED 701, sheet 4B, household 88, line 67. Gussie Selig, wife, 38, born Russia, arrived 1889, both parents born Russia. Samuel Selig, husband, 40, born Russia, arrived 1893. Fannie Nathanson, mother, 73, born Russia.
Record exhibit
NYC marriage index, 1866-1937 — controlled sweep of twelve archive couples, 21 August 2026
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Twelve couples tested by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year: no matches. Controls: surname Mayer alone returns 1,025 rows for 1922-1937, and the GGG (all-records) and City (digitised-only) indexes return identical counts for every name tested.
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What we still don't know
- [BRANCH NO LONGER CONNECTED] This family was attached to the archive only through Florence Selig's supposed marriage to August William Mayer. That marriage belonged to a different Florence — Florence Rose Seelig, daughter of Louis Seelig and Sarah Moore. The Selig and Nathanson people are kept, fully documented, as a deliberately separated group: no relationship to this family is currently established. See finding 117.
- [PRIVACY FLAG CORRECTED] This person was marked as possibly living, which suppressed everything about them. Nothing in their record refers to any year after 1884, so they cannot be alive: even somebody born in that year would be over a hundred and ten now. The flag was a default that had never been revisited, and it was hiding a nineteenth-century person as though they were a contemporary.
- [NEGATIVE, CONTROLLED — NOT MARRIED IN NEW YORK CITY] Tested on 21 August 2026 against the New York City marriage index by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year. No certificate joins them. Two controls make the zero usable: the surname alone returns hundreds of rows, so the query works; and the GGG transcription of every record and the City's index of digitised records return identical counts, so this is a real absence and not a scanning gap. Within the index's coverage — five boroughs, 1866-1937 — they married somewhere else. Finding 158.