Families: The Beer Family of Galicia

Records of the Beer family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 1488 records for the surname Beer (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:

• Rifke BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Jacob BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Chaim Wolf BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Naftali Mendel BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Israel BEER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Meschel BAUER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Simon BEER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Sara BAUER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Czarne BEER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Hersch BEER
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 1488 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 Beer family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 199 search results for the surname Beer 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.

• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 248 {y80}
  ... take place in Boibcrke to make adjustments. At the national census in 1765, Boibcrke, together with the other small towns and villages, had 840 Jewish adults and 68 children over one year of age. The taxes which these Jews paid to the treasury was 1680 zlotys. The Jews of Boibcrke had 71 houses and the Christians had 219 houses. According to the census, the Jews of Boibcrke were engaged in such trades as the operation of the beer brewery, small stores, import-export, as well as crafts. In these years the Sejm (Cong-ress) in Warsaw ordered the Jews not to trade in horses, oxen, skins, hides, or wine. Among the Rabbis of the period of whom there is some knowledge, an outstanding figure was Rabbi Simchc ben Yaacov, who was Rabbi in Boiberkc in the second part of the 18th century ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 440 {y94}
  ... leave a few pages to "I.W.O. Bletter," to the Institute of Jewish Suffering. Let our brothers who have been spared read them and perhaps learn some-thing from them. And to Providence we pray : May it please You, who DO NOT HEAR our cries, to at least guard these chronicle of our tears in a special urn so that they will be preserved, fall into the ... souls gone to heaven, "and life and sal* vation for us..." The rope is on the neck. The hangman is generous, he has plenty of time and so he plays with his victim. From time to time he downs a mug of beer or smokes a cigarette, smiling with pleasure the while. Let us exploit the short respite while the hangman is gorging himself. With the gallows as a writing table we will write down what we have to say. In Hebrew in the book "People ...
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 163 {y76}
  ... wurde natürlich gebrochen und man begann die gesamte jüdische Jugend vom sechs-ten Lebensjahr aufwärts zum Makkabi und damit zum Vereinsturnen heranzuziehen. - Die Erfolge waren verblüffend und es hat Tumtag-gegeben, wo an einem Turntag von 5 bis 10 Uhr abends im Durch-schnitt ca. 320 Turner und Turnerinnen teilnahmen. Geturnt wur-de in vier Gruppen wie folgt: Mädchenzöglinge bis 13 Jahren, Beteiligung ca. 65 Knabenzöglinge " 14 ״ , ״ ca. 100 Damen von 14 aufwärts , ״ ca. 70 Herren von 15 " , 11 ca. 80, und zwar zweimal wöchentlich, zu je 75 Minuten pro Abend. Jetzt aber tauchte ein besonderes Problem auf und das war die Vortur-nerfrage. Bei einer solchen Beteiligung musste vorerst ...
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 194 {y76}
  - 178 - wohnten gewöhnlich eine oder zwei Familien. In Bielitz gab es vier zusammengehörige Familien: Joseph rioses, sein Sohn, Schwie-gersohn, und dessen Vater, der ein halber Rabbiner ist. Joseph Moses ist Factor bei Herrn Grafen v. Haugwitz (dem Besitzer der Herrschaft Bielitz). Es handelt sich hier um die Familie die später den Fami-liennamen Paneth annahm. Es scheint, dass im Jahre 1751 Joseph Moses nebst seinen Schwägern Moss Salomon und Mandel mit ihren Familienangehörigen u. den jüdischen Dienstpersonal die jüdische Gemeinde in Bielitz bildeten - die aber nicht offiziel als solche anerkannt war. Von den Kindern des Joseph ...
• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 195 {y76}
  ... Böhmen stammte). Im Jahre 1736 wurden wieder Zählungen der schlesischen Juden vorgenommen. Die Standesherrschaften hatten ein Verzeich-nis aller jüdischen Heiraten einzureichen, zwischen 1726 - 1736. (Sie berichteten, dass keine Heiraten in Bielitz von Juden vor-kamen). Ein Toleranzsteuerverzeichnis der schlesischen Juden um 1737 führt in der Herrschaft Bielitz vier Juden auf: Josef Moses Abraham Loebl (Kurzwald) Isaac Glatta Moses Hertzka. Am 14* Juni 1738 erschien ein Erlass betreffs der Ausweisung der unpriviligierten Juden aus Schlesien. Die Vertreibung kon-nte aber nicht vollständig durchgeführt werden, weil die Kommerz-kammer, auch ein Teil der Stände für bestimmte Kategorien unter den unpriviligierten ...

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