Catching up - Salakas town plan 1901

In March 2009 qualified donors received a 1901 town plan of Salakas showing owners of every lot in the town at 7 MB size. The quality of the plan is terrific: print it in colour on A3 and it would look good framed on the wall. The snapshot here does not do it justice.

The plan shows the lot numbers and the names of all the Jewish owners of land and buildings - and all the communal properties.

Compare the pictures to the contemporary satellite view from google http://tinyurl.com/ab5beff - the accuracy is remarkable.

The lists of owners includes:

ARNIST, ASANOVICH, AVERBUKH, AZHINSKY, BAK, BARAKOVSKY, BARST, BEGAM, BEKER, BERMAN, BICHIK, BLEKHMAN, BLEYMAN, BLOSHTEYN, BRAUDO, BRAVO, BRIND, BRINKER, BYK, DEYCH, DUBINOVSKY, EPSHTEYN, EVELSON, EYDELMAN, FELMAN, FRIDLIAND, GADON, GAMBURG, GARBER, GELMAN, GELPERIN, GINDEN, GINDIN, GINZBURG, GLEZER, GLUSHAK, GOLIAND, GORDON, GUTERMAN, IOFE, ITSIKSON, KAGAN, KAMZUL, KARASIN, KATS, KHAIT, KHARMATS, KHAYT, KLAVER, KOPILOVSKY, KORB, KRUZ, KUPERMAN , KUSLEN, LEVIN, LIBERMAN, LIMOVICH, LOPEYKO, LUBOCHKA, MALEROVICH, MALEROVICH , MARGOLIS, MILER, MORDKHOVICH, NEKHEM, OBUZ, OLD CEMETERY , PLOTKA, PODVICH, RAKHMAN, RIFKIND, RIMER, RITS, RITVA, ROKHMAN, ROZENBERG, RUBINSHTEYN, SEGAL, SHAPIRO, SHER, SHERMAN, SHEYNES, SHLIAKHTER, SHMIT, SHTEYN, SHUR, SOLTAN, STRASHUN, SYNAGOGUE, TARN, TEYKHMAN, TSIBEL, TSINMAN, WULFSON, YUDELEVICH, ZAK, and ZURAT,

"Order, order"

The Speaker of the British Parliament traditionally intones "order, order" to open business. We say "order, order" when we have donations that allow us to place orders for new translations.

Thanks in particular to Maria Krane we are moving ahead with our first 2007 orders.

The tiny shtetl of Tauragnai has few records, so we're aiming to get them all. Interestingly one set of records from 1880 is a list of "Jews transferred from Salakas". There is also a similar list for 1875 for Antaliepte. There are no similar lists for other shtetls. What happened in Salakas to cause enough movement for special lists of this type?

Salakas researchers can look forward to the 1876 Salakas family list - to fill in the long gap between the 1845 and 1887 lists - and the 1901 Real Estate Owners list with a town plan. The plan could be quite exciting. There are also Real Estate Owner lists for Drysviaty, Pandelys and Rimse.

We have some money in hand for further projects - and I'd like your nominations of what to go for next!