Dear Galitzianers: It is impossible for me to write about Galician records without feeling the pain of the citizens of Ukraine, some of whom are our relatives. I know that in one way or another we are

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Hi Sherry: Tlumacz and Tlumaczyk were separate towns. Tlumacz was a district town north of Kolomyja. Tlumaczyk was a smaller town in the Kolomyja district. These two towns are 19 miles apart. Tlumacz

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Dear Fellow Genealogists: As you know, Poland has been the main country accepting people displaced as a result of the unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine. Many cities and towns on the border of Ukr

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Dear Eran: I have been studying Sugihara and the refugees who transited Japan from the early days of the War in Europe up to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor for about six years. I do not consider

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Anyone researching family in Galicia should be searching both the JRI-Poland database https://legacy.jri-poland.org/jriplweb-legacy.htm and the Gesher Galicia database https://search.geshergalicia.org

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On behalf of all the great volunteers that make JRI-Poland so successful in serving the needs of Polish Jewish Genealogists, I am proud to announce some sweet Passover gifts for those researching fami

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Eric: Indices of all the Immigrant Banks in Philadelphia including the Blitzstein Bank were indexed many years ago by the Jewish Genealogical and Archival Society of Greater Philadelphia and can be se

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Dear Nina: Michelle and Jennifer provided extracted/translated information from the tattered birth record you posted. However, your message (copied below) referred to what appears to be a different fa

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Hi Scott: All the towns you listed have records that have been indexed by JRI-Poland and some of those towns have records that have been indexed by Gesher Galicia. Both organizations are independent o

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Hi Micah: I searched the JewishGen Communities database. I think the second one now in Ukraine or the fifth one in Belarus may be your town Mark Halpern Conshohocken, PA, USA JewishGen Communities Dat

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Dear Helen: If your search the JRI-Poland database https://www.jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm for town of Ozimina, there are 131 entries. Of those 131 entries, 7 are for FALLER and 8 for BITTNER. Some of

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Dear Galitzianers: In the December 2021 edition of For the Record. Stanley Diamond announced a major upload of record entries to the JRI-Poland database on our Legacy System at https://jri-poland.org.

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Hi Tracy: I think the town may be Wiktorow, now Vyktorov in Ukraine near Halicz. Jewish vital events for Wiktorow were recorded in Halicz. Unfortunterly, the Jewish vital records from before 1923 have

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Would greatly appreciate a translation of the cause of death on this 1919 Death records from Zloczow, Galicia. I have provided images of the entire record and a close-up of the cause of death. I am wo

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Hi Ronald: Many of the records of both Skalat and Podwoloczyska have been indexed and those indices are online at JRI-Poland and Gesher Galicia. Many of those indices are linked to images placed onlin

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Dear Ogawa-san: You outline a very difficult search, but knowing that the passengers left Yokohama to the United States in 1938 is helpful as is that these men were twins and Jewish and their final de

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Hi Lisa: The towns you mention are Bolszowce and Martynow. Before 1901, both of these towns Jews registered their vital events in nearby Bursztyn. JRI-Poland has indexed many of the records of Burszty

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Below are links for two upcoming programs: Krakow on Thursday, September 30 and Orla (south of Bialystok) on Wednesday, October 6. Hope to see many of you at these online sessions. Mark Halpern Dear M

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Hi Susan: JRI-Poland has provided translations of the record headings for Jewish records employed by the civil authorities in Galicia at https://www.jri-poland.org/galicia/GalicianVitalRecords_Titles_

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Richard: The Bagnowka Jewish Cemetery in Bialystok is the only surviving Jewish Cemetery in Bialystok that has been preserved and has Matzevot. Bagnowka contains maybe 4,000 Matzevot out of what once

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