Jaroslav[1] "Jerry" Merta was born in 1900[2] in Czechoslovakia . He immigrated to the United States and married Josephine Dostal.
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↑ "Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XKGN-5VJ : 12 December 2014), Jaroslav Merta, ; citing Cedar Rapids, Iowa, NARA microfilm publication M1285 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 126; FHL microfilm 1,432,126.
↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1P7-62L : 20 May 2014), Jerry Merta, Aug 1971; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMYV-VT9 : accessed 13 September 2017), Jerry Merta, College Township, Linn, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 57-9, sheet 8B, line 58, family 179, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1175.
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