WARSAW: CENTRAL ARCHIVES OF HISTORICAL
RECORDS-
Registers
of the Jewish Communities: Births, Marriages, & Deaths
The total number of books, at
this point in time, is 3273, many of which are in poor physical condition. The
registers include books of births, marriages and deaths, as well as some minor
personal indexes.
Births: “…contain all the details of a born child - names, dates and
places of birth and circumcision or name, sex, status, parents 'names, place of
residence, house number, parents' place of residence (occasionally also
father's parents) ), as well as information about employment and place of
residence of kumas or witnesses, circumcised, midwife and attention.
A significant number of "illegitimate"
children registered in the books draws attention. The child was considered
illegitimate and as such entered into the books when his parents entered into
the only traditional rabbinic marriage and did not register this relationship
in the proper office. At that time, the father's section remained
unfilled.”
Marriages: “… place
of birth, employment, place of residence, house number, age and state of the
betrothed as well as names, employment and place of residence of their parents,
date and place of the wedding, place of residence of the rabbi assisting in the
wedding, and place of residence of the witnesses along with information about
their employment and comments.”
Deaths: “…detailed
information was given on the deceased (name, surname, sex, age, employment,
place of residence, information about parents and spouses), date and place of
death and funeral, inspection card number confirmed by authority and surname of
the corpse , annotation about the disease and type of death and attention.”
“…there are also various types of notes in the books that
are usually official certificates concerning a person whose birth, marriage or
death record is on file. Information about the subsequent official
marriages of parents and the recognition of their child as being from a legal
relationship are particularly frequent.”
The registers are microfilmed & organized
alphabetically by community & chronologically within a particular series of
entries. Birth registers less than 100 years & marriages & deaths
less than 80 years old are not available for viewing online, although they are listed.
Depending on the register, they are written in German,
Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Latin, or Yiddish. Use a translator, as needed.
Scroll down the page & go to the listings. To view pages, click
“gallery with scans” (galleria ze skanami).
Ex.
Some books have indexes at the beginning of the registers.
Still, others are entire books devoted to indexes:
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