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

Image ID: NYT715_223-0635 (Ancestry collection 7488, record 4039850126)

Validator (claude-sonnet-5-5, 2026-10-28): consistent, confidence 2/4, tier index.
The citation describes a child Jaroslav, age 2, traveling with a Vaclav Tanber household on the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in September 1901. The age fits a 1899–1900 birth and the name fits the AKA "Jaroslav Taubr". Without the image, the surname reading and the household relationships cannot be verified, so the record is consistent but not conclusive.
Matches: Passenger list entry for a child Jaroslav, age 2, in the "Vaclav Tanber" household, a plausible variant of Taubr/Tauber; Age 2 in Sept 1901 implies birth about 1899, within about a year of the claimed 1900 birth year; Jaroslav is the Czech form that would become Jerome, matching the AKA note "Jaroslav Taubr"
Limits: No image attached; only the citation text was assessed, so the entry itself was not read; The surname is given as "Tanber", a likely transcription of Taubr that cannot be confirmed without the image; The citation does not name the parents or the place of origin, so the link between this Jaroslav and Jerome J. Taubr (1900–1981) rests on name and age alone; The claim is an AKA with no date; the record can show only that the name Jaroslav was used, not that he later went by Jerome