The Special Interest Group for Galicia
Gesher Galicia is the SIG for those with Jewish roots
in the former Austrian province of Galicia
Gesher Galicia, Inc. is an organization that promotes Jewish genealogical and historical research in Galicia, a province of the former Austrian Empire. Its goals are to promote a forum for researchers to share information and to promote individual and group research of Galicia.
This web site contains information about Gesher Galicia, Inc. along with databases, links, and other helpful research information for Jewish-Galician genealogists.
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Gesher Galicia Regional Meetings
Click here for details of the 2011-2012 meetings.
Gesher Galicia is going to Krakow!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Jewish Community Centre of Krakow, Poland
(Centrum Spolecznosci Zydowskiej w Krakowie)
7:00 PM Galician and Polish Genealogical Research
Speaker: Pamela Weisberger
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New England Fall 2011 Regional Meeting
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Temple Emanuel, in Newton Centre, Massachusetts
sponsored by the
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston.
Open to all.
11:30 AM Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting
2:00 PM JGSGB Regular Meeting
"Chutes & Ladders: Creative Approaches to Genealogy"
Pamela Weisberger, Speaker
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New York City Spring 2012 Regional Meeting
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Center for Jewish History in Manhattan
11:00AM Details to be announced.
New! Announcing the All Galicia Database!
This newly-launched search engine currently features more than 175,000 records from 50 different data sources, covering everything from birth, death, marriage and divorce records to phone books, school and landowner records, all from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, which today is part of southeastern Poland and southwestern Ukraine.
Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map &
Landowner Records Project
Description, details, how to contribute to this ongoing project
Searchable Database of Inventories Towns
Go directly to the database to see if there is a completed inventory of maps and record acquisitions for your town. Use the correct Polish or Ukrainian spelling of the town, or go to www.jewishgen.org and enter the town name in Search for a Town for the official spelling.
New book!
A Guide to Jewish Genealogy - Kraków
Gesher Galicia SIG Projects on JewishGen-erosity including Brody Cemetery, Eastern Poland Cemeteries, Yizkor
Books: Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukr.), Lancut (Pol.), Przemysl (Pol.), Rzeszow (Pol.)
Audio Recordings of the May 2011
Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting in NYC
Click here to listen to the recordings.
JRI-Poland / Gesher Galicia LDS Inventories Project
Newly revised inventory of LDS films of Jewish Vital Records from the Lviv Archive. Lviv Metrical Records and updated detailed LDS Inventories
The Lviv House & Street Photography Project
Photographs of streets, buildings and residential addresses in Lviv, Ukraine, taken by Dick Koops in July 2009
Click the title for a description of the project and the thumbnails of the photos in alphabetical order by street name. You may download, save, and add comments about families who lived at these addresses.
Gesher Galicia - Jewish DNA Project
14 Years of The Galitzianer - CD
Collected issues 1993-2007
The Jews of Galicia in 1839 - Book
Conference web site - http://www.dc2011.org
Gesher Galicia Activities at DC2011
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