Krakow census scans from 1921 are now viewable online at https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/zespol/-/zespol/30911?_Zespol_javax.portlet.action=zmienWidok&_Zespol_nameofjsp=jednostki&_Zespol_resetCur=

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Significant Jewish genealogical information from New East Prussia can be found in scans recently added to szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl. Some of the larger towns in this region: Białystok, Kalvarija, Łomża,

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News from JewishGen's Danzig/Gdańsk Research Division: We are planning a Zoom meeting, free and open to all, for the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023. Please fill out this form to indicate your time z

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JewishGen's Danzig/Gdańsk SIG/RD will have a virtual meeting at the IAJGS Conference (iajgs2022.org) at the following time: New York: Wednesday, August 24, 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM Los Angeles: Wednesday, Au

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Thank you, Ron Peeters, for sharing this list of poor inhabitants of Altschottland c. 1891. I will be in contact with you privately about it. For anyone interested in Altschottland residents from a li

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A new collection of Danzig births from 4 Sep 1847 to 23 Dec 1848 (+ one from 1846) is now searchable via JewishGen's Unified Search, Germany Database, and Poland Database. You may find it helpful to r

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Two new census-like sources from Altschottland (Danzig) are now searchable via JewishGen's Unified Search, Germany Database, and Poland Database: Familienbuch 1850-1879 and Familienbuch 1880-1882. Eac

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A small yahrzeit list from Mattenbuden (Danzig), apparently covering deaths during 1825-1877 (one possibly in 1816), though not comprehensive, is now searchable via JewishGen's Unified Search, Germany

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A small marriage register from the Altschottland Jewish Community (Danzig) covering marriages from 27 May [1838?] – 28 May 1846 is now searchable via JewishGen's Unified Search, Germany Database, and

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A census of members of the Jewish Community of Danzig, including Zoppot, dated 11-AUG-1939, is now searchable via JewishGen's Unified Search, Germany Database, and Poland Database. You may find it hel

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The 1803 census (General-Tabelle) of "privileged Jews" in the Danzig suburbs of Altschottland (Hoppenbruch), Weinberg, and Langfuhr has now been fully transcribed, totaling about 1500 people. JewishGe

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There are significant 18th- and early 19th-century records available for Danzig Jewish genealogy (e.g., censuses), which can help determine relationships in the pre-surname period, but additional volu

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The Polish State Archives in Gdańsk recently posted online more scans of residential registration cards 1843-1918, these covering previously missing cards for surnames beginning with R-Z. To view the

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The Przemysl Branch of the Polish State Archives recently added to its website scans of many Jewish vital records from Jaroslaw and Radymno: Jaroslaw births 1877-1916, marriages and deaths 1877-1936 R

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Some records from the U.S. Consulate in Danzig are apparently kept at the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/084.html. The listed dates are only 1836-1916, t

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Information about the cemetery in Sopot (in Polish): http://cmentarze-zydowskie.pl/sopot.htm. I do not know current access conditions. Logan Kleinwaks JewishGen Research Director for Danzig/Gdańsk lkl

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Ron Peeters asked how to display details of a list of Danzig records, which comes from our finding aid at https://www.jewishgen.org/danzig/findingaidpsa1497.php. At the top of that page, highlighted i

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The JewishGen Danzig/Gdańsk Research Division's chart showing the locations of Jewish vital records from Danzig has been updated to include census records and more early marriage records, and to bette

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Regarding Rabbi Avraham ben Yehiel Michael Danzig, Chayei Adam, I would appreciate hearing from anyone knowledgeable about sources and their reliability concerning: his date of birth, possible whereab

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Todd Brody asked about Lithuanian directories before 1930, writing that "The earliest directory on the Genealogy Indexer seems to be 1930." Genealogy Indexer actually includes many Lithuanian director

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