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Gussie Nathanson Selig
Born about 1882; death not recorded
Gussie Nathanson was born in the Russian Empire about 1882, the daughter of Fannie Nathanson, and **came to America in 1889**, when she was about seven. She married Samuel Selig and raised at least six children with him in Brooklyn. In 1920 her widowed mother, then seventy-three, was living in the household with them. Her maiden name survives only on her children's birth records, where the clerks wrote it Nathason, Nathensohn and Nathanson. She outlived Samuel by at least nine years: he died in 1941, and the census of April 1950 still finds her in Brooklyn, with her son Sydney.
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Gussie Nathanson was born in the Russian Empire about 1882, the daughter of Fannie Nathanson, and **came to America in 1889**, when she was about seven. She married Samuel Selig and raised at least six children with him in Brooklyn. In 1920 her widowed mother, then seventy-three, was living in the household with them. Her maiden name survives only on her children's birth records, where the clerks wrote it Nathason, Nathensohn and Nathanson. She outlived Samuel by at least nine years: he died in 1941, and the census of April 1950 still finds her in Brooklyn, with her son Sydney.
Recorded as: Gussie Nathason, Gussie Nathensohn, Gussie Selig
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- Russia
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- Brooklyn, New York City, New York
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Arrived in the United States
The 1920 census gives her arrival as 1889 — she was about seven. Samuel's arrival is given on the same sheet as 1893, so they emigrated separately and met in America.
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Brooklyn, with her mother in the household
Brooklyn Assembly District 12, ED 701, sheet 4B, household 88. Gussie 38, Samuel 40, and Fannie Nathanson, her mother, 73.
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Still in Brooklyn, nine years a widow
Enumerated at Brooklyn on 8 April 1950, about 66, born Russia, with her son Sydney. This is the latest record of her the archive holds.
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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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Verbatim transcription currently held in this archive — reproduced in full.
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
Gussie Selig, 1950 United States census, Brooklyn
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Brooklyn, Kings County, enumerated 8 April 1950. Gussie Selig, born about 1884 in Russia, with her son Sydney Selig.
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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 1908, 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.
- Her death and burial. She was alive in April 1950 and is not among the sixteen Seligs at Mount Hebron, where Samuel lies — so she was either buried elsewhere or entered under another name. Her death record would also give her father, who is still unknown.