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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 2/15/2026 2:21 PM
Family Surname: Stasovich
Country: Lithuania
Town: Vilna
Date of Image: 1919

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1919 09-29 Birth Leyb Stasovich Vilna record M371
Lithuanian State Archive
https://eais.archyvai.lt/repo-ext/view/284236804
record #371, page 237
This is possibly a mixture of Hebrew and Yiddish.

I have also uploaded the Russian side of the entry. A dna match with unsuspected Lithuanian origins sent me out to begin a search. Everything is a clue. Thanks so much for your help!

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2/15/2026 5:28 PM

I was not able to see the record whose link you provided.
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The rightmost column, which -- according to the heading -- is supposed to contain the name and signature of the person reporting the birth, instead has a date: October 5th.

The second column says that the child was a boy, named Layb

The third column gives the names of the parents:
The father was a citizen of Izmar [?], Mendel son of Layb Sasovitch (presumably he named the child after his deceased father).
The mother was Hinda daughter of Mordechai, maiden name Gordon

Fourth column, place of birth: Hospital Zinaman [?] 15

Fifth column: The religious and secular dates of the birth and the brit (circumcision). These are supposed to include the time and the year, but include neither. In addition, if the year was 1911, there is some discrepancies between the dates.

In the Hebrew the date of birth is the 3rd of the month of Tishri, and the circumcision was on the 11th. This in itself is a bit unusual, as the brit normally takes place on the 8th day of the child's life, thus 7 days after the birth, which would have made it the 10th of Tishri, not the 11th. One reason for the one-day delay might have been some small issue with the baby (its size, being jaundiced, etc.).

The corresponding secular dates to the above would be September 24/25 for the birth, and October 2/3 for the brit, not September 29th and October 5th. Additionally, if the baby was born on September 29th, then October 5th would have been the 7th day of his life, and thus a day too early for the brit.

If the secular year was 1911, then the religious year was 5672.

The last column is for the name of the "Mohel" (the man doing the circumcision) and the place. The Mohel's first name was Yitzchak. His last name is hard for me to read: Bokvatman [?].

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