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107263 Translation - Hebrew

6/2/2024 3:00 PM This is the Hebrew portion of a marriage record between my great-grandaunt Alta Danishefsky from Smorgon (Belarus) and her first husband, Shlioma Katz, also from Smorgon. Could someone please translate the three columns on the right, which I have highlighted in the attached photo? Does the record indicate that the couple was subsequently divorced? Thank you for your help!!! View the post with its 2 responses
107264 Translation - Polish

6/2/2024 3:00 PM I would appreciate a translation of this marriage record, including the towns of origin and witnesses. Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
107266 Translation - Yiddish

6/2/2024 3:00 PM I am mainly interested in the names mentioned in the caption of this photo. Who is it about? Who signed it? View the post with its 1 response
107267 Translation - Tombstone

6/2/2024 3:00 PM Can I please get a direct translation of the Hebrew to English. Thank you! View the post with its 2 responses
107268 Translation - Tombstone

6/2/2024 3:00 PM Can I please get direct translation of Hebrew to English. Thank you. View the post with its 2 responses
107270 Translation - Tombstone

6/2/2024 3:00 PM Please translate. Thanks. View the post with its 2 responses
107258 Translation - Hebrew

6/2/2024 2:59 PM The photo is a transcript of an epitaph I obtained from chewra.com for (presumably) a Lejb, son of Jaakov. A translation of a headstone we have from a 100+ year old family history says the intact tombstone at that time included:

"Here rests:
A pious and righteous man.
He lived a long and just life.
In the mornings he was one of the first and in the evenings one of the last to depart from the House of Prayer. He served the community as an official with loyal devotion for 40 years.
This is the learned Mister Leib (Leopold or Lowi), son of the learned Mister Jacob.
May his memory be a blessing."

I would like to know if the chewra transcription - a fragment as the tombstone is broken - corresponds with our family history.

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107259 Translation - Hebrew

6/2/2024 2:59 PM The photo is a transcript of an epitaph I obtained from chewra.com for (presumably) Mirl, wife of Lejb, daughter of Abraham. A translation of a headstone we have from a 100+ year old family history says the intact tombstone at that time included:

"Here rests:
One who was blessed by the happy women in their tents,
All the days of her life she followed the path of virtue
She led her children onto the road of righteousness
She was the daughter of distinguished parents
Godliness shone from her countenance
This is the proper, modest, respectable Mrs. Mirl (Marjana), daughter of Mr. Abraham, descendant of pious priests."

I would like to know if the chewra transcription - a fragment as the tombstone is broken - corresponds with our family history.

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107260 Translation - Hebrew

6/2/2024 2:59 PM This photo relates to two others I just submitted regarding translation of a fragment of headstones from the Osoblaha cemetery. This image includes some of the epitaph in handwritten Hebrew, for a Leib (son of Jaakov) and wife Mirl (daughter of Abraham).

If anyone can read it, I'm hoping to find out whether this corresponds to the headstone we identified on chewra.com as being our family member. Many thanks for any assistance. 		View the post with its 2 responses
107262 Translation - Yiddish

6/2/2024 2:59 PM This letter was written in by my grandmother in 1952 around the time she visited some family in Los Angeles - perhaps before she came to our home. View the post with its 1 response
107253 Translation - Polish

6/2/2024 2:58 PM This is the 1877 Złoczow marriage registration of Markus Leser and Hesa Aurbach. Below is what I know about this record from JRI-PL. I would appreciate any additional information that can be extracted.
Thanks

Groom's Surname: Leser
Groom's Given Name: Markus
Groom's Age: 31
Groom's Father: Wolf Leser
Groom's Mother: Reisel Leser
Groom's Town: Tarnów
Bride's Surname: Auerbach
Bride's Given Name: Hesa
Bride's Age: 32
Bride's Father: Samuel Auerbach
Bride's Mother: Scheindel Auerbach
Year: 1877
Akt: 15/I
Signature: 1945 		View the post with its 1 response
107254 Translation - Other

6/2/2024 2:58 PM Trying to read and translate this from the marriage document of Chaim Mordche Rubel and Rachel Kinsbrunner Rubel. I think it's in German. View the post with its 2 responses
107255 Translation - German

6/2/2024 2:58 PM Looking for someone who can read and translate this image. It is the marriage record of Chaim Mordche aka Marcus Rubel and Rachel Kinsbrunner. View the post with its 1 response
107251 Translation - Polish

6/2/2024 2:57 PM This is a marriage record of Moshe Ickowic and Golda Chaja Rapport from the polish archive of the town of Lutomiersk.

Can anyone please translate the whole document?

Thanks. 		View the post with its 1 response
107245 Translation - Polish

6/2/2024 2:56 PM Image associated with Hana Bayla LOTTO. I think it is related to her marriage to Mendel SZTABZYB. It is signed by Lewek LOTTO who would have been her father. She may have been my 2nd great-grandaunt and Lewek my 3rd great grandfather. I would like to know what the document is and what it says. Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
107246 Translation - Russian

6/2/2024 2:56 PM Can someone please translate for me this record.
Thank you 		View the post with its 1 response
107247 Translation - Russian

6/2/2024 2:56 PM I'd really appreciate a translation of this record View the post with its 1 response
107248 Translation - Yiddish

6/2/2024 2:56 PM This 1908 postcard from Fanny Sugarman (San Francisco, but born near Traby, Belarus) to Jacob Levin (South Africa) was never sent it would appear. I would very much appreciate a translation of the yiddish (I assume, could be Hebrew?) on the left side of this image. View the post with its 1 response
107249 Translation - Tombstone

6/2/2024 2:56 PM Would very much appreciate a translation of this tombstone from Queenstown, South Africa. View the post with its 2 responses
107250 Translation - Russian

6/2/2024 2:56 PM Marriage record of Wigdor Miedzyrzecki and Tauba Papier.

I have all other pertinent data. Just looking for wedding date in 1871

Thanks in advance

Reuben Gross
Teaneck, NJ USA
rgross@rgtect.net 		View the post with its 1 response
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