Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:08 pm
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Would it be possible to translate this record?
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a4u2fear
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:44 am
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hi dave
thanks for that death notice, very interesting indeed. I was able to find alexander and ferdinand's births to confirm as you stated.
i have attached two images
-one is the marriage of rosina harter and abraham staad (top left)
-the other is supposedly a reference to it? It's on the left and is smaller than the others. I don't understand it. It appears to list Rosina's brother (Ferdinand, i assume because her father was dead), and Abraham's father who was Abraham
I guess my question is I don't understand why that abbreviated marriage or reference to it exists. Do you have any ideas?
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 10:14 am
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a4u2fear wrote: | hi dave
thanks for that death notice, very interesting indeed. I was able to find alexander and ferdinand's births to confirm as you stated.
i have attached two images
-one is the marriage of rosina harter and abraham staad (top left)
-the other is supposedly a reference to it? It's on the left and is smaller than the others. I don't understand it. It appears to list Rosina's brother (Ferdinand, i assume because her father was dead), and Abraham's father who was Abraham
I guess my question is I don't understand why that abbreviated marriage or reference to it exists. Do you have any ideas? |
Your image 120 is the one I told you about yesterday. It leads you to the marriage we saw after the list of deaths. Please go look at my post from Friday, 1:04 pm. It has two images. See how they are the folio 311 and 312 that this image 120 refers to ?
Sophia
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:49 pm
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jamiku wrote: | Would it be possible to translate this record?
Thank you |
Hi,
Images posted in PNG format do not allow me to zoom in on the image and make the text easier to see and read. Please post the image in jpg or another format which supports enlarging the image and I will look at it tomorrow (Monday) evening as time permits.
Thanks.
Dave
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:03 pm
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a4u2fear wrote: | hi dave
thanks for that death notice, very interesting indeed. I was able to find alexander and ferdinand's births to confirm as you stated.
i have attached two images
-one is the marriage of rosina harter and abraham staad (top left)
-the other is supposedly a reference to it? It's on the left and is smaller than the others. I don't understand it. It appears to list Rosina's brother (Ferdinand, i assume because her father was dead), and Abraham's father who was Abraham
I guess my question is I don't understand why that abbreviated marriage or reference to it exists. Do you have any ideas? |
Hi Andrew & Sophia,
Much of the confusion surrounding the entries originates from an error made by placing the marriage of Ferdinand and that of his sister Rosina immediately after the final death & burial record for 1756 (i.e. that of Barbara, the girl found dead in the water near the mill). My thought that the location was an attempt to save space was an error on my part. For some strange reason I had the idea that the records were being kept in the same format as those in Russian controlled Poland (Królestwo Polskiego) with births, marriages, and deaths all in the same register. That was not the case. Evidently separate registers were kept for baptisms, marriages, and deaths, which was the common procedure for Catholic Sacramental records.
Something which makes my head spin is referring to images in terms of “record image #...” I presume this is because that is how the images are identified on Family Search. Personally, I find it easier to identify them by the page number found in the register. The Latin words folium and pagina are both words which come from the Classical Latin of Antiquity and often are used interchangeably but I find pagina to be the much more straightforward of the two. The base meaning of folium is “leaf” and it only means “page” by metonymy whereas the base meaning of pagina is “page”. But who really cares what I prefer. Anyway, I’ll refer to the records by the page on which they are found.
The entries of the two marriages (that of Ferdinand and that of his sister) are found on pages 311 & 312 of what appears to be the parish death & burial register. The entry on page 218 appears to be from the parish marriage register. The best way I can describe the entry is that it is an edit or, as often is found in early editions of scholarly works, a list of errata (errors). The entry is a notation or edit which gives more details of the legalities omitted in the entries on pages 311 & 312 and contains an explanation of how those marriage records came to be found in the death and burial register. The notation directly below the arrow in the left margin refers to another marriage and is not part of the entry for Ferdinand and his brother-in-law Abraham. The entry for them is “Duos dimissos...folio 311 et 312”. Here is the translation: “The two relinquished*, namely Ferdinand Harter and Abraham Staad and the two married #** in the year 1757 on the 10th day of January or inserted in the death register in error on pages 311 and 312.” (Three marriages, all celebrated on January 10, were entered in the death register. After the 3rd marriage entry the entries switch back to deaths.)
Notes: *dimissos/relinquished: A technical term explained in the translation of the 1782 marriage of Ferdinand, Jr. (or Ferdinand II, if you prefer).
**#: I have no idea why the sign was inserted before the date.
A few additional tidbits...The days on which the banns were promulgated provide some background info regarding practices of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany during the 18th Century. Besides the formal relinquishment (something not done in the USA) we learn something about the days on which Catholics were required to go to Mass besides Sundays (what are referred to as “Holy Days of Obligation”). Those "Holy Days" varied and still vary from country to country. (The USA has fewer than many other countries.) Some “Holy Days of Obligation” in 18th Century Germany were the Feast of St. Stephen (Dec. 26, when good king Wenceslaus came to town) and the Feast of the Circumcision (January1) and the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). We know that these were “Holy Days of Obligation” because the banns were announced on days when the members of the parish were expected to be at Mass. From Ferdinand’s birth and baptism in 1762 (which Sophia found) we learn that the parish church was under the patronage of St. Bartholomew the Apostle. None of these tidbits are of earthshaking importance but they do help provide some context in which the individuals lived their lives.
I hope all this helps to clarify matters.
Dave
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SophiaPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 4:48 am
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dnowicki wrote: | a4u2fear wrote: | hi dave
thanks for that death notice, very interesting indeed. I was able to find alexander and ferdinand's births to confirm as you stated.
i have attached two images
-one is the marriage of rosina harter and abraham staad (top left)
-the other is supposedly a reference to it? It's on the left and is smaller than the others. I don't understand it. It appears to list Rosina's brother (Ferdinand, i assume because her father was dead), and Abraham's father who was Abraham
I guess my question is I don't understand why that abbreviated marriage or reference to it exists. Do you have any ideas? |
Hi Andrew & Sophia,
Much of the confusion surrounding the entries originates from an error made by placing the marriage of Ferdinand and that of his sister Rosina immediately after the final death & burial record for 1756 (i.e. that of Barbara, the girl found dead in the water near the mill). My thought that the location was an attempt to save space was an error on my part. For some strange reason I had the idea that the records were being kept in the same format as those in Russian controlled Poland (Królestwo Polskiego) with births, marriages, and deaths all in the same register. That was not the case. Evidently separate registers were kept for baptisms, marriages, and deaths, which was the common procedure for Catholic Sacramental records.
Something which makes my head spin is referring to images in terms of “record image #...” I presume this is because that is how the images are identified on Family Search. Personally, I find it easier to identify them by the page number found in the register. The Latin words folium and pagina are both words which come from the Classical Latin of Antiquity and often are used interchangeably but I find pagina to be the much more straightforward of the two. The base meaning of folium is “leaf” and it only means “page” by metonymy whereas the base meaning of pagina is “page”. But who really cares what I prefer. Anyway, I’ll refer to the records by the page on which they are found.
The entries of the two marriages (that of Ferdinand and that of his sister) are found on pages 311 & 312 of what appears to be the parish death & burial register. The entry on page 218 appears to be from the parish marriage register. The best way I can describe the entry is that it is an edit or, as often is found in early editions of scholarly works, a list of errata (errors). The entry is a notation or edit which gives more details of the legalities omitted in the entries on pages 311 & 312 and contains an explanation of how those marriage records came to be found in the death and burial register. The notation directly below the arrow in the left margin refers to another marriage and is not part of the entry for Ferdinand and his brother-in-law Abraham. The entry for them is “Duos dimissos...folio 311 et 312”. Here is the translation: “The two relinquished*, namely Ferdinand Harter and Abraham Staad and the two married #** in the year 1757 on the 10th day of January or inserted in the death register in error on pages 311 and 312.” (Three marriages, all celebrated on January 10, were entered in the death register. After the 3rd marriage entry the entries switch back to deaths.)
Notes: *dimissos/relinquished: A technical term explained in the translation of the 1782 marriage of Ferdinand, Jr. (or Ferdinand II, if you prefer).
**#: I have no idea why the sign was inserted before the date.
A few additional tidbits...The days on which the banns were promulgated provide some background info regarding practices of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany during the 18th Century. Besides the formal relinquishment (something not done in the USA) we learn something about the days on which Catholics were required to go to Mass besides Sundays (what are referred to as “Holy Days of Obligation”). Those "Holy Days" varied and still vary from country to country. (The USA has fewer than many other countries.) Some “Holy Days of Obligation” in 18th Century Germany were the Feast of St. Stephen (Dec. 26, when good king Wenceslaus came to town) and the Feast of the Circumcision (January1) and the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). We know that these were “Holy Days of Obligation” because the banns were announced on days when the members of the parish were expected to be at Mass. From Ferdinand’s birth and baptism in 1762 (which Sophia found) we learn that the parish church was under the patronage of St. Bartholomew the Apostle. None of these tidbits are of earthshaking importance but they do help provide some context in which the individuals lived their lives.
I hope all this helps to clarify matters.
Dave |
Hi Dave,
Great explanation! I always learn a lot from what you write.
I am going to bow out of this conversation, now.
Best,
Sophia
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a4u2fear
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 3:53 pm
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dave
your explanation makes it crystal clear. thanks as always
i attached two deaths from Rulzheim Germersheim Bayern Germany
i am having trouble reading how old the kids are
michael hoffman (2nd down right side)
franciska hoffman (top left)
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:38 pm
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a4u2fear wrote: | dave
your explanation makes it crystal clear. thanks as always
i attached two deaths from Rulzheim Germersheim Bayern Germany
i am having trouble reading how old the kids are
michael hoffman (2nd down right side)
franciska hoffman (top left) |
Hi Andrew,
The death that you identified as of Michael Hoffman is actually that of his unnamed daughter. She was less than one hour old when she died. It appears that she was alive only for a few minutes. She seems to have been born in such distress that the midwife baptized her without giving her a name.
Here is the translation
The writing in the left margin reads: “the infant little girl of Michael Hoffman, November 6,1760. The body of the entry reads: “In the year as above on the 6th day of the month of November a female child, the daughter of the marriage of Michael Hoffman, a burger and the miller of the lower mill and of Francesca/Frances Magdalena Schmidt was born at the point of death and was baptized of necessity by the sworn midwife and in that hour died and on the following day of the same month and year was buried by me, the undersigned pastor, in the presence of the father and the grandfather, who signed below with me.
On the Left: Signature of the father and signature of the maternal grandfather.
On the Right: Signature of pastor.
The 1778 record is of the death of Michael’s wife, not of his child. She was 38 years and 37 days old at the time of her death. Here is the translation.
“In the year 1778 on the 12th day of the month of November, after having been fortified with all the Sacraments* at the 7th hour of the night died and was buried on the 14th day of the same month by Rev. Wilhelm (can’t read surname), the vicar** of the parish, /with me being present and conducting the final burial committal/ in the cemetery, Francisca/Frances Magdalena born Schmidt. While she lived she was the wife of Michael Hoffman, burger and miller. She died at the age of 38 years and 37 days. The husband and (illegible word) were present.
Left Side: signature of widower Michael Hoffman & another signature
Right Side: Signature of the pastor
Notes: *All the Sacraments: Confession, Communion under the form of Viaticum and Extreme Unction (now known as the Anointing of the Sick). These 3 Sacraments were known collectively as “The Last Rites”.
**vicar: The assistant priest of the parish
Both of these entries were written in the passive voice and each is one long sentence with a series of subordinate clauses. This results in a rather clumsy text in English. As much as possible I tried to maintain the Latin order in the translation although that was not always possible. In the 1778 record I broke the English into several sentences for the sake of clarity.
I hope you find this informative.
Wishing you a good holiday weekend,
Dave
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a4u2fear
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2020 1:04 pm
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wow dave. Just as I was thinking I was getting pretty good at these I make a couple of mistakes. At least, in my defense, I had both of these labeled as strange enough to present them to you.
I have tomorrow of from work so long weekend for me. Hope you enjoy yours as well.
Thanks as always this makes it extremely clear now as I was confused earlier.
Andrew
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:30 pm
Post subject: Akta grodzkie - translation from Latin
Trying to respond to your email asking for the file in JPG. Here is the file in JPG, but not sure it will give you the resolution you need.
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:39 am
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hi dave
martin wisniewski death attached from Ludzisko
It is #57 on the page. Can you please tell me what the words mean in the last column annotatio? I can read the kids names, but I can't read the other latin words.
Thanks.
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:07 pm
Post subject: Re: Akta grodzkie - translation from Latin
jamiku wrote: | Trying to respond to your email asking for the file in JPG. Here is the file in JPG, but not sure it will give you the resolution you need.
Thank you |
Hi,
The bad news is that, as you suggested, the resolution still does not allow me to see the words with the clarity needed for a complete and accurate translation. Part of that is due to the fact that my eyesight is not improving with age. However, the somewhat better news is that the excerpt is an incomplete text of a court document. As a document of law it contains lawyer specific jargon which I can understand to varying degrees. The best way I am able to describe trying to translate the excerpt is that reading the document is very much like coming into a theater during the middle of the first act and leaving before the end of the act and trying to understand the play. To put it another way, it is like trying to appreciate a joke where the opening line and the punch line are missing. The text appears to be a list of nobles of the status generosus/well-born/urodzony which includes varying amounts of genealogical information in terms of relationships of the individuals. (Nobles of that status were owners of at least one village.) Although I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the vernacular surnames, I am certain of the Latin given names which are clear enough for me to read.
Since I don’t know which persons are of interest to you here are the individuals whose names and relationships I am able to see.
1. The well-born Walenty Szumanski, the son of Fabian, and Julianna Dziewanowska(?), the daughter of Józef, married to each other (refers to Walenty & Julianna).
2. & 3. Well-born Małgorzata, the widow of the well-born Antoni Petrykowski(?) and Gertruda, the widow of Jan Gotucki(?), full sisters (both having the same mother and father) née Kucharska, daughters of Józef Kucharski and of Petronela Kar???, married to each other (refers to Józef & Petronela).
4. Franciszek Kędzierzynski(?), the son of Walenty Kędzierzynski(?) and Agnieszka Kucharska, married to each other (refers to Walenty & Agnieszka).
The resolution of the remainder of the text, except the date (January 15, 1759) is too poor for me to read.
I hope you find this helpful and am sorry that I am not able to add more info.
Dave
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:15 pm
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a4u2fear wrote: | hi dave
martin wisniewski death attached from Ludzisko
It is #57 on the page. Can you please tell me what the words mean in the last column annotatio? I can read the kids names, but I can't read the other latin words.
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Hi Andrew,
The opening words, relictis 4or (quattuor) prolibus, means 4 offspring survived and is followed by their names. The text after the names of the kids is translated “as he left nothing to inherit, the burial was free (gratis).” That he had nothing for his children to inherit is consistent with the entry in the column “Status mortui” (Status/condition of the deceased) where he is described as a pauper.
The grammar behind the words is that from relictis through the name of his youngest surviving child is that the construction is an Ablative Absolute, a construction you have seen numerous times in earlier records. It regularly is used in marriage records and the most recent examples are found in the marriage records of Ferdinand and that of his sister. The Ablative Absolute is used so often because in a few words in Latin an entire English subordinate clause can be expressed. As a refresher...an Ablative Absolute is made up of verb form (usually a participle) together with a noun, pronoun or adjective (especially an adjective used as a substantive) all in the Ablative Case. Here the noun is prolibus (Ablative Plural of proles, prolis, f., offspring, child, descendant) and the participle is relictis (the Ablative Plural of the Perfect Passive Participle of the verb relinquo, relinquere, reliqui, relictum, to be survived by, to leave behind). The shortest and most literal translation would be 4 offspring having been left behind and is followed by their names.
Some notes about how Latin nouns and verbs appear in dictionaries...Nouns are given in their Nominative form followed by the Genitive and the gender and then the English meaning. The Genitive form is important since it is from the Genitive that the stem of the noun as well as the Declension to which the noun belongs is determined. To that stem the remaining case endings are added. This is of great import if one is composing Latin but also is important in order to recognize words in which the stem is considerably different from the Nominative. A good example is the word for midwife, which is often found in birth & baptism records, obstetrix, obstetricis. The remaining cases are formed by adding the case endings to the stem obstetric. Verbs appear in dictionaries as relinquo found above. The Latin forms are the principal parts of the verb. They are called principal parts since it is from them that the various forms of the verb are formed. The principal parts are the 1st Person Singular Present Indicative Active, the Present Infinitive Active, the 1st Person Singular Perfect Indicative Active and the 4th form is the Supine (earlier Latin Dictionaries listed the Perfect Passive Participle in place of the Supine). The principal parts provide the means to determine important things like the Tense of the verb. If you see the form relinquit it is the 3rd Person Singular Present Indicative Active and is translated “he/she/it leaves behind”. However, if you see the form reliquit it is the 3rd Person Perfect Indicative Active and is translated “he/she/it left behind”. There is a big difference in meaning between the two forms.
A closing note...Latin verbs have six tenses—Present, Imperfect, Future, Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Perfect. Since records are dealing with past events only the Imperfect, Perfect, or Pluperfect could appear. In reality, records are almost always found in the Perfect, which signifies an action in the past and is often referred to as the historical perfect and is the tense used in narration. The Imperfect is used to denote continuing action in the past and the Pluperfect is like the English Past Perfect and is used to denote an act completed in the past. Examples of these tenses are I was baptizing (Imperfect), I baptized (Perfect), and I had baptized (Pluperfect). The bottom line is that the Perfect is the tense used in records. Finis.
Because it is summer in the northern hemisphere there will be no quiz on the above heat induced ramblings.
Dave
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:32 am
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thanks dave.
i did take some latin in highschool (long time ago ha), and some of it sounds familiar. i am saving for reference later!
i'm going camping for a week. thanks for all your help and talk to you soon.
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Please help me translate these two baptisms from Szczepankowo parish.
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