[MODERATOR NOTE: Please see especially the mentions below of Dynow and Tarnow, Poland, and Kolomyya, Ozerna (Jezierzany) and Tovste (Tluste), Ukraine -- towns once in Galicia.] Shalom, Last month, the

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At the ul. Grodzka branch (II) of the National Archives in Krakow, in a collection of the Krakow Chamber of Commerce, there are cards with information about (tens of? hundreds of?) thousands of indivi

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This is a brief summary of some of the Galician documents that I recently examined and, unless otherwise noted, photographed at the Wawel branch of the National Archives in Krakow (Teki Antoniego Schn

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I subscribe to several discussion groups and earlier this month responded to a query in Gesher Galicia, posted on October 6, 2018, namely, "Subject: Jewish soldiers serving in Franz Yosef's army." I r

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This is a brief summary of Lancut documents that 1) I examined and, unless otherwise noted, photographed in July/August at AGAD in Warsaw and at the Wawel (I) and ul. Grodzka (II) branches of the Nati

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Hi Sharron, There were recently several ethnography expeditions in Galicia undertaken by Moscow Sefer (https://www.sefer.ru/eng/) and St. Petersburg Jewish Studies Institute (http://www.pijs.ru/). Try

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The JewishGen KehilaLinks webpage for Rzeszow, Poland (formerly in Galicia) has been updated. New material and photos have been added. Rzeszow is pronounced "zhe-shuf". I started this Rzeszow site in

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At last week's IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Warsaw, Yefim Kogan was awarded the 2018/5778 JewishGen Volunteer of the Year Award. This is a small token of appreciation for Yefi

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JewishGen.org and the Israel Genealogy Research Association Announce an Innovative Strategic Partnership to Make Searching Israeli Records Easier and More Productive! Click the link to learn more, and

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Hi, My great-grandmother Rebecca (Tauba Ryfka) Winzelberg Lieberman was born in Czchow in 1889. I'm thinking of planning a trip to Czchow next summer, but I'm not sure what to do once I get there. Ide

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Googling ** Cmentarz zydowski Czchow ** brings up these pages, describing the Jewish cemetery of Nowy Wisnicz, about 13 miles from Czchow: https://zabytki.powiatbochenski.pl/obiekty/miasto-i-gmina-now

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Antoni Schneider (1825-1880) is one of the more colorful, if obscure, figures of Galician history. Largely self taught, he fought with the Hungarians against the Hapsburgs in 1848 and was jailed for i

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[MODERATOR NOTE: Please see especially the references below to these communities, formerly in Galicia: Borshchiv and Ozeryany, Ukraine; Dubiecko, Dynow, Przemysl, and Tarnow, Poland] Shalom, Without a

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Scans of Jewish vital records >from Czudec, Niebylec, Rzeszow, and Sokolow Malopolski were recently added to szukajwarchiwach.pl. The descriptions below indicate what is new. Follow these links, then

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As many of you know, Israel Pickholtz has long researched Pikholz families >from Skalat and other towns in Eastern Galicia -- Mikulince, Grzmaylow, Zbarazh, Husiatyn, Tarnopol, Buczacz, Terembowla, Po

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In his SIG discussion forum post (October 4), Logan Kleinwaks has usefully drawn attention to new uploads of scans by the Polish State Archives on their szukajwarchiwach.pl website. These were of Jewi

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Be sure to read the new stories recently published to our Success Stories webpage. You can access these accounts >from the "About Us" button on the website or by following this link: http://www.jewish

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I have come across a few records where people appear both in the 'Lwow Ghetto' database and in the 'Forced Laborers in Boryslaw and Drohobycz' database. The Lwow Ghetto records are all sparse, just in

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To Researchers in Galician-Jewish history. Some years ago, I created the website for the Drohobycz Administrative District. A revised version is now online at https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/drohoby

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Gesher Galicia is pleased to announce the release of the December 2018 issue of our quarterly research journal, the "Galitzianer." In this issue, we ponder a Galician murder mystery, meet the first wo

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