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115408 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:55 PM Miedzyrzec Podlaski Marriage Book 1882 Akta 13.

Jankel Mejer "Jacob Meyer" Barg
Chawa Necha "Eva" Lichtensztejn (Lichtenstein)

Looking for a Russian/English translation of the attached marriage record. Meyer and Eva Lichetenstein Barg emigrated from Poland to NYC in the 1890s (several sources indicated 1891 while his 1905 naturalization records stated 1899) with several children, all likely born in either Miedzyrzec Podlaski or Siedlce in eastern Poland. Meyer Barg's father was named as Mordechai/Mortke in Barg's 1933 NYC death record (age given as 80) while his mother's name was rendered as "Duba." 		View the post with its 1 response
115409 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:55 PM I think this is a birth record indexed for the twins Arkady and Moisey Maruches. Could you please let me know what it says? Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
115398 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Please translate this 1875 Russian birth record in full: Piotrkow Jewish civil register, act 22, indexed as Dwojra Wajnryb. Please include the exact birth and registration dates, child's name, both parents' full names (including the mother's maiden name), their ages, occupations and residence, and all witnesses. Source: Polish State Archives, fond 48/333/0, unit 5, scan 15 (modern unit 10043225). View the post with its 1 response
115399 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Source: Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 728, inventory 3, file 114, pages 95–96; Vilna Jewish birth register. Please examine entry no. 320 only. Could you transcribe the Russian text for the child's name, both parents' names (including patronymics and surname), and the birth and circumcision dates, then translate it? Is a register year visible on this image? Most importantly, does the father's surname actually read Kimels/Kimelev, or something else? Please mark uncertain letters rather than resolving them from the suggested name. I do not need the other entries translated. Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
115400 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Translation help requested for household no. 3672 (tenth revision; apparently no. 2498 in the ninth revision) in this 1858 Vilna Jewish revision list. Source: Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 515, inventory 26, file 182.

Would a reader please transcribe and translate the names, patronymics, stated family relationships, ages, and annotations for this household on BOTH the men's and women's sides? In particular, what is the name of the son listed under Gerts, and what are the wives' and daughters' names?

Two preliminary readings disagree on several handwritten names. Please distinguish letters you can read from plausible interpretations, and note anything illegible. I do not need the neighboring households translated. Thank you. 		View the post with its 1 response
115401 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Translation help requested for entry no. 22 and the heading date on this supplementary Vilna Jewish revision list. Source: Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 515, inventory 25, file 44, page 82.

Please transcribe and translate the complete entry for Movsha [name and patronymic to be verified], including his age and the wording referring to his father's family and tenth-revision household no. 3672. Is the document dated 24 January 1871 or 24 January 1872? The final digit has been read both ways.

A reading of the relevant Russian words, with uncertain letters marked, would be especially helpful. I do not need entry no. 21 translated. Thank you. 		View the post with its 1 response
115402 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Translation help requested for entry no. 141 in this Vilna family or household register. Source: Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 938, inventory 10, file 442, page 37 according to the archive filename.

Please transcribe the entry's full name and patronymic, the household and other reference numbers, and the related text across both pages. Please explain what the adjacent years and dates label. Most importantly, please transcribe the later handwritten annotation that may include “28 April 1895”: whose event does it describe, and what word follows the date? Please do not infer that this is the household head's birth date unless the wording says so.

If the visible page number differs from 37, please tell me what you read. A partial transcription marking uncertain words is more useful than a guessed complete translation. Thank you. 		View the post with its 1 response
115403 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Please translate this complete Russian birth record, act 81, indexed as Szlama Gersz Wajnryb. Please give the child’s exact birth and registration dates/times; parents’ full names including the mother’s maiden name; parents’ ages, occupations, and residence; witnesses’ names, ages, occupations, and residence; signatures; and any marginal notes or spelling variants. Source: Piotrkow State Archive, Jewish birth register unit 10043258, scan 146. View the post, there are no responses
115404 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Please translate this complete Russian birth record, act 159, indexed as Menachem Mendel Wajnryb. Please give the child’s exact birth and registration dates/times; parents’ full names including the mother’s maiden name; parents’ ages, occupations, and residence; witnesses’ names, ages, occupations, and residence; signatures; and any marginal notes or spelling variants. Source: Piotrkow State Archive, Jewish birth register unit 10043258, scan 251. View the post, there are no responses
115405 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:54 PM Please translate this complete Russian birth record, act 2, indexed as Jachwet Wajnryb. Please give the child’s exact birth and registration dates/times; parents’ full names including the mother’s maiden name; parents’ ages, occupations, and residence; witnesses’ names, ages, occupations, and residence; signatures; and any marginal notes or spelling variants. Source: Piotrkow State Archive, Jewish birth register unit 10043258, scan 281. View the post with its 2 responses
115392 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:53 PM Please provide a full line-by-line translation of this 1904 Russian death act for Tewel Kielman Libel (act 22, Krasnobrod). Please include every name and patronymic, marital phrase, parents, spouse, age, occupation, residence, dates, witnesses/informants, relationships, and marginal notes. Does the act use both Tewel and Kielman as given names, and does anything indicate when or how Tewel was acquired? Earlier records identify his 1830 birth and 1858 marriage under Kielman alone. Source: Polish State Archives, Krasnobrod civil records. View the post with its 1 response
115393 Translation - Polish

9/23/2026 4:53 PM Attached is a registration card relating to the family of my great-grandmother Itta Laja Rzetelna. I have yet to encounter a registration card so abundant in corrections and notes. She was the daughter of Chaim Zyskind Rzetelny and Golda Chaja Brzytwa/Brytwa. The date of April 09, 1917 noted to the right is the date of Chaim's passing. I intend to upload yet another Rzetelny registration card which may or may not be related to this particular family. Would like to receive your assistance in translation. Thank you; Hatimah Tovah! View the post with its 1 response
115394 Translation - Polish

9/23/2026 4:53 PM Attached is a registration card relating to a Rzetelny family which may be connected to the family of my great-grandmother Itta Laja Rzetelna. Only now have I discovered that her father, Chaim Zyskind Rzetelny, was first married to another woman and, a year after her passing, married Itta's mother.

It is quite probable that the family described in this card is Chaim's first family. They seem to have moved from Kaluszyn to Lodz as well, and one of their addresses noted in the card is identical to that of the other family: 8/3 Aleksandrowska st.

Your assistance in the translation of the document will be appreciated. Thank you; Hatimah Tovah! 		View the post with its 1 response
115395 Translation - Polish

9/23/2026 4:53 PM From Szukaj w Archiwach.

Akta 70 is my great-great-grandfather’s first-cousin’s 1854 birth record from Łomza, Łomza, Poland. I would be grateful if someone could translate it in full (or at least everything that isn’t the standard wording of a birth record).

Names that I would expect to see in the text are:
- the child: Herszk Szapsa KWIATOWICZ;
- his father: Mordka Michel, son of Szapsa KWIATOWICZ & Sura Ryfka;
- his mother: Leja, daughter of Abraham WAJNTROB & Mirka Idźkowicz.

Thanks so much! Hopefully the handwriting isn’t too hard to read. 		View the post with its 1 response
115396 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:53 PM A birth record - I would be really grateful for translation of the date of birth, name of child and names of her parents.

Apologies for the poor quality of this image. 		View the post with its 1 response
115397 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:53 PM A birth record - I would be really grateful for translation of the date of birth, name of child and his parents. View the post with its 1 response
115385 Translation - Yiddish

9/23/2026 4:52 PM Message on back of a couple's photograph View the post with its 1 response
115366 Translation - Polish

9/23/2026 4:52 PM Marriage record of Nuchym and Fajga Zisla Szulmajster View the post with its 1 response
115391 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:52 PM Please provide a complete line-by-line English translation of this 1900 Russian death act (Krasnobrod act 21) for Riwka LIBEL. Include every name and patronymic, marital status/phrase, any husband name or reference, parents, age, occupation, residence, exact dates, informants/witnesses and their relationships, plus any marginal notes. Key question: does the act identify her husband or otherwise tie her to Chaim Ber MILC? Source: Polish State Archives, Krasnobrod Jewish civil register. View the post with its 1 response
115151 Translation - Russian

9/23/2026 4:52 PM Death registration for Rachmil LACHMAN. I would really be grateful for translation of his widow's given and maiden names. View the post with its 1 response
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