This is the birth certificate of Serena (fata=girl), daughter of "Sara Pasternak" (note it is not Sura as in other documents)
This document is exceptional to me at different levels ;
1- This proves that for the jewish communities at that time there where birth registers. This means that genealogy research might be less difficult than what I originally expected.
2- The fourth column's header "Parintilor" stands for parent. Under
Satmar what we have is an adress ! Indeed above Parintilor it is printed "domicillui' which is Adress. The first time we find in this pile of documents an adress for Sura and Eisik in Romania, before they emigrated to Belgium. Trying to decypher the handwriting I first read : "Vegru Voila n°57", after some googling I came to the conclusion that what we are reading here is "Std: Negru Vodà N°57". This makes sense as Negru Voda is a
legendary person in Romania. However, I cannot find any such street in today's Satu Mare street plan. The street can have changed name, or maybe does not exist anymore ? There is a Strada Dragos Vodà, but I doubt that an error was made by the civil servant. That remained to me a mystery until I looked further down the document and noticed that the date this document was made is 14 years later than 1923, May 19th 1937. So this explains, that although the document is a birth certificate delivered by Satu Mare administratoin, Sara/Sura did not live there in 1937. There is a Strada Negru Voda in Bucarest, which can easily be found on Google Maps
On this
translated page one can read :
Hebrew District was one of the most affected areas of the city after the '80 massive demolitions. Not only homes were destroyed but the old streetscape amended.
Places are unrecognizable to a former inhabitant, entire streets have
disappeared and others are stuck with the name changed (Streets of St.
John New Banu Maracine St. Nicholas barns, Adam Goldfaden not exist;
former Macin Street is now called Negru Voda- and former Negru Voda
Street, which was further south no longer exists, the current Cauzasi
Street is a portion of the former Maze and old Cauzasi not exist):
Therefore I guess the Negru Voda street Sara mentionned as her adress is not to be found anymore.
The last column which holds a signature in black ink, also holds a word with question mark behind in lighter ink. Unfortunately I cannot decypher it.
Sara was 30 years old at that time ("Varsta 30") so she was born around 1893.
Update 11.2015 : surprisingly Serena is a first name that does not appear in any other document.More than that, it is absent of the list of children enlisted in
Consulate documents. Therefore a hypothesis could be that Serena died at quite young age (before 1928) which would explain she is not enlisted anywhere anymore. Why was this document then created/requested in 1937 ?
