# Chana (d.1841) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **6x great-grandmother** **Died** bef 1841 **Spouse** [[Herszek (d.1818)]] **Children** [[PLACEHOLDER Abram Ber Frenk (b.1790)]] · [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]] · [[PLACEHOLDER Rayzla (b.1813)]] *GEDCOM I513912 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Chana is recorded only as the wife of [[Herszek (d.1818)]] and the mother of [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]] — through whom the line descends — along with the placeholder children [[PLACEHOLDER Abram Ber Frenk (b.1790)]] and [[PLACEHOLDER Rayzla (b.1813)]]. She had died before 1841, but, as with her husband, no surviving record has been confirmed as hers; the candidate death records disagree on her age by several years, part of a wider tangle in which this family's recorded ages appear to be exaggerated.[^who][^candidates] [^who]: Chana appears only as spouse of [[Herszek (d.1818)]] and mother of [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]] (and the placeholder children) in the GEDCOM/MyHeritage record; died before 1841. [^candidates]: Candidate death records (family MyHeritage biography), neither confirmed: (1) "Hana Michów," aged 45, house #15, d. 14 May 1814, wife of Herszek Szyjowicz — akta 31 [scan](https://szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/78f1a7a2cf21ecd55eccf855b817fd3df84363a7881bd3968e1b0a63f0f042f7) — complicated by the fact that Herszek Szyjowicz's son Wolf died aged 1 in 1811 with the father then recorded as 30 (b.~1781, implausibly close to son Judka), akta 107 [scan](https://szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/e1b2112f537a1e3c938e5b97178446f20d364addc7e59f03870e70781f8f2cff); (2) "Hana Herszkowa," aged 50, d. 27 March 1834, widow of Herszek Dawidowicz, with surviving children Icka, Moszko Aron, Szyndla, Chajla — akta 13 [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/edaf1248bdbda2eceb368f3967c992ba6216001c4b3352d331886b7c52f19c36). ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* - **No record confirmed as this Chana.** Documented only as wife of [[Herszek (d.1818)]] and mother of [[Judka Frenk (b.1796)]]. Two candidate death records (family MyHeritage biography), neither confirmed: - **akta 31 (1814)** — "Hana Michów," aged 45, house #15, wife of **Herszek Szyjowicz**. [scan](https://szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/78f1a7a2cf21ecd55eccf855b817fd3df84363a7881bd3968e1b0a63f0f042f7) — but Herszek Szyjowicz's son Wolf (d. aged 1, 1811, akta 107) gives the father as 30 (b.~1781), too close to son Judka's age. [Wolf scan](https://szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/e1b2112f537a1e3c938e5b97178446f20d364addc7e59f03870e70781f8f2cff) - **akta 13 (1834)** — "Hana Herszkowa," aged 50 (b.~1784), widow of **Herszek Dawidowicz**, surviving children Icka, Moszko Aron, Szyndla, Chajla. [scan](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/edaf1248bdbda2eceb368f3967c992ba6216001c4b3352d331886b7c52f19c36) - **Age-exaggeration problem (key reasoning).** Judka Frenk's children's records imply births in the **1780s**, but two lines of evidence point to the couple being born nearer **~1800**: (1) Judka's wife's death record indicates a ~1800 birth; (2) their eldest child was born ~1818. So the "45 in 1814" / "50 in 1834" candidate ages likely belong to a different Hana, or the ages are inflated — unresolved. See [[Herszek (d.1818)]]. ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Which candidate death record (if any) is hers** — the "Hana Michów, wife of Herszek Szyjowicz" (akta 31) vs "Hana Herszkowa, widow of Herszek Dawidowicz" (akta 13). The two imply different husbands' patronymics (Szyjowicz vs Dawidowicz); reconcile against [[Herszek (d.1818)]]. - **The family's exaggerated ages** — settle whether Herszek & Chana were born ~1780s (children's records) or ~1800 (wife's death record + eldest child ~1818).