Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine
Research Resources

Variant shtetl names: Stanislawow (Polish), Stanislavov, Stanislau (German), Stanislav, Stanisle (Yiddish), Ivano Frankovsk (Russian), Iwano Frankowsk (Russian), Ivano Frankivsk (Ukrainian)

Language notes to keep in mind, especially when encountering spelling variations of names and places during research.

Lattitude/Longitude: 46°56´/24°43´

Other information: In addition to the resources linked directly from our Home Page (e.g., maps and photos), following are various sources that Ivano Frankivsk researchers may wish to consult. Some of these references take you outside of our Shtetlinks web, so just hit the "Back" button on your browser to return here:

• SIF (Stanislawow - Ivano Frankvisk) Family Finder - To find a list of members researching families from Ivano Frankivsk, we encourage all researchers to use the centralized JewishGen Family Finder, the Gesher Galicia Family Finder, and also the Family Tree of the Jewish People compilation. In an effort to centralize this data, don't delay in posting and/or updating your information at least to the JewishGen Family Finder .

• Click here to subsribe to the SIF Announcements List. There are very few messages on this list, only an occasional announcement of major importance to researchers for this town.

• If you wish to participate in email discussions about research for Stanislawow and regional Jewish communities, click here and sign up for the Gesher SIG discussion group on JewishGen.

• Jewish cemeteries in Ivano Frankivsk

• Read Translations of Yizkor Book material:

• Arim ve-imahot be-yisrael
• Pinkas HaKehilot - Stanislawow Chapter

• Search for contact and location information about Yizkor books

• Holocaust Information

• JRI-P (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland) project to index the Ivano Frankivsk (Stanislawow) and other Galician  Jewish vital records which are currently held in the AGAD archive in Warsaw. These records are not available anywhere on microfilm.

• To find the location of additional Jewish vital records from Ivano Frankivsk, consult the book by Miriam Weiner, "Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldavia," 1999, YIVO & Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation.

• Travel to Ivano Frankvisk - A 1997 trip by Susannah R. Juni

• 1929 Polish Business Directory - An indexing project is being coordinated by Melody Katz (the Gesher Galicia Research Chair) under the auspices of the JRI-Poland Project. Please contact Melody if you wish to volunteer to type in some of the data for Stanislawow. Be sure to tell her in your email exactly what you're writing about.

• Gesher Galicia - an organization of people researching Jewish Ancestry in the former Austro-Hungarian region of Galicia.

• The Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (New York) website at http://www.jgsny.org has several resources of value to Ivano Frankivsk researchers:

• A listing of  918 landsmanshaftn in YIVO's archives, with Record Group (RG) numbers for easy access when you visit the Center for Jewish History in New York City. For YIVO's smaller collections, included in RG 123, the appropriate Box number is also provided. Use Edit/Find on your web browser to search for "Stanis" to find various spelling variations of the town name.

• A listing of 1487 organizations are listed in The Jewish Landsmanschaften of New York prepared by the Yiddish Writers' Guild of the Federal Writers' Project, Works Projects Administration, published by the I.L. Peretz Yiddish Writers' Group in 1938. This represents less than half of all landsmanschaften known to exist in New York. Not all of these societies have cemetery plots. Search as described above.

• More than 10,000 Jewish burial plots in the Greater New York City area owned by landsmanshaftn (home-town associations), synagogues, family circles, fraternal organizations and labor unions. Many of these are associated with Stanislawow.  It involves data from some 100 cemeteries. The search engine allows you to type in a town name based on its current spelling (i.e., try typing in "Ivano"). It displays the name of the plot (e.g., Independent Stanislauer Lodge #459 IOBA), Cemetery name (Baron Hirsch), and the exact location of the plot within the cemetery (Section A, Gate 109), and society type (landsmanshaft). At another JGSNY site there is a list of New York metropolitan area cemeteries so that you can travel to NYC and search for your ancestors' tombstones.

• Stanislauer Progressive Benevolent Association membership books at YIVO: http://home.att.net/~AdaGalicia/stanisprog.htm transcribed by Ada Greenblatt.

• For a sneak preview of additional Stanislawower landsmenshaften which will eventually be incorporated into the NYC JGS site, click here for the listings on Ada Greenblatt's site. This listing includes the YIVO and WPA lists mentioned above under the JGS listings, plus more.