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VM ID Category Image Date Approved Question Posts
467 Translation - Russian

12/22/2002 Index of names for bmd records for 1889, Balbieriskis,
Lithuania, first section. 		View the post, there are no responses
468 Translation - Russian

12/22/2002 Index of names for 1889 bmd records from Balbieriskis, Lithuania,
for second section of records. 		View the post, there are no responses
444 Translation - German

12/18/2002 This is from an 1894 Galician birth certificate. The column heading is Father's name, occupation and residence. The name is Itzig Schachter and the residence is Olchowiec. I
cannot make out the four lines in between. 		View the post, there are no responses
445 Translation - German

12/18/2002 From 1894 Galician birth certificate, col.7:mother's name,marriage status, occupation, parents, residence. Her name is Jitte Weingast, her parents are Schaje and Feiga from Olchowiec. But I cannot read the word on the second line after her name. It does not look like the German word for married or unmarried. View the post with its 1 response
446 Translation - German

12/18/2002 This is from the "remarks" column of a 1894 Galician birth certificate. The middle line seems to have the father's name, Itzig Schachter. View the post, there are no responses
447 Translation - Yiddish

12/18/2002 This is on the back of a photo of Leja Kowalski, who was, by 1922, a grandmother. View the post, there are no responses
448 Translation - Yiddish

12/18/2002 This was in the back of a photo of a girl & 2 boys, grandchildren of the Kowalski family. View the post, there are no responses
449 Translation - Yiddish

12/18/2002 This was on the back of a photo of Sheine Reichel & Chaim Kowalski, taken in New York. View the post with its 1 response
450 Translation - Yiddish

12/18/2002 This was on the back of a photo of Gitl Chorazycka (later Spielkovitz), one of the eldest grandchildren of the Kowalski family. View the post, there are no responses
451 Translation - Yiddish

12/18/2002 This is on the back of a photo of the Ostrozshinski family when they lived in Montevideo, Uruguay. View the post with its 2 responses
452 Translation - Russian

12/18/2002 This is a birth record (1893)for Leja Sora LIPSZYC form Wysolkie Mazowieckie which I have recently received from archive in Lomza. It is in Russian script which I cannot read. I would appreciate assistance in translation.

Thank you,

Narvin Brooks
Philadelphia 		View the post with its 1 response
453 Translation - Russian

12/18/2002 This is a birth record (1893)for Szmul Chackiel LIPSZYC form Wysolkie Mazowieckie which I have recently received from archive in Lomza. It is in Russian script which I cannot read. I would apprecaite assistance in translation.

Thank you,

Marvin Brooks
Philadelphia 		View the post, there are no responses
454 Translation - Russian

12/18/2002 This is a marriage record (1892)for Mariem LIPSZYC and Abram LIN from Czyzewo Osada which I have recently received from archive in Lomza. It is in Russian script which I cannot read. I would appreciate assistance in translation.

Thank you,

Marvin Brooks
Philadelphia 		View the post, there are no responses
455 Do you recognize?

12/18/2002 I would like help to understand the names of the towns in the columns 2nd. and 3rd. from right on the entry for Oskar ???,also of the street name in the last column. Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
456 Translation - Hebrew

12/18/2002 Hebrew translation needed please. Genealogy section of a book by Rabbi Moshe Meisels. View the post with its 2 responses
438 Translation - Yiddish

12/15/2002 I would appreciate any help translating any useful information from this. I can trade look-ups in London or New York for full translations. Thank you. View the post, there are no responses
439 Translation - Yiddish

12/15/2002 Page 1 of 2. I would appreciate any help translating any useful information from this. Let me know if you need help with any look-ups in London or New York. Thank you! View the post, there are no responses
440 Translation - Yiddish

12/15/2002 Page 2 of 2. I would appreciate any help translating any useful information from this. Let me know if you need help with any look-ups in London or New York. Thank you! View the post, there are no responses
441 Translation - Yiddish

12/15/2002 Need translation from Yiddish to English, writing is on back of a photo my grandmother had in her belongings.
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442 Translation - Yiddish

12/15/2002 Need translation from Yiddish to English. Writing is on back of a photo my grandmother saved.

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