Catholic records of Chrzanow include all the Jewish families!!!!

Hi Jack, that could be interesting. We have a lady at my office in Sydney from Poland who may be able to translate some of the records if I can get them and if the handwriting is legible. I will contact Chrzanow library to see if I can download the digitised records. I will let you know if I have any luck. Thanks Gregor Stone (My Opa Julius Yehuda Steinhauer was Born in Chrzanow in 1897 plus his 2 brothers,were born in 1899 and 1907 and their 3 sisters from 1902-1905). Their father was born in Chrzanow in 1800s while their mother was born in Kattowitz, surname was Bromberger...there were other Brombergers in Chrzanow. Shalom from Sydney Australia gregirstine@gmail.com

Their are also a few records on the Jewish Gen website. Chrzanow is in the Kielice
province on their website. It is about 2% of the records, but they contain about 10%
of the names. Wojciech Wyzina also mentions the website "Genealogia potomkow
Sejmu Wielkiego" of Dr. Marek Jerzy Minakowski, but I looked at some of the
Jewish names on the website and I think it is mostly taken from Dan's Jewish
Krakow genealogy site. The Gedonim website also has photos of all the Chrzanow
gravestones. I found my great great grandparent's gravestones there. Abraham
Alter Singer -1924 and Necha Goldstein Singer -1926!!

Thanks. gregorstone@gmail.com. Sydney Australia

Hello Jack, are this films only available onsite at the LDS sites? I´m searching for records around 1800, Frohlich family.

It's microfilm number 493220 that you can get at your local Mormon church. It is
supposed to be digitized at the Chrzanow public library. The Mormons now have
Chrzanow civil records 1889-1900 from Kattowitz. Dan's Krakow genealogy site
has a Chrzanow census around 1800. I did not see any Jewish type names. I
don't think they had last names until 1808-1820 ( based on the Krakow records ).
The Chrzanow town historian found a birth record for Hirsh Singer in 1841 in the
Church records. He moved to Krakow and became ( the Jew at the wedding - a
famous Polish play ). I have not heard anything from anybody on this site. Someone
who speaks Polish was going to check it out, but no results yet!

I cannot find this material at the familysearch website.
Film 493220 contains something different.
Can anybody advise?
What is the exact name of the collection as per familysearch/FHL/Mormon Library?
Or the correct film numbers?

I am thinking about going to the Catholic diocesenal archives in Krakow to study this collection, as my Jewish family lived in Chrzanow for a century and a half.

Has anybody already done the work? I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Regards,

Simon Srebrny

I put in a photo of an example of the Chrzanow parish Catholic records. They are certainly
well written! And this is certainly a Jewish record!Anybody out there willing to go through these
records.

Here is what the public library of Chrzanow has in the way of Catholic records:

We invite you to browse the parish books at the library in Chrzanów, where in the reading room on the first floor we have prepared a stand with the collection of the Digital Archives of the Chrzanów Land . Books are written by hand, after scanning it is not possible to automatically search for information in the text. Browse the books by year and search for the necessary data yourself.

The library provides the following books:

St. Nicholas in Chrzanów
Register of births 1727-1799, 1810-1855
registry books for marriages 1719-1799, 1810-1824, 1826-1850
Registry of deaths 1719-1799, 1810-1855
birth records 1797-1935 (including the Kąty book)
death records 1797-1937
Other books:

"Index to search for the Acts of Descent from Civil Books from 1810 and Sepultur from Church Books from 1856 in Chrzanów",
"Book of Confirmed from the Chrzanów Parish since 1864",
Double parish book: "Book of the dead 1719-1752", "Book of weddings 1719-1782 of the Chrzanów Parish Church",
"Record book of deaths 1880-1945" (selected years, copies from different periods),
"Book for recording Acts of birth and baptism from the Chrzanów Parish from 1877 to the end of 1891" (raptularz - rough draft)

I looked through the Mormon records. Unfortunately they look to be from churches in small
villages surrounding Chrzanow. No Jewish records found there.

if I am looking for a Jewish birth in Chrzanow of 1924, is it available at any of the mentioned places?

Dear all, feel free to reach out, in case you need some help. Occassionally, I visit the Chrzanow library and can see what I can find.

Dear Mr Leser, unfortunatelly it seems that the birth records for 1924 are lost/destroyed. For Chrzanow, only some books for the pre-war period were preserved.