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For questions about documents pertaining to an individual person's birth, including birth certificates, registers and indexes

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Translating German Birth Register (1861)

transcript ....translation image 1 Headings Tag, Stunde der Geburt ................Day and hour of birth Namen und Stand der Eltern .........Names and standing (occupation, class) of parents Geschlech …
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Searching for Birth Records In Philadelphia, PA for births in 1914

Read the helpful overview "How to Find Pennsylvania Birth Records" (FamilySearch Wiki), especially Births_After_1905 The wiki page does need to be updated: as of 2017, birth records are available fro …
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Unusual middle name "Schewa"?

This may be a family's "dit" name or "Beiname", an aka ("also known as"). I've seen such surnames put between the pipe and colon pairs. There are other instances of the practise on the linked record i …
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Explaining unknown person found in family listing in 1940 Federal Census of Iowa?

Here are the questions that I would investigate, that might help determine who this extra household member was: Have you looked at the census page image to verify it was indexed correctly? This is t …
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What is this German document from the mid-1950s?

It is a birth registration. redacted are (in order): [registration number unredacted] [registration place unrededacted, Himmelsthür is now part of Hildesheim, Niedersachsen] registration date [year u …
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Establishing a link between birth and marriage records in an 18th German church register

I agree with your transcriptions and abbreviation interpretations. For the 3rd image, you have an unnecessary repeat of April and a missing phrase: Montag d[en] 23t[en] April ist Joh. Jost Schmidt …
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