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Submitted by Miriam Selwyn

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 3/1/2026 2:15 PM
Family Surname: Schmerling
Country: Poland
Town: Tarnow
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translation please (to English!). I think this is MULTI LINGUAL, German?, Polish?, Latin,

Please kindly translate this PROPERTY / LAND LEGAL DOC. found in the Register in Tarnow, c 1822.(possibly related to earlier case, 1799)
There are 3 URLs, as there are 3 images (photos of the open Register; 2 pages on each image).
Here is the first (index and info) page [https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id3645-sy2-se]
Here are the 3 URLs for the 3 images...218-20. My gg grandfather (Henoch Schmerling)'s case starts halfway down the first page, in image 218 (pages 442-3 https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=3645&se=&sy=2&kt=&plik=218.jpg
Next pages, via Image 219: [https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=3645&se=&sy=2&kt=&plik=219.jpg]
Next pages, via image 220 [https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/index.php?op=pg&id=3645&se=&sy=2&kt=&plik=220.jpg&x=0&y=0&zoom=6.25
I would be grateful of an informative summary. Thank you


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3/2/2026 8:21 PM Hello Miriam, this document is more extensive than I generally volunteer for on ViewMate, but to summarize the beginning of the German text that follows the Latin caption:

This is a sales contract between the adult male heirs of the deceased David and Channa Grünhut, viz., Hersch Grünhut, Aba Grünhut, and Kochel Grünhut, as owners and sellers of House No. 183, and Hersch Schmerling as buyer.

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Translated by Robert Rosenbaum (Ashland, Oregon)
Freelance translator and interpreter
M.A. in Translation and Interpretation (German-English), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
rosenbaum.robert@gmail.com

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