Families: The Birn Family of Galicia

Records of the Birn family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 147 records for the surname Birn (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:

• Fela, daughter of Dawid Eisig WEISS and Gitel Beila WEISS
  birth record from Nowy Targ Jewish Births (1919-1926)
• Messie BIRN
  death record from Stanisławów Jewish Deaths (1845-1863)
• Marcin BERENT
  1788 property record from Lwów City Josephine Survey (1788)
• Malke BERGIN
  1803 other record from Galicia Jewish Marriage Permissions (1803)
• Feibusz DIMA-D? [DIMAND] and Esther BIRN?
  1807 marriage record from Lwów Jewish Marriages (1801-1866)
• Feiwusch DIMAND and Ester BIRN
  1807 marriage record from Lwów Jewish Marriages (1801-1866)
• Taube, daughter of Michal BERN
  1816 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Mair, son of Wolf BERIN
  1820 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Sara A-BERN?, daughter of Isak and Feige
  1820 birth record from Jezierzany Jewish Births (1815-1873)
• Marim BIEREN, daughter of Chaim and Chaje
  1820 birth record from Lwów Jewish Births (1816-1822)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 147 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 Birn family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 186 search results for the surname Birn 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.

• Biecz Yizkor Book (1959), image 319 {y69}
  ... which have been destroyed in our days. It does not matter in what laguage such valuable data is written down, all that matters is to save all that is still there to be saved. For months and years the thought torments: shall we really remain so indifferent? The heart aches — are we not strong enough to establish a monument — be it even a modest one — in memory of our little Steitale, the place in which we were born and lived and breathed? Beicz was a small community, but it boasted of a strong Jewish tradition, 200 years old; it was a town of learned people, intellectual and Talmudistic scholars, and generous donors, a small town with its small aspirations which led its own original life between Eastern and West-em Galicia. The only witness of its glorious past re-mained ...
• Bobrka Yizkor Book (1964), image 223 {y80}
  ... NANCY. Niece ZWEBEN ROISE. Niece ZWEBEN lTCIIE Nephew ZWEBEN HELEN. Sister ZWEBEN SARAH. Sister ZWEBEN SAM. Nephew ZWEBEN JANEK Brother-in-law ZWEBEN MUNDEK. Brother-in-law arm iikkman commemorates ZUCH FAMILY ZirCII MALVINA commemorates MOHL FAMILY ERDEN FAMILY ZIPORA pkrlstkin commemorate* ROCK JONAS (the only survivor of the Rock Family!, who died recently in New-York. MILLET - BERN ST KIN SHIRLV commemorates WILLIG DAVID. Son of LEIB WILLIG and wife WILLIG CHAVAH. Duaghter of SHMIEL TUNE WILLIG SHMIEL. Son of DAVID WILLIG WILLIG CHANAH. Daughter of DAVID WILLIG NASS MORRIS and BERNARD commemorate FAND HERSH. Father FAND (NASS) CHAN A GOLDE. Mother NASS SCHULIM. Brother NASS SARA. Sitter NASS SOLOMON. Uncle and I child FAND WOLF ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 354 {y94}
  ... In loving memory פון מייגע טייערע וועלכע זענען דערמאררעט געווארן of my beloved husband דורך די רוצחים saul (שלמה) kessler ז״ל מייגע עלטערן: the son of Simon Aron ן׳״ל נפתלי און לאה פייט Born in Brzozow 1907 מייגע ברידער: died In U.S.A. 1981 לייביש און עקיבא He was a good honest person מיין שוועסטער: חנה ד׳ ינקום דמם יהי זכרו ברוך פאראייביקט ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 384 {y94}
  ... suburb of Petah-Tikva. In time and after much labor these farms produced vegetables and fruit, and the small hen-coops supplied eggs and meat as needed. It was also there that their two sons were born, Baruch and Arik. A year later Moshe, obeying the call of the national institutions, enlisted in the Supernumerary Police and was active in the ,,Haganna". With the outbreak of the War of Independence ... same synagogue and whose shops were next door to each other. When I was still a child, my grandfather, of blessed memory, used to send me with a bowl of "Mishloah Manot" (sweetmeats) every Purim to Reb Shimeleh Parness of blessed memory — Moshe’s grana.ather. Reb Shimeleh had a limp and used a walking stick. He would sit smoking a long, twisted pipe which never left his mouth. These two, ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 401 {y94}
  ... book 44Tsenah-Urenah" (a Yiddish translatin of the five books of Moses). My father relasced and read the "Sedran" (section assigned for weekly reading), then went to the Beyt Hamidrash for worship and to study the "Gemarah", as well as reading other books that he favored. By this time we were a family of six : my parents and four children with the addition of my brother Meyer Leib born in 1917. The older children helped out in the store to relieve my parent’s burden. My father was well-known as a "Baal-Tzdakah" (Charity man) and also as a supporter of the local merchants with 44Gemilath Chessed" (a loan without interest. My mother had her favorite "Tzdakah" (charity) which was the "Pushke" (poor-box) of Reb. Meyer Baal Haness. There my father made many friends among the elder ...

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