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Warszawa & Praga Homeowners' Lists
(1852, 1864, 1869, 1870 and 1897)
The Warszawa Research Group,
in cooperation with JewishGen Inc., presents the Warszawa Homeowners'
List database.
This database contains over 20,000 entries from five homeowners' lists
for Warszawa (Warsaw), the capital and largest city in Poland; and its
suburbs of Kamionek, Praga, Nowo Praga, Szmilowizna (Szmulowizna).
Today, these suburbs are part of the city proper.
The significance of the Homeowner's Lists
Warszawa vital records (births, marriages and deaths) include the
residence of each person identified (i.e. witnesses, parents, deceased,
bride, groom) by "plot number". In most cases, they do not provide
the actual street number or name. This database will enable a
Warszawa researcher to identify the street name, house number and owner
associated with the individuals in each vital record.
The Homeowner's Lists will also provide the cyrkul (district)
for the plot number. Since vital records were registered by district,
the knowledge of the district number will enable the researcher to identify
the correct set of Jewish vital records (as microfilmed by the LDS Family
History Library).
Click here to review some typical research questions.
The dividing lines between districts varied over time.
This is most evident on the Warszawa Homeowner's list database.
While each inner-city district typically maintained their own vital
record registration, there were periods of time when several districts
combined their vital registration together.
Maps of Warszawa indicating districts can be found on the
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland website at
http://jri-poland.org/warsaw/districts.htm.
Database Sources
This database has been compiled from five sources:
1869:
Przewodnik Warszawski informacyjno-adressowy
[Guide of Warszawa and Address Information] 1869.
(LDS microfilm #1,183,685).
This directory has been digitized by Fundacja "Warszawa1939.pl",
and the entire directory can be found on-line at
http://www.varsaviana.pl/czytelnia.php?numer=00029.
1870:
Przewodnik Warszawski informacyjno-adressowy
[Guide of Warszawa and Address Information] 1870.
(LDS microfilm #1,183,685).
This directory has been digitized by Fundacja "Warszawa1939.pl",
and the entire directory can be found on-line at
http://www.varsaviana.pl/czytelnia.php?numer=00031.
1852:
Taryffa Domów Miasta Warszawy i Praga
[House Tariff for the Town of Warszawa and Praga] 1852.
(New York Public Library, Call number Slav Reserve 99 6219).
This directory has been digitized by Fundacja "Warszawa1939.pl",
and the entire directory can be found on-line at
http://www.varsaviana.pl/czytelnia.php?numer=00033.
1864:
Taryfa Domów Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy i Przedmieścia Pragi
[House Tariff for the Capital City of Warszawa and the Surburb of Praga] 1864.
(Biblioteka Naradowa in Warszawa, Call Number I 2.044.625).
1897:
Taryfa Nieruchomości Miasta Warszawy i Przedomies. Pragi, Nowej Pragi,
Kamionka i Szmulowizny. [Real Estate Tariff for Warszawa and the
Suburbs of Praga, Nowo Praga, Kamionka and Szmulowizna] 1897.
The Contents of the Database
1869 and 1870 are in a combined database (5,659 entries).
The 1869 Homeowner's list contains the following information:
- Given Name —
(Note: In many cases the property was owned by a father and his sons,
in such instances, instead of the given name, the words "sons" is
stated in this field).
- Surname.
- Title (if baron or count).
- Plot number.
- Street Name.
- House number.
- Extensive comments, such as information on storeowners and factories
that are also present at that location.
This field is in Polish, with an English translation in parenthesis.
An example would be:
fabryka wody gazowej Muszkata
(Muszkat's sparkling water factory)
- City: Praga or Warszawa.
- District (cyrkul).
The information was compiled from two lists in the book.
The first was the alphabetical listing of the homeowners.
The list provided the surname, given name and house number.
The second list was a numerical listing of the house number.
This list contained the plot number, street name, house number,
owner's name and comments. In some cases, the spelling of the
surname varied between the two lists for the same person and the database
contains both spelling variations, separated by a slash mark "/".
The 1870 Homeowner's List contains the following information:
- First Initial of Given Name for Warszawa, and full given name for Praga.
(Note: In many cases the property was owned by a father and his sons, in such
instances, instead of the first initial of the given name, the words "sons"
is stated in this field).
- Surname.
- Title (if baron or count).
- Plot number.
- Street Name.
- House Number.
- City: Praga or Warszawa.
- District (cyrkul).
In creating the database, the 1869 and 1870 list were compared.
If the surname and the first initial of the given names matched in the
two lists, then it was assumed that it was the same owner.
All spelling variations of the surname were noted in the surname field
and separated by a slash mark "/". The letter "I" and "J" were
considered a match in comparing the first initial of the given name.
1852 and 1864 Homeowner's Lists:
The 1852 and 1864 Homeowner's Lists were each created independently.
The 1852 and 1864 lists contain 3,348 and 3,420 entries respectively.
An image of the 1864 list is at the right.
The 1852 and 1864 lists are similar in content, with the following
information being recorded:
- Given Name (Note: In many cases the property was owned by a family,
or husband and wife or father and his sons, or brothers.
In such instances, instead of the given name, the family unit is stated,
i.e.: "sons" or "brothers" or "husband and wife" is stated in this field).
- Surname.
- Title (if baron or count).
- Plot Number.
- Street Name.
- District (cyrkul).
- City: Praga, Warszawa, or Warszawa-Powzkowska.
- Comments. (Note: In the 1864 list, the Polish word
"sukcesor" has been translated in the database as "inheritors").
1897 Homeowner’s List
The 1897 Homeowners list is one of the sections of a book titled
Księga Adresowa Miasta Warszawy na 1897 rok.
["Warszawa Address Register for the year 1897"].
This database contain 8,076 entries from the 1897 book.
The entire book has been electronically scanned, and is available
for viewing in PDF format by
clicking here.
[Warning: This is avery large file – 37 MB].
The register contains names of residents, business directory,
advertisements and the Homeowners list.
The 1897 Homeowners list database contains the following information:
- Given Name (Note: In many cases the property was owned by
a family, or husband and wife or father and his sons, or
brothers. In such instances, instead of the given name,
the family unit is stated, i.e. "sons" or "brothers" or
"husband and wife" is stated in this field).
- Surname.
- Title (if baron or count).
- Plot Number.
- Page Number (with link to digitized page, in PDF format).
Each section of Adresowa Miasta Warszawy na 1897 rok.
begins with a new pagination. The page number listed
in the database is the page number of the section and
not of the entire book.
- Police List Number (house number).
- Street Name.
- Cross Street Name.
- Town.
- Comments. (Note: The Polish word "sukcesor" has been
translated in the database as "inheritors").
Other Homeowner Lists Available Online
The following additional Homeowner’s lists are available on-line
but have not been indexed by the
Warszawa Research Group.
Other Warszawa Directories Available Online
An early known list of Warszawa Jewish Homeowners from 1815
was found at the AGAD (Archiwum Glówne Akt Dawnych), the
Central Archives of Historical Records, in Warsaw.
A copy of the list
can be seen here.
In some cases there are no surnames of the homeowner —
just the given name and patronymic. The list also contains
the cyrkuli (district), plot number, street name, the previous
owner's surname, and notes on notarial documents.
An interesting entry in this 1815 list is the fourth entry,
which contains the only female homeowner at the time:
Judita (Yehudis) Jakobowiczowa.
A picture of her, together with her husband Shmuel Zbytkower,
appears in the Yiddish-language yizkor book Pinkas Varshe,
published in Buenos Aires in 1955. This picture, with an
English translation of sections of this book, is available on the
JewishGen Yizkor Book website.
The Warszawa neighborhood of "Szmulowizna" (which is listed in the
1897 Directory) was named after its founder, Szmul Jakobowicz Zbytkower
(also know as Józef Samuel Sonnenberg), who lived from 1727-1801.
Acknowledgements:
This database was compiled through the dedicated efforts of volunteers
of the Warszawa Research Group.
Many thanks to Rose Feldman, Max Heffler, Kate Hibel, Hadassah Lipsius and
Lynn Stern, and to our hosts at JewishGen and their database team.
What types of questions can this database answer?
1. Before my grandparents came to America, they lived at
4 Franciszkanska Street. Who owned that property?
A "global text search" of the database by street name and number will provide
the information that in 1869 and 1870, that property was owned by GOLDWASSER.
2. The Warszawa vital records were registered by districts.
If I know my family lived at 4 Franciskanska Street, can I find out what
district that was in?
A "global text search" of the database by street name and number will
indicate that this address was also plot number 1808.
In 1869 it was listed as being in district II, and in 1870 it was in
district II & III. Since the 1852 and 1864 lists only identify
the plot number and not the house number, an additional global text search
by plot number 1808 will reveal that in the 1852 it was in district 4 and
in 1864 it was in district 2.
3. I found a record in the LDS microfilms for my family that
shows they lived at plot number 1808. What street is that on and
who owned that property?
A "global text search" of the database by the plot number will yield
a result showing the street name, house number and owners for the 1869
and 1870 homeowners' list.
4. Did my MUSZKAT and WINAWER family own any property in Warszawa
in the years covered by the database?
A "surname" search of the database for the family surnames MUSZKAT and
WINAWER yielded several results, including the fact that they owned a
sparkling water factory.
Search the Database
The Warszawa Homeowners' Database is searchable via the
All Poland Database.
Last Update: 26 Jun 2012
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