Could a kind soul out there please point me in the right direction for
finding out the boundaries for the different Kreis in Silesia in hte 19th
century? I can find the main cities, but need to pinpoint some obscure
villages. Some of them, like Langendorf, have their names in common with
others, others like Laurahuette and Kammim do not turn up on the
shtetlseeker.
TIA
Erik Hirschfeld, Malmo, Sweden

Researching: BLOCK (Raciborz), BOSS (Zuelz, Breslau), DAUW, DEICHES,
FEITELBERG, HIRSCHFELD (Galicia and Silesia), KORITZINSKY, KORNGOLD,
OLSHANSKY , OLSHANER, RIESENFELD. Looking for relatives of: female EHRLICH
b. c. 1900, Breslau and BETTY ASCHLAWSKY, housekeeper Breslau.

Could a kind soul out there please point me in the right direction for
finding out the boundaries for the different Kreis in Silesia in hte 19th
century? I can find the main cities, but need to pinpoint some obscure
villages. Some of them, like Langendorf, have their names in common with
others, others like Laurahuette and Kammim do not turn up on the
shtetlseeker.
TIA
Erik Hirschfeld, Malmo, Sweden

Researching: BLOCK (Raciborz), BOSS (Zuelz, Breslau), DAUW, DEICHES,
FEITELBERG, HIRSCHFELD (Galicia and Silesia), KORITZINSKY, KORNGOLD,
OLSHANSKY , OLSHANER, RIESENFELD. Looking for relatives of: female EHRLICH
b. c. 1900, Breslau and BETTY ASCHLAWSKY, housekeeper Breslau.

Are there many people interested in Bykhov out there?

Are any of you going to the August Seminar in NYC ?

Maybe we can all meet at a Birds Of a Feather Meeting, i.e. if there are
enough of us?

How do we set up such a meeting? Perhaps we can include towns,shtetls near
Bykhov.

Judith KOENIG FOX
West Bloomfield, Michigan
juditomfox@aol.com
5-20-99
Researching: GLICKLIN, KARASIK, WILENSKY,BYEFSKY,BAEVSKY, BOESKY, PLOTKIN,
KOENIGSBERG, MOSKOVITZ, GOLD, GOLDBERG, SHNEIRSON, AXELROD, KAVALIER,
GARELIK, FOX, FISHER, HALASZ, DUB, LEBOVITZ, etc.,etc. etc.

Are there many people interested in Bykhov out there?

Are any of you going to the August Seminar in NYC ?

Maybe we can all meet at a Birds Of a Feather Meeting, i.e. if there are
enough of us?

How do we set up such a meeting? Perhaps we can include towns,shtetls near
Bykhov.

Judith KOENIG FOX
West Bloomfield, Michigan
juditomfox@aol.com
5-20-99
Researching: GLICKLIN, KARASIK, WILENSKY,BYEFSKY,BAEVSKY, BOESKY, PLOTKIN,
KOENIGSBERG, MOSKOVITZ, GOLD, GOLDBERG, SHNEIRSON, AXELROD, KAVALIER,
GARELIK, FOX, FISHER, HALASZ, DUB, LEBOVITZ, etc.,etc. etc.

Thanks Ellen.

My ancestor was Avrohom Dovid Kaplan, whose son Eli Eliezer Kaplan married
Rosa Fine. Their children, who all came to Glasgow, Scotland in the late
19th Century, were:

Levi, Jeannie Rebecca, Isaac and Michael Kaplan.

best wishes

Harvey Kaplan

Thanks Ellen.

My ancestor was Avrohom Dovid Kaplan, whose son Eli Eliezer Kaplan married
Rosa Fine. Their children, who all came to Glasgow, Scotland in the late
19th Century, were:

Levi, Jeannie Rebecca, Isaac and Michael Kaplan.

best wishes

Harvey Kaplan

Re Harvey Kaplan's kind response to my question:

Thanks for your message. Yes, it's quite possible that your relatives
lived in a different, nearby community. I think my family came >from KEIDAN
or RASAINIAI, I'm not sure which one. I am searching for Michelevitch, but
my grandmother's family of origin was KAPLAN. Her father was Shimon
KAPLAN. Her brothers were Mordechai and Ephraim; there was also a sister,
Rivka. Mordecai's branch proliferated and they now live in Israel and the
USA. I know many of them. Ephraim left no children. Rivka came to the US
in the 1870s or 80s; there are some distant consins but I don't know them.
As far as I know, we don't have any relatives in the UK. KAPLAN was a
common name so I doubt if we are related. If any of these names are
familiar to you, do let me know!
One of my cousins went to Vilna in 1994 and visited the Archives there.
He was able to obtain a copy of my grandmother's birth certificate. It's
quite amazing to see this document, written in Lithuanian, translated into
English. It says:

"ELKA, the daughter of SIMEON MORDHILEVITCH KAPLAN, a watchman from
Rasainiai and HAJA ELIJASHEVNA, was born on December 30, 1845. She was
registered in Raseiniai Jewish community on 31 December, 1845."

The name of the person at the Archives in Vilna who sent this document is
Virginija Cijunskiene. Since this search was done 5 years ago, I don't
know if she's still there.
Good wishes,
Ellen Sucov in Pittsburgh

Re Harvey Kaplan's kind response to my question:

Thanks for your message. Yes, it's quite possible that your relatives
lived in a different, nearby community. I think my family came >from KEIDAN
or RASAINIAI, I'm not sure which one. I am searching for Michelevitch, but
my grandmother's family of origin was KAPLAN. Her father was Shimon
KAPLAN. Her brothers were Mordechai and Ephraim; there was also a sister,
Rivka. Mordecai's branch proliferated and they now live in Israel and the
USA. I know many of them. Ephraim left no children. Rivka came to the US
in the 1870s or 80s; there are some distant consins but I don't know them.
As far as I know, we don't have any relatives in the UK. KAPLAN was a
common name so I doubt if we are related. If any of these names are
familiar to you, do let me know!
One of my cousins went to Vilna in 1994 and visited the Archives there.
He was able to obtain a copy of my grandmother's birth certificate. It's
quite amazing to see this document, written in Lithuanian, translated into
English. It says:

"ELKA, the daughter of SIMEON MORDHILEVITCH KAPLAN, a watchman from
Rasainiai and HAJA ELIJASHEVNA, was born on December 30, 1845. She was
registered in Raseiniai Jewish community on 31 December, 1845."

The name of the person at the Archives in Vilna who sent this document is
Virginija Cijunskiene. Since this search was done 5 years ago, I don't
know if she's still there.
Good wishes,
Ellen Sucov in Pittsburgh

Try Tomek Wisniewski--EMail address is
tomek.wisniewski@telbank.pl
Annette Robinson Lackman, Arlington, Texas

Try Tomek Wisniewski--EMail address is
tomek.wisniewski@telbank.pl
Annette Robinson Lackman, Arlington, Texas

In the years 1925 and 1926 two brothers by the name of Yechezkal Shraga
Wieder and Shlomo Wieder walked the Munkacs (now Mukachevo) Jewish cemetery
and recorded the names and other identifying information found on the
Matzevot (tombstones) there. The information was initially listed in
sequential order by section, row and plot. Later, alphabetical listings for
men and for women were also prepared. Whether this enterprise was done
because the original Pinkas (registry) was no longer available or because it
was needed as a finding aid for locating the plots of those buried there is
not known. About forty five years after the Wieder brothers completed their
work, a government order was issued to remove all the tombstones >from this
Jewish cemetery, and the cemetery grounds were to be appropriated for
expansion of an adjacent factory. Information about the government's plan
was leaked out and after protests by the U.S. government and Jewish
organizations the destruction of the cemetery was halted. Too late for the
Matzevot which were moved to some unknown location and probably crushed into
pebbles to feed the cement mixers. Today, the land of the former Jewish
cemetery is a fallow field under which the unmarked gravesites house the
remains of thousands of our ancestors; no longer visited, isolated and
abandoned.

A new Jewish cemetery was allocated to the community and today one can find
several hundred tombstones of Jews who died during the past 25 years plus
about thirty older tombstones for those whose remains were removed earlier

from the old cemetery and were reinterred in the new location. Around the

time that these events were occurring a copy of the Wieder List was smuggled out to the Chassidic Munkacs community in Brooklyn, New York. There the information remained, known only to a few individuals until the publication of the booklet ">from Munkacs to the City of Munkacs" which was distributed last summer to attendees of the pilgrimage to Munkacs commemorating the sixty first Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira (d.1937), otherwise known as the Minchas Elazar, the most renowned of the Rebbes of Munkacs.

The Wieder list was printed in the booklet as an appendix; showing the names first by location followed by the second list which is alphabetical (in Hebrew). The entire booklet was printed in Hebrew. A dedicated team of
Hebrew knowledgeable volunteers >from H-sig took upon themselves the task of
making the burial lists available to the English reading public. For the
successful completion of this database (found on the h-sig website)we are
all indebted to the team of Ari Rosenberg, Lynn Saul, Fern Smiley, Mindy
Soclof, Erica Wiesel as well as to Marc Polster, our webmaster, who worked
through the different formats and made the list into an easy to use
genealogy reference.

There are over 1,500 names in this database which is now available,
partially edited, on our web page; more editing is required. I am
continueing the laborious process of editing and proof reading the material
and I hope to give Marc the revised database no later that the end of July.
The editing process involves not only checking for possible omissions or
errors but also deciding on an acceptable spelling of the transcribed names, as well as checking for consistency in spelling of given and family names. For example the name in Hebrew of Henig is pronounced Honig and usually written as Hoenig in America. Another example is the name Kroiz or Krausz as the Hebrew letters lead us to pronounce, however, the name and spelling most commonly used in English is Kraus or Krauss. Transliterating the name Veiser into common English usage would be Weiser. There are also errors in the original Wieder list. In some cases the tombstones were already difficult to read at that time and some of the words and names had to be surmised, or perhaps the handwriting of the Wieders was not clear to the editors of the booklet. As an example of such an error, I found the name Shlomo Yosef
Wartendeim as it is written there in Hebrew. It so happens that my great
aunt's husband who lived in Svalyave (a town about 20 Kilometers north of
Munkacs) was buried in the Munkacs cemetery. His name was Shlomo Yosef
Wachtenheim. How the name came to be written in the booklet as Wartendeim is
not important. However, it tells me that other errors such as this one can
be found as well. I expect that the information will be refined and become
more accurate and complete over time as people submit new information or
provide corrections to the exiting database. At least, that is my hope.

Another possibility presents itself. Not all the burials >from this cemetery
made it on to the list. There are a number of reasons for this. Of course,
burials >from 1926 through May, 1944, and >from 1945 through 1970 are not
found in this list since the names are only taken >from the Wieder list which
was completed in 1926. Also, missing, broken or illegible tombstones at the
time the list was prepared could not be included. In addition, we don't know
the method that the Wieders used to do their work, or if someone at that
time checked the data for completeness or accuracy. Finally, the burials for
the last thirty years in the new Jewish cemetery are not included.
Hopefully, this initial effort will bring forth submissions of other names,
as well as corrections of errors that found there way into the list by
omission or commission. Individuals should submit corrections and additional
information to me at Lmagyar@en.com When submitting additional data please
include the source for your information such as a photo of the tombstone, a
death certificate or other documentation. Other details such as the date of
death written on the tombstone is also welcome. For further information
about the Mukachevo cemetery see my article in Avotaynu: "A report on
selected Hungarian Jewish cemeteries" in VIII/3/37.

from the EJ, page 513-514 entry on Mukachevo: " In 1741 a Jewish community

of 80 families was organized and a synagogue established; their numbers had
doubled by 1815 (165), reached 202 in 1830, and 301 by 1842. In the 1848-49
Hungarian revolt against the Austrians, 247 Jews joined the local guard.

from 1851, when there was already a large yeshiva in Mukachevo, the

community maintained regular records of births, deaths and marriages. A
Hebrew press was founded in 1871 and many Hebrew books were published there.
...In 1891 the community numbered 5,049 (47.9% of the total population)..
The Jewish population continued to grow and numbered 7,675 in 1910 (44%;
10,012 in 1921 (48%); and 11,241 (43%)in 1930 of whom 88% registered their
nationality as Jewish. ...Between 1,000 and 2,000 Jews were lived in
Mukachevo in the late 1960s." Nearly the entire community immigrated in the
early 1970s, mostly to Israel, but a large number to the United States as
well, mostly to Brooklyn, New York. Today, there remains barely 300 Jews,
nearly all of whom are in there 70s or 80s. Almost equally divided by thirds
are native born Jews, those who moved >from smaller surrounding villages, and
Russian Jews who were sent along with Russian non-Jews in the 1950s and
1960s by the former Soviet government to dilute the Hungarian ethnic
concentration in the Carpathian region.

Nota Bene: The original unedited version (say version 1) of the database is
currently on the data page of our web site. Within a few days Marc will put
up the first revised edition (version 2) which is the same database but includes corrections I made of the most egregious items. So if you have seen version 1 of the Munkacs burial database check again in a few days for the first update (version 2). When I complete my review process which will take a number of weeks I will post a notice to that effect and refer to it as version 3. As additional names and information are presented by others the database will be updated and enhanced.



Louis Schonfeld
Lmagyar@en.com


visit our website- http://www.jewishgen.org/Hungary

In the years 1925 and 1926 two brothers by the name of Yechezkal Shraga
Wieder and Shlomo Wieder walked the Munkacs (now Mukachevo) Jewish cemetery
and recorded the names and other identifying information found on the
Matzevot (tombstones) there. The information was initially listed in
sequential order by section, row and plot. Later, alphabetical listings for
men and for women were also prepared. Whether this enterprise was done
because the original Pinkas (registry) was no longer available or because it
was needed as a finding aid for locating the plots of those buried there is
not known. About forty five years after the Wieder brothers completed their
work, a government order was issued to remove all the tombstones >from this
Jewish cemetery, and the cemetery grounds were to be appropriated for
expansion of an adjacent factory. Information about the government's plan
was leaked out and after protests by the U.S. government and Jewish
organizations the destruction of the cemetery was halted. Too late for the
Matzevot which were moved to some unknown location and probably crushed into
pebbles to feed the cement mixers. Today, the land of the former Jewish
cemetery is a fallow field under which the unmarked gravesites house the
remains of thousands of our ancestors; no longer visited, isolated and
abandoned.

A new Jewish cemetery was allocated to the community and today one can find
several hundred tombstones of Jews who died during the past 25 years plus
about thirty older tombstones for those whose remains were removed earlier

from the old cemetery and were reinterred in the new location. Around the

time that these events were occurring a copy of the Wieder List was smuggled out to the Chassidic Munkacs community in Brooklyn, New York. There the information remained, known only to a few individuals until the publication of the booklet ">from Munkacs to the City of Munkacs" which was distributed last summer to attendees of the pilgrimage to Munkacs commemorating the sixty first Yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira (d.1937), otherwise known as the Minchas Elazar, the most renowned of the Rebbes of Munkacs.

The Wieder list was printed in the booklet as an appendix; showing the names first by location followed by the second list which is alphabetical (in Hebrew). The entire booklet was printed in Hebrew. A dedicated team of
Hebrew knowledgeable volunteers >from H-sig took upon themselves the task of
making the burial lists available to the English reading public. For the
successful completion of this database (found on the h-sig website)we are
all indebted to the team of Ari Rosenberg, Lynn Saul, Fern Smiley, Mindy
Soclof, Erica Wiesel as well as to Marc Polster, our webmaster, who worked
through the different formats and made the list into an easy to use
genealogy reference.

There are over 1,500 names in this database which is now available,
partially edited, on our web page; more editing is required. I am
continueing the laborious process of editing and proof reading the material
and I hope to give Marc the revised database no later that the end of July.
The editing process involves not only checking for possible omissions or
errors but also deciding on an acceptable spelling of the transcribed names, as well as checking for consistency in spelling of given and family names. For example the name in Hebrew of Henig is pronounced Honig and usually written as Hoenig in America. Another example is the name Kroiz or Krausz as the Hebrew letters lead us to pronounce, however, the name and spelling most commonly used in English is Kraus or Krauss. Transliterating the name Veiser into common English usage would be Weiser. There are also errors in the original Wieder list. In some cases the tombstones were already difficult to read at that time and some of the words and names had to be surmised, or perhaps the handwriting of the Wieders was not clear to the editors of the booklet. As an example of such an error, I found the name Shlomo Yosef
Wartendeim as it is written there in Hebrew. It so happens that my great
aunt's husband who lived in Svalyave (a town about 20 Kilometers north of
Munkacs) was buried in the Munkacs cemetery. His name was Shlomo Yosef
Wachtenheim. How the name came to be written in the booklet as Wartendeim is
not important. However, it tells me that other errors such as this one can
be found as well. I expect that the information will be refined and become
more accurate and complete over time as people submit new information or
provide corrections to the exiting database. At least, that is my hope.

Another possibility presents itself. Not all the burials >from this cemetery
made it on to the list. There are a number of reasons for this. Of course,
burials >from 1926 through May, 1944, and >from 1945 through 1970 are not
found in this list since the names are only taken >from the Wieder list which
was completed in 1926. Also, missing, broken or illegible tombstones at the
time the list was prepared could not be included. In addition, we don't know
the method that the Wieders used to do their work, or if someone at that
time checked the data for completeness or accuracy. Finally, the burials for
the last thirty years in the new Jewish cemetery are not included.
Hopefully, this initial effort will bring forth submissions of other names,
as well as corrections of errors that found there way into the list by
omission or commission. Individuals should submit corrections and additional
information to me at Lmagyar@en.com When submitting additional data please
include the source for your information such as a photo of the tombstone, a
death certificate or other documentation. Other details such as the date of
death written on the tombstone is also welcome. For further information
about the Mukachevo cemetery see my article in Avotaynu: "A report on
selected Hungarian Jewish cemeteries" in VIII/3/37.

from the EJ, page 513-514 entry on Mukachevo: " In 1741 a Jewish community

of 80 families was organized and a synagogue established; their numbers had
doubled by 1815 (165), reached 202 in 1830, and 301 by 1842. In the 1848-49
Hungarian revolt against the Austrians, 247 Jews joined the local guard.

from 1851, when there was already a large yeshiva in Mukachevo, the

community maintained regular records of births, deaths and marriages. A
Hebrew press was founded in 1871 and many Hebrew books were published there.
...In 1891 the community numbered 5,049 (47.9% of the total population)..
The Jewish population continued to grow and numbered 7,675 in 1910 (44%;
10,012 in 1921 (48%); and 11,241 (43%)in 1930 of whom 88% registered their
nationality as Jewish. ...Between 1,000 and 2,000 Jews were lived in
Mukachevo in the late 1960s." Nearly the entire community immigrated in the
early 1970s, mostly to Israel, but a large number to the United States as
well, mostly to Brooklyn, New York. Today, there remains barely 300 Jews,
nearly all of whom are in there 70s or 80s. Almost equally divided by thirds
are native born Jews, those who moved >from smaller surrounding villages, and
Russian Jews who were sent along with Russian non-Jews in the 1950s and
1960s by the former Soviet government to dilute the Hungarian ethnic
concentration in the Carpathian region.

Nota Bene: The original unedited version (say version 1) of the database is
currently on the data page of our web site. Within a few days Marc will put
up the first revised edition (version 2) which is the same database but includes corrections I made of the most egregious items. So if you have seen version 1 of the Munkacs burial database check again in a few days for the first update (version 2). When I complete my review process which will take a number of weeks I will post a notice to that effect and refer to it as version 3. As additional names and information are presented by others the database will be updated and enhanced.



Louis Schonfeld
Lmagyar@en.com


visit our website- http://www.jewishgen.org/Hungary

Need your help:
Does anyone have a name and possible address to where I can obtain photos of
the town of Izbica, Poland? I understand there is a man in Poland that has
access to old postcards etc. >from various areas. Does anyone know his name
and how to get in touch with him?
Thank you,
Debbi Haeberle

A few weeks ago, I sent out a message about this book:

"Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce"

I am now the proud (but temporary) possessor of 6000 pages of
surnames listings >from Poland. "Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w
Polsce" is a ten-volume set of books. (See details below.) It has
a six-page introduction (in Polish) which I can not read. Under
"my" listing (surname: Talman), I see:

Talman 24, Wa:10, Gd:1, Ld:1, Op:1, Su:6, Wr:5
(A map indicates that Wa = Warszawaskie, Gd = Gdanskie, etc.)

Does anyone have any idea what these volumes are all about?

I will have these only until 5 June 1999.

I will not do lookups until I find out what these volumes are
all about.


ACCESSION: 29878516
AUTHOR:
Rymut, Kazimierz.
TITLE: Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce
uzywanych
PLACE: Krakow :
PUBLISHER: Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Jezyka
Polskiego,
YEAR: 1992 1994
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: 10 v. : map ; 24 cm.
NOTES: Errata slip inserted in v. 1.
ISBN: 8385579257 (set) 8385579303 (t. 1)
8385579656 (t. 2) 8385579958 (t. 3) 8385579168 (t. 4)
8385579265 (t. 5)
SUBJECT:
Names, Personal -- Poland -- Dictionaries.
OTHER: Instytut Jezyka Polskiego (Polska Akademia
Nauk)


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AUTHOR:
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TITLE: Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce
uzywanych
PLACE: Krakow :
PUBLISHER: Instytut Jezyka Polskiego,
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PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: v. ; 24 cm.
NOTES: At head of title: Polska Akademia Nauk.
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On p. facing t.p.: Opracowano na podstawie materialow
Rzadowego Centrum Informacyjnego PESEL.
Errata slip inserted.
t. 1. A-B.
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SUBJECT:
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Daniel Kazez / Professor of Music / Wittenberg University / Ohio
kazez@wittenberg.edu / Researching: (Ashkenazic) OBERMAN, TALMAN,
ENGLANDER, LISS, KEIFER. (Sephardic) KAZEZ, ALHADEFF, FRESKO.
http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/dkazez/WebPage.html

Need your help:
Does anyone have a name and possible address to where I can obtain photos of
the town of Izbica, Poland? I understand there is a man in Poland that has
access to old postcards etc. >from various areas. Does anyone know his name
and how to get in touch with him?
Thank you,
Debbi Haeberle

A few weeks ago, I sent out a message about this book:

"Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce"

I am now the proud (but temporary) possessor of 6000 pages of
surnames listings >from Poland. "Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w
Polsce" is a ten-volume set of books. (See details below.) It has
a six-page introduction (in Polish) which I can not read. Under
"my" listing (surname: Talman), I see:

Talman 24, Wa:10, Gd:1, Ld:1, Op:1, Su:6, Wr:5
(A map indicates that Wa = Warszawaskie, Gd = Gdanskie, etc.)

Does anyone have any idea what these volumes are all about?

I will have these only until 5 June 1999.

I will not do lookups until I find out what these volumes are
all about.


ACCESSION: 29878516
AUTHOR:
Rymut, Kazimierz.
TITLE: Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce
uzywanych
PLACE: Krakow :
PUBLISHER: Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Jezyka
Polskiego,
YEAR: 1992 1994
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: 10 v. : map ; 24 cm.
NOTES: Errata slip inserted in v. 1.
ISBN: 8385579257 (set) 8385579303 (t. 1)
8385579656 (t. 2) 8385579958 (t. 3) 8385579168 (t. 4)
8385579265 (t. 5)
SUBJECT:
Names, Personal -- Poland -- Dictionaries.
OTHER: Instytut Jezyka Polskiego (Polska Akademia
Nauk)


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DATABASE: WorldCat

ACCESSION: 29776124
AUTHOR:
Rymut, Kazimierz.
TITLE: Slownik nazwisk wspolczesnie w Polsce
uzywanych
PLACE: Krakow :
PUBLISHER: Instytut Jezyka Polskiego,
YEAR: 1992 9999
PUB TYPE: Book
FORMAT: v. ; 24 cm.
NOTES: At head of title: Polska Akademia Nauk.
Instytut Jezyka Polskiego.
On p. facing t.p.: Opracowano na podstawie materialow
Rzadowego Centrum Informacyjnego PESEL.
Errata slip inserted.
t. 1. A-B.
ISBN: 8385579257 (calosc) 8385579303 (t. 1)
SUBJECT:
Names, Personal -- Polish.
OTHER: Rzadowe Centrum Informacyjne
PESEL.

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Daniel Kazez / Professor of Music / Wittenberg University / Ohio
kazez@wittenberg.edu / Researching: (Ashkenazic) OBERMAN, TALMAN,
ENGLANDER, LISS, KEIFER. (Sephardic) KAZEZ, ALHADEFF, FRESKO.
http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/dkazez/WebPage.html

Go to this URL:
http://feefhs.org/mf/sk/sk-jew1.html

This is an excellent site posted in 1996 listing Jewish microfilmed LDS
records of former Hungarian towns now in Slovakia. Notice the alternate
names and variant spellings of the towns.

Eleanor Bien
Fairfax, VA

Go to this URL:
http://feefhs.org/mf/sk/sk-jew1.html

This is an excellent site posted in 1996 listing Jewish microfilmed LDS
records of former Hungarian towns now in Slovakia. Notice the alternate
names and variant spellings of the towns.

Eleanor Bien
Fairfax, VA

A Gesher Galicia member wrote:

wondering if you know if Rzeszow had an alternate spelling of
Kreszow (as I found it on my grandfather's manifest)?

This is another town: KrZeszow (Rzeszow with a K in front).
According to Where Once We Walked (WOWW):
Yiddish or old spelling: Kreshiv; Kreshov. 69 Km NW of Przemysl
50- 24 / 22 21. Had a Jewish population of 281 in the 1930s.

(There is also a town of Brzeszow. Probably both pronounced with almost
no sound to the first letter. You almost just mouth the K & then say
zhe-shof. Very confusing!)

If you are going to shift your search to Krzeszow, Check to see if there are
others researching that town. Go to the JewishGen Family Finder. Click
SEARCH. Type only Krzeszow & click Poland. If there are others
who list families >from that town. Contact all of them and ask if they have
lists of names >from the towns. Ask if they will look up your familiy names.
Ask if they know of anyone living who was born there, and how they
know them. Ask them how they are researching & whether they have
obtained any records. Since there are towns with similar spellings,
ask them which larger town it is near. Enter your names in the FF for
that town.

Look on the JewishGen database called ShtetlSeeker. It will find
most towns and give you coordinates. Also, once you have the
coordinates, you can enter those, and then search for another towwn
and it will tell you how far apart they are.

Also, you can post a message on the Galicia discussion group asking other
Krzeszow researchers to contact you:

<galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org>

Marian Rubin
Coordinator, Rzeszow Research Group
San Francisco, CA
<merubin@aol.com>

A Gesher Galicia member wrote:

wondering if you know if Rzeszow had an alternate spelling of
Kreszow (as I found it on my grandfather's manifest)?

This is another town: KrZeszow (Rzeszow with a K in front).
According to Where Once We Walked (WOWW):
Yiddish or old spelling: Kreshiv; Kreshov. 69 Km NW of Przemysl
50- 24 / 22 21. Had a Jewish population of 281 in the 1930s.

(There is also a town of Brzeszow. Probably both pronounced with almost
no sound to the first letter. You almost just mouth the K & then say
zhe-shof. Very confusing!)

If you are going to shift your search to Krzeszow, Check to see if there are
others researching that town. Go to the JewishGen Family Finder. Click
SEARCH. Type only Krzeszow & click Poland. If there are others
who list families >from that town. Contact all of them and ask if they have
lists of names >from the towns. Ask if they will look up your familiy names.
Ask if they know of anyone living who was born there, and how they
know them. Ask them how they are researching & whether they have
obtained any records. Since there are towns with similar spellings,
ask them which larger town it is near. Enter your names in the FF for
that town.

Look on the JewishGen database called ShtetlSeeker. It will find
most towns and give you coordinates. Also, once you have the
coordinates, you can enter those, and then search for another towwn
and it will tell you how far apart they are.

Also, you can post a message on the Galicia discussion group asking other
Krzeszow researchers to contact you:

<galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org>

Marian Rubin
Coordinator, Rzeszow Research Group
San Francisco, CA
<merubin@aol.com>