Hi all,

Not only does the Digital Library of Wielkopolska include a digitized
version of the 1912 Galicia Telephone Directory, but it also includes a
plethora of other digitization projects -- such as the 1902 Lwow Directory,
which I found by searching around the catalog for items including the word
"Lwow." The catalog entry for the Lwow 1902 directory can be found at
<http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2457&;from=globalsearch&dirids=4>.
I can't give too many helpful hints, as I don't speak Polish or German,
the dual languages the directory is printed in. I've just been browsing by
page number - and can tell you that
* >from page 7 to 103 seems to be an alphabetical by last name directory
* >from page 103 to 151 is organized by type of business

I've already found entries for my KALISCH and ACHT families, and I hope that
others find some helpful information here as well.

Rebecca Fenning
Allston, Mass.

Several messages were recently posted by Alexander Sharon describing the
discovery of a 1912 Galician telephone directory on the website of the
Digital Library of Wielkopolska by GaliciaSIGger Grzegorz Gembala. Another
item in the Digital Library's collection that may be of interest to
GaliciaSIGgers is a 1901 business directory for Przemysl, located at:

http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2447&;dirids=4

I have not thoroughly examined this, but it seems to contain many clearly
Jewish names, and many references to other Galician towns. Perhaps, someone
with better knowledge of Polish can better describe its contents.

Best regards,

Logan Kleinwaks
kleinwaks@alumni.princeton.edu
near Washington, D.C.

Hi all,

Not only does the Digital Library of Wielkopolska include a digitized
version of the 1912 Galicia Telephone Directory, but it also includes a
plethora of other digitization projects -- such as the 1902 Lwow Directory,
which I found by searching around the catalog for items including the word
"Lwow." The catalog entry for the Lwow 1902 directory can be found at
<http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2457&;from=globalsearch&dirids=4>.
I can't give too many helpful hints, as I don't speak Polish or German,
the dual languages the directory is printed in. I've just been browsing by
page number - and can tell you that
* >from page 7 to 103 seems to be an alphabetical by last name directory
* >from page 103 to 151 is organized by type of business

I've already found entries for my KALISCH and ACHT families, and I hope that
others find some helpful information here as well.

Rebecca Fenning
Allston, Mass.

Several messages were recently posted by Alexander Sharon describing the
discovery of a 1912 Galician telephone directory on the website of the
Digital Library of Wielkopolska by GaliciaSIGger Grzegorz Gembala. Another
item in the Digital Library's collection that may be of interest to
GaliciaSIGgers is a 1901 business directory for Przemysl, located at:

http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2447&;dirids=4

I have not thoroughly examined this, but it seems to contain many clearly
Jewish names, and many references to other Galician towns. Perhaps, someone
with better knowledge of Polish can better describe its contents.

Best regards,

Logan Kleinwaks
kleinwaks@alumni.princeton.edu
near Washington, D.C.

Does anyone have a copy of Rabbi Wunder's Meorei Galicia. There are one
or two entries that I would like to have copies of!
Mordechai Fine
Researching: FINE, SOLOWITZ- Bialystok, HAMMER- Tarnopol,
BERGMAN-Skala, Mielnica, METTER, GULOWITZ-Rostov

Does anyone have a copy of Rabbi Wunder's Meorei Galicia. There are one
or two entries that I would like to have copies of!
Mordechai Fine
Researching: FINE, SOLOWITZ- Bialystok, HAMMER- Tarnopol,
BERGMAN-Skala, Mielnica, METTER, GULOWITZ-Rostov

"Logan J. Kleinwaks" wrote:

Several messages were recently posted by Alexander Sharon describing the
discovery of a 1912 Galician telephone directory on the website of the
Digital Library of Wielkopolska by GaliciaSIGger Grzegorz Gembala.
Another
item in the Digital Library's collection that may be of interest to
GaliciaSIGgers is a 1901 business directory for Przemysl, located at:

http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2447&;dirids=4

I have not thoroughly examined this, but it seems to contain many clearly
Jewish names, and many references to other Galician towns. Perhaps,
someone
with better knowledge of Polish can better describe its contents.

Wow!!
Another incredible finding!

May I add clarification, please. This is not town Przemysl directory but
1901 Directory for the entire industry of Galicia. Confusion arised >from the
identical spelling in English of town Przemysl and word Przemysl (written in
Polish with the 'broken' letter 'l') which translates as industry.

This directory was published by the Krakow Committee of the First Congress
of the Industrialists.

Page 5 provides Index for Directory content, it lists ten principal
industrial categories:

I. Constructions
II. Quarries
III. Pulp and Paper
IV Alcohol distillation
V Food
VI Forestry and woodworking
VII Printing
VIII Weaving
IX Mining, Oil & Gas, Crude Oil Refining
X Chemical
XI Steel mills
XII Machinery
XIII Leather
XIV Garment
XV Mineral and Soda Water
XVI Glass and Porcelain
XVII Gardening
----------------------------------
In the Directory pages listing follows the index but surnames of the
businessmen and names of the company are mixed together, tough in the
alphabetical order till page 54.

Another index describing in more details products is located on page 55 to
page 64 incl. It make references back to the industrial categories. Pages 64
till 130 (the last one) are occupied by the industrial adds which I have
enjoyed tremendously while reading.

Best,

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab

"Logan J. Kleinwaks" wrote:

Several messages were recently posted by Alexander Sharon describing the
discovery of a 1912 Galician telephone directory on the website of the
Digital Library of Wielkopolska by GaliciaSIGger Grzegorz Gembala.
Another
item in the Digital Library's collection that may be of interest to
GaliciaSIGgers is a 1901 business directory for Przemysl, located at:

http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2447&;dirids=4

I have not thoroughly examined this, but it seems to contain many clearly
Jewish names, and many references to other Galician towns. Perhaps,
someone
with better knowledge of Polish can better describe its contents.

Wow!!
Another incredible finding!

May I add clarification, please. This is not town Przemysl directory but
1901 Directory for the entire industry of Galicia. Confusion arised >from the
identical spelling in English of town Przemysl and word Przemysl (written in
Polish with the 'broken' letter 'l') which translates as industry.

This directory was published by the Krakow Committee of the First Congress
of the Industrialists.

Page 5 provides Index for Directory content, it lists ten principal
industrial categories:

I. Constructions
II. Quarries
III. Pulp and Paper
IV Alcohol distillation
V Food
VI Forestry and woodworking
VII Printing
VIII Weaving
IX Mining, Oil & Gas, Crude Oil Refining
X Chemical
XI Steel mills
XII Machinery
XIII Leather
XIV Garment
XV Mineral and Soda Water
XVI Glass and Porcelain
XVII Gardening
----------------------------------
In the Directory pages listing follows the index but surnames of the
businessmen and names of the company are mixed together, tough in the
alphabetical order till page 54.

Another index describing in more details products is located on page 55 to
page 64 incl. It make references back to the industrial categories. Pages 64
till 130 (the last one) are occupied by the industrial adds which I have
enjoyed tremendously while reading.

Best,

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab

Hi everyone,

A few of the family members I have found in the 1902 Lwow city directory
<http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2457&;from=globalsearch&dirids=4>
have occupations that I can't figure out, and I was hoping someone else
could!

My gg grandfather Pinkas KALISCH is listed as a "fakt. pien." I assume the
"fakt." is an abbreviation for faktor, but I don't know what the "pien."
stands for.
and
Two of my cousins ACHT are listed as fabrykant korkow i wl realn.

Thanks for any clarification you can give me on these occupation names.

Rebecca Fenning
Allston, Mass.

Hi everyone,

A few of the family members I have found in the 1902 Lwow city directory
<http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2457&;from=globalsearch&dirids=4>
have occupations that I can't figure out, and I was hoping someone else
could!

My gg grandfather Pinkas KALISCH is listed as a "fakt. pien." I assume the
"fakt." is an abbreviation for faktor, but I don't know what the "pien."
stands for.
and
Two of my cousins ACHT are listed as fabrykant korkow i wl realn.

Thanks for any clarification you can give me on these occupation names.

Rebecca Fenning
Allston, Mass.

"Rebecca Fenning wrote

Hi all,

Not only does the Digital Library of Wielkopolska include a digitized
version of the 1912 Galicia Telephone Directory, but it also includes a
plethora of other digitization projects -- such as the 1902 Lwow
Directory, which I found by searching around the catalog for items
including the word "Lwow." The catalog entry for the Lwow 1902 directory
can be found at
<http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2457&;from=globalsearch&dirids=4>.
I can't give too many helpful hints, as I don't speak Polish or German,
the dual languages the directory is printed in. I've just been browsing
by page number - and can tell you that
* >from page 7 to 103 seems to be an alphabetical by last name directory
* >from page 103 to 151 is organized by type of business

I've already found entries for my KALISCH and ACHT families, and I hope
that others find some helpful information here as well.

Rebecca Fenning
Allston, Mass.

Congratulations, Rebecca! What a finding! This is indeed an incredible
source.

Just to add to Rebecca'a posting a few words.


Part 1 includes in the alphabetical order surnames, first names, positions,
titles and street addresses of ALL city of Lwow residents (by this, book
means the principal residents of the household).

Part 2 is actually a 1902 town Business Directory. In the Index it lists
professions/occupation in the alphabetical order with corresponding page
#'s.

BTW. Directory says that Lwow had 169,870 residents and 10,326 military
personnel at the publication time.


Thanks again, Rebecca.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab

"Rebecca Fenning wrote

Hi all,

Not only does the Digital Library of Wielkopolska include a digitized
version of the 1912 Galicia Telephone Directory, but it also includes a
plethora of other digitization projects -- such as the 1902 Lwow
Directory, which I found by searching around the catalog for items
including the word "Lwow." The catalog entry for the Lwow 1902 directory
can be found at
<http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2457&;from=globalsearch&dirids=4>.
I can't give too many helpful hints, as I don't speak Polish or German,
the dual languages the directory is printed in. I've just been browsing
by page number - and can tell you that
* >from page 7 to 103 seems to be an alphabetical by last name directory
* >from page 103 to 151 is organized by type of business

I've already found entries for my KALISCH and ACHT families, and I hope
that others find some helpful information here as well.

Rebecca Fenning
Allston, Mass.

Congratulations, Rebecca! What a finding! This is indeed an incredible
source.

Just to add to Rebecca'a posting a few words.


Part 1 includes in the alphabetical order surnames, first names, positions,
titles and street addresses of ALL city of Lwow residents (by this, book
means the principal residents of the household).

Part 2 is actually a 1902 town Business Directory. In the Index it lists
professions/occupation in the alphabetical order with corresponding page
#'s.

BTW. Directory says that Lwow had 169,870 residents and 10,326 military
personnel at the publication time.


Thanks again, Rebecca.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab

Shalom :
I would appreciate it if anyone would provide me with information about
the proposed education centre and museum at the present Treblinka Memorial .
Please include the name of the person(s) in charge along with any pertinent
email addresses .
Thank you .
Regards . Viktor Lewin .

Shalom :
I would appreciate it if anyone would provide me with information about
the proposed education centre and museum at the present Treblinka Memorial .
Please include the name of the person(s) in charge along with any pertinent
email addresses .
Thank you .
Regards . Viktor Lewin .

Searching for Bradley Milton AIKEN, >from Baltimore. There is an article
refers to Milton ROTHMAN, please contact me.

Barb Moskowitz
Bmosk@cox.net

Searching for Bradley Milton AIKEN, >from Baltimore. There is an article
refers to Milton ROTHMAN, please contact me.

Barb Moskowitz
Bmosk@cox.net

These are clearly English speakers applying English grammatical structures
to a foreign word. This happens all the time in all languages and is one of
the ways foreign words ultimately become non-foreign words. It happens all
the more readily when it is a word like "landsman" which "looks like" an
English word.

--
Peter Zavon
Penfield, NY

"Ida & Joseph Schwarcz" <idayosef@013.net> wrote in message
news:MABBIOPGCNMGJEJNPOFLCECAGHAA.idayosef@013.net.il...

These are clearly English speakers applying English grammatical structures
to a foreign word. This happens all the time in all languages and is one of
the ways foreign words ultimately become non-foreign words. It happens all
the more readily when it is a word like "landsman" which "looks like" an
English word.

--
Peter Zavon
Penfield, NY

"Ida & Joseph Schwarcz" <idayosef@013.net> wrote in message
news:MABBIOPGCNMGJEJNPOFLCECAGHAA.idayosef@013.net.il...

Top O' The Mornin' to You!

Today, on St. Patrick's Day, Boston College is placing online a
database that will you help you track down Irish immigrant ancestors.
The database covers 90 years of ''Missing Friends'' classified ads
placed in Boston's Roman Catholic newspaper "The Pilot" between 1831 to
1921. Families were separated during the great Irish migration.
Husbands preceded wives, siblings were separated, mothers followed
after children. By the time the rest of the family arrived in Boston,
earlier arriving Irish immigrants had moved on to follow jobs working
on the railroads or the canals, their whereabouts unknown.

Tens of thousands of ads were placed; it's estimated 75% led to
successful reunions. The database is an electronic version of the
eight-volume publication ''The Search for Missing Friends: Irish
Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot,'' which Boston
College Professor Ruth-Ann M. Harris researched and edited for the New
England Historic Genealogical Society.

The website -- ''Information Wanted'' can be found at:

http://infowanted.bc.edu/

Anticipating a deluge of hits - especially in the Irish Mecca of Boston
- the university's information and technology department has put
resources in place to handle the volume of inquiries


'Patti O'Weinthal'
Boston, MA

Top O' The Mornin' to You!

Today, on St. Patrick's Day, Boston College is placing online a
database that will you help you track down Irish immigrant ancestors.
The database covers 90 years of ''Missing Friends'' classified ads
placed in Boston's Roman Catholic newspaper "The Pilot" between 1831 to
1921. Families were separated during the great Irish migration.
Husbands preceded wives, siblings were separated, mothers followed
after children. By the time the rest of the family arrived in Boston,
earlier arriving Irish immigrants had moved on to follow jobs working
on the railroads or the canals, their whereabouts unknown.

Tens of thousands of ads were placed; it's estimated 75% led to
successful reunions. The database is an electronic version of the
eight-volume publication ''The Search for Missing Friends: Irish
Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot,'' which Boston
College Professor Ruth-Ann M. Harris researched and edited for the New
England Historic Genealogical Society.

The website -- ''Information Wanted'' can be found at:

http://infowanted.bc.edu/

Anticipating a deluge of hits - especially in the Irish Mecca of Boston
- the university's information and technology department has put
resources in place to handle the volume of inquiries


'Patti O'Weinthal'
Boston, MA