Sample family trees
Family tree of Aleksandra Pokorska, born in 1897 in Podłęż, Mazovia, Russian Empire.
Family tree of Friedrich Emil Ruschke, born in 1861 in Lipowiec near Brodnica, Kingdom of Prussia.
The discovered siblings of Michał Wojtkiewicz, born in 1894 in Raściuny (now Raščiūnai), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire.
Sample translations
Translation from German of the marriage record of Julius Ernst Ruschke and Josefa Rochon
No. 14
Strasburg (Brodnica), the twenty-first day of February, nineteen hundred and six (February 21, 1906).
Before the undersigned Registrar, there appeared today for the purpose of contracting marriage:
- The laborer Julius Ernst Ruschke, unmarried, identity verified, of Catholic religion, born on the twenty-fourth day of July, nineteen hundred and eighty-five (July 24, 1885) in Michlau (it should be Michelau, Polish name: Michałowo, now part of Brodnica)], district of Strasburg, residing in Michlau, district of Strasburg, son of the laborer Emil Ruschke and his wife Julie, née Parulska, residing in Michlau, district of Strasburg.
- The laborer Josefa Rochon, unmarried, identity verified, of Catholic religion, born on the nineteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and eighty-five (June 19, 1885) in Golkowko (Golkówko), district of Strasburg, residing in Strasburg, daughter of the laborer Josef Rochon, who died in America, and his wife Marianna, née Rutkowski, residing in Strasburg.
Present as witnesses:
- The laborer Julius Strehl, identity verified, 23 years old, residing in Strasburg.
- The shoemaker Wladislaus Iwanowicz, identity verified, 32 years old, residing in Strasburg.
The Registrar asked the betrothed, individually and successively, the question: whether they wish to enter into marriage with each other. The betrothed answered this question in the affirmative, whereupon the Registrar declared that by virtue of the Civil Code they are now lawfully joined spouses.
Read, approved, and signed – with the exception of Josefa Ruschke, née Rochon, who, due to inability to write, provided the document with hand marks (marked with +++):
Julius Ernst Ruschke
+++
Julius Strehl
Wladislaus Iwanowicz
The Civil Registrar:
Kühl
Translation from Latin of the baptismal record of Jan Grzywna
No. 8
Artowice, 10th day of June 1816. I, the local parish priest, baptized a male infant named Joannes (Jan/John), born to his parents Mathia (Maciej/Matthias) Grzywna, a lodger (a landless peasant living in another person’s household) aged 20, and Anna (née Szarmach) aged 22, his wife, legitimate spouses and Catholics, born on the eighth day of June of the current year at six o’clock in the evening in their house in the village of Artowice. Godparents were Martinus (Marcin/Martin) Szur and Gotliba Adamska, all from Artowice.
(Margin note: child John, a legitimate son)
Translation from Polish of the death certificate of Małgorzata Łuzińska, née Zamer
No . 38
Place: Ruda
It took place in Zieluń on the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four [July 20, 1854] at eleven o’clock in the morning. There appeared Jan Łuziński, sixty-five years of age, and Franciszek Łuziński, twenty-seven years of age, both farmers residing in Ruda, and declared that yesterday at three o’clock in the morning died Małgorzata Łuzińska, residing on the farm in Ruda, fifty years of age, parents’ names and surname unknown, leaving behind her widowed husband Jan Łuziński. After eye-witness confirmation of the death of Łuzińska, this act was read to the declarants—of whom the first is the husband and the second the son of the deceased—and, due to their inability to write, was signed [by the priest alone].
Fr. Stanisław Czechatkiewicz, Parish Priest of Zieluń
Translation from Russian of Antoni Gribko’s baptismal record
Record number: 100
Male child number: 48
Date of birth: 19th
Date of baptism: 27th
On the 27th day of December in the year 1853, in the Duniłowicze Roman Catholic parish church, an infant named Antoni (Anthony) was baptized by the Reverend Jozafat Czerwiński, administrator of the said church, with the performance of all the rites of the sacrament.
Son of the legitimate spouses Wasilij (Basil) Gribko and Anna (née Łapko), peasants, born on the 19th day of the current month in the village of Czarna (Chornaye).
The godparents were Grigorij (Jerzy/George) Łapko, a peasant, and Teresa Szwacko, a wife of Józef.
