Hey, I found them in 1920, although that doesn't solve the marriage question. They are listed in Detroit in 1920 as Sarah and Issac Comiski. Soundex would never turn that up! The rest of the people in the household are relatives as well, Sarah's sister Jennie and Hyman Schwartz mistranscribed. I will try the synagogue later today. And maybe we should call Venango County back as well, if the name was spelled starting with a C in the marriage license. On 10/12/08, the cohens <the.cohens.in.california@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions where we might find records of a Jewish > marriage that was supposed to have taken place in 1908 in Oil City? > Venango County has no record of the marriage of Isaac Kaminsky to > Sarah Silverstein. ... > Is there a Jewish Genealogical Society where we could find out more > about Jews in Oil City at that time? ... > We have tried to find both Isaac and Sarah on passenger lists and > census records to see if the date is wrong, but couldn't clearly > identify them. ... > > The first time we see them in the records is in 1930 in Detroit, where > Isaac (b. ~1888 Poland/Russia) and son Theodore are staying with the > Silversteins. Wife Sarah (b. ~1890 Poland/Russia) is probably in > some sort of institutution at that time as she was ill for many years. > Their only other child is Louis, apparently staying with relatives at > that time. > > According to both the family and the dates in 1930 census, marriage > was about 1908.