About the Record Collections

Overview of record collections included in our surname search database.

The following record collections are included in this surname search database (with thanks to Jakub Czuprynski for assisting with record acquisition). You can query them all at once using our Surname Record Search.

Gorlice Vital Records

Polish State Archives 56/154/Gorlice— Only a handful of Jewish Vital Records from Gorlice appear to have survived.

1851 Landowner and Taxpayer List from Dominium Gorlice

Polish State Archives 29/279/0/2/441 — This record collection appears to be a landowner and taxpayer register from the town of Gorlice from 1851. The handwriting was quite challenging to interpret, so transcriptions might be inaccurate.

1870 Voters List

Polish State Archives/29/684/Gorlice — Historical list of eligible voters and taxpayers in Gorlice, Galicia.

1891 Galicia Business Directory

Sourced from Kaufmännisches Adressbuch für Industrie, Handel und Gewerbe, XIV. Galizien, published by L. Bergmann & Comp., Wien IX Universitutmetr. 6. This database was transcribed from a photocopy of this directory, found at the British Library, call number [PP 2440.BB C295]. Compiled by Phyllis Kramer.

1913 Business Directory

Sourced from Żydzi gorliccy by Władysław Boczon (pp. 48-49); translated by Marjorie Rosenfeld and Eva Bednarska.

Krakow Identity Card Applications

Wnioski o wydanie dowodów osobistych, Polish State Archives 29/218/0/8 — Records of Jewish individuals born in Gorlice and living in Krakow who applied for ID cards between 1929 and 1939.

Krakow Residents Born in Gorlice

Identified in the Kataster, which was a continuous registration of the inhabitants of Krakow for the period between approximately 1850 and 1945. The original database comprises about 100 boxes of record cards.

List of Pension and Insurance Claims, 1940

Polish State Archives 29/2125/0/2/3 (Kwestionariusze Żydów z miejscowości: Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Dębica, Dobczyce, Dukla /27 IX 1940/, Działoszyce, Głogów Małopolski, Gorlice /26 IX 1940/, Grybów /26 IX 1940/, Gumniska) — These records appear to be pension and insurance claim filings submitted by local Jewish Councils to the German occupation authorities in the Krakow District.

Gorlice School and Court Records

FamilySearch Images, indexed by Susan Kim and Russ Maurer.