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1849 Cadastral Map of Kańczuga at the Przemyśl Archive

A stitched-together copy of the 1849 Cadastral Map of Kańczuga has been available since 2014 in the Gesher Galicia Map Room, which was scanned and stitched together as part of the Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map and Landowner Records Project, organized for Kańczuga and nearby villages through this site. This map was mentioned in the article 1849 Kańczuga cadastral map and house index.

While reviewing documents in the Przemyśl Archive recently, I came across their scans of the same map, in parts, and wanted to share the link to that version as well. Unfortunately those scans have watermarks from the archive, but I still think it’s nice to have another version of it for those who want to review the map.

1849 Cadastral Map of Kańczuga
1849 Cadastral Map of Kańczuga

You can see part of the archive’s watermark in the above image – the shaded square and the red square that both overlay part of the town name at the bottom of the map.

Due to the compression on the Przemyśl Archive version, and the way that Gesher Galicia does their zooming, you can probably still get a better up close look at the details on the Gesher Galicia version, so I would still suggest using the Gesher Galicia version when looking for specific locations on the map, but you can share the Przemyśl version, so it’s good to have both versions.

Books about Kańczuga

Thanks to Marla Raucher Osborn, who shared a photo of a book about Kańczuga with me on Facebook. That book, Kańczuga. Miasto i gmina. Dziedzictwo kulturowe, is about the cultural history of the town, and includes a section on the Jewish cemetery in Siedleczka. When trying to track down this book, I found that the publisher, Podkarpacki Instytut Książki i Marketingu, has actually published four books about Kańczuga, although all are out of print. Those books are:

Kańczuga. Miasto i gmina. Dziedzictwo kulturowe
(Kańczuga. Town and Municipality. Cultural Heritage.)
l-kanczuga._miasto_i_gmina._dziedzictwo_ku
Kańczuga. Miasto i Gmina
(Kańczuga. Town and Municipality.)
l-kanczuga._miasto_i_gmina
Kańczuga i okolice. Przewodnik
(Kańczuga and its surroundings. A Guide.)
l-kanczuga_i_okolice._przewodnik
Historia Miasteczka Kańczugi pisana 1889 r.
(History of the town of Kańczuga. Written 1889.)
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The first three seem to essentially be guidebooks. The last one is perhaps more interesting, as it is a re-print of a book written in 1889 about the history of Kańczuga. It was written by a priest, and apparently was based on many documents he found in the church there, so I have no idea how much, if any, deals with the Jewish community, but being as it was written when the Jewish community was still a major portion of the town, it would be interesting to read.

Of course, all of these books are written in Polish, and hard to find on top of that since they’re all out of print. If I knew we had someone willing to translate the important parts of these books, I would try getting copies of them. If you can read and translate Polish, and want to help out, let me know.

Kańczuga resident books 1931-1944

Thanks to Logan Kleinwaks (of genealogyindexer.org) who recently posted about the existence of two books that list residents of Kańczuga, which it seems cover the years 1931-1944.

kanczuga-registerbook-excerpt

These are actually part of a larger number of scanned documents (24 as of this writing) related to Kańczuga, which include:

Reference CodeTitleDatesScanned Pages
56/133/0/1/1Akta dotyczące zezwoleń na odbywanie targów i jarmarków w Kańczudze1874-190513
56/133/0/1/2Materiały dotyczące historii miasta i ustalenia wyglądu herbu oraz dziejów akt miejskich1917-193828
56/133/0/1/3Zaproszenia z porządkiem zebrań Rady Gminnej w Kańczudze1914-192498
56/133/0/1/4Mowa inauguracyjna Burmistrza dr A. Sawickiego na I Posiedzenie Rady Miejskiej po reorganizacji władz samorządu miejskiego193412
56/133/0/1/5Akta dotyczące poprawy stanu sanitanitarnego miasta i pożyczki z Funduszu Pracy na zatrudnienie bezrobotnych przy pracach związanych z kanalizacją miasta1934-193937
56/133/0/1/6Akta dotyczące projektów oświetlenia miasta prądem elektrycznym oraz umowa na dostarczenie prądu przez Fabrykę Karoserii w Kańczudze1922-193312
56/133/0/1/7Preliminarze i zamknięcia rachunków Miejskiego funduszu Szkolnego na lata 1930-19331930-193116
56/133/0/1/8Roczne sprawozdanie rachunkowe za rok 1937/38193842
56/133/0/1/9Budżet miasta wraz z budżetami przedsiębiorstw komunalnych na rok 1938/391938-193945
56/133/0/1/10Podatki i opłaty010
56/133/0/1/11Protokół czyności Rady Szkolnej Miejscowej w Kańczudze za rok 1929-1931193113
56/133/0/1/12Akta dotyczące Publicznej Szkoły Powszechnej im. Króla Jana Sobieskiego1919-193411
56/133/0/1/13Podania i prośby obywateli1922-192311
56/133/0/1/14Status fundacyjnego "Domu Ubogich" wraz z regulaminem1926-193910
56/133/0/1/15Spis uczestników na uroczystość wbijania gwoździ do sztandaru Ochotniczej Straży Pożarnej193813
56/133/0/2/16Budżet na rok 1939/40193939
56/133/0/2/17Roczne sprawozdanie rachunkowe za rok 1939/40194034
56/133/0/2/18Budżet miasta oraz Fundacji "Dom Ubogich" na rok 1940/41194042
56/133/0/2/19Roczne sprawozdanie rachunkowe za rok 1941/42194241
56/133/0/2/20Budżet przedsiębiorstw miejskich oraz "Fundacji Ubogich" na rok 1942/43194213
56/133/0/2/21Roczne sprawozdanie rachunkowe z przeprowadzonego okresu budżetowego 1942/43. Zamknięcia rachunkowe przedsiębiorstw miejskich oraz Fundacji Ubogich za rok 1942/431942-194338
56/133/0/2/22[Budżet na rok 1943/44]. Budżety przedsiębiorstw miejskich "Fundacji Ubogich" oraz dodatkowe194345
56/133/0/2/23Rejestr mieszkańców Gminy Kańczuga T.I1931-1944161
56/133/0/2/24Rejestr mieszkańców Gminy Kańczuga1931-1944195

The two entries at the end of the above list are the resident books. Links in the table will take you to the page on the State Archives site for that document, which shows a summary of information on the document. Click on the tab at the top that says ‘Digital copies’ to see the thumbnails of the scans for the document, and click on the thumbnails to load a larger version of each image.

As the user interface for navigating and viewing the larger images is a bit difficult, I’ve created PDFs of each book, which can be downloaded from this site. The pages are not as big as the original, and are compressed more than the original, in order to be possible to download (as it is the files are each over 60mb – but if I had just combined the original files they would be over 200mb each).

Kańczuga Resident Book 1

Kańczuga Resident Book 2

If you want to get the higher-resolution images, follow the links to the books above (the last two rows of the table), and download the original image(s) that you need.

I haven’t yet had a chance to go through the books and see which names can be extracted yet, and I don’t even know how they’re organized and what years are covered (only the 1931-1944 range given), so if you do go through them and want to help other by commenting below what you’ve found, that would be great.

Thanks also to Marla Raucher Osborn, who spotted Logan’s post before me and posted about it on Facebook.