Jewish Gem's Genealogy: Mining for Your Elusive Ancestors: ULANOW: 1875-1876 NOTARIAL ACTS [1-146] AND LISTS OF NAMES

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

ULANOW: 1875-1876 NOTARIAL ACTS [1-146] AND LISTS OF NAMES

From: "105/ Files of the Imperial-Royal Notary Filip Jendel in Ulanow". https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4553

The Polish notaries performed official acts, such as drawing up notarial deeds, witnessing signatures, providing safety for important documents, making official copies, taking declarations, etc.

In Poland, the law requires that a notary be used for: residential sales, making property agreements, starting certain businesses, making wills, etc.

A Polish notarial act is an official paper proving a legal agreement or action.

Notarial records often contain biographical information: Family relationships, property descriptions, others involved in transactions (business partners, witnesses, family members), dates & locations, cross-references to other documents or legal proceedings.) Historical notarial documents often reference previous agreements or transactions, which might lead to additional records about the same person that weren't immediately obvious in the alphabetical index.

Once you've examined all the deeds associated with the numbers you found: organize the info. chronologically to create a timeline of the person's documented legal activities. this will help to understand the person's life story as told thru official legal records. Note gaps that might point you toward other types of records or different notaries who might have additional information about this person.

The link for this particular file shows two parts: Index (to the deeds) and Notarial Deeds (the actual documents related to the names in the Index).

To locate documents affiliated with a particular person:

A. Click on "Index". https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4553

Use the alphabetical index (written by last name then first name) to find a person of interest---click on the numbers, https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4553-sy2-se

or move page by page (upper left corner: "next" or "previous").

(it will be in Polish unless you used a translator)

Sample Page:

Notice the number (s) next to each person's name. Sometimes there are multiple numbers for a person because they might have had different types of legal transactions, conducted business over several years, or were involved in family matters requiring multiple documents.

These numbers are the document numbers. Each number from the index list corresponds to a deed with the identical number, which usually appears in the top left corner of the deed's first page:

The same person may also appear in the index more than once because the name was spelled in various ways.

B. When you have found a name of interest go to the "Notarial deeds marked with numbers 1-146" register & click on it:

https://skanoteka.genealodzy.pl/id4553

Click on any number (unfortunately, for this particular notary file, the numbers do not match the numbers next to a person's name) then move forward/back, as necessary [use "next photo] or "previous photo", top left corner of document], to find the desired document, matching the the number, following a person's name' to the document number on the documents first page. [NOTE: the document number usually has the letters, L.R, in front of it. The other number at the top of pages are page numbers belonging to a particular document]