Death Records - Chișinău, Moldova - 1899

Below is an example of a page of Jewish death records in a column/table format. This document is from the city of Chișinău, which is the capital of Moldova today.

Russian/Kishinev Deaths Jewish 1899.jpg — "Молдова метрические книги, 1811-1936," images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 13 April 2023), Jewish death records, Kishinev, Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, DGS no. 5610475, image no. 138 of 1124.

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 Death Records Overview page of this tutorial). Use the numerals in the far left column to keep track of which row is being transcribed or translated.

Part IV. About the deceased.
		Where the person died and was buried	Date and month		Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
Female	Male	Where the person died and was buried	Christian	Hebrew	Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
	1	Въ городѣ Кишиневѣ	Январь 1	Шватъ 2	1 2/3	отъ кори	Янкель сынъ кременчугскаго мѣщанина Моисеея Каневскаго
	1	In the city Kishinev	January 1	Shevat 2	1 2/3	from measles	Yankel son of the Kremenchug petty bourgeois Moiseey Kanevsky

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Part IV. About the deceased.
		Where the person died and was buried	Date and month		Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
Female	Male	Where the person died and was buried	Christian	Hebrew	Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
	2	Въ городѣ Кишиневѣ	"	"	45	Въ Кишинев. еврейской болницѣ отъ чахотки легкихъ	Ихель Боруховъ Фельдманъ, Кишиневскiй мѣщанинъ
	2	In the city Kishinev	"	"	45	In the Kishinev Jewish hospital for consumption of the lungs	Ikhel Borukhov Feldman, Kishinev petty bourgeois

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Part IV. About the deceased.
		Where the person died and was buried	Date and month		Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
Female	Male	Where the person died and was buried	Christian	Hebrew	Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
	3	Въ городѣ Кишиневѣ	"	"	63	отъ сахарнаго мочеизнурения	Абрамъ Дувидовъ Рошко, Кишиневскiй мѣщанинъ
	3	In the city Kishinev	"	"	63	from sugar diabetes	Abram Duvidov Roshko, Kishinev petty bourgeois

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Part IV. About the deceased.
		Where the person died and was buried	Date and month		Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
Female	Male	Where the person died and was buried	Christian	Hebrew	Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
	4	Въ городѣ Кишиневѣ	2	3	31	отъ чахотки легкихъ	Мордко Абрамъ-Лейбовичъ Кандель, Бѣлецкiй мѣщанинъ
	4	In the city Kishinev	2	3	31	from consumption of the lungs	Mordko Abram-Leybovich Kandel, Belets [possibly modern-day Bălți] petty bourgeois

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Part IV. About the deceased.
		Where the person died and was buried	Date and month		Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
Female	Male	Where the person died and was buried	Christian	Hebrew	Age	Illness, or cause of death	Who died
	5	Въ городѣ Кишиневѣ	"	"	1 1/4	отъ воспаленiя легкихъ	Янкель сынъ Кишише[вск]аго мѣщанина Шимона Лотмана
	5	In the city Kishinev	"	"	1 1/4	from inflammation of the lungs	Yankel son of Kishinev petty bourgeois Shimon Lotman

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