Birth Record - Mikhalishki, Belarus - 1901

Below is an example of a page of Jewish birth records in a column/table format. This document is from the village of Mikhalishki (also known as Smolzavod), which is located in Belarus today.

Russian/Kishinev Jewish Births 1868 (DGS 5601722, image 60).jpg — "Metrical books, 1854-1914," database with images, FamilySearch.org (www.familysearch.org : accessed 13 April 2023), Jewish birth records, Mikhalishki, Vilna, Vilna, Russian Empire, DGS no. 4219644, image no. 599 of 1007.

The following transcription shows the column headings of the document translated into English, followed by each row from the original document in typed Russian and translated into English (the page written in Hebrew will not be translated here, as it repeats the same information listed in Russian). The document has been broken into a table for each entry with the headings in English accompanying each one for easier reading (to see the headings in modernized Russian, go to the Birth Records Overview page of this tutorial). Use the numerals in the far left columns to keep track of which row is being transcribed or translated.

Part I. About those born.
Number		Who performed the rite of circumcision	Date and month of birth and circumcision		Where born	Social status of the father, names of the father and the mother	Who was born and his or her given name
Female	Male	Who performed the rite of circumcision	Christian	Hebrew	Where born		Who was born and his or her given name
	34	Мордухъ Эльхонесъ	ноябр. 2 род. 9 обр.	Тейвел* кислев 5 12	Въ 4мъ ст.	Михалишскiй м. Нохумъ Хаимовичъ Букинъ Слове-Гене Израеловна	Рувейнъ
	34	Mordukh Elkhones	November 2 birth 9 circumcision	Teivel* Kislev 5 12	In the fourth Stan**	Mikhalishki petty bourgeois Nokhum Khaimovich Bukin Slovye-Genye Izraelovna	Rubeyn

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Part I. About those born.
Number		Who performed the rite of circumcision	Date and month of birth and circumcision		Where born	Social status of the father, names of the father and the mother	Who was born and his or her given name
Female	Male	Who performed the rite of circumcision	Christian	Hebrew	Where born		Who was born and his or her given name
15			10 род.	13	"	Михалишскiй м. Гиршъ Израеловичъ Гопштейнъ Хая-Риве Мееръ Шмереловна	Хѣне
155			10 birth	13	"	Mikhalishki petty bourgeois Girsh Izraelovich Gopshtein Khaya-Rive Meyer Smerelovna	Khene

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Part I. About those born.
Number		Who performed the rite of circumcision	Date and month of birth and circumcision		Where born	Social status of the father, names of the father and the mother	Who was born and his or her given name
Female	Male	Who performed the rite of circumcision	Christian	Hebrew	Where born		Who was born and his or her given name
16			14 род.	17	"	Михалишкiй м. Мовша Хаимъ Кивелович Ротковичъ Хана Михеловна	Шейна
16			14 birth	17	"	Mikhalishky petty bourgeois Movsha Khaim Kivelovich Gotkovich Khana Mikhelovna	Sheyna

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*The word "teivel" (טייַוול) means "devil" in Yiddish. It is unclear what the connection between these dates in the Hebrew calendar and the word "teivel" would be in this context.
**A stan was a type of jurisdiction used during the time of the Russian Empire. They were most common before the 1800s.