It happened in the town of Mlawa on the twentieth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and ninety seven at ten o’clock in the morning. Mendel Aks, age twenty six, residing in the town of Mlawa, appeared in the presence of the witnesses Abram Moszek Etingier, age seventy five, and Symche Watmacher, age forty two, both of whom synagogue sextons residing in the town of Mlawa, and showed us a child of the male gender, declaring that it was born in the town of Mlawa on the sixteenth of March of the current year at six o’clock in the evening (to his wedded wife) of the concubinage with the unmarried girl Frajdla née Tyton, age twenty two. The child was given the names Nachman Juda [Nachman Yehuda son of Mendel]. This document was read to the testifier and the witnesses, then signed by us, them and the father of the child.