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Vol. 5, No. 2 Winter (January) 1998 COORDINATORS CORNER Topic Page Membership in Gesher Galicia continues to grow as Gesher Galicia’s Projects Database- First Entries................... 2 Galitzianers everywhere reach out to discover and research their family’s roots in Galicia. Positive comments about our Jewish Vital Statistics Records in the Lviv Archive........... 4 SIG from family and friends and the JewishGen website My Experience with Alexander Dunai as provide a stream of inquiries about Gesher Galicia. Guide and Researcher by Susannah Juni ................................... 5 Thanks to Peter Zavon's innovative format for our fall renewal Contacting Alexander Dunai ................................................ 5 letter, we were able to update members contact and research information for the 1998 Finder. Sheiala Moskow took on the Stanislawow Chapter is First Online added responsibility of receiving the renewals, deftly Translation for Yizkor Book SIG ......................................... 6 processed over 500 checks, and provided lists to Shelley and 18th Seminar on Jewish Genealogy - July 1998 ................. 6 Peter. Thank you! Research Chair Asks About Many of you have written to thank members of the Steering Your Current Projects ........................................................... 7 Committee for their time and energy expended on behalf of the SIG and we, in turn, express our thanks to all who have Editor’s Message ................................................................... 7 been supportive of our efforts as volunteers for Gesher My Trip to Poland by Lynn Wruble .......................................... 8 Galicia. Volunteers! Lets keep in mind that all who participate REIPP Changes Name to in the SIG are volunteers--unpaid, with no office or staff, most Jewish Records Indexing-Poland .......................................10 having full-time professional careers, and living geographically apart. At times, life gets in the way and some Trip Report on Niebylec and Konieczkowa ......................10 of us do not respond to your requests or meet deadlines as Proposing a Przemysl Networking Group .........................11 promptly as we would wish. We sincerely appreciate your understanding (and your patience) of our roles as dedicated Oswiecim Cemetery Inventoried........................................13 volunteers, serving Gesher Galicia in our spare time. With this Ulanow Cemetery Project...................................................13 in mind, we call upon you to help us as we seek ways to expand the role of the SIG to further the interests of our Finding Your Cousins with the members. We need and encourage your feedback, your Gesher Galicia Family Finder.............................................14 involvement, and your participation in many aspects of the Why My Family Finder Entry is not Precisely SIG. Write to us, let us know how you feel about what we’re as I Submitted It by Peter Zavon .............................................14 doing, what you think is important, how you can participate. Steering Committee.............................................................16 Contact Shelley if you would like to help but need more information on how we can best use your talents (research, indexing, administrative, secretarial, writing, editing, graphics). There are short term jobs that need to be done from time to time. IN MEMORIAM We plan to attend the AJGS Summer Seminar in L.A. In Joan Sanders of New Rochelle, NY addition to Suzan Wynne's session on Galicia, we plan a SIG Joan was a charter member of Gesher Galicia. meeting. Let Shelley know what you would like to see on the We send our condolences to Joan’s husband, agenda and/or what type of meeting would best meet your Gerry Sanders. needs. Remember to get your information for the L.A. Seminar as soon as possible! Happy winter! Think snow! (Yes, I teach high school. ) TABLE OF CONTENTS THE GALITZIANER Vol. 5, No. 2 Winter (January) 1998 GESHER GALICIA’S PROJECTS DATABASE- First Entries The following are the first entries in our database of projects that have been completed by our members. We hope that many more members will report their projects (and important material that they have obtained) and join the first five members who responded to the request printed in the Fall 1997 Galitzianer. TOWN PROJECT - SUBJECT MEMBER HOW TO ACCESS GORODENKA WEB PAGE Gorodenka, Lists from the Yizkor Book: Mark Heckman * http://shangrila.cs.ucdavis.edu:1234/ (Horodenka) 1. Holocaust Martyrs Davis, CA heckman/gorodenka Ukraine 2. Jewish Taxpayers, 1789-1791* Member Number OR FROM: 628 JewishGen ShtetLinks page GRAVESTONES INDEXED* 1. Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY Ada Greenblatt * The individual burials can not be Belyy Kamen, Independent Bialykaminer KUV New York, NY accessed now. Ada Greenblatt has (Bialy Kamien) 337 burials submitted all her information to the Ukraine 2. Mt. Zion Cemetery, Queens NY Member number Association of Jewish Genealogical First Bialykaminer Aid Assoc. 137 Societies’ (AJGS) “Cemetery Project”. 152 burials 3. New Montefiore Cem., Pinelawn, LI, NY, Independent Bialykaminer KUV 71 burials 4. Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, NY First Bialykaminer Aid Society 249 burials 1. Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY The Cemetery Project will produce a CD SoloWina, First Solotwiner Sick & Benevolent Ada Greenblatt ROM with more than 350,000 indexed (Solotwina) Assoc. 666 burials individual burials . The CD ROM, which Ukraine 2. Mt. Zion Cemetery, Queens, NY will include Ada’s data, will be available First Solotwiner Sick & Benevolent at the July Seminar in Los Angeles.* Association 322 burials 1. Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Staten Is., NY Nadvornaya, - First Nadworner Sick/Benev. Assoc. Ada Greenblatt Ukraine - Nodworner Young Men’s Benev. Assoc. Total 4 plots; 617 burials Stanislawow 1. Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Queens, NY (Ivano-Frankovsk), - Erste Stanislauer Lodge 92-298 burials Ada Greenblatt For more information on the “Cemetery Ukraine - 1st Knihinin Stanislauer - 2 plots Project”: - Stanislauer Progressive Benev. -1 plot 2. Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Staten Is, NY JewishGen Web page , or: Ind.Stanislauer Ldge.459-259 burials http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery 3. Mt. Zion Cemetery, Queens, NY -1st Stanislauer YM Benev. 1 plot -First Stanislauer Frauen 1 plot 4. United Hebrew Cem., Staten Is., NY *See notes at the end of this table - 1st. Knihinin Stanislauer 1 plot - 1st Stanislauer Lodge 92 1 plot - Indep. Stanislauer Ldge.459 1 plot - Indep. Stanislauer Frauen 1 plot 5. Beth David Cem., Elmont, Long Is., NY - Indep. Stanislauer Ldge.459 1 plot -1st Stanislauer YM Benev. Ascn.1plot -Stanislauer Progress. Benev. 1 plot 6. New Montefiore Cem., Pinelawn, LI, NY -Stanislauer Progress. Benev. 1 plot 7. Mt. Judah Cemetery, Queens, NY -Stanislauer Ladies VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS, 1867 Buchach, Ukraine “several hundred names, listing addresses as Jim Ostrof Jim wrote, “I would be happy to search well. Most names are Jewish.” Arlington, VA for ancestors’ names for GG members, or Note: Obtained from Archives of the History Member #153 lend out the microfilms.” Some barely of the decipherable. - 2 - Vol. 5, No. 2 Winter (January) 1998 THE GALITZIANER TOWN PROJECT - SUBJECT MEMBER HOW TO ACCESS Jewish People, Jerusalem Pomortsy, VOTER REGISTRATION LISTS, 1870. (Yazlivitz) “Several score names and addresses Ukraine From Archives of the History of the Jewish People. GRAVESITES INDEXED Phyllis Kramer* Online Rogatin (Rohatyn), 2,500 burials:Mt. Hebron, Mt. Zion, Old Wilton, CT 1. <www.memo.com/jgsr/database/ Ukraine Montefiore Cemeteries, all Queens, NY. Member #417 rohatyng.cgi> Beth Israel Cemetery, New Jersey. 2. From JewishGen home page: Click on last box-Assoc. JGS. Scroll to New York, Rochester. Click on Searchable databases; Rohatyn. For those not online: By regular mail: send a self addressed stamped envelope to: Phyllis Kramer 18 Silvermine Woods Wilton, CT 06897 ROGATIN WEB SITE Rogatin, Ukraine From the Yizkor Book: Michael Bohnen From JewishGen/ShteLinks 1. Index of Yizkor Book chapters Newton, MA Or 2. Index of names from the Yizkor Book Member #409 http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/ 3. References Rogatin/Rogatin.html *Notes on the Projects Database: 1. Gorodenka. Mark Heckman writes, “Norman Berman 3. Rogatin (Rohatyn). Phyllis Kramer writes, “The and I are working on a web page for the town of Rohatyn Landsmanshaft in Israel, the Association of Gorodenka and the villages in the surrounding area, Rohatyn Jewry, has 200 active members, and is including Goloby). Our latest project for the page is to working with the Mayor of Rogatin to place a locate and index all the burial plots for the different monument in the town and clean up and fence in the Horodenker landsmanshaften. We’d appreciate old and “new” cemetery sites and the two areas of mass whatever help we can get from others who are graves (from the Aktions of 1942). If you are researching their ancestors from Gorodenka.” interested, checks can be sent to the Rohatyn Mark Heckman: [email protected]. For postal Landsmanshaft, c/o Fishel Kirshen, 34 Yonathan Street, mail address, see member number 628. Zahala, Tel Aviv 69081, Israel.” 2. Belyy Kamen, Solotwin, Nadvornaya, Stanislawow. Ada Greenblatt writes, “I have personally collected all the data myself directly from the tombstones, and it amounts to close to 3,000 burials to date. The information includes the Hebrew name in all cases where it was on the tombstone. Furthermore, for those who died prior to 1949 and