Families: The Better Family of Galicia

Records of the Better family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 240 records for the surname Better (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:

• Jankiel BEITER
  1787 property record from Lwów Żółkiew District No. 3 Josephine Survey (1787)
• Marcin WOYTERZ
  1787 property record from Lwów Halicz City District Josephine survey (1787)
• Jankiel BEITER
  1788 property record from Lwów Halicz District No. 1 Josephine Survey, part 2 (1787-1788)
• Jankiel BEITER
  1788 property record from Lwów Kraków suburbs Josephine Survey, part 3 (1788)
• Moschke BITTER
  1789 property record from Lwów Żółkiew District No. 3 Josephine Survey (1789)
• Isaac BITGER and Rase HITZIGEN
  1803 marriage record from Lwów Jewish Marriages (1801-1866)
• Nechemje, son of Berel BAWER?/BETTER? and -
  1806 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Chaye BEITER
  1809 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• ?, child of N [Nescio=not known] RITES?/RITER?/BITER? and -
  1811 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1805-1872)
• Dresel BETTE?/BENNIE?/BENNE?, daughter of Chaim
  1813 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 240 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 Better family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 49 search results for the surname Better 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.

• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 246 {y32}
  ... son, Reb Itzele. Subsequently Reb Itzele acquired the rabbinate in Zavichost. Congress Poland, and his son Reb Avigdor succeeded to the rabbinate. He was the last Rabbi Baranow was privileged to have. Unlike his predecessors Reb Avigdor was social minded. Though lacking the scholarly eminence of his father, he was the one instrumental in con-verting the large Besdin room into a center of learning. Here the "BETTER" lx›ys spent many hours poring over Talmudic tomes. The Rov himself conducted a shiur with some of the more promising boys. He saw in Zionism the very antithesis of Orthodoxy. The restlesncss of the younger generation, its flight from the Talmud to secular education, its becoming lax in observing the mores and taboos of tradition he attributed to the Zionists. Undismayed ...
• Biecz Yizkor Book (1959), image 320 {y69}
  ... against such elements that we are ordered "not to for-get". As this is a memorial document which is meant for the coming generations, it should include the past history, because the life of the community was full of national and cultural events; Beicz was not a community of gyp-sies or of degenerated people, its men were cultured, they held high human and national ideals and aimed for a better and peaceful world. We should therefore devote out time to express all we know about the past, and all those who can help to fulfill this holy task will be welcome and blessed. We repeat to our brethren in America that they are welcome to write in any language they please; it is the contents that matters, the perpetuation of a destroyed community, and this should be an ever-lasting ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 243 {y80}
  ... married to a girl from Rohatin. another small town in Galicia. They left for the United Stales right after the wedding, which indicates that Itchc Bromberg was the first Boiberker who emigrated to America. In 1890. another of Emil Bromberg's uncles. Ychudah Halwcil or Yide Koklcr came to New York. After a sojourn of several years, he returned to Boibcrkc. but again he couldn't better his economic condition and when he learned that the Brazilian Government had sent a commission to Galicia to lure working people to Brazil, he joined the group and went there. However, he couldn't stand the hot climate of the country and returned again to Boibcrkc. This time he tried hard to remain there, but again he couldn't better his economic condition. By this time he had very little money, not even ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 244 {y80}
  ... worked hard and long hours, since the trade unions were still in their infancy and could render little assistance. They managed from time to time to send money to their families whom they had left in Boibcrkc. Eventually they During the latter part of the 19th century many Jews of eastern Galicia, including many from our township of Boibcrkc, sought to better their economic condition by emigrating. Most of them went to the United States, where they knew that able-bodied men willing to work could earn a fairly good living. There was a valid reason for their eagerness to leave Boiberke. The town was situated in eastern Galicia, a province of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, which had its industries in other provinces, chiefly in Bohemia (now Chechoslovakia) and Upper Austria. Galicia ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 249 {y80}
  ... income. As of the year 1765. the net income to the Mayor was 1324 zlotys and the expenses to keep up his office. 346 zlotys. In 1687. the Saymek. or Congress in Warsaw, advised the deputies from Boibcrkc and Yanow that the townships could again forego all taxes, since the townships had suffered from fires which had destroyed all their houses. In order again to help Boibcrkc to better its economic conditions. King August III permitted the town to have four fairs each year instead of two. Each fair lasted for several days, and the benefit to Boiberkc was considerable. In 1773 Boiberkc. along with all of Galicia, was annexed by Austria. In the early years Boibcrkc belonged to the Zlotchowcr District; later the town was made part of the Bcrziancr District. In 1780 ...

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