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Eastern Europe

New book about Bialystok

Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland - A Guide for Yesterday and Today
by Tomasz Wisniewski; published by The Ipswich Press; paperback: $12.95. (ISBN number 0-938864-22-X)

This book was reviewed in the New York Times of 18 October 1998 and the author won an award from the Israeli embassy.

JG 25 July 1998
 
Old maps of Eastern Europe

The "Map Room" website of the Federation of the East European Family History Societies contains, among other things, a set of beautifully scanned maps of Russia and Eastern Europe dating from 1882.
http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html

JG 10 August 1998
 
Pale of Settlement

For a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated history of life in the Pale of Settlement, visit
http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/
 

 

LDS microfilms of Poland

For a database of LDS microfilms of Jewish records in Poland, based on geographic coordinates, see JewishGen's LDS Microfilm Master at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/ldsdist.htm

For a downloadable list of LDS microfilms of Jewish records from Poland, arranged alphabetically, in various data formats, see the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland pages at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jri-lds.htm

Since there has been no LDS microfilming in the Polish State Archives since 1991,  these lists won't have changed much in recent years.

For general information about Jewish vital records in Poland, see
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/polandv.html

See also the various SIGs (Special Interest Groups) for Poland:

Jewish Records Indexing Poland:  http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Kielce-Radom SIG:                      http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Suwalk-Lomza SIG:                     http://www.jewishgen.org/SuwalkLomza

LDS microfilms of Belarus
 
For a list of LDS microfilms of Belarus, see the JewishGen InfoFile at
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/by-rec.txt

A more comprehensive list of Belarus resources can be found in David M. Fox's recent article in the JewishGen Belarus SIG (Special Interest Group) newsletter at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/newsletter/ragas.htm

For more information visit the Belarus SIG at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus

JG 23 December 1998
 

Resources for Latvia and Lithuania

Apart from early 19th-century revision lists for Latvia and records of the former Suwalk gubernia in Lithuania, there are very few LDS microfilms of Jewish records for these two countries.

The best resources for these two countries are the JewishGen SIGs (Special Interest Groups):

Latvia SIG:  http://www.jewishgen.org/latvia
Litvak SIG:  http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak

Polish resources in Paris

The Polish library in Paris has, amongst other resources for people researching Polish ancestry:
 

  • 1930 address book of Warsaw property owners and Yellow Pages.

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  • 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939 phone books for Warsaw, with Yellow Pages.

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  •  A list of the families of Polish soldiers sent to the Soviet Union in 1944, as established by the Polish Government in exile in London.  Most of the names are Jewish...

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  • Plans of prewar Warsaw and suburbs with street indexes.
    • JG 20 December 1998
     
    Old maps and directories in Poland

    These are kept at the following addresses:

     
     
    Polish provinces 1999

    On 1 January 1999, sixteen new Polish provinces were formed, replacing the previous decentralised boundaries of 1975.  For maps and further details, see

    http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/polandgen.html
     

     JG 3 January 1999
     
    Polish church records - Jewish entries
     
    In the Kingdom of Poland (also known as Congress Poland or Russian Poland), Jews were listed in separate registers from 1826 onwards.  Before that, beginning in 1808 or 1810, depending on the region, vital records for Jews were included in the Roman Catholic civil registers.  No Jews were included in parish registers.
     
    JG 8 January 1999
     
     
    Minsk archives
     
    Director of Archival Resarch
    Historical Archives of Belarus
    Kozlova Street 26
    Minsk, Belarus
    JG 29 January 1999
     
     
     
     
     

     

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