[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Reading polish church records

[Allyn Brosz]

I'd add another book by Shea and Hoffman -- _Following
the Paper Trail:  A Multilingual Translation Guide_.
It's out of print, but copies seem to be available
from Avotaynu at http://www.avotaynu.com/books3.htm

The book is described as "A guide to translating vital
statistic records in 13 languages: Czech, French,
German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
Each section shows the alphabet of the language,
sample vital statistic records and their translation,
and a list of words commonly encountered. An
indispensable reference source for anyone whose
research involves European languages."

I have it on my bookshelf and I refer to it frequently
for help in reading Russian, Polish, and Romanian
records.

Best Wishes
Allyn Brosz

--- Dave Obee <daveobee at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Frazin's book is excellent. Two others worthy of
> note are In Their Words, by
> William Hoffman and Jonathan Shea; and Polish Parish
> Records of the Roman
> Catholic Church, which despite the title can often
> be a great help to
> researchers using Lutheran records as well. All of
> these go well beyond the
> basic information offered in the Family History
> Centre guide (not that I am
> criticizing what the FHC has, becuase it has enough
> to get most people
> started).
> 
> Dave Obee
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "gpvjem" <gpvjem at sasktel.net>
> To: <MyGenWeb at aol.com>;
> <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Reading polish
> church records
> 
> 
> > Rachel:
> >  In addition to the good information you already
> have, I have been told
> that Judith R. Frazin's "A Translation Guide to 19th
> Century Polish-Language
> Civil - Registration Documents (Birth, Marriage and
> Death Records)", is one
> of the best translation aids available.  ISBN
> 0-9613512-0-9
> >
> > John Marsch
> >
> >
> >   Rachel,
> >
> >   Good advice from Rose.  I also found the word
> list very helpful.  You
> can
> >   see some sample Polish records with translation
> on the SGGEE website,
> >   Translation Aids.
> >
> >   Dick Stein
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: "Rose Ingram" <roseingram at shaw.ca>
> >   To: <MyGenWeb at aol.com>;
> <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> >   Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:29 AM
> >   Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Reading
> polish church records
> >
> >
> >   > Rachel,
> >   >
> >   > Your Family History Center may have a copy of
> the Polish Genealogical
> Word
> >   > List which you could copy.  I found this very
> helpful when it started
> >   > reading Polish written records.  It contain
> most of the necessary
> 'buzz'
> >   > words needed for translation.
> >   >
> >   > If not, you can also find this list at the
> www.familysearch.org
> website.
> >   > Click the "Search" tab, then "Research Helps",
> then choose the letter
> "P"
> >   > from the alphabetial list.  The Word List
> should be about half way
> down
> >   the
> >   > page.  You can either print out all the pages,
> or  order the pamphlet
> >   > on-line if you wish.
> >   >
> >   > Rose Ingram
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > From: Rachel
> >   > > Does anyone have any advice for
> reading/translating polish church
> >   records?
> >   > > I
> >   > > have some knowledge and experience in
> translating ear;ly prussian
> >   > > language,
> >   > > but none for the polish language. Any advice
> would be greatly
> >   appreciated.
> >   >
> >   >
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