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Ahmet Şerif Efendi

Birthplace: cine Observed AH 1325

158-224-443Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Ahmet Şerif Efendi was born in Cine in AH 1309. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Hudeyde in AH 1321 (12 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1325 with Murselat Memuru in Hudeyde (500 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); Arabic: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 158-224-443

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

October annual indicator
0
Additional October code
0
Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1325
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 65833

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1325
    Source lines 39545

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1325
    Source lines 39545

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1325
    Source lines 65833

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1325
    Source lines 38279

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1325
    Source lines 38279

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

About these sources

Life and career

1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1309
  2. AH 1321Birth-year difference: 12 AH years
  3. AH 1325Birth-year difference: 16 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

2 of 3

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1325

Murselat Memuru · hudeyde · 500 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1321 in hudeyde. The first-salary field is 500 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1321 · 1903 labelRecorded first-work anchorhudeyde
500 kuruş / month

AH 1325 · 1907 label

One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.

Places in this record

AH 1321 · 1903 labelRecorded first-work anchorhudeyde
cine: Locality linkage; agreedcinehudeyde: Locality linkage; agreedhudeyde

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
4 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Telgraf Memuru
Recorded birth year
AH 1309
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1321 · 1903 label
Place
hudeyde
First-salary field
500 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

2 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)
Arabic
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Logistics

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • Murselat Memuru
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. This is separate from the annual data edition; the compact dossier PDF cites both editions.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Original source assertionLogisticsseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
Source-year labels: 1325
Source lines 38279
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMurselat Memurueda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 39545
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionMurselat Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 39545
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1325
Source lines 65833
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1325
Source lines 39545
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1325
Source lines 39545
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1325
Source lines 39545
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325
Source lines 39545
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1325
Source lines 39545
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1325
Source lines 39545
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1325
Source lines 39545
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325
Source lines 39545
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1325
Source lines 39545
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1325
Source lines 65833
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325
Source lines 38279
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1325
Source lines 38279
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Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.

Every displayed annual entry. Select a year to inspect its salary, title, place and source together.
Source yearGregorian labelTitleLocality wordingMonthly kuruşSource line
1907Murselat MemuruOriginal: murselat memuruhudeyde500recovered
line 36117
  1. AH 1325 · 1907 label

    Murselat Memuru

    Original title: murselat memuru

    hudeyde

    500 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 36117

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Outside the paper sample
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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All substantive source assertions (82)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1309recovered · dobirth
source lines 36117
birthPlacecinerecovered · birthplace
source lines 36117
birthPlacecinerecovered · birth_place
source lines 36117
birthProvinceaydinrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 36117
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 36117
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 36117
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 36117
apprenticeshipYears4recovered · mulazemet
source lines 36117
qualification0recovered · qualification
source lines 36117
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 36117
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 36117
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 36117
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 36117
fatherJobTelgraf Memururecovered · fatherjob
source lines 36117
fatherJobtelgraf memururecovered · father_job
source lines 36117
firstWorkH1321recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 36117
firstWorkG1903recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 36117
firstWorkPlacehudeyderecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 36117
firstWorkSalary500recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 36117
birthLatitude37.61487recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 36117
birthLongitude28.059404recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 36117
nameAhmet Şerif Efendiseptember · İsim
source lines 38279
birthH1309september · dobirth
source lines 38279
birthPlacecineseptember · birthplace
source lines 38279
birthProvinceaydinseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 38279
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 38279
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 38279
apprenticeshipYears4september · mulazemet
source lines 38279
apprenticeshipYears4september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 38279
qualification0september · qualification
source lines 38279
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 38279
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 38279
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 38279
fatherJobtelgraf memuruseptember · fatherjob
source lines 38279
firstWorkH1321september · firstjob_year
source lines 38279
firstWorkPlacehudeydeseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 38279
firstWorkSalary500september · firstjob_wage
source lines 38279
birthLatitude37.61487september · lat_birth_place
source lines 38279
birthLongitude28.059404september · lon_birth_place
source lines 38279
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 38279
language:ArabicKitabetseptember · lang_arabic
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic2september · lang_arabic2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 38279
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 38279
nameAhmet Şerif Efendiolder · İsim
source lines 7237
birthH1309older · dobirth
source lines 7237
birthPlacecineolder · birthplace
source lines 7237
birthProvinceaydinolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 7237
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 7237
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 7237
apprenticeshipYears4older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 7237
qualification0older · qualification
source lines 7237
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 7237
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 7237
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 7237
fatherJobtelgraf memuruolder · fatherjob
source lines 7237
firstWorkH1321older · firstjob_year
source lines 7237
firstWorkPlacehudeydeolder · firstjob_place
source lines 7237
firstWorkSalary500older · firstjob_wage
source lines 7237
birthLatitude37.61487older · lat_birth_place
source lines 7237
birthLongitude28.059404older · lon_birth_place
source lines 7237
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 7237
language:ArabicKitabetolder · lang_arabic
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic2older · lang_arabic2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 7237
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 7237

Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Ahmet Şerif Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 158-224-443. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-e54482c3e4933ccf/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 158-224-443
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-e54482c3e4933ccf/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.