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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Slovakia Church records?
« on: Wednesday 28 March 12 19:00 BST (UK)  »
Someone very helpful pointed me to this collection of church records from Slovakia, now available on the FamilySearch website:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=1927146

My problem is that I don't speak Latin, Hungarian or Slovakian, and I'm not even familiar with the language.  I'm getting there, via web research on the languages, but I would love it if someone could give me a hand with reading this record, which I think might be related to my family.

Any advice/understanding you have about what you see here would be useful.  Thanks!
Anita in MD, USA

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Europe / Slovakia - birth record - difficulty reading?
« on: Wednesday 28 March 12 18:51 BST (UK)  »
Someone very helpful pointed me to this collection of church records from Slovakia, now available on the FamilySearch website:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=1927146

My problem is that I don't speak Latin, Hungarian or Slovakian, and I'm not even familiar with the language.  I'm getting there, via web research on the languages, but I would love it if someone could give me a hand with reading this record, which I think might be related to my family.

Any advice/understanding you have about what you see here would be useful.  Thanks!
Anita in MD, USA

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 Record
« on: Tuesday 31 January 12 14:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all!  I'm looking at the last line of this record, which is in German, and having a really hard time deciphering where Michael Zbora
-  was from (they've transcribed it as "Wabowe, Russland" but that's not any place I can actually find referenced anywhere?)
- what his profession is (presuming something akin to 'laborer', but ?)
- where he was going to (I keep seeing Horatio, which isn't anywhere I can find, either!)   

Any ideas? I know you all have better eyes for this than I do!
 I've included the lines above for context and handwriting help.

The record is:
Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934
1890-1900
Indirekt Band 085 (11 Aug 1890 - 17 Okt 1890)
Departure date: 26 Sept 1890
Ship Name: German Empire
In Ancestry, it's pg 311 of 405.

Thank you for your help!

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Corlet Rodgers ('Roddy') Madison was born in 1920, and in 1930 appears in the census with this listed in the 'occupation' column. 

I see "F....  ....er, Printer & ....."  but I've been staring at it too long, I think.

Any ideas? 

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Canada / Location on Census - Orphanage
« on: Tuesday 29 November 11 16:06 GMT (UK)  »
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/QuickMatch11.jsp?id=31562

1901 Census of Canada Page Information
District:   ON YORK (West/Ouest) (#131)
Subdistrict:     Toronto (City/Cité) Ward/Quartier No. 6 G-27 Page 6
Image:    . at National Archives Web Site
Details:   Schedule 1 Microfilm T-6508

Can anyone help me identify which Home this is?  I suspect, given that there's a Mother Bernard (two pages previous) that this might be the Sacred Heart Orphanage ... but I can't find definite confirmation.... help? 

Thanks a bunch!
Anita

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This is my grandfather's... he was born to a Greek Orthodox father and an Austrian Catholic mother in 1918, while my great-grandfather was working in Ontario, Canada.   The entire Greek (extended) family however, was in Brooklyn, NY, to which he'd initially emigrated, and where he retained a residence on paper (during the war he completed US Draft cards noting his address as Brooklyn and his job in a British Chemical Company munitions factory.)

Anyway - my g/f was born in Trenton, Ontario, and baptized there (Catholic) within a few weeks of his birth.  And then there's this, apparently from 1924, which appears to be another baptism from a Greek Orthodox church in Brooklyn?  Guess they were covering all the bases.  ;)

I'd love to know exactly what it says, if anyone can help me out with a translation?

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This is from a marriage register dated June 1838... I'm having trouble with the word on the left.  I'm 99% sure that, in context, the number listed below in this column is the day of the pronouncement of the banns (or the date they submitted for such)... but I can't tell what the word actually is!   

I keep reading it at "Contestants" - which it's not, but makes me laugh. :)

The middle column is "Parties" and lists the names, occupation, parent, etc... and the right hand column "Married" contains a number also, the date of the actual marriage. 

Contractant? Is that a word?

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Death Register help, please?
« on: Tuesday 05 April 11 01:53 BST (UK)  »
(Original post on the Deciphering/Recognition board: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,524682.0.html)

I've attached a snippet from the last columns of a death registration.  The cause of death (rheumatic fever) is clear enough, but the "new" (?) after it (no header on this column) and the code (1029-A... or 1079-A) after it has me stumped.  The "__| 5 | 9 " is 'dues' and while I understand that to be payment for the burial or the plot, that's about all I know about that, also.

The top of the page (not shown) reads "Register of Burials" and "Dundee 1842" but there's no indication of a particular cemetery on the page.  (The top line in my image above reads "Forward", indicating that totals are being brought from the previous page.)

I feel like I don't know quite what the right question is (was this a register by the parish, not a specific church?) and Google searches are proving fruitless.  The identifying info for the record on SP reads:
1 18/05/1842 MILLER ISABELLA CANT / JOHN CANT F DUNDEE DUNDEE CITY CITY/ANGUS 282/00 0270 0296

Putting that GROS number into Google brought up this page:
http://www.wanlessweb.org/Scotland/ScotBurials.html
which, while unrelated to my particular query, does provide some clues.  I don't see how to connect plot number to cemetery yet, but I do see that the amt of dues paid appears to be related.

I guess I don't know enough about how graves were purchased at the time - any help you can provide - either general about the process or specifically about this register in Dundee - would be appreciated!

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I've got:

Chronic nephritis (???)
disease) 6 months
(???) coma
3 or 4 days
as cert by
George Harter
M.B.
Linlithgow

Any thoughts? Thanks!

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