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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 11/1/2026 5:45 PM
Family Surname: Horn
Country: Austria
Town: Wiznits
Date of Image: 31 Dec 1890

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Hello,
The document is a censos done by the Austro-Hungarian, who ruled Romanian - Bucowina area on
31 Dec 1890. Our family lived in Wiznits Bucowina at that time.
Thank you very much,
Shimi Karni, Israel

Response

11/1/2026 6:49 PM

Here you go Shimi. Would you mind telling where you obtained this record? I also have ancestors in Wiznits and elsewhere in Bukowina and would love to find records like this.

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Province: Bukow[ina]
District: Czernowitz
Address: Mühlengasse 3

Dwelling No. 1
Dwelling owner: Moses Korn
No. of individuals: 8 persons
Note: Occupies dwelling himself – no tenants

1) Moses Korn, baker / Moses Korn, dwelling owner / male / [there seems to be a check mark in column 20: “Blind in both eyes”] / [notation in column 28 further specifies the blindness but I can’t decipher the first word] / Column 29 Remark: Legally separated as shown on son’s birth certificate issued here 29 Aug 1890, No. 819
2) Sobel Korn, maiden name Silberstein / Sobl Korn, his wife

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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

11/1/2026 6:52 PM

PS. It looks like the son's name is David.

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