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Handwriting readings

Handwriting readings

Five short pieces of handwriting that affect how these records connect. Each shows the full page, the marked entry, a close-up and the reading.

Reading 1

Szeyna's age in 1811

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Szeyna, wife of Sroel Wazbord, is listed at age 20 in the 1811 Volozhin supplementary list. That places her birth about 1791. She had come to Volozhin from Smorgon in 1808.

1811 Volozhin supplementary revision (Polish), LVIA 515/15/214, FamilySearch film 102548530, image 36, f.17v, registration 57.

Reading 2

Movsha David's age in 1816

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Movsha David, son of Elia, Dubinsky, is listed at age 31 (a faint chance it could be read as 21). The 1811 list also gives 31. The two agree because he died in 1813, and the 1816 list repeats his age from the earlier list. He was born about 1780.

1816 Volozhin revision, LVIA 515/15/324, FamilySearch film 104259380, p.24, household 13, annotation “умеръ 1813” (died 1813).

Reading 3

Shaya's 1858 annotation

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The note beside Itska's son Shaya, age 16, ends with the word ушелъ, “left.” It does not record a death. Whether this Shaya is the later Yeshaya is a separate open question.

1858 Volozhin revision, LVIA 515/25/182, FamilySearch film 127163194, f.294, household 93/74.

Reading 4

Mordukh's death year in the 1850 list

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The note gives the death year of Itska's son Mordukh as 1847. The ink blot on the page sits on the line above and does not cover the date.

1850 Volozhin revision, LVIA 515/15/856, FamilySearch film 108539406, household 93.

Reading 5

The word after Rav Shimon Mordechai's name

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The word reads מסמרגאן, “from Smorgon.” The 1909 title page names Rav Shimon Mordechai as being from Smorgon.

Toldot Rabbeinu Chaim mi-Volozhin (Vilna: Sh. P. Garber press, 1909), title page.