Nancy, Towns are Sveksna and Zemaiciu Naumiestis, both located within Silute region of Kaunas (Kovno). Zemaiciu Namiestis was known as Neustadt or Nowe miasto In Yidish and Polish. Alexander Sharon

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Yerucham, Wola Golego name was changed In 1928 to Wola Baranowska. in year 1900, village had 1,138 Roman Catholic residents plus 18 Jewish souls. No Jewish residents are listed in 1921 census. Alex Sh

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Hi, There are actually six locations in Poland known as Przeclaw (“broken” Polish „l”), with four locations originally from Germany, renamed to Przeclaw in 1945. Those are ex: Prinzenau (Szamotuly reg

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Name of town Lumsden doesn’t sound at all as name of town Lomza in Poland. Lumsden is located in Canadian Province of Saskatchewan, a habitational name that have origimated from a place in the parish

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Hi Hap, 1. Glowny Urzad Statystyczny (Statistics Poland) Skorowidz miejscowosci Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej tom XIII, Wojewodztwo Lwowskie, page 568 publisher: GUS, Warszawy 1924 2. Gemeindelexikon v.XI

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Ozimina general population in 1921 was 770: 46 Roman Catholics, 712 Greek Catholics and 12 Jews. In 1900 general population of Ozimina was 735: this Included 41RC, 679 GC, 9 Jews and 6 others. Alex Sh

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Renee is correct. Zalubincze village was incorporated as Nowy Sacz suburb at the beginning of 20th century. Demographic data of Zalubincze circa 1900 shows1,634 Roman Catholics and 1,601 Jewish reside

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Oooops, There are appears to be a mistake in year 1900 Jewish population. It should read 1,060. Alexander Sharon

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Tracy, Town was known in prewar Poland as Witków Nowy (New Witkow). Nearby Stary (Old) Witkow smaller village was also located. In 1900 town's Jewish population was 1,60 souls (out of general populati

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The personnel policy that was conducted in the Poland's interwar Army, was severely criticized by representatives of the Jewish minority. Soldiers of Jewish origin were treated as second-class soldier

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Full Polish translation: "Here lies the body of Cipa Goldwasser z'l, nee Stokband. Passed away on September 2,1911, She was 54 years old" Additional sources confirm that Tsipa (Hebrew name of Cipa), d

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Best available on line Austro-Hungarian map known as 3rd Military Mapping Survey at Category:3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary - Wikimedia Commons Scroll down to see miniature images of 2

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Just to supplement Wlodek Matuszewski posting on Wisztyniec, the following data is extracted from the Kingdom of Poland Geographical Dictionary (Słownik Geograficzny Królewstwa Polskiego) and few othe

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Ustilug was located in Wolynia region of the Russian Empire Alexander Sharon

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JGFF system was constantly updated and hundreds of new, smaller places were added for the last 20+ years on the researchers request. Billshivtsi (ex Bolszowce) are listed by 53 researchers for 94 surn

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This appear to be the town known in Polish as Chorostków, currently identified as Khorostkiv in Ukrainian. There are 94 entries posted by 53 researchers for Khorostkiv in JGFF database. There are actu

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Lescz is common "fishy" , family surname in Polish Jewish and Christian families. Leszcz translates as bream or Abramis brama type of fish into English. Please note that jri-p database lists 268 (exac

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Gideon, Town name is Kivertsi (Ukrainian), during the interwar period it was known in Polish as Kiwerce. Town was located within the community Poddębce in Luck (Łuck) administration region. Poland 192

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Oooops! Village name that I have replied in the previous post should read: Szymaki, not Szymki Alexander Sharon

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Bob,, Szymki (Polesie) on the Belarus border was identified as a village within the Zubrzyca gmina (community), Sokółka powiat (district). Within Szymki two large "folwarks" (homesteads) owned by land

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