Alexander M Shapiro and Lillian Kadet

Lillian Shapiro, is listed as Friedman Kadet's daughter on his obituary. Lillian Kadetsky is listed in the 1900 United States Federal Census and 1905 New York Census as daughter of Friedman Kadetsky in Buffalo, NY.

This is a bio for Alexander M. Shapiro in "The history of medicine and surgery and physicians and surgeons of Chicago" page 76
Born June 19, 1888, in New York, N. Y. Graduate of Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, 1914. Practice: surgery and gynecology. Associate in surgery and gynecology at West End Hospital, 1921-22. Member of house staff at City and County Hospital, St. Paul, Minn., 1914-15. School Health Officer, Chicago, 1918-20. Married Lillian Kadet, February 23, 1919, at Chicago. Member of American Medical Association, also Masonic Orders, B. P. O. E. No. 4, and Knights of Pythias. Residence, 1110 Independence Boulevard, Chicago.

Friedman Kadet

Here is the "Chicago Daily Tribune" obituary for Friedman Kadet from June 3, 1936.

Interestingly Friedman's children, Jack and Rose are not listed on his 1900 United States Federal Census or the 1905 New York State Census.

Here is the link from familysearch.com for the death records of Friedman Kadet. It lists Friedman's parents as Israel M. and Sarah Mariam Kadet of Sierps, Poland. his wife is listed as Pauline. he was buried in O.B.A. cemetery in Forest Park, Cook, Ill.

Perla Berk of Buffalo

Ancestry.com has indexed the 1892, 1915 and 1925 New York State Census. In the 1915 NY Census, Aaron Kadetsky (23 yo), a tailor, was a nephew to the head of the household, Morris Berk (47 yo). Morris Berk was a tailor. Living with Morris was his wife, Pearl (47 yo) and children; Abraham (19 yo), Isadore (15 yo) and Arthur (7 yo).

In the Sierpc JRI poland results there is a marriage record for Perla Kadecka and Moszek Berk in 1888.

Since Aaron Kadetsky is identified as a nephew, Perla would be the daughter of Israel Moshe Kadecki and a sister to Abram, Sussman, Friedman, Chaim and Benjamin Kadetsky.

Menashe (Max) Kadetsky and Berko (Benjamin) Kadetsky

I have been mystified about the connection between Benjamin Kadetsky b. 1870 who lived in Buffalo, NY and other Kadetsky who lived there including Friedman Kadetsky b.1862, Chaia (b. 1878) and Gersz (b.1877) Grabkowitz/Gary, and Max Kadet (b. 1883/1880). Over the weekend I was looking at Ancestry's immigration records and came across the Ellis Island Manifest for Menashe Kadetsky who arrived 1/2/1904 on the St. Louis and joined his Uncle Berko Kadetsky at 259 Main St. in Buffalo, NY. According to multiple business records that can be found doing a google search using keywords Kadetsky Buffalo NY, it is documented that Benjamin B. Kadetsky owned a tailoring company at that address. Jenni Hymoff had documented this manifest years ago, I have just rediscovered it now. This is the first document that connects Benjamin Kadetsky to anyone but his immediate family! I have not yet found a record to indicate exactly who Menashe Kadetsky is, but there is a Max Kadet, the brother of Chaia Grabkowitz, Mendel Kadet, Benjamin (a different Benjamin from the subject of this post), and Aaron Kadet who lived in Buffalo as well. (Much info about this family can be found by searching for the surname Kadet on findagrave.com) I have never found his Ellis Island manifest, but I strongly believe that Max Kadet and Menashe Kadetsky are the same person due to proximity of birth years and that in the 1930 census Max Kadet is listed as immigrated in 1903. Based on this relationship, Benjamin Kadetsky is the brother of Friedman Kadetsky and Sussman Kadetsky among others including Abram Icek Kadecki, Perla Kadetsky, and Hyman (Chaim) Kadetsky. Retrospectively, I see that when Chaya Grabkovitz immigrated she stayed at at Hersz Grabkowitz at 257 Main Str in Buffalo, the address of Benjamin Kadetsky's business.

He served as the synagogue president in Buffalo for congregation Ahavath Scholem.

Here is Benjamin Kadetsky's Ellis Island manifest from 11/30/1886, that lists his home town as Sierpc. According to Benjamin Kadetsky's passport application from 1910 his was bron in Shirtz, Poland and immigrated on 11/1885.

Nisson Finkelstein; NASA Spacesuit designer for the Apollo program

Nisson A. Finkelstein was the son of Benjamin H. Finkelstein and Tena Kadetsky. Benjamin and Tena married on August 1, 1915 in Boston, Mass. Benjamin's parents are listed as Nathan Finkelstein and Phoebe Levenson and Tena's parents are Jacob Kadtesky and Pauline Baruth. Marriage register part 1, part 2.

12 Sierpc PSA JRI Poland records

I have acquired 12 records from the Sierpc Polish State Archives. The records are from Sierpc PSA BMD 1886-1903, Plock Gubernia/Warszawa Province (records in Fond 203 in Plock Archive), Located at 52°53’ 19°40’. Special thanks to viewmate genealogists who translated the documents. All the scans can be found on viewmate. A google spreadsheet with all the transcribed information can be viewed with this link. Feel free to correct any mistakes I made or add information from records you have, The following surnames are found on these records: APELBAUM BURGANT CZARNA GECEL GOLDRAJCH GRABKIEWICZ (changed to Gray) GRAUBART GREENBAUM GRES KADECKI (changed to Kay, Kadet, Kadets, Kadetz and Kadetsky) KON KORNINSKI KRYSHZAL (changed to Crystal or Krystal) LAWENDA LELONEK PILNIKEWICZ PLOTKA PLOTNIARZ POKORSKI RACJCHGOD (changed to Richgat) TYPRIS WLUCKA (variation of Vlucka)

Here is the link to the extracted Biezun record for the Kadecki family.