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Category: Translation - Polish
Approval Date: 5/24/2026 4:17 PM
Family Surname: Segalowicz
Country: Poland
Town: Suwalki
Date of Image: 1836

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From Szukaj w Archiwach.

Akta 152 is my great-great-great-grandmother’s brother’s wife’s 1836 birth record from Suwałki, Suwałki, Poland. I would like it translated in full (or at least everything that isn’t the standard wording of a birth record).

Names that I would expect to see in the text are:

- the child: Chana Jochwa SEGAŁOWICZ;
- her father: Izrael SEGAŁOWICZ;
- her mother: Laia Leyzorowiczów.

Thanks so much! Hopefully the handwriting isn’t too hard to read.

Response

5/24/2026 10:30 PM

Hello,
Here is all the relevant information:

No. 152 — Suwałki

Registration of Birth: Suwałki, 2 December 1836, 11 a.m. [11:00]

Birth: Suwałki, 11 November 1836, 4 p.m. [16:00]

Child: Chana Jochwa

Sex: Female

Father (Declarant): Izrael Leyzorowicz SEGAŁOWICZ, merchant, residing in Suwałki, 36 years old

Mother (Wife of Declarant): Leia Berkowna, 24 years old

Witnesses: Idzka AWNER, merchant, 27 years old; and Berka MAIEROWSKI, tailor, 25 years old; both residing in Suwałki

———

You will observe that the patronymic “Leyzorowicz” is attached to Izrael, not Leia, in my translation.

I think you may have assumed that Leyzorowicz (“son of Leyzor”) belonged to Leia because of Chana Jochwa’s marriage record. In that translation (done by another volunteer), Chana Jochwa’s parents’ names are styled as “Izrael and Laia Leyzorowiczów SEGAŁOWICZ,” which is essentially how the names are written, but the phrasing can be confusing. I thought I might write a little explanation that might help you in the future:

These records use patronymics, as you know. The ending for a masculine patronymic is generally -owicz, and a feminine ending is generally -owna OR -owiczowna. The -ów in “Leyzorowiczów” is a product of Polish grammatical declensions and not part of the main patronymic, so I don’t usually include it in my translations.

In a marriage record, when parents’ names are written in this format, and there is only one patronymic (which ends in -owicz), that patronymic is almost being treated as part of the family’s surname, which is determined by the father. To use the example of the groom’s parents from Chana Jochwa’s marriage record, “Abram and Mirka Herszkowicz WAYNTROB,” “Herszkowicz” refers to Abram’s father, not Mirka’s.

Some marriage, records, though, also list the mother’s patronymic, often in the -owna form, immediately after the mother’s name, or with a “z” separating them. In this case, the tricky part is distinguishing between the mother’s father and the father’s father. Generally speaking, though, when there is only one patronymic associated with the parents’ names (like in the marriage record I mentioned), it usually belongs to the father.

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