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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 9/9/2026 4:45 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Poland
Town: Kalisz
Date of Image: 1892

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This is a page from the 1892 Jewish birth index for Kalisz, Russian Poland, from the State Archives in Kalisz, collection 11/693/0/-/91.

Please identify every male child on this page whose given name could be Yaakov/Jacob or a contemporary equivalent (for example Yakov, Jakob, Jakub, Jankiel, or another equivalent), regardless of surname.

For each possible match, please give:

surname as written;
given name as written;
transliteration;
act/record number.

I am deliberately not restricting the surname because the family surname before anglicisation is uncertain. Thank you.

Response

9/9/2026 5:57 PM

No names are listed here. Only the total number of acts is indicated.

/s/

9/10/2026 6:18 AM

ok saw previous response ... was intrigued .. am testing AI tools . so though .. why not ...

Diplomatic transcription (pre‑reform Russian orthography preserved)

(1) 1893 года Ноября 13 дня, Я Мировой
(2) Судья города Калиша, повѣривъ
(3) акты родившихся за 1891 годъ въ ко
(4) личествѣ Сто девяносто восемь и за
(5) 1892 годъ въ количествѣ Сто сорокъ
(6) семь, нашелъ таковые въ обоихъ
(7) экземплярахъ сходными и совер‑
(8) шенными правильно.
(9)
(10) Мировой Судья
(11) Города Калиша *[podpis, nieczytelny]*

**Notes on the writing:**

- the scribe splits "количествѣ" across the line break (...ко‑ / личествѣ...); "повѣривъ," "количествѣ," "обоихъ," and "нашелъ" all carry the pre‑1918 hard/soft‑sign and *yat* spellings typical of official Imperial Russian handwriting of the 1890s.
- The facing page (right) is blank register paper bearing only a faint later pencil annotation in the margin, unrelated to the entry itself — it is simply the verso left empty at the close of the volume.

Polish translation (literal, official/legislative register)

Roku 1893, listopada 13 dnia, ja, Sędzia Pokoju miasta Kalisza, zweryfikowawszy akty urodzeń za rok 1891 w liczbie stu dziewięćdziesięciu ośmiu oraz za rok 1892 w liczbie stu czterdziestu siedmiu, uznałem takowe w obu egzemplarzach za zgodne między sobą i całkowicie prawidłowe.

Sędzia Pokoju
miasta Kalisza *[podpis nieczytelny]*

English translation

In the year 1893, on the 13th day of November, I, the Justice of the Peace of the city of Kalisz, having verified the birth records for the year 1891, numbering one hundred and ninety-eight, and for the year 1892, numbering one hundred and forty-seven, found the said records, in both copies, to correspond with one another and to be entirely correct.

Justice of the Peace
of the city of Kalisz *[signature illegible]*

A note on register/phrasing:

I've kept this in the formal, legalistic tone appropriate to a certification clause — "having verified," "found... to correspond," "entirely correct" — mirroring the bureaucratic Russian original (поверив / нашел... сходными и совершенно правильно) via the Polish intermediary (zweryfikowawszy / uznałem... za zgodne... i całkowicie prawidłowe). A more colloquial English rendering of the same clause would read simply:

(1) "In 1893, on November 13th, I, the Justice of the Peace of Kalisz, checked the birth records for 1891 (198 of them) and for 1892 (147 of them), and found both copies to match and to be correct in every respect."

continues on next post ....

9/10/2026 6:23 AM

continues..

Comments and insights

Type of document:

This is not a birth entry itself but the **closing/certification clause (akt zamknięcia księgi)** appended at the end of a bound volume of Jewish birth records (akta urodzeń / akty stanu cywilnego wyznania mojżeszowego) for Kalisz. Such clauses were mandatory under Russian civil-registration law for the Jewish confession in the Kingdom of Poland: births/marriages/deaths were recorded by the local registrar (often a rabbi acting as civil registrar, "rabin urzędnik stanu cywilnego"), in **duplicate** — hence the reference to "оба экземпляра" ("obu egzemplarzach", "both copies") — one copy staying with the community, the other going to the local court (here, the Justice of the Peace, *Mirovoi sud'ya* / sędzia pokoju) for verification, safekeeping, and eventual archiving.

What it confirms:

The judge certifies that he checked the birth entries for **1891 (198 entries)** and **1892 (147 entries)**, found the two parallel copies identical, and pronounced them correctly and completely kept. This single certification covering two years indicates the physical volume bound together the registers of both 1891 and 1892.

Dating gap:

The certification is dated **13 November 1893** — nearly a year after the close of the 1892 register — which is typical: verification/closing by the court often lagged well behind the calendar year, reflecting routine judicial backlog rather than anything irregular.

Julian calendar:

As with all Imperial Russian civil documents of this period, the date is Old Style (Julian); to convert to the Gregorian calendar for this period, add 12 days (→ 25 November 1893).

Genealogical value:

For researchers, this clause is useful because it gives the **exact total count of birth entries** in the book for each year (198 for 1891, 147 for 1892) — a handy cross-check when verifying that a digitized or microfilmed set of records is complete, or when an index is missing entries.

Signature:

The registrar's/judge's signature under "Мировой Судья города Калиша" is a personal flourish and not fully legible from the image; I have left it untranslated rather than guess at a name. If you can provide a closer crop or if other pages in this volume carry the same signature alongside a printed or typed name, I can compare and attempt a firmer reading.

If I have interpreted your original request correctly you are trying to find a birth cert for a child named Yaakov/Jacob/ Yakov/Jakob/ Jakub/Jankiel or equivalent (born in a Kalisz 1892 ?) and understandably because of the potential problems associated with anglization of surnames you have chosen to withhold that detail to prevent biasing any searches?

perhaps you would like to either

- share your thoughts on "possible" surnames (yiddish/polish/russified versions or sounds like etc) and then maybe (just maybe) I could provide you with a fuller list of possibles ranked by probability etc (might help in subsequent searches) or

- you could just send me the scan numbers for the index detail (if it exists ) that goes with the image you posted, and I will see if the AI tools are smart enough to abstract relevant data (names are paticularly challenging for AI tools so it would be an interesting test !!)

9/16/2026 3:22 AM

Paul I have done name analysis for you and preped notes on use of registry indexes I have processed indexes in the 1892 register against these possible names and got 1 hit; I have processed that ART (although I don't think it is a close member of your family if that) I have a pdf a small spreadsheet and 2 images for you; how would you like to take delivery ???

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