Jewish Families:

Poland, Lithuania, Galicia

1. Galician European Jews
2. Brody is no more
3. Litvaks
4. Margolis Frankel Families
5. Frankel Family of Ratnycia and Merkine, Trakai Lithuainia
6. Ratnycia and Druskieniki Lithuania - Remembering our ancestors
7. Przerośl Poland
8. Lomza Towns and Families Rajgrod, Szczuczyn and Grajewo
9. Suwalki Gubernia Families Marriages and Immigration
10. Akmen (Okmyany) Shavli (Siauliai) District Kovno (Kaunas) Province Lithuania
11. Kovno, Ponedel, Rakiskis, and other Lithuania heritage
12. Frost Family An Ashkenazic Jewish Family with Galician Roots
13. Bauman Tugendhaft Ausubel Strum Families of Jewish Galicia Poland
14. Bohrer Blumenfeld Silber from Lezajsk Poland Region
15. Vieksniai (Vecksna) in the Siauliai (Shavli) District Kaunas Kovno Lithuania
16. Siauliai (Shavli) District Kaunas (Kovno) Province Lithuania
17. Reichbart Family - Lodz, Poland
18. Zalckwar Family, Lithuania
19. Jewish Families of Będzin Poland
20. Kalvarija, Lithuania

• Guide will be categorized according to Shtetl and Provinces.

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Useful resources:

• Why Did Our Ancestors Leave a Nice Place Like the Pale? by Hal Bookbinder at UCLA -

Maps and Charts

• Atlas of Modern Jewish History, by Evyatat Riesel
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia: List of Uyezds by huberniya
• Where Once We Walked, by Gary Mokotoff, and Sallyann Sack

Shtetls & Provinces in Lithuania and Poland

CITY PROVINCES

• Bialystok
• Katowice
• Kielce
• Krakow
• Kujawski
• Lodz
• Lublin
• Opole
• Poznan
• Warszawa
• Zielona

SHTETLS (towns)

• Towns, Villages, Kahals found in the 1784 Census of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• [http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/vabalninkas.Home.html]
• Revision lists 6 - DGS 101929375 1795 Census of Vilnius town Jewish khagan, 132 pages;