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Category: Translation - Polish
Approval Date: 1/21/2026 3:43 PM
Family Surname: Harnik and Low (also Wegner)
Country: Poland
Town: Drohobycz
Date of Image: 1914

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I need help translating the information about the rabbi and witness (column 5) and all the information in the last column (Notes), for the second entry on this document (record 52), the marriage of Dawid Harnik and Estera Low. The image is from https://legacy.jri-poland.org/databases/jridetail_2.php, Drohobycz PSA AGAD Marriages. I figured out the first four columns (knowing no Polish, let alone Polish handwriting), but the last part is too much for me. Thanks so much for any help!.

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1/21/2026 10:15 PM

Hello,
I understand your trouble! These columns have numerous abbreviations, making them harder to interpret (I did my best). I translated them below, but since you have been trying to read the handwriting, I also added transcriptions expanding the abbreviations.

As a special note, “manu propria,” used several times, is a Latin phrase used as a replacement for someone’s actual signature. Here, it is used for the rabbi and the witnesses because none of them actually signed this copy of the record.

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Column 5, left section (person performing marriage):

Chaim K Horowitz m[anu] p]ropria] w zastępstwie tut[ejszego] rabina d[okto]ra B. Marguliesa.

Chaim K. Horowitz (m.p.) a replacement/substitute for the local rabbi Dr. B Margulies.

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Column 6, right section (witnesses):

(Note: the first instance of “manu” is an error.)

Leib Marcus Hersch manu m[anu] p[ropria], Marcus Wolf Berman m[anu] p[ropria] kupcy tu.

Leib Marcus Hersch (m.p.) [and] Marcus Wolf Berman (m.p.), merchants here.

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Annotation (far-right column):

W aktach zaślubin z roku 1914 przechowano: 1) świadectwo urodzenia narzeczonego z d[a]ty[?] Zaleszczyki 16/6 [1]914. 2) świadectwo urodzenia narzeczonej z d[a]ty[?] Borysław 1/9 [1]895 No. 442. 3) świadectwo uwolnienia od obowiązku służby wojskowej z d[a]ty[?] Zaleszczyki 24/6 [1]914 l[iczba] No. 758/89 dla narzeczonego. 4) sprawozdanie rabina No. 79 o odbytych zapowiedziach i udzielonym ślubie.

[The following] were kept in the marriage records from 1914: 1) Birth certificate of the groom, dated 16 June 1914 in Zaleszczyki. 2) Birth certificate of the bride, dated 1 September 1895 in Borysław, No. 442. 3) Certificate of exemption from military service responsibility, dated 24 June 1914 in Zaleszczyki, No. 758/89, for the groom. 4) Report of the rabbi No. 79 regarding publication of marriage banns and performance of the marriage.

[The dates associated with the birth certificates are the dates official copies were made, not the dates the births were originally registered.]

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