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115234 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:21 PM Please transcribe this 1885 Russian-language Jewish birth record as fully as possible, preserving uncertain readings as [unclear], and provide an English translation. Please identify the exact birth and registration dates; the child’s full name; both parents’ full names (including the mother’s maiden surname), ages, occupations, residence and birthplaces; and all witnesses, declarants and marginal notes. Preliminary, unconfirmed reading may involve Wolf Gitman and Idesa Tuchsznajder. Please say whether this household matches the 1886 act submitted separately. Source: Polish State Archives, Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie, Biskupice Jewish birth register, fonds 35/1614/0/2.21/95, act 2, 1885, unit 298418. View the post with its 1 response
115233 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:19 PM Please transcribe this 1883 Russian-language Jewish birth record as fully as possible, preserving uncertain readings as [unclear], and provide an English translation. Please identify the exact birth and registration dates; the child’s full name; both parents’ full names (including the mother’s maiden surname), ages, occupations, residence and birthplaces; and all witnesses, declarants and marginal notes. Does the child have a second name corresponding to Srul/Israel? Source: Polish State Archives, Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie, Biskupice Jewish birth register, fonds 35/1614/0/2.21/93, act 13, 1883, unit 298416. Family research concerns Chaim Srul Gitman, later father of Judko/Judka Gitman. View the post with its 1 response
115247 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:16 PM This is one page of the alphabetical index to Jewish birth records for Kalisz in 1891, from the State Archive in Kalisz, fonds 11/693/0, unit 90.

I am trying to identify every male child on this page whose given name could represent the Jewish name Yaakov/Jacob, including Russian, Polish or Yiddish forms such as Yakov, Jakob, Jakub, Jankiel or other contemporary equivalents.

Please give, for every possible candidate:

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

Please do not restrict the search to any surname. The family's surname before migration is uncertain.

I have the original birth acts and can retrieve candidate records once their act numbers are identified.

Source: Archiwum Państwowe w Kaliszu, 11/693/0/-/90. 		View the post with its 1 response
115248 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:16 PM This is one page of the alphabetical index to Jewish birth records for Kalisz in 1891, from the State Archive in Kalisz, fonds 11/693/0, unit 90.

I am trying to identify every male child on this page whose given name could represent the Jewish name Yaakov/Jacob, including Russian, Polish or Yiddish forms such as Yakov, Jakob, Jakub, Jankiel or other contemporary equivalents.

Please give, for every possible candidate:

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

Please do not restrict the search to any surname. The family's surname before migration is uncertain.

I have the original birth acts and can retrieve candidate records once their act numbers are identified.

Source: Archiwum Państwowe w Kaliszu, 11/693/0/-/90. 		View the post with its 1 response
115249 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:16 PM This is one page of the alphabetical index to Jewish birth records for Kalisz in 1891, from the State Archive in Kalisz, fonds 11/693/0, unit 90.

I am trying to identify every male child on this page whose given name could represent the Jewish name Yaakov/Jacob, including Russian, Polish or Yiddish forms such as Yakov, Jakob, Jakub, Jankiel or other contemporary equivalents.

Please give, for every possible candidate:

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

Please do not restrict the search to any surname. The family's surname before migration is uncertain.

I have the original birth acts and can retrieve candidate records once their act numbers are identified.

Source: Archiwum Państwowe w Kaliszu, 11/693/0/-/90. 		View the post with its 1 response
115250 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:16 PM This is one page of the alphabetical index to Jewish birth records for Kalisz in 1891, from the State Archive in Kalisz, fonds 11/693/0, unit 91.

I am trying to identify every male child on this page whose given name could represent the Jewish name Yaakov/Jacob, including Russian, Polish or Yiddish forms such as Yakov, Jakob, Jakub, Jankiel or other contemporary equivalents.

Please give, for every possible candidate:

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

Please do not restrict the search to any surname. The family's surname before migration is uncertain.

I have the original birth acts and can retrieve candidate records once their act numbers are identified.

Source: Archiwum Państwowe w Kaliszu, 11/693/0/-/90. 		View the post with its 1 response
115251 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:16 PM This is one page of the alphabetical index to Jewish birth records for Kalisz in 1891, from the State Archive in Kalisz, fonds 11/693/0, unit 91.

I am trying to identify every male child on this page whose given name could represent the Jewish name Yaakov/Jacob, including Russian, Polish or Yiddish forms such as Yakov, Jakob, Jakub, Jankiel or other contemporary equivalents.

Please give, for every possible candidate:

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

Please do not restrict the search to any surname. The family's surname before migration is uncertain.

I have the original birth acts and can retrieve candidate records once their act numbers are identified.

Source: Archiwum Państwowe w Kaliszu, 11/693/0/-/90. 		View the post with its 1 response
115245 Translation - Polish

8/30/2026 8:15 PM Please me to better understand Beile's record.

It seems Beile's mother was Mareim.
However I'm not clear on Mariem's mother. I was expecting Chana Basie, but I'm not sure that is what's there.
In addition, I was told that Mariem's grandfather is stated (syna).
However I was not able to read it.

Thank you very much.
Daniel Mann 		View the post with its 1 response
115238 Translation - Tombstone

8/30/2026 8:14 PM Looking for an English translation. Also, I wish to determine whether the Hebrew death date can be read precisely, as that may help independently confirm the accuracy of the English death date. Also, in English we know the person who died in English as Nathan, but this suggests the Hebrew name as Abraham with a second name of Nathan. Would love to confirm this as well. View the post with its 3 responses
115227 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:14 PM This is PART 3 of a letter that was sent from a woman in Bialystok - possibly a non-Jew who formerly worked for her family - to Fania, a relative of mine who escaped during the war. I have also uploaded the other scans. I'm researching the Bialystok branch of my family and would love to find out what it says. View the post with its 1 response
115228 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:14 PM This is a PART 4 of a letter that was sent from a woman in Bialystok - possibly a non-Jew who formerly worked for her family - to Fania, a relative of mine who escaped during the war. I have also uploaded the other parts. I'm researching the Bialystok branch of my family and would love to find out what it says. View the post with its 1 response
115229 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:14 PM This is a PART 5 of a letter that was sent from a woman in Bialystok - possibly a non-Jew who formerly worked for her family - to Fania, a relative of mine who escaped during the war. I have also uploaded the other parts. I'm researching the Bialystok branch of my family and would love to find out what it says. View the post with its 1 response
115230 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:14 PM This is a PART 6 of a letter that was sent from a woman in Bialystok - possibly a non-Jew who formerly worked for her family - to Fania, a relative of mine who escaped during the war. I have also uploaded the other parts. I'm researching the Bialystok branch of my family and would love to find out what it says. View the post with its 1 response
115225 Translation - Hebrew

8/30/2026 8:13 PM Two witness signatures from two ketubot written in Safed 26 days apart, both in the Benjamin Zucker Family Ketubah Collection at the University of Pennsylvania. A (upper): 13 Adar 5642 = 1882, ketubah KET Z38, the right-hand of two witnesses. This is the same crop I posted separately as ViewMate 115222. B (lower): 10 Nisan 5642 = 1882, ketubah KET Z39, the only witness signature on that document. Written 26 days later, in the same town, but by a different scribe and in a different format. Both are dense Sephardi monogram flourishes drawn inside a frame, and I cannot read either one. Two questions: 1. Is this one and the same signer, or two different men? 2. What do the signatures say? A letter by letter reading, as far as it can be pushed, would be ideal. I would rather not say what I am hoping to find, so that any reading stays independent. Both images are at the highest resolution the originals allow. Thank you very much. View the post, there are no responses
115226 Translation - Russian

8/30/2026 8:13 PM I believe this is a Polish birth certificate for my great-great grandfather born in Opoczno (the first entry - No 52).

What I'm expecting to see is that his name is Mendel Mortkowicz, and was born on 28 Jul 1896, but I understand this may not necessarily be the case.

If someone could translate entry No 52 (the first one), that would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance! 		View the post with its 1 response
115201 Translation - Polish

8/30/2026 8:13 PM Please extract all family information View the post with its 1 response
115202 Translation - Polish

8/30/2026 8:13 PM Please extract all family information View the post with its 2 responses
115198 Translation - Polish

8/30/2026 8:12 PM Please extract all family information View the post with its 1 response
115199 Translation - Polish

8/30/2026 8:12 PM Please extract all family information View the post with its 1 response
115200 Translation - Polish

8/30/2026 8:12 PM Please extract all family information View the post with its 1 response
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