Seeking immigration records for Rose & Annie Alpert

Steve,

I don't know if this will help, but the town of and province of Grodno was first in Lithuania, then in Russia, and later in Poland.  It was located within the of the Pale of Settlement.  The Pale of Settlement was was a territory within the borders of czarist Russia where the residence of Jews was legally authorized and controlled.  Their activities, occupations, movements, travels, etc. were strictly defined. 

Here is a web site that talks about the Pale and mentions Grodno a number of times.  It also has a map of the Pale, showing the province of Grodno.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-pale-of-settlement

Here is also a detailed map of the province of Grodno (also showing the town of Grodno).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Grodno_governorate.jpg

It's possible that the town of "Niveravitsk" (I agree that the spelling is corrupted) was in the province of Grodno.

There a number of genealogy and Jewish websites dedicated to the families and towns that were located in the Pale of Settlement.  Maybe you could find more information if you turned your attention to these.

I'm not sure if you will find her immigration information separate from her husband, because alien women who were married to aliens (whether the man was naturalized or not) were not allowed to become citizens at that time.  Naturalization allowed a person to vote and women couldn't vote then so it was not considered an issue.  However, she could have applied for later naturalization after women got the right to vote in 1920 and the law changed:

"Happily, Congress was at work and on September 22, 1922, passed the Married Women's Act, also known as the Cable Act.  This 1922 law finally gave each woman a nationality of her own... Under the new law women became eligible to naturalize on (almost) the same terms as men.  The only difference concerned those women whose husbands had already naturalized.  If her husband was a citizen, the wife did not need to file a declaration of intention.  She could initiate naturalization proceedings with a petition alone (one-paper naturalization).  A woman whose husband remained an alien had to start at the beginning, with a declaration of intention.  It is important to note that women who lost citizenship by marriage and regained it under Cable Act naturalization provisions could file in any naturalization court—regardless of her residence."

from this site:  https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/summer/women-and-naturalization-1.html

Looking at the 1910 census for Samuel and Annie Goldberg, it states that Annie arrived in 1898.  Listed after their children is a Rose Goldberg, age 22 niece, that I think might be Rose Alpert. 1910 United States Federal Census - Ancestry.com   It states she arrived in 1899.  I could not find Rose's arrival for any time period prior to her marriage, but may have found Annie's.  It is a long shot, but might be worth pursuing.  Chane Alpert arrived in NY on 31 Mar 1898 on the SS Friedrich der Grosse.  She was headed to her father Ruben Alpert in Baltimore.  Ruben lived at 20?5 Wilkens Ave.  Looking at some city directories about 1899-1903 there was a Ruben Alpert (some records list him as Ruben Albert) at 2095 Wilkens Ave.  Ruben is living with Bettie Alpert, who is probably his second wife, and by 1910 has a son, Max.

Ancestry.com - New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957

I cannot read Hebrew, but Rose's father's Hebrew given name is probably on her tombstone.

Steve,

Here is what I found in the Index for Petitions. Can you verify any of these Rose Alpert

Also found two separate files for a Rose Alpert here are the dates within those files. Maybe you can tell by her DOB in those files?

The following is some of the information contained in the alien case file: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40131357

Date of Birth: 6/16/1899

Date of Entry: 10/25/1922

Port of Entry: Unknown POE

Country of Birth: Russia

The following is some of the information contained in the alien case file: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40152270

Date of Birth: 8/20/1876

Date of Entry: 6/1/1906

Port of Entry: New York, NY (IA)

Country of Birth: Russia

Dear Mr. Granek,

Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 6/16/1897 - 7/3/1957 (T715) in the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Record Group 85) that may include the lists of SS Kroonland for May 1, 1909 with a Rose Alpert as a passenger. For information about the non-digitized records, please email the National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference (RDT1) at archives1reference@nara.gov.

We also located the Population Schedules for the 1910 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1920 Census, the Population Schedules for the 1930 Census, and  the Population Schedules for the 1940 Census in the Records of the Bureau of the Census (Record Group 29) that may contain information about Rose (Alpert) Brownstein living with her husband Jacob and children in Baltimore, MD. The 1940 Census  indicates her citizenship status as naturalized. The 1940 Census schedules are digitized and available using the Catalog. For more information about the non-digitized schedules, please contact RDT1. 

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Prior to 1922, all women who were not U.S. citizens acquired their husband's nationality upon marriage. Therefore, if her husband was naturalized before they were married, Rose would have become a citizen upon marriage. See Prologue article titled “Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married . . .” - Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802–1940 for more information.

We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!