Resi Handler's Birth Record

Acquiring records and images is fun. Crafting an accurate citation, entering the information into Family Tree Maker, and analyzing the evidence sometimes gets put off way too long.

I have several images of records from the border area of Ilok, Croatia, and Ljuba, Serbia, where the Handlers lived for a good part of the 19th century and early 20th century and I have only shared a few:

Josef Handler's 1884 birth record is at Use JewishGen Family Finder.
Adolf (Aron) Handler's 1900 death record is at Adolf Handler's Death Record.
Adolf's and Sali's 1882 marriage record is at Wedding Wednesday ~ Adolf Handler and Sali Handler, 1882.

I will be sharing additional record images that I received from the researcher in Serbia who is indexing these records for JewishGen's Hungary Database. This database is growing! There are now records from the office of the registrar in Ilok, Croatia, in addition to those from Erdevik, Serbia.

Two and a half years ago, when I shared the transcriptions or index of birth records for my husband's grandfather, Josef Handler, I only saw transcriptions for Rose (Rosi, born 1883), Joseph (Josef, born 1884), and Sam (Salomon, born 1887). I wondered why their younger sister, Regina, born in 1891, didn't appear. The suggestions in the comments were great, but it turned out that her birth was recorded in Ilok, not in Erdevik, and it doesn't appear in the JewishGen Hungarian Database, but I found it in one of the digital images that was sent to me.

The best I can do for a source citation is Croatia, Office of the registrar, Ilok, Birth Record [or Hungarian Jewish Births?], page 7, number 133, birth record for Resi Handler, 20 February 1891.

Name of child: Resi Händler
Date of birth: February 20, 1891 [I wish I could read the notations above the date; let me know if you can.]
Sex: female
Legitimate birth
Father: Aron / Adolf Händler [Both of his names appear in one record, helping to confirm that he went by both names.]
Mother: Sali Händler
Parents' home: Luba [Ljuba, Szerem District, Hungary - now in Serbia, on the border of Croatia]
Midwife: Ana Fischer
Date of naming: 28 February [1891] [Again, I wish I could read the additional notations.]

All of this information agrees with this being Regina Handler, who arrived in America with her mother-in-law, Sali Händler, and sister-in-law, Lena Hollander Händler, in 1911, and who married Jake Solomon in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 13, 1914.

Click here to see all the blog posts in which I mention Regina.