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95260 Translation - Polish

9/15/2021 11:46 AM I uploaded a couple of pages from the Military Book of my grandfather Wiktor Yermak.
It is handwritten in polish I think.
I will be very happy and thankful
to whom who will translate it for me.

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Thank you very much.

Ana Maria Kozaczuk Mahler
Bellevue, WA, USA

Searching for Yermak (Belarus, Poland); Kozaczuk (Ucraine, Poland); Mahler (Chortkow,Austria, Poland, NY-USA); Ianowski(Bialystock, Lithuania, Poland) 		View the post, there are no responses
95261 Translation - Tombstone

9/15/2021 11:46 AM I have found this headstone of my ancestor and would appreciate help with translating the Hebrew.
Thanks so much!! I really appreciate it!!

Ana Maria K. Mahler
Bellevue, WA USA

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95262 Translation - Tombstone

9/15/2021 11:46 AM I have found this headstone of my ancestor. It is in Mount Hebron Cemetery in NY. It's part of the Yiddish Actors Alliance.
I would appreciate help with translating the Hebrew. Thanks so much!! I really appreciate it!!

Ana M K Mahler
Bellevue, WA USA 		View the post with its 1 response
95263 Translation - Hebrew

9/15/2021 11:46 AM This is a letter from my great-great-grandfather sent to the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shmuel Salant. It is not entirely clear to me if it is written in Yiddish or Hebrew. In the category I indicated Hebrew. I want to know the content of the letter.
Thank you 		View the post with its 1 response
95264 Translation - Russian

9/15/2021 11:46 AM Hello

I would highly appreciate a translation from Russian for the birth record of Kahan Refael.
Any details available would be useful.

Many thanks
Dror 		View the post with its 1 response
95265 Translation - Hungarian

9/15/2021 11:46 AM I wish to know what is written in column 9 of this marriage record, under the heading "Utólagos bejegyzések. Kiigazítások".

The marriage occurred in 1933. I see the comments in column 9 reference dates in 1945 and later. I wonder if they clarify the fate of the groom.

Thank you 		View the post with its 3 responses
95266 Translation - Tombstone

9/15/2021 11:46 AM I don't even know what language this is View the post with its 1 response
95267 Translation - Tombstone

9/15/2021 11:46 AM I don't even begin to understand View the post with its 3 responses
95259 Translation - Polish

9/15/2021 11:45 AM I uploaded a couple of pages from the Military Book of my grandfather Wiktor Yermak.
It is handwritten in polish I think.
I will be very happy and thankful
to whom who will translate it for me.

Please respond via the forms provided on the ViewMate image pages.
Thank you very much.

Ana Maria Kozaczuk Mahler
Bellevue, WA, USA

Searching for Yermak (Belarus, Poland); Kozaczuk (Ucraine, Poland); Mahler (Chortkow,Austria, Poland, NY-USA); Ianowski(Bialystock, Lithuania, Poland) 		View the post with its 1 response
95257 Translation - Tombstone

9/15/2021 11:45 AM I want to translate this! Help me understand my ancestry
 View the post with its 3 responses
95255 Translation - Russian

9/15/2021 11:45 AM Please translate all the vital info in the record. Thank you! View the post, there are no responses
95252 Translation - Tombstone

9/15/2021 11:45 AM Please translate to English. Hyman lived 1875-1955 His Father's name is unknown View the post with its 1 response
95253 Translation - Yiddish

9/15/2021 11:45 AM Need a translation of the text.
Thank you 		View the post with its 1 response
95250 Translation - Polish

9/15/2021 11:44 AM Need age of parents, where are they from?, date of birth. Entry 71 only View the post with its 3 responses
95251 Translation - German

9/15/2021 11:44 AM the wedding took place in 1809 and is written in German, in th cisty of lingolsheim, alsace france. I want to understand all the data (names, dates, ages) as they are direct encestors to me View the post with its 2 responses
95238 Translation - German

9/15/2021 11:44 AM More entries from my favorite record keeper with the challenging handwriting. Here are two different entries for the same birth mother with the surname Kraus. I'm having trouble making out her first name. Is it Juliana? I can make out the words Tochter, Blovic, zu, und and Mutter. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. View the post with its 2 responses
95233 Translation - German

9/15/2021 11:44 AM translation in english or in french of the death certificate + the comments on the righ-hand side View the post with its 1 response
95190 Translation - German

9/15/2021 11:43 AM This docuent is written in Gothic german.
It's the civil marriage act for Shlomo Eliezer Rottenberg (from Sieniawa) and Esther Feigar Schwarz (from Przeworsk)
The civil marriage has been celebrated in Luxembourg on June 30th 1911.

I am searching the identity of each of their parents and the witnesseses of the civil marriage.
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71351 Translation - Tombstone

9/15/2021 11:41 AM This is my great grandfathers tombstone. I want to know his Yiddish name and surname. He immigrated from Hamburg, Germany in 1906 to New York. View the post with its 3 responses
95242 Translation - Tombstone

9/12/2021 6:44 PM I would like a translation of the Hebrew on this tombstone. David Kier was my great grandfather.

Thank you! 		View the post with its 1 response
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