You can now restrict results to an arbitrary date range by putting the range in {} after your search term(s). For example, kalter {1903-1923} will restrict results to sources dated 1903-1923 and satisfying any other restrictions you have imposed (e.g., only within Poland). This feature was requested...

A collection of school-related sources has been added to the search engine. You can view a list of the current contents of this collection at http://genealogyindexer.org/school. The current focus is on annual reports from Polish secondary schools, which include lists of students and, sometimes, sepa...

This directory is currently cataloged under Poland, pending re-organization to permit its listing under both Russia and Poland. Section K is a business directory for the following large cities in the Russian Empire (Polish spelling), many of which are not represented in any other directories current...

Some users report being unable to view the images for this directory with Firefox 5, but success viewing them with Internet Explorer 8. This directory contains much valuable information, so do not abandon it if you encounter this problem!

-Logan

Unfortunately, the directories currently on this site have very poor coverage of Volhynia, and I would not expect to find any entries for this village. In the future, I hope to add directories with greater coverage of parts of present-day Ukraine that were not in Galicia (if anyone has such director...

Hello, I am searching for the 1913 Galician business directory. Would anyone know where I can rent the microfilm, what library would have it? Emilia The description of the online version at http://www.pbc.rzeszow.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=2483 suggests that the source institution is Wojewódzka i Mie...

justin_ruch1180, I do not know whether the information in this directory can be used to reclaim assets, either by itself or together with other documentation. I am not aware of anyone having investigated this question.

-Logan

Since the 1940 Latvia Telephone Directory provided by Yad Vashem is organized by locality, if you are only interested in a few small places, you might prefer to manually search those places' entries, rather than rely on the full-text search across the entire directory, which is not 100% accurate (du...

Many of the pre-1939 Polish directories include some government officials, members of the Sejm, etc. but the lists do not cover everyone who worked for the government. I don't know about any comprehensive government directories.

-Logan

You can find Erich Artur Matz in the 1940, 1941, and 1942 General Government Telephone Directories (Amtliches Fernsprechbuch für das Generalgouvernement). Search for: "matz erich"~3 These directories are hosted by the Municipal Public Library in Radom, and their website can be quite slow. ...