Since Kosice, Slovakia is not acceptable perhaps one of those Romanian towns will do: Casinu Nou, also known Kaszonuifalu Iacobeni, also known as Kaszonjakabfalva and Kaszon Jskabfluva Imper, also kno

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Hi, One of the town Kosice in Slovakia variations name is Kaschau. Košice, Kassa, Kaschau seat of a first-order administrative division 48°43' N 21°15' E G Slovakia 193.8 miles ENE of Bratislava 48°09

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Adam, On: https://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ Select last icon (Enter) and add new entry Alexander Sharon JGFF coordinator

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Paul, JGFF Quality Assurance system includes following elements: 1 All town names that researchers have requested to add to JGFF system are discussed with the researcher, and following mutual review/d

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Mike, Мoshchelnik (Мощельник) is identified as small town in Borovichi region of the Novgorod Oblast'. Back in 1897 during All Imperial Russia census, 183 Jews are identified as Residents of Borovichi

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Village and stream Moshchenik аrе located in Russia proper: Moshchenik populated place 58°29' N 33°54' E G Russia 235.1 miles NW of Moskva 55°45' N 37°37' E In addition, there is village description i

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Below is a list of localities submitted and approved as additions to JGFF towns database: Alberovice, Czech Republic Andreyevo-Ivanovka (ex Chernove), Ukraine Atkar, Hungary Balaceana, Romania Baikalo

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Len, A Jewish history of shtetl Zabokrich is written in Russian. Please use Google translate the article. https://stmegi.com/posts/71070/evreyskaya-istoriya-mestechka-zhabokrich/ Alexander Sharon JGFF

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There are indeed couple of towns known as Minsk. One is the capital city of Belarus, and capital of Minsk Guberniya (Province). Second Minsk is known as Minsk Mazowiecki, seat of the local district. T

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Compare with situation in prewar Poland. In 1928, there were only 4 telephone subscribers per 1,000 people. In 1939 - not so much more, because 6.5. At that time, there were less than nine telephones

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Peter Hoekstra has already replied correctly. One can only search JGFF database for the family names and towns names. This is a virtual meeting place. Discussion groups postings are not included. Best

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Arkady, I have provided you with two reliable sources of the village existence in the past, and yes it was located just 9 km distance from Krzemieniec. Krzemieniec is original Polish name of Ukrainian

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Village was known in Polish as Kołosów. During the interwar period (1918-1939) village was located within Bialokrynica parish of Krzemieniec (Kremenets) district of Wolhynia (Volin) Province. As one c

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Re: Tsar's dentist: The family of Nicholas II had three personal dentists for 23 years of their reign. According to the established rules, they were included in the staff of the Court Medical Unit. Th

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1897 First All Russian Empire General Population Census shows following numbers of Jewish resident identified by their declaration of the mother language: St Petersburg City - 12, 037 Jewish residents

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Town is Ostrowiec (Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski) in Kielce region. Written date is June 5, 1933 (Dnia 5/6/1933) Alexander Sharon

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les evenchick <levenchick@...> 06/19/1999 #9418 There are lots of problems with town names on JGFF - one is requested to use current name as listed in a standard cartography publication at lea

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First telephone directory (телефонный справочник) in Russia was published in Moscow in 1901. At this time in Moscow were only 2,860 subscribers, mostly business owners and few private phones were assi

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Hi again, folks. Palestyna is listed in JRI-P database 266 times, as birth place or residence. It shows mainly in historical Galicia regions: 62 times in Lwow Province, 145 times in Stanislawow and 24

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1. Late 19th century "Słownik Geograficzny..." (The Geographical Dictionary of The Kingdom of Poland) lists four entries for villages named Palestyna located in Russian Poland in the following regions

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