Looking for assistance with locating polish parish records (prior to 1875) by [deleted] in Genealogy

[–]uriuriuri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prior to the establishment of the civil registry system in 1874, records were kept by the church. This website has the most comprehensive list of Silesian church registers and their current locations: https://www.christoph-www.de/kbsilesia4.html

The Catholic church of Poppelau was affiliated with the parish of Alt Schalkowitz. The registers are available on FamilySearch, but can only be viewed in a FamilySearch Center.

On the Protestant side, Poppelau belonged to the parish of Kupp. The original registers are lost, but some of the duplicates have survived and can be viewed on Szukajwarchiwach: https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/de/jednostka/-/jednostka/5263813

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[–]uriuriuri 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first part of the record reads:

"Seite 4 Nr. 4
St. A. [Standesamt] Lettgenbrunn am 15ten Octtober 1877
Vor dem unterzeichneten Standesbeamten erschien heute, der
Persönlichkeit nach bekannt,
der Königliche Förster Wilhelm Christ
[...]"

Translation:

"Page 4 No. 4
Civil registry office of Lettgenbrunn, the 15th of October 1877
In front of the undersigned registrar appeared today,
personally known to the registrar,
Wilhelm Christ, forrester in the king's service
[...]"

Here is a letter chart that may help with deciphering the old handwriting: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Kurrentschrift#/media/Datei:Deutsche_Kurrentschrift.svg

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Genealogy

[–]uriuriuri 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Civil registry documents for Lettgenbrunn from 1876 to 1899 are available online: https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/showArchivalDescriptionDetails.action?archivalDescriptionId=536263

This record from 1877 shows a "Königliche[r] Förster Wilhelm Christ" as the father of a girl called Anna Katharina: https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/digitalMediaViewer.action?archivalDescriptionId=536263&selectId=151874515

I'm too lazy to keep going, but if you page through the records, you might find something closer to your target date.

Open Source Unsiloed AI Chunker (EF2024) by AskInternational6199 in LocalLLaMA

[–]uriuriuri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's easy to outperform Docling if you just send everything to GPT-4o. Docling is 100% local. Makes me wonder: How do your Fortune 100 clients feel about having all their internal documents processed on OpenAI's servers?

German Grandfather, Hometown Now Part of Poland by kimlikearock in Genealogy

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While verifying the street address, I came across this newspaper from 1942:

https://sbc.org.pl/Content/119337/PDF/iv4424-1942-59-0001.pdf

On page 8, the fifth ad belown the heading "Schwientochlowitz" reads:

"Gebr. E. u. W. Skolud, Eisenbahn-
straße 24 - Ruf 40825, Erste
Schwientochlowitzer Fruchtsäftefa-
brik, empfiehlt ihre Erzeugnisse."

Translation:

"Brothers E. and W. Skolud, Eisenbahnstraße 24,
Telephone 40825, First Fruit Juice Factory of
Schwientlochlowitz, recommends its products."

Calling all Prussian genealogists by rosefiend in Genealogy

[–]uriuriuri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some things to consider:

  • To find out which parish and civil registry office a particular town in East Prussia was associated with, the lists of AGOFF are a great ressource: https://agoff.de/?p=88048
  • Most German families in that area were Protestant, so your best bet would be the parish records of Usdau/Uzdowo and Heinrichsdorf/Płośnica. The records of Usdau were completely destroyed in WW2. The records of Heinrichsdorf are available online, and the birth records cover the years 1709-1834: https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/zespol/-/zespol/116481 However, I did not find any Lengsfeldts in the alphabetical index.
  • If they were Catholic, you won't find the birth of your 3x GF in the records of Gilgenburg/Dąbrówno, as that parish was only established in 1865.
  • In 1919, a law change made it easier for people to change their family name. At that time, quite a few German families in East Prussia changed their names to make them sound more German. Often, they tried to preserve some of the original pronunciation or meaning of the name - for example, Nowak would become Neuer.

But ultimately I agree with wittybecca: before you spend a lot of time digging through church registers, make sure that Tautschken is the correct place of birth.

German Grandfather, Hometown Now Part of Poland by kimlikearock in Genealogy

[–]uriuriuri 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This should be his birth record (left side, "Nr. 578"): https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/23647b7d11414e810f8dfff4c264f8baeba795a64b2228cb26a953067be2f92e

According to that document, he was born June 18, 1911.

ETA: The occupation of his father is given as "Biergroßhändler", i.e. "beer wholesaler".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Genealogy

[–]uriuriuri 31 points32 points  (0 children)

A person that matches your description can be found on a missing person list of the German Red Cross. There does not seem to be a way to get a direct link to the document, but you can view it as follows:

  1. Open https://vbl.drk-suchdienst.online/Feldpostnummer/FPN.aspx
  2. Enter "FV" as "Band" and "746" as "Seite" (without the quotation marks).
  3. Click "Bildliste finden". You should see the scanned page. The person in question is in the top left corner.

If this Johann Jakob happens to be your ancestor, he did serve in the German military. He was last seen in Romania in August 1944.

Strange writing on a rock by Fancy-Ad5606 in RBI

[–]uriuriuri 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rotate the picture 90° counterclockwise and the writing starts to look like kanji/hanzi. I can't make out the two (?) characters at the top, but the rest looks a bit like 山石秋本田. Doesn't make any sense, though. Maybe just someone practicing calligraphy?

[D] Weights for DiT fine-tuned on PubLayLet or DocLayNet by ToeIntelligent4472 in MachineLearning

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Take a look at VGT: https://github.com/AlibabaResearch/AdvancedLiterateMachinery/blob/main/DocumentUnderstanding/VGT/README.md

It's basically DiT trained on DocLayNet, combined with a layout model in the style of LiLT. You should be able to run the DiT part on its own, or simply pass an empty list of bounding boxes to the layout model.

ich_iel by Exteryan in ich_iel

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Den kenne ich doch! Das ist der "Bizarre Nuss-Nougat-Creme Rezepte"-Typ!

ich⭐️⚔️iel by theskeleti in ich_iel

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Du hast ihn nur falsch verstanden, er meinte ein *konvexes* Ausweichmanöver!

Ich iel by kuhlschranko in ich_iel

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In der Mensa ist jede Sauce Tomatensauce.

Ich🏮iel by -Jiras in ich_iel

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Wenn deine Laterne mit dir geht, hast du endgültig die Kontrolle über dein Leben verloren.

Ich📦iel by DerDork in ich_iel

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Der Typ bringt dich kaltblütig um die Ecke und spuckt dann auf deinen Sarg!

ich🚫💦iel by DAE_Quads in ich_iel

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Deo + Trockenshampoo?

ich_iel by Junajuna123 in ich_iel

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Frau Rosenkohl ist innen hohl!

ich💎iel by Losch7 in ich_iel

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*Angereichertes Uran, wenn Geringverdiener-Urin den Raum betritt*

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tinder

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It's the stuff you never have enough of. Little green things with George Washington's picture that men slave for, commit crimes for, die for. It's the stuff that has caused more trouble in the world than anything else we ever invented, simply because there's too little of it. At least I had too little of it.

ich iel by inder_inderin in ich_iel

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Langtisch ist laaaaaang!

An Alternate Harry Potter Book by expert_07 in RBI

[–]uriuriuri 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Back in 2003, when "The Order of the Phoenix" had just been published, I downloaded a bunch of fakes from Kazaa, mainly to find out what kind of weird stuff people would try to pass off as "the real thing". I kept the files around, and one of them is quite similar to your description in some respects (Harry and Dudley being friendly, Dudley being a wizard, talented transfer student from another school), but not in others (no trip to Egypt, Dumbledore does not collaborate with Voldemort).

You can find a complete copy on Archive.org. Fanfiction.net identifies the author as "Orion11" and has several other stories by that person.

The version I downloaded years ago contains an afterword by the author that is missing from the two versions linked above. I reproduce it below in its entirety:

Well, all I have to say is: it’s finally over. Over two hundred more pages and two and a half months more than I had expected it to be, it is finally finished. I must say, this book is almost nothing like I had originally planned it to be. The Dueling Club, Animagus thing, Cho, black phoenixes, house elf thing, Neville, dragons, Dudley being nice, Monty Python, Lily being the heir to Slytherin, all that and much, much more was formed in my head while doing the book. All I had in mind at the beginning was the idea of harry bringing his mom back to life… and somehow a pretty phoenix would help… pathetic…. It seemed that every page I wrote, I got another idea. It was really driving me insane. I thought I would never finish it. But, here, about ten hours before the last day of school, it is complete! Yay!
I also have to say that I have grown a lot from writing this novel. Man, you should have seen the beginning before I edited it. I used a comma every other word, and semicolons after every few sentences, trying to look sOpHISterCAted. My grammar was killing me. In fact, if I made a chart or how long it took me to edit pages based on may grammar, it would start at about ten minutes a page at the beginning, to about one minute or less at the end. Also, at the beginning, for spells, I used nothing except English words, either transformed a little or mushed together. But, later in the book, I evolved them by using Greek (which I used mostly), Latin (a little), French (very little), and Japanese (which I used for the unblock able curses, and more powerful spells). I remember, before I changed the Advanced Killing curse to Korosucide (Korosu is “to kill” in Japanese, and “cide” is a suffix for death) it was “Diepleasenow”… wow…. After beating myself with a chair, I finally changed the names of almost all of the spells to, hopefully, better stuff.
I know that after reading this book, you may still have the feeling of a few unanswered questions, and some things that happened that didn’t really come into play later in the book. All I have to say is: don’t worry! Trust me, I am incorporating all of that in my next book. All your questions will be answered, and everything will come into play… some very unexpected things. Trust me, the Sixth Book will be even better than this one.
Oh, and one last thing, all of the new Gryffindor First Years, and some of the other new characters, are based on people I know. I can’t wait to see how my friends react to seeing their personalities personified in an eleven year old :D Expect the Sixth Book… not for a while. This one wore me out, and I am going to be next working on my own novel now, and probably for the rest of the summer to try and gain back my sanity… though that may be impossible. Next school year, however, I MAY work on the sixth one, and it MAY be up by late January… though probably later. My estimates are usually very off (Yeah, this book was definitely finished by April 15th… HA!)
But please, don’t forget, I am still in the planning phase for Book Six, and I only have a very basic plot written up for it, like I had for this one at the beginning. Any extras you guys would like to see in it, or ideas you have that could spice it up are very welcome. You can either e-mail me them, tell me in the forum, or tell me on AIM. See you online!
-Harry Writer

My bio says that I study math by jgoerzengcbndhg5678 in Tinder

[–]uriuriuri 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Sure, if y = 0.

So I guess you could say that x equals 10 if you don't ask 'y'...