Families: The Dakss Family of Galicia

Records of the Dakss family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 222 records for the surname Dakss (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:

• Geniemin DACHS
  1820 property record from Przemyśl, City, Franciscan Survey (1819-1820)
• Jcek DAX
  1820 property record from Przemyśl, City, Franciscan Survey (1819-1820)
• Haskel DAX
  1820 property record from Sołotwina Franciscan Survey (1820)
• Isral, son of Josel DACHS and Lea
  1828 birth record from Mościska Jewish Births (1827-1882)
• Josua ZING, son of ZING and Rechel
  1828 birth record from Mościska Jewish Births (1827-1882)
• Leib, son of and Riwe
  1830 birth record from Mościska Jewish Births (1827-1882)
• Ester, daughter of Kohs and Rechel
  1830 birth record from Mościska Jewish Births (1827-1882)
• Leib, son of LAUTER and Riwe DAXS
  1830 death record from Mościska Jewish Deaths (1827-1885)
• Ester, daughter of Koffe ZING and Rechel DAKS
  1830 death record from Mościska Jewish Deaths (1827-1885)
• Hersch DAX
  1830 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 222 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 Dakss family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 176 search results for the surname Dakss 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.

• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 466 {y94}
  ... became extremely close in time; I suffered with her and shared her feelings. All my worries centered around her and her feelings were the measure of my own. As to uncle, you need have no worries. He is well, thank God, though he does look older, now that he has shaven off his beard. He is a very clean person and keeps his house in order, though we sometimes come in to give it a thorough cleaning. He takes the midday meal with us; changes his underwear as usual. When he calls in a washer-woman we come in to help and afterwards do the ironing. Sarah Sarah Levite The following letter was written by my sister. Sarah Levite ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 514 {y94}
  ... cantillates : "Ya’amod he’hattan I** it is a sign to "beverfen" — uuts and sweets are thrown at the reading table from the women’s gallery, to the joy of the children who tumble about on the floor tram-pling the candy in the melee. In the afternoon a party is given at the bridegroom’s home, called "far-schpiel’’ (Introductory melody coming before the ac-tual wedding music). At this party the bridegroom takes leave of his batchelor companions. It is worth noting that he usually leaves not only his friends but the shtetl itself, to make his home with the bride’s family to which his own family will be attached. It is at this farewell party that the older bat-chelors are compensated for the indignity of being ilways ignored at all other ceremonies — here they are the guests of honor ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 519 {y94}
  ... loose a certain amount of the materials in their hands and the resulting contact might imme-diately engender the most dangerous reaction — "Ha-metz" ! (fermentation). Like a baby from its tub the dough is taken out of the bowl and divided into "teyglach" among the working women who begin forming them into matzes. The "Erster Oyven" wanders around among them, hurrying them on by ... crying "A matze in oyven arrein !" (a matze for the oven!). Before the oven sits the "schieber", the flames reflected in his shiny face and rivers of sweat flowing down his beard and side-locks. He turns the half-finished matzes, takes out the finished ones with
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 523 {y94}
  ... wretch, the feminine readers, always prone to tears and espe-dally so during the Days of Awe, are so overcome by the bitter fate of the just man and his suffering that their tears overflow. Though it is a fact that the "Meise norah" has a way of ending happily, the women, slow readers with little time for this occupa-lion, usually find themselves stuck in the middle of " ... !" to one of the youths who had long been waiting to be called to help. Quick as lightning he is there, before the "Ba’al toke’ah" should recover and regain control over the instrument. Confidently the youth takes the shofar in his hand, and Satan, who had been stuck inside it, been liberally spat on, squeezed and exhausted, gives in quickly and gets out. The shofar blasts like a war-trumpet and the congrega-tions is so ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 527 {y94}
  ... buying and selling, now stand The insulted party tries to turn around for a re-buttal but the publican, who has him in a strangle-hold, whispers in his ear that it doesn’t befit a wise man and a respectable house-owner like himself to pay any attention to the babblings of a drunken sot ! In the meantime he thrusts him outside and shuts the door behind him with a sigh of relief. Sometimes Scene 1 of the above Act takes place in a far corner, unnoticed by the busy publican. By the time he realizes what is going on it is too late ! The fight is at its highest and not only can he not separate the protagonists but he must take care not to be caught between them, when he would be in real trouble. The fire breaks out quickly, each side finds reinforcement among relatives and friends ...

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