Families: The Biron Family of Galicia

Records of the Biron family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 67 records for the surname Biron (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:

• Tymko BITRAN
  1787 property record from Mielnica Josephine Survey (1787)
• Roman BITRAN
  1787 property record from Mielnica Josephine Survey (1787)
• Jacob BERAM, son of Chaim
  1817 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• Henie, daughter of Jsaac WERONE
  1818 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Abraham, son of Jeruchim WERONE
  1822 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Sissia, son of Peysach WERONE
  1822 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Barech, son of Abrh. BEROEN
  1823 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Simme, daughter of Leib WERONE
  1823 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Selde BERAM
  1823 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Debore, daughter of Schaje WERONE
  1824 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 67 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 Biron family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 184 search results for the surname Biron 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 252 {y32}
  ... by the Nazis during their occupation of the town) that bore names of Jews who died some 400-500 years ago. The accuracy of this claim was not established and actual names of deceased arc not available. What is known for certain is that a scries of major fires took place in the 90's of last century. The most damaging one was that in 1898, which caused the central part of town to burn down. The townhall went up in flames and with it all documents that might have shed some light on the history of the township. Baranow was not long in rebuilding. In place of the old wooden hovels new brick structures rose. Consequently Baranow gave the appearance of a young town. The calendar was a casualty of the impact of the fires. Thus, for a long period, events in the community did not occur according ...
• 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 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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