Where is Annowalu?

[Ceci]

'Annowalu' appears on a Polish passport as the place of birth of a Jewish lady in 1901. I am led to believe that it might be in the Ukraine, but I have not been able to find it. Can anyone help?

Ceci

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Ceci,

how certain are you of the spelling ?

I tried this site: http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm

for Annowalu, which came up with names like Annopol, Annapole (Latvia, Poland) and Annopol' , Annppol'yu (Ukraine).

Maybe posting the name might help. 

A location in Poland/Russia/Ukrain for a jewish person suggest Galicia, parts of which are now in Poland and the Ukraine.
So, try these sitee too:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/index.html  and
http://www.halgal.com/index.htm

Good luck !

[Ceci]

ANNOWALU was clearly written in large capital letters, but I have assumed it used the alphabet I am familiar with!

Thank you for trying to find it and for the websites to try. I will follow them up.

Ceci

[Hackstaple]

Try this one:
UNEWEL 5127 2005 N Poland  67.7 miles SW of Warsaw

[Berlin-Bob]

Do you have any more info. at all ?

I tried this site:  http://gnpswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp   with "annowalu" and got nothing,
I tried again  'beginning with "annow" ' and got

Annowo    54° 11' 00" N 023° 07' 00" E PL61
Annowo    52° 49' 00" N 017° 52' 00" E PL26
Annowka   51° 59' 00" N 018° 14' 00" E PL34
Annówka   51° 40' 00" N 022° 28' 00" E PL45
Annów       51° 39' 00" N 020° 11' 00" E PL51
Annów       50° 56' 00" N 022° 30' 00" E PL45

all in Poland !

I tried http://www.jewishgen.org/ and got Annopol in Poland and the Ukraine,
I strongly suspect they both refer to the same place !

I have a polish colleague   here, but he's not in yet. I'll ask him later.

[Berlin-Bob]

My colleague is here now, so I asked him. He found the place name "Annowal" in a polish database.

It's in Kostopol, a district which was in Galicia (then Poland) and is now in the Ukraine !!


I then googled "annowal" and got this site: http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org/BDC_Files/gp.htm

the main site: http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org/  looks interesting, too !

don't know if that helps any further, but it at least Annowal is looking good !

ps.
Just a thought, maybe "Annowalu" should have been written in the passport as "ANNOWAL  U" or ANNOWAL/U", with 'U' for Ukraine ??

[GreySquirrel]

Could you scan it so we can see?

It might be that there is a declension at the end. As you might know, rather than saying "at London" or "from London", Polish grammar expresses the same concept in one word as "London-at" and "London-from" (but obviously without the hyphens).

I assume it's definitely not in the Cyrillic alphabet?

[Ceci]

Hello Berlin Bob,

Thank you for all your help - and your friend's - it's looking good. I am trying to find this out for a friend and have now got an image of the place in question. Actually 'Annowalu' is where she was domiciled, but her place of birth is also causing a problem. I am trying to post an image of both places but am not sure how to go about it. I only started using this website yesterday! Will keep trying. For now, the second 'a' in Annowalu appears as lower case so is perhaps an 'o' and the 'u' could be a 'v'. Her place of birth is more difficult to read but looks like 'Male Siedlierere'

Regards Ceci

[Ceci]

Hi Berlin Bob,
I have attached the images. I hope it works!

Ceci