[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] House Numbers in Polish towns

[Gary Warner]

  Paul,

According to a friend of mine who was born in Poland, originally houses 
were numbered in the order in which they were built.   This worked 
pretty well when the village was only one street, and there were not 
many villages, but as the villages grew and became more complex, and 
also sometimes because a different county owned Poland, then the house 
numbers were completely renumbered.   It is not likely that many houses 
today retain the original house numbers.

Gary Warner


On 10/7/2010 1:12 PM, Paul Rakow wrote:
>     Hello All,
>
>         Has anyone ever managed to interpret the house numbers
>    that show up in some of the older Polish vital records?
>    Were there ever town maps showing house numbers?
>
>          I am wondering, because most of the tax lists I've been looking
>    at were arranged by house number. It would be nice if knowing the
>    number of an ancestor's house could lead you exactly to the right
>    location.
>
>               Paul Rakow
>               rakow at ifh.de
>
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