Cadastral Map of Krakow

Randy Schoenberg C

10/7/2015 at 12:25 AM

Marla Raucher Osborn reported on FB https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1230142157003279&set=gm...

If you have family roots in Kraków, you will want to spend time with this gorgeous and highly detailed historic 1856 cadastral map for the city that has just been uploaded to the Gesher Galicia, Inc. Map Room by map room coordinator Jay Osborn:

http://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/krakow-krakau-cracow-1856/

This is a complete, partially-colored, lithographed cadastral map of the city
of Kraków, including seven suburbs, and Kazimierz is still an island between branches of the Wisla (Vistula) River! The modern city is easily recognizable in this 160-year-old map, which includes a complete record of building and parcel numbers. All the features of an important 19th-century city are shown, including hospitals, theaters, government and military buildings, schools, brickworks, breweries and a vodka distillery, several synagogues (the Kupa synagogue is labeled) and two large Jewish cemeteries, dozens of churches and monasteries, several meyerhofs, the Wawel castle, and a southeastern rail extension dating
from the same year as this map. Images for this map were provided
by the Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie.

On the online map page of the National Archive in Kraków you can also
see alternate versions of some of the map sheets included in our
image; some of those alternate sheets are fully colored and very
beautiful:

http://szukajwarchiwach.pl/29/280/0/9.1/1152/str/1/1/30

Pam Karp C

10/7/2015 at 6:21 AM

Details and links have been added to the project.

We badly need more helpers to complete the remaining profiles.

Please try and assist with adding more of the family names not yet marked COMPLETED.

http://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Families-of-Krak%C3%B3w-Poland/...

Jose Henrique Lamensdorf (1952-2018)

10/12/2015 at 5:30 AM

"Kraków genealogia dla głupich ludzi"???
(My best attempt at "Krakow Genealogy for dummies".)

I have tons of people to add there, both in listed and unlisted names, mostly organized on MyHeritage.

However I haven't figured HOW I should proceed about it. I entered both my parents' names in the proper field, but nothing happened. Does this system query them on Geni/MyH/other databases and do the rest? How do they get linked/matched?

What would be the cutting point?
My parents were born in Krakow, for sure, but I was born in Brazil.
My guess is that I should be OUT.

My whole point in genealogy was to connect "dismembered" relatives, to connect the numerous Lamensdorfs in the USA to their Krakow origin.

The research paid off last year, in 2014. I finally discovered that my second great-grandfather, his wife, a number of their children (though not all) with spouses and children, moved to the USA in 1880. Some of these couples had more children in America, grandchildren for sure, so these were not born in Krakow. This is why I wonder about the cutting point.

My great-grandfather was one who stayed in Krakow, and had enough descendants to build a relatively numerous family. AFAIK my parents were the last Lamensdorfs to leave Poland, in 1949.

So I wonder how I could help... properly!

There is a fast GEDCOM highway from Geni to MyHeritage. However the way back via SmartCopy resembles more a Tarzan swing in terms of moving people in the quantity I have. If Geni were able to merely SEARCH directly on MyH, and add one at a time, this would be much easier.

Are clear and complete instructions "for dummies" to the Krakow project available anywhere?

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