Object record
The entry is dated 17 May and records Ruth’s birth on the preceding day, 16 May 1909. Its handwriting names the child Ruth Helene and preserves Paul Reichenbach’s signature.
SeriesCivil, property and municipal records
English translation
Before the undersigned registrar appeared today Paul Reichenbach, personally known, resident in Halberstadt, and reported that Margarete Reichenbach, née Liebenthal, his wife, gave birth at their residence in Halberstadt on 16 May 1909 to a female child who received the given names Ruth Helene. Read aloud, approved and signed: Paul Reichenbach. The registrar: [signature].
English reading prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive from the German civil record.
- Archive reference
- HLBR-CIVIL-06
- Date
- 16 May 1909
- Medium
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Physical dimensions
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Digital image
- 1900 × 3800 pixels
- Evidence status
- Historical civil record; publicly displayed with source attribution from the supplied family research copy
- Source and provenance
- Family-held scan supplied during an in-person visit to the Halberstadt archive and museum; the image bears the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Halberstadt watermark.
- Custody history
- A separate custody history has not yet been recorded; see the source and credit fields.
- Credit
- Historisches Archiv der Stadt Halberstadt; Reichenbach Family Archive
- Rights
- No separate reuse license is recorded; contact the archive before reuse.
- Image treatment
- 300 dpi presentation derivative; orientation corrected and blank scanner overscan conservatively cropped. No tonal, textual or generative alteration.
Permanent citation
How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “Ruth Helene Reichenbach’s birth record.” 16 May 1909. HLBR-CIVIL-06. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/hlbr-civil-06.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/hlbr-civil-06