POPULATION CARD FILE, 1919-1975

Summary: Alphabetical card file of Jewish families in Farmingdale and the surrounding area, spanning the period in which the Farmingdale Jewish community was in existence, numbering 745 cards. It does not attempt to give an accurate population count of any particular year. Types of information included on the cards are name, farm address, year of farm purchase, tax lot and block numbers, voter district, acreage of farm, present address and telephone number and names of relatives. All interviewees, including the non-Jewish informants have cards, which are marked with red clips.

Dubrovsky's sources for the information on the cards included the records of the Jewish Community Center, Howell Township Voter Registration Lists, Farmingdale records of the United Jewish Appeal, records of the Jewish Agricultural Society and newspaper articles.