Families: The Biron Family of Galicia

Records of the Biron family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 73 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 73 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 185 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 228 {y80}
  ... Bolechovcr landsman Bernard Scmcl to send him papers and passage money. However just as the began to fill out his papers for America, something snapped in him and he decided then and there to go to Palestine. He had no trouble adjusting and having learned English while in Harbin, he secured a position as a teacher of that language. The Beth Scfcr Rcalli, a high school in Haifa where Dr. A. Biram was Director, was Dingol's home for more than thirth-fivc years. His wife who was much more Pole than even he was. at first was reluctant to go to Palestine, once she got there she became one of the most ardent lovers of Erctz Israel. Later, when he received his Doctorate, Dingot, who was never interested while in Boiberkc in anything that smacked of the Jewish religion, became a pious ...
• 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, ...

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