Jacob Reisner Family in 1930

I have recently been spending time researching the descendants of Rose (Levitt) Goldstein's half-sister, Rebecca (Levitt) Reisner. I do this to help me possibly identify second cousin and third cousin DNA matches if they don't happen to reply to my messages.

Rebecca Levitt arrived in America in 1891 or 1892 and was living in New Jersey by 1900 with her father, Max Levitt, and his second wife, Goldie Segal. See Levitts in Woodbine for several early census records and Jacob Reisner in the Census, 1910-1920 for the Reisner family.

Jacob Reisner, after living in New Jersey in 1910 as a boarder in the Levitt household, moved to New York City by 1911, where he and Rebecca married. However, in 1921, according to Jacob's obituary, they moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where their growing family was living at 14 Hollywood Street in 1930.

1930 U.S. census, Hampden County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Springfield, Ward 6, enumeration district 84, sheet 10A, dwelling 116, family 178, Jacob N. Reisner; image, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com: accessed 16 January 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 911.

Following are closeup images of the Reisner family, which is the second-to-bottom family on the page.

Reisner family in Springfield in 1930 (left-hand side)

Jacob N. Reisner, head of the household, rented this apartment for $40 per month. The family owned a radio. When they married (in August 1911), Jacob was 20 and Rebecca was 18.

Reisner family in Springfield in 1930 (right-hand side)

Jacob worked as a foreman in a clothing store and his son Harold worked as a stock clerk (probably at the same clothing store). The younger children (Adele, Samuel, Naomi, all born in New York) attended school within the past year and the two youngest (Roselle and Joseph, who were born in Massachusetts) were at home.

The couple had already lost a daughter, a twin to Naomi, in 1921. I've always wondered if that was part of the family's reason for moving away from New York.

Jacob's wife, Rebecca was reported as being born in New Jersey, which isn't accurate. Jacob was reported as having started the naturalization process ("Pa" in 1904). I have not confirmed whether he completed the naturalization process.

Ten years later, only the youngest two children were still living with their parents. I love tracking families through the U.S. census!