[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] TESKE in Volhynia

[Jerry Frank]

At 08:55 PM 19/01/2003 -0600, Joan Meyer wrote:
>In the first column
>(tag and Stunde des Gerburt) I see his birth date and right under it is "6
>yr".  What does this -6 yr- mean?  It seems that the individuals on this
>page ( and they all have different years listed here) might not have been
>registered at their time of birth but some time later.


In my previous response, I forgot to comment on this.  Tag und Stunde des 
Gerburt means day and hour of birth.  It is probably not 6 yr but rather 6 
ur = 6 o'clock or literally, the "hour of 6".  In most cases this would 
refer to the morning.  Births in the afternoon would usually state fully or 
abbreviated, nachmittag (literally - after mid day).  Or those in the 
evening might say abends (evening).

These events are registered at baptism, not at birth.  The baptism dates 
should therefore be consistently in date sequence (at least within each 
village) but some baptisms occurred months or years after the birth so the 
date of birth could be much earlier.



Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
jkfrank at shaw.ca