Kolbuszowa Dolna Shtetl Web Site

Kolbuszowa Dolna, Poland

Kolbuszowa Dolna is included in the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG). Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing. They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more. Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl. One should research the neighboring area as well as an individual shtetl. The KRRG web site has resources and information that is relevant to many shtetlach. To search for family links and learn more about neighboring shtetlach, please visit the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG).

Administrative District: Kolbuszowa

Subdistrict - Judicial / Tax District: Kolbuszowa

Location:

1 miles NE of Kolbuszowa
16.8 miles NW of Rzeszów
Latitude 50°15’ Longitude 21°47’

History/Geography:

In present day Poland Kolbuszowa Dolna is in the Podkarpackie Province (Województwo). County (Powiat): Kolbuszowa. Rural Administrative District: (Gmina) Kolbuszowa.
Before the Holocaust Kolbuszowa Dolna used the Kolbuszowa Jewish Cemetery
Kolbuszowa Dolna (including Lowczówskie and Lesnictwo), a village in Kolbuszowa county, 2 km. north of the town, with 1,258 Roman Catholic inhabitants. The major estate, belonging to Count Z. Tyszkiewicz, covers 181 mórgs of farmland, 14 of meadows and gardens, 40 of pastureland, and 20 of forests; the minor estate covers 881 m6rgs of farmland, 168 of meadows and gardens, 203 of pastureland, and 13 of forests. The village has a gmina loan society with a capital of 997 ZL. R.

Source: Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego - Warsaw [1883, vol. 4].

Translated by William F. Hoffman, Polish Genealogical Society of America Spring 1997 Bulletin.

Used with permission.

Maps:

Resources:

The 1929 Business Directory

The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Type in the name of your town.

The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen “All Poland Database”. This is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the databases listed below. The “All Poland Database” enables researchers to find indices to vital and related records from the independent JRI-Poland database as well as entries from other databases. The combined databases have more than five million entries for individuals living in areas now or formerly in Poland. . It includes the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), JewishGen Holocaust Database, The 1891 Galicia Business Directory, 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia and much more. The database is a work in progress, and new entries are being added regularly.

Gesher Galicia Resources:

All Galicia Database

Gesher Galicia Genealogy Indexer

Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map Room

Links and Databases:

When searching the links below, please remember that many towns in Poland have the same name. Make sure that the information you find refers to the shtetl you are researching.

the "Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database" to see where some vital records are.

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