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Elzbieta Porteneuve
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Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:27 am Post subject: Geographic aids to Research

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http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/
Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich. Piętnaście tomów.
Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries. Fifteen volumes. Warszawa : nakł. Filipa Sulimierskiego i Władysława Walewskiego, 1880-1914

Available online, see more here
http://polishorigins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12335#12335

and explanations about this Dictionnary
http://polishorigins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12339#12339

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Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z oznaczeniem terytorjalnie im właściwych władz i urzędów oraz urządzeń komunikacyjnych; Index of localities of the Republic of Poland with designation of competent authorities and offices, including communication facilities
Przemyśl: Książnica Naukowa, rok 1933?, Redaktor [Publisher]: Tadeusz Bystrzycki
Compiled by: Jozej Majewski, secretary of national police, Witold Blazynski, justice of regional court
More than 2000 pages.
On line in various places, for example:
http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=12786&from=publication

Uzupelnienia, czesc 2, stron 124, Przemysl 1937-38
Addendum, part 2, 124 pages, Przemysl 1937-38
Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z oznaczeniem terytorjalnie im właściwych władz i urzędów oraz urządzeń komunikacyjnych : uzupełnienia. Z. 2. / oprac. kom. red. pod kierunkiem Tadeusza Bystrzyckiego.
http://ebuw.uw.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=810&from=publication

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Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:59 am Post subject:

Just a word of caution about one bit of information in the link to explanations about this Dictionary: The reference to GPS locations in some of the entries requires some explanation. Many of the entries give the longitude according to the Ferro system, i.e. as measured from Ferro (El Hierro) in the Canary Islands rather than from Greenwich, England. Ferro lies 17 degrees 39' 46" west of Greenwich. In order to get the correct longitude in the contemporary system it is necessary to subtract 17 degrees 39' 46" from the Ferro system longitude as listed in many entries in the Slownik. This is just a technicality but an important one if you want to locate a village based on the entry in the dictionary.

Dave

Elzbieta Porteneuve
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Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:00 am Post subject:

Dave, thank you very much for making us aware about that ambiguity!

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Elzbieta
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 7:07 pm Post subject: SGKP names of villages in Suwalki area

I found it by chance, searching for names of villages in the parish Sereje, today Lithuania.

http://linia-polnocna.internetdsl.pl/SGKP/index.html

Someone made an alphabetic index of villages in Suwalki area based on the old geography book
http://dir.icm.edu.pl/Slownik_geograficzny/

God bless this Good Man.

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Elzbieta

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