1929 Polish Business Directory — Nowogródek Province

15,121 Records

Business Directory · Nowogródek Province · Interwar Poland

Background

This database contains names abstracted from the 1929 Polish business directory Księga Adresowa Polski (Wraz z w.m. Gdańskiem) dla Handlu, Przemyslu, Rzemiosl i Rolnictwa [Directory of Poland (including Gdańsk) for Trade, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture]. Names in the section of the directory for Nowogródzkie Województwo (Nowogródek Province) were extracted for this database.

Nowogródek was one of the 16 provinces of inter-war Poland. This area is not in Poland today; it is now in western Belarus, with a tiny portion in southeastern Lithuania. Poland controlled this territory between World War I and World War II. Before WWI, this area was in Vilna, Grodno, and Minsk gubernias of the Russian Empire.

A województwo (voivodie) was a geographic designation of the country of Poland between World War I and World War II, roughly equivalent to a state in the United States or province in Canada. Each województwo was divided into powiats (districts), roughly equivalent to a U.S. county. These powiats were in turn divided into uchastoks, roughly equivalent to U.S. townships.

Nowogródek Province’s seven powiats were: Baranowicze, Lida, Nieśwież, Nowogródek, Słonim, Stołpce, and Wołożyn. (Before WWI, Lida district was in Vilna gubernia, Słonim district was in Grodno gubernia, the other five districts were in Minsk gubernia.)

The descriptions of the towns were written in both Polish and French. All information published in the directory from this province has been included in this database. The database contains 15,122 citations. The entire 1929 directory is available on microfilm in the New York Public Library’s Slavic and Baltic Division, call number [Slav. Reserve 96-7788].

Fields Recorded

Town name (and latitude and longitude, if known)

Powiat — district of Nowogródskie province in which the town was located

Surname of the listed person or business owner

First name, usually just an initial

An “x”, if the business was registered

Street address, if noted

Occupation / Business

Notes — generally the amount of land and/or names of the estate owned by a “landowner”, a rare telephone number, or a hamlet of the town listed

Acknowledgements

Translation and data entry by Ellen Sadove Renck, Coordinator, Lida District Researchers. As additional data becomes available, the searchable Nowogródek Province data will be incorporated into and become a vital part of the JRI-Poland Business Directory Project.

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