Thank you so much for making this available. I wish I'd known all these tips for searching the Polish archives before I did my research :) Now I can go back and revisit where I got stuck and hopefully

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Thanks Stephen. That link is really helpful. Any idea where I could look for records for the Strassberg you found?

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Thanks Rodney I've tried looking for the family, Ickowicz, in Brodnica/Strasburg but didn't find anything, Maybe I'm not looking in the right record sets. I hadn't heard of the other place you mention

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I'm trying to find out if there was a place called Strasburg in Silesia in 1875. A family member always said they were born in Strasburg in 1875 and stated their nationality as German/Polish depending

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Please could someone translate the Russian birth document I've posted on Viewmate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96397 Please respond via the form

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Wow Odeda thanks for that! I did wonder about translating the dates from the secular to the Jewish calendar and whether relevant festivals had an effect. But I couldn't think of why it would apply in

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Thank you Daniel and Stephen for replying. The difference in calendars was my first thought but as Stephen says that's only 12 days so doesn't seem to work in this case.

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Interesting thought. Does that mean there will be another marriage record for them in Poland as I haven't seen one. Mind you it was hard enough to find this one :) I'm not sure exactly when they moved

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Please could someone translate the Polish birth record I've posted on Viewmate at this address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96357 I think it's my great great grandfather's

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Thanks for replying! Good idea but the first one was definitely a religious one.

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Thanks Marcie I know my husband's grandmother thought her birthday was 25 December as she was born on Xmas. But she was born in Russia so it was really on 6th January :) This is a much bigger differen

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Does anyone know why the date on a Polish marriage record would be in January 1897, while the marriage date recorded on the couple's children's birth certificates is in March 1897? My great grandparen

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Please could someone translate the Polish marriage certificate I've posted on Viewmate at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96343 I think it's my great great grandparents' marr

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Please could someone translate the Russian vital document I've posted on Viewmate. I thought it was my great great aunt's birth certificate but now I'm not sure and would like a proper translation of

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Please could someone translate my great grandmother's birth certificate which is in Russian. I've posted it on Viewmate at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key

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Yesterday I finally found my great grandmother's birth and marriage certificates thanks to JRI Poland's website. I've been trying to find them for years. I knew the place and date of the marriage but

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Thanks to Viewmate and the help of a kind translator, I was able to confirm that I'd found my great-great Uncle's birth certificate. That led me to finding birth certificates for two of his sisters. M

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I've posted a marriage certificate in Russian on Viewmate for which I would like a translation. It is on Viewpoint at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM96

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Please could someone tell me if there are any revision, census or similar lists for Szrensk, Plock Gubernia in Poland from 1840 to 1900 which show family groups. I'm trying to work out which children

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Please could someone translate the death certificate I've posted on Viewmate. This may be my great-great-great grandfather. There are two candidates for that position so all dates, names, age and plac

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