Research guide and record inventory
Genealogy & Records
The records collected here range from eighteenth-century population and estate material to interwar communal records and postwar property data. The emphasis is on substantial Tarnobrzeg-specific datasets, with original or unusual documents kept separately for researchers who want to explore the surviving source material in greater depth.
Search Tarnobrzeg Records
Search the record transcriptions hosted on this site, together with names and terms appearing elsewhere in the Tarnobrzeg / Dzików KehilaLinks narrative. The records search can find close spellings and phonetic variants.
Core on-site datasets
These are systematic or substantial collections of Tarnobrzeg records hosted on this site. Searchable transcriptions are provided where the surviving material supports them.
| Date | Dataset | Type | What it provides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1772 | Jewish Population of Dzików | Population | Early Jewish householders, kinship descriptions, occupations and household/economic information. |
| 1779, 1814, 1816, 1822 | Propinacja Records | Economic | Named participants in the estate-controlled alcohol economy across four surviving lists. |
| 1791 | Jewish Residents in the 1791 Town Inventory | Population / property | Named Jewish householders and selected occupations within a mixed town inventory. |
| 1903–1928 | Tarnobrzeg Jewish Death Register | Vital | Nearly a thousand transcribed death entries with dates, register references and occasional place information. |
| 1924, 1928, 1929 | Kollel Chibas Yerushalayim Donor Lists | Communal / charity | Named Tarnobrzeg donors appearing in three surviving lists. |
| 1936 | Jewish Community Governing Committee | Communal / political | Names, ages, occupations, affiliations and communal positions for members of the governing body. |
| 1939 residents; compiled 1965 | Wacław Mączka’s Reconstruction of Jewish Residents | Population / memory | A retrospective reconstruction of the prewar Jewish population, now searchable through an OCR-derived working transcription, with the original scans retained for verification. |
Major external record collections
Some of the most important Tarnobrzeg records are already indexed or hosted by specialist archival and genealogical projects. Rather than duplicate those databases, this site points researchers to them directly.
| Date | Collection | Where to search | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1787 | Josephine Cadastre — Tarnobrzeg | Gesher Galicia | Property and landholding records from the early Habsburg cadastral system. |
| 1820–1855 | Franciscan Cadastre — Tarnobrzeg | Gesher Galicia | Property registers and associated cadastral material. |
| 1853 | Cadastral Map of Tarnobrzeg | Gesher Galicia Map Room | Parcel and building layout useful for reconstructing the historical town. |
| 1880 | 1880 Census of Tarnobrzeg/Dzików | JRI-Poland | Indexed online by JRI-Poland, where researchers can search the surviving census entries directly. |
| 1901–1905 | Population Movement Books | Polish State Archives | Records of arrivals, departures and residence changes; exact archival units should be confirmed before citation. |
| 1939–1944 | Wartime Municipal Jewish Records | Polish State Archives | Occupation-era municipal and administrative material concerning Jews. |
Researchers should also search JewishGen and Gesher Galicia for indexed material beyond the Tarnobrzeg-specific collections listed above.
Research resources
Focused collections that combine records, images and research context.
Documents of Interest
These collections and individual documents are useful for exploring particular people, institutions and aspects of community life, but they are not systematic population datasets.