Families: The Barchan Family of Galicia

Records of the Barchan family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 134 records for the surname Barchan (including soundalike names and spelling variants) in the All Galicia Database (the AGD), Gesher Galicia's free searchable collection of genealogical and historical records from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, which is now eastern Poland and western Ukraine. Here is a sampling of some of the results you can find there:

• ? BARCHAM
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• [no given name] WARZEN
  1787 property record from Przemyśl Josephine Survey (1787-1788)
• Isaac, son of Alex BARCHAND
  1816 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Luzer, son of Mendel BARSAM
  1817 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Chaim, son of Osias BARSAM
  1820 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Ahren, son of Lipe BARSCHAM
  1821 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Pinie BARCHAM
  1821 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Ber BARSAM
  1821 property record from Brody Franciscan Survey (1821)
• Jacob, son of Osias BARSAM
  1822 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Salomon, son of Lipe BARCHAM
  1824 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 134 records. The AGD is updated with new records every few months, so check back often to see the latest results.

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Records of the Barchan family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 195 search results for the surname Barchan at Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website, a few of which are listed below. Note that results listed below are limited to purely Galician sources, such as telephone and business directories from Galician cities, or school records, but they do not include the many other sources available on his website that span all of pre-war Poland. You may need the free .DjVu web browser plugin to view these files.

• Brzezany Yizkor Book (1978), image 505 {y91}
  Shimon D. Katz Zafnat Bekin "Tarbuth" - Haifa Ofset Bar-Chaim. Haifa Assistant editor Illustration Printing service Printed
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 247 {y80}
  ... the taxes which the Jewish Communities of Galicia still owed to Poland and among them. Boiberke owed as much as 126 Florins. In addition to all these taxes, the Jewish communities had to buy war bonds for the war of 1794-1799. Another edict was issued that every Jew who was nine months behind in payment of taxes should be expelled from Galicia. This went so far that in 1789. the district commissioncrcr of Berzian. of which Boiberke was a part, issued a decree to expel 1.050 Jews, many of them from Boiberke. In 1791 there was a census among the Jewish population of the Bcrziancr District, which showed that there were 11.766 Jews. Of these Jews 1.780 were engaged in small business and trades. 486 among them in Boiberke. In 1804 a tourist by the name of Mr. Rohrcr visited Boiberke ...
• Chrzanow Yizkor Book (1989), image 454 {y114}
   Leisure Activities the Jews of Chrzanow for many years. Thousands of Chrzanow Jews went to the river to perform the tashlich ceremony on Rosh Hashanah. Willow branches for Suk-koth came from the banks of the river. Jewish housewives waited by the river for pea-sant women to come on market days, so that they could get a bargain on a chicken for Sabbath or for the kapore ceremony before Yom Kippur. A number of Jews lived at the Piaski. A Jewish tannery was located there, and people felt more secure there than in the forest. The Chrzanow youth spread their wings, finding a sandy spot and bathing just as if they were at an elegant beach. ...
• Czortkow Yizkor Book (1967), image 73 {y125}
  ... לקבל עליו את הנהגת התנועה בצ׳ורטקוב והסביבה. לשיחה זו, המובאת ב׳׳די וולט״, גליון 29. 1897, לא היו תוצאות של ממש. המאמצים להשיג את הסכמתו או אהדתו של הרבי כר תיאר ד*ר הרצל ביומנו ע׳ 578 את פגישתו עם הרב לנדא: crbotcn mit dcm Wundcr Rabbi Friedman von Czortkow zu verhandeln. Ich gab thm einen Brief mit, worin ich Fried-man cinladc scincn Sohn zu mir zu schichen. Intcrcssantc Lcute, die in den Ictzlcn Wochen voruberkamen, warcn... Landau aus Przcmysl, cin inteligenter Halbchasid, mit hintcr die Ohrcn ge-strichcncn Pcies... Landau aus Premysl hat sich 67
• Dobromil Yizkor Book (1980), image 103 {y140}
  ... has the best wares. So they did some selling, took in a little cash, and presently it was tending to the end of the day. The peasant-ry were packing up their purchases, to ride home. One peasant couple came over to a Jewish girl to buy some fruit, apples. We had the custom of the baker's dozen: with every purchase the customer got a "pshetschinik," (Polish: przyczynek) an extra fruit. Otherwise it was no bargain. The girl had already added the extra to the purchase, in this instance, but then it was when it all happened. The peasant woman took one more extra apple. The girl, not using the best judgment, tried to snatch this apple back, and accidentally caught her fingers in the woman’s string of beads, which scattered to the ground. A hullabaloo broke out. The peasant grabbed the girl ...

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