Hi,

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94330.

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Scanned, handwritten document appears to be death record of someone with the surname of Kucharski, given name unknown.  My 2nd great-grandfather died some time between 1875 and 1897, likely in Warsaw.  On my great-grandmother's wedding invitation from August 1897, her mother is shown as a widow.  Her father's given name does not appear on that invitation.

Please translate and provide any relevant details, including: decedent's given name, sex, full date of death, age and birth date, town of death; spouse's name and town; parents' names, ages, towns; and grandparents' names, ages, and towns.

Index record is found in JRI-Poland database.  Scanned document is at https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/skan/-/skan/5c6817004631ae209804da3136b8a57b67e8c6177f9418de44c1c63223d44371 [record #486].

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Michael Kaplan

Hi,

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94302.

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Scanned, handwritten document appears to be the record of a stillborn daughter to my great-grandparents, Eli Meir Dziesiątek & Devorah Kucharska. The baby's name, Malka, is not familiar to us. However, due to later birth certificates in America, it is noted that Devorah (Dora) did have two (2) stillbirths. Please translate and provide any relevant details.

Index record is found in JRI-Poland database. Scanned document is at https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/skan/-/skan/6cf79ff48931c3a82b34b47ea40e469d9e118086a2a1db7a7e3aae268ad9a294 [record #291].

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Michael Kaplan

Lee David Jaffe

Surnames / Towns:  Jaffe / Suchowola, Poland ; Stein (Sztejnsapir) / Bialystok and Rajgrod, Poland ; Joroff (Jaroff, Zarov) / Chernigov, Ukraine ; Schwartz (Schwarzman?, Schwarzstein?) / ? ;  Koshkin / Snovsk, Ukraine ; Rappoport / ? ; Braun / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland,  Ludwinowski / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland

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Hi,

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94330.

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Scanned, handwritten document appears to be death record of someone with the surname of Kucharski, given name unknown.  My 2nd great-grandfather died some time between 1875 and 1897, likely in Warsaw.  On my great-grandmother's wedding invitation from August 1897, her mother is shown as a widow.  Her father's given name does not appear on that invitation.

Please translate and provide any relevant details, including: decedent's given name, sex, full date of death, age and birth date, town of death; spouse's name and town; parents' names, ages, towns; and grandparents' names, ages, and towns.

Index record is found in JRI-Poland database.  Scanned document is at https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/skan/-/skan/5c6817004631ae209804da3136b8a57b67e8c6177f9418de44c1c63223d44371 [record #486].

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Michael Kaplan

This document is in russian.

Maciej.Lopacinski@...

Thanks to the feedback above (especially from Phil Karlin), I believe I’ve resolved the original mystery. It had nothing to do with the timing of the census in 1848 or any other year. To my mind, this process epitomizes the best virtues of the JewishGen Discussion Group: informed fellow genealogists putting our heads together online to help each other solve mysteries.

For those who are interested, I’ve concluded that there were two different Sali Kleins in the 1848 Kellemes census after all. The widow Sallie Klein Tannenbaum (born Lenarto 1817) was the aunt of Sali Klein Jolesz (born Frics 1829). Sallie Tannenbaum presumably died prior to the 1857 census, at which time Sali Jolesz adopted her aunt Sallie Tannenbaum’s two youngest sons, born 1840 and 1846. This would explain how a woman born in 1829 could be listed as mother of a son born in 1840— she was his adoptive mother, not his birth mother.

My one remaining mystery in the 1848 census is the presence in Sali Tannebaum’s household of “mother (?) Betti Grinfeld, 62, born Szanok, Poland, widow living with her children.” I surmise that this woman is Sali’s mother-in-law— the mother of Sali’s late husband Joseph Tannenbaum— presumably having remarried to someone named Grinfeld. But that’s merely speculation.  
Dan Rottenberg
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• I oversimplified for the sake of having an illustrative example in my previous post and threw everything under the banner of "SNPs", but most of the DNA we inherited from Neanderthal populations is non-coding. We have huge amounts of non-coding DNA in our genomes, and this DNA often persists in our genomes pretty much forever unless there is some unusually compelling selective pressure interacting with whatever it does (and, being non-coding, it often doesn't do much, and what it does do is often pretty subtle). Included among our non-coding regions are transposable elements that have been littering our genomes for millions of years. Our genomes do not do rapid evolutionary cleanup on these regions; they just...stick around, for the most part, as long as they don't end up causing some sort of deleterious mutation. My larger point here is that human evolution is much less tidy than the model your understanding appears to be based on.

Unless, that is, there was some strong survival advantage for the lucky children who got it.

• If the principle "new DNA always rapidly disappears unless it confers significantly increased fitness" were really inexorably true, then we would never see recessive-gene-linked diseases persist in populations - these mutations would rapidly disappear. In reality, they stick around for quite a long time in populations, and so do the parts of our genomes that stem from Neanderthals. 
• The science on what, exactly, is in Neanderthal DNA is still in its infancy, but many researchers are increasingly convinced that at least some Neanderthal DNA did indeed confer valuable adaptations on populations that ended up with it (for instance, on immune system function).
• Exactly what happened over time to the Neanderthal-derived parts of our genomes is also a subject of much recent debate among scientists. But there is at least one empirical study in the last five years that suggests that the initial introgression of Neanderthal DNA faced a pretty rapid initial purge, but then largely stabilized. (The article reviewing this study doesn't do a deep dive on why this would have happened this way, but the model makes at least some intuitive sense to me: maybe the initial selective purge was of various genes that coded for traits that were obviously deleterious for Homo sapiens sapiens for one reason or another. After those disappeared, there was still a significant amount left that was either beneficial or innocuous, and consequently those bits of the Neanderthal genome faced little to no selective pressure. So those mostly stuck around in the population.)

And there is no reason to believe that when the last Neanderthal went extinct the number of homo sapiens/Neanderthal hybrids was large compared to the number of pure homo sapiens.

 Many clades of archaic homo sapiens DNA went extinct and can not be found in living homo sapiens.

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The U.S. 1950 census will become public on April 1, 2022. Joel will prepare us for its debut by covering what is a census, who uses the census, census caveats, the 1940 census, how the 1950 census was taken, training of enumerators, enumerator instruction book, census sampling, 1950 schedule, 1950 Housing Schedule, census questions, post enumeration codes, 1950 undercount, and a summary of the results. Joel will conclude with a short discussion on his and Steve Morse’s 1950 census locational tools, online right now at the stevemorse.org website.  Those 1950 utilities took 8 years to produce with the help of under 80 volunteers, involve 230,000 or so searchable 1950 ED definitions with about 80,000 more small community names added, and street indexes for over 2,400 1950 urban areas that correlate with 1950 census district numbers. 

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Joel Weintraub, PhD, a New Yorker by birth, is an emeritus Biology Professor at California State University, Fullerton. He became interested in genealogy over 20 years ago, and volunteered for 9 years at the National Archives and Records Administration in southern California. Joel has produced locational tools for the 1900 through 1950 federal censuses, and the New York State censuses for NYC (1905, 1915, 1925) for the Steve Morse "One-Step" website.  Joel has published articles on the U.S. census and the 72-year rule, the name change belief at Ellis Island, finding difficult passenger records at Ellis Island, and searching census records (and the geography) of NYC.

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