Birth Record For Charna Gutman

Filed 10 years after the fact. Evidently she was born in Kock, not Michow. Czarna seems like a nickname to me; since she was 10 years old that might have been what everyone called her, but her real name was more likely Hannah (Chana) since that is the Yiddish name that Jenny is usually adopted from. The similarity of Chana and Czarna is just a coincidence. 1. [It] occurred in town Kotsk eleventh (twenty third) [of] July

2. thousand eight-hundred ninety first year at eleven o'clock

3. of morning. Appeared Yankel Gutman, worker, forty seven years,

4. resident of town Kotsk in presence [of] Perets Klerman, trad-

5. er, thirty five years, and David Vartovnik, scholar,

6. fifty four years, residents [of] town Kotsk, and presented

7. [to] us infant [of] female sex, announcing, that it was-born

8. in town Kotsk on seventh (nineteenth) day [of] July thousa-

9. nd eight-hundred eighty first year but in what hour [does] not

10. remember, from lawful his wife Shandlya born Gandelman

11. forty seven years. [To] infant that was given name: Charna De-

12. lay in completing this act followed, as explains announ-

13. cer Yankel Gutman on-account-of circumstance [of] frequent his absences from ho-

14. me. Act this [to] announcer and witnesses was-read and th-

15. en [by] us signed, announcer said Yankel Gutman and witnes-

16. ses Perets Klerman and David Vartovnik [are] illiterate.---

17. Maintaining acts [of] civil

18. Status AFal'kovskii