Kańczuga Projects
These are all projects that are being coordinated via the Kańczuga Yahoo Group, run by Philip Trauring, Gesher Galicia town historian for Kańczuga. Much of the work, however, will not get done without volunteers who can contribute their time and effort. If you can help with any of the projects listed below (in particular those showing that a coordinator is needed) it would be greatly appreciated by everyone involved.
To contribute to these projects, please join the Yahoo group and post there. If you need to reach me directly, you can e-mail me at philip@trauring.com.
Landsmanshaftn Cemetery Section Photo and Transcription Project
Photographing two cemetery sections in the NY metro area from Kańczuga Landsmanshaftn. Photographs have now been taken of both sections. Next step is to transcribe all the gravestones. After that is completed we can process everything and submit it to JOWBR.
Erste Kańczuger Unt. Verein - Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens, NY
First Kańczuga Society - Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Iselin, NJ
Kańczuga Archival Record Inventory and Indexing Project
We are working with Gesher Galicia to inventory all records in Polish archives connected to Kańczuga, copy them and index the data found in them. Stages:
- Initial Funding ($250 from participants, with additional $250 matching funds from Gesher Galicia) - COMPLETED
- Inventory of L'viv and Przmemysl Archives - IN PROCESS
- Copying of found records
- Transcribing and Translating records
Kańczuga Nearby Villages Inventory Project
We are planning a second inventory project to find out what records exist from 21 nearby towns and villages that have records of families that overlap with Kańczuga. Stages:
- Identify most likely candidate towns and villages - COMPLETED
- Raise funds for all 21 towns - IN PROCESS
- Carry out inventory of all 21 towns
- Create new projects to copy and index records from towns where records found
The current list of towns and villages include:
| Name |
Distance from Kańczuga |
Name |
Distance from Kańczuga |
| Nizatyce | 0.7 Miles E | Zagorze | 3.2 Miles SW |
| Lopuszka Mala | 1.4 Miles SSE | Lopuszka Wielka | 3.5 Miles SSW |
| Zuklin | 1.5 Miles E | Bialoboki | 3.8 Miles NNW |
| Krzeczowice | 2.2 Miles E | Siennow | 3.9 Miles ESE |
| Sietesz | 2.2 Miles W | Gac | 4.1 Miles NNW |
| Ostrów | 2.3 Miles N | Markowa | 5.0 Miles WNW |
| Mikulice | 2.4 Miles NNE | Nowosielce | 5.8 Miles N |
| Siedleczka | 2.5 Miles WSW | Tarnawka | 6.4 Miles WSW |
| Pantalowice | 2.7 Miles SSE | Hadle Szklarskie | 6.9 Miles SW |
| Chodakówka | 2.7 Niles NNW | Jawornik Polski | 9.1 Miles SW |
| Manasterz | 3.2 Miles SW | | |
For full information on this project, and to see the list of surnames we've identified that are known to have lived in these towns, go to the Kańczuga Nearby Villages Inventory Project page.
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) Project
Looking for a volunteer in Israel to coordinate the copying and transcribing of documents related to Kańczuga in the CAHJP. Knowledge of Polish would be useful. - NEEDS COORDINATOR
Documents include:
- supervisor for consideration Abuse Israelite religious community in Kańczuga Hersch Council Zwanziger and solutions because of unlawful municipal filling jobs rabbi in this community. Volume I.
- on consideration of abuse of superior Israelite religious community in Kańczuga the unlawful filling of jobs in the community rabbi. Volume II. etc.
- on the conduct of elections to the Jewish religious community in Kandczudze, with a list of names of members of the municipal nowoobranej. etc.
- on the conduct of elections to the Jewish religious community in Kańczuga.
- A list of the names of teachers chajderów their utrzymających in urban Galicia, etc.
- Statistical report on the activities of starosties Talmudic schools (chajderów). Volume II.
- In the meeting by the Deputy rabbinical functions in Kańczudzie Rabbi Joseph Westreich.
- Correspondence on the establishment of the Association of Jewish orthodox-sjonistycznego "Mizrachi" in m Kańczuga (Statute; inventory of the founders).