Saturday, May 14, 2022

Bay Minette

Census pages from 1920 and 1930, short notes on the Press and Plotka families, and records from the Industrial Removal Office which moved urban Jews to rural areas of the country. The Presses and Plotkas went to Bay Minette, Alabama.

Census pages (from John Press)

Notes (from Dan Nemzer)
Industrial Removal Office (IRO) record at the Center for Jewish History (from John Press)

Press, Is. 
Spouse's Name: Rivka 
Date of Relocation: 3/24/1913
Relocated to: Bay Minette, AL Box: 11
Ledger Page: 202, Entry: 35948 

There is no entry for the Plotka family.

1913 IRO ledger record (from John Press)

Notes from Edie and others






Plotka-Press reunion in Mobile AL, May 2008

One afternoon, many of us drove (on a new highway) to Bay Minette. We did find the original house (on North Hand Avenue) and carefully walked inside it. (Loose floorboards). It seemed like a cabin to me. The house was not occupied then. Since then, it was torn down. Dan






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Census pages from 1920 and 1930, short notes on the Press and Plotka families, and records from the Industrial Removal Office which moved ur...