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    1. Two Dzikows: Which One? / Reading old handwriting help needed
    2. Weissman
    3. Hi Guys, Any help on the following matters would be greatly appreciated. As some of you know, my Busia came from a Galician town called Dzikow; that should be simple enough, but now I'm confused. I thought her town was part of Tarnobrzeg, based on my visit to the Holocaust Museum Library (where I looked it up in Where Once We Walked) and listings on the Jewish cemeteries database on the net. It all seemed to add up, because until now this was the only Dzikow I could find in what used to be Galicia. Browsing through Mapquest the other night, I found another Dzikow in the same general area, but this one is very close to Prezmysl.I do know her town had a high Jewish population because she lived on the edge of the shetl.G. Gressa of the Carpatho-Rusyn group had also found this in one of his Galician indexes, and had e-mailed me about it. Any ideas for searching strategies on this before I order the LDS tapes? I am also having trouble determining her birthplace. The passenger manifest looks like it says Jackow or Jacklow; I'm wondering if it should have been Jaslo, as that town is relatively close to Tarnobrzeg and the other Dzikow.Mapquest does not show a Jackow or Jacklow. Finally, she always said she and my Dziadzia worked in a farm in Schnectady, NY, but the manifest says Bedford something, which I first thought was "Hts (for Heights) or "Flts" (for Flats). The only thing Mapquest and my atlases could find was Bedford Hills, but that is some distance from Schnectady. Any ideas or sources to work on these puzzles would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bonnie Cieslukowski Weissman

    04/04/1997 01:06:59