Occupations
- The most common occupations appearing on 19th century Polish-language records for Jews from Poland include:
- arendarz (or arędarz) (leaseholder or innkeeper)
- bakalarz (teacher)
- czapnik (capmaker)
- czeladnik (journeyman)
- dozorca boznicny (synagogue caretaker)
- garbarz (tanner)
- handlarz (peddler)
- karczmarz (innkeeper)
- komornik (cottager)
- krawiec (tailor)
- kupiec (merchant)
- kuśnierz (furrier)
- mydlarz (soapmaker)
- nauczyciel (teacher)
- pachciarz (tenant gardener)
- piekarz (baker)
- rabin (rabbi)
- rolnik (farmer)
- rzezak (mohel)
- rzeznik (butcher)
- stolarz (carpenter)
- szewc (shoemaker)
- szkolnik (synagogue sexton)
- szpekulant (moneylender)
- szynkarz (innkeeper)
- tkacz (weaver)
- wyrobnik (day-laborer)
Status
- Polish-language marriage and death records may identify the marriage status of spouses, parents, or the deceased:
- kawaler (bachelor)
- panna (maiden)
- wdowa (widow)
- wdowiec (widower)