F-74 · Three citation-only entries
Khaia Shmukler in the Telšiai State Savings Bank index, 1903–1910
These are translated index entries from the Russian State Savings Bank books in Telšiai, held by the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 710, the state savings banks of Kovno province. Each row is a deposit or account entry; the comment line is the clerk’s description of the depositor. No original-language page image is held, so these entries are displayed without an image.
Evidence boundary: The words in each bordered quotation are reproduced verbatim from the retained LitvakSIG translation. The shaded interpretation is separate and does not claim access to the original Russian wording.
Open question: in the archive's official file list for fond 710, inventory 1, the Telšiai files numbered 580-599 are books of depositors' notices, while the depositor ledgers for these years are files 554 (1903), 557 (1906) and 562-563 (1910). The file numbers in the index entries (586, 588, 594) therefore point to the notice books. Notice books also name depositors, so the entries may be correct as notice-book entries; this cannot be checked until the files are seen.
LVIA fond 710, inventory 1.
F-74-BANK-1903 · Citation-only
1903 Telšiai State Savings Bank index entry
SMUKLER, Khaia, father Abel, age 22 - 19 Feb 1903, Telšiai. Comment: "trader; lived in Alsedziai." (LVIA 710/1/586, page 38, record 3381)
Interpretation, not transcription"trader" describes Khaia herself. The index wording suggests that she was in business at age 22. The sequence of comments may track her circumstances from trader in 1903, to a married woman whose husband studied Talmud in 1906, to "wife of rabbi" in 1910. The index date is five days after the 1903 marriage date preserved elsewhere, so the suggestion that she was "apparently not yet married" is not proven and remains an open question.
These are inferences from LitvakSIG’s translated index wording, not proven readings of the Russian originals. “Contributed” is LitvakSIG’s translation of the Russian clerk’s term. Whether it means a deposit on Khaia’s behalf, a co-signature, contributed funds, or something else can be settled only from the original Russian pages, which are not held.
Source route: LitvakSIG ALD, surname phonetic “Shmukler” + Any Field “Alsedziai”, category “Taxpayers and Voters”. Original: Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 710. Original page image not held.
Related retained evidence: F-74
F-74-BANK-1906 · Citation-only
1906 Telšiai State Savings Bank index entry
SHMUKLER, Khaia, father ZAK Abel, age 25 - 15 Feb 1906, Telšiai. Comment: "husband studied Talmud; lived in Alsedziai; contributed brother ZAK Shimon." (710/1/588, page 46, record 4458)
Interpretation, not transcription"husband studied Talmud" describes Khaia as married by 1906. "contributed brother ZAK Shimon" reads as her brother Shimon Zak making or contributing to that deposit. "father ZAK Abel," compared with plain "father Abel" in 1903 and 1910, points to ZAK as her father’s family name: her maiden name was likely Zak, with Shmukler the married name.
These are inferences from LitvakSIG’s translated index wording, not proven readings of the Russian originals. “Contributed” is LitvakSIG’s translation of the Russian clerk’s term. Whether it means a deposit on Khaia’s behalf, a co-signature, contributed funds, or something else can be settled only from the original Russian pages, which are not held.
Source route: LitvakSIG ALD, surname phonetic “Shmukler” + Any Field “Alsedziai”, category “Taxpayers and Voters”. Original: Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 710. Original page image not held.
Related retained evidence: F-74
F-74-BANK-1910 · Citation-only
1910 Telšiai State Savings Bank index entry
SHMUKLER, Khaia, father Abel, age 33 - 6 Jul 1910, Telšiai. Comment: "wife of rabbi; lived in Alsedziai." (710/1/594, page 25, record 7232)
Interpretation, not transcription"wife of rabbi" indicates that the clerk described Khaia through her husband’s rabbinic role by 1910. Read beside the earlier entries, the comments may track changing household circumstances, but the index alone does not identify the husband by name or settle the exact chronology.
These are inferences from LitvakSIG’s translated index wording, not proven readings of the Russian originals. “Contributed” is LitvakSIG’s translation of the Russian clerk’s term. Whether it means a deposit on Khaia’s behalf, a co-signature, contributed funds, or something else can be settled only from the original Russian pages, which are not held.
Source route: LitvakSIG ALD, surname phonetic “Shmukler” + Any Field “Alsedziai”, category “Taxpayers and Voters”. Original: Lithuanian State Historical Archives (LVIA), fond 710. Original page image not held.
Related retained evidence: F-74