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	12 May 2012 - Added Light from the Shadows, Light in Darkness – A Survivor’s Story, and Lvov Ghetto Diary to Galician Memoirs - Personal Stories - Books in Life in Galicia 7 May 2012 Added GG Activities and links to details for Paris2012 to the Home Page Moved Audio from the May 2011 GG Regional Meeting in NY to the Spring 2011 sub page at Previous Gesher Galicia Regional Meetings Added GG Spring 2012 Meetings and links to details to the Home Page Updated the Home Page listings and revised their order on the Home Page. 1 May 2012 - Fixed the link from the Krakow Guide page to the GG PayPal page 18 Apr 2012 - Moved Brody Cemetery Project to Gesher Galicia Research Projects 1 Jan 2012 - Added NUMBER 5 - December 2011 to The Galitzianer Newsletter Volume 18 Table of Contents 29 Oct 2011 - Added Guide to Jewish Genealogy - Krakow to its own subpage. 3 Oct 2011 - Updated GG Board of Directors on the Contact GG page 30 Sep 2011 - Added Gesher Galicia Member Pages (Web Sites, Family Histories, Publications) to Resources for Galician Research (Useful Resources) 29 Sep 2011 - Added Galician Memoirs - Personal Stories - Books to Life in Galicia 27 Sep 2011 - Revised Gesher Galicia Member Pages on Resources for Galician Research page. 18 Sep 2011 - Added Audio from the May 2011 GG Regional Meeting in New York to the Home Page 3 Sep 2011 Added NUMBER 4 - August 2011 to The Galitzianer Newsletter Volume 18 Table of Contents 2 Aug 2011 - Added DONATE button to the home page for donations to GG by credit card or PayPal. 1 Aug 2011 Added All Galicia Database to the home page, with link to searchable database Added Gesher Galicia Activities and Galicia Programs and Research Meetings at the DC2011 Conference to the home page, with links to a new secondary page for descriptions, details, and photos Added Brody Cemetery Documentation Project to the home page, with a link to its description and how to donate 26 Jun 2011 Added NUMBER 3 - May 2011 to The Galitzianer Newsletter Volume 18 Table of Contents 11 Apr 2011 - Added Czortkow and Mielnica to the GG Research Groups section of the Research Groups page 19 Mar 2011 Added Videos of Galician Towns subpage to the Life in Galicia page Added Gesher Galicia Spring Regional Meeting in New York City to the home page. 27 Feb 2011 Added Traditional Recipes of our Galitzianer Ancestors subpage to the Life in Galicia page. Added NUMBER 2 - Feb 2011 to The Galitzianer Newsletter Volume 18 Table of Contents 21 Feb 2011 - Added Kanczuga to Town Histories on Research Groups page and created primary page for Research page linking to three new secondary pages 15 Feb 2011 - Updated In Memoriam page 9 Feb 2011 - Added PayPal "Pay Now" button to Join GG web page 16 Jan 2011 - Completed all The Galitzianer Newsletter Tables of Contents 29 Dec 2010 - Added Trauring Genealogy entry to Web sites created by Gesher Galicia members page. 10 Apr 2010 - Added Kollel Galicia to the Other Resources page. 5 Apr 2010 - Added Gesher Galicia Spring Regional Meeting in New York City to the home page. 4 Jan 2010 - Added Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina to the Other Resources page. The history currently focuses on the Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk) Region. 14 Nov 2009 - Added Videos of Galician Synagogues subpage to the Life in Galicia page 13 Sep 2009 - Added Borszczow/Borshchiv to Town Research Groups on Research Groups page 22 Jul 2009 - Updated Maps page. 17 May 2009 - Updated Gesher Galicia contacts on Gesher Galicia Half Day of SIG Activities page regarding the 29th IAGJS Conference on Jewish Genealogy to be held in Philadelphia on August 2-7, 2009. 5 May 2009 - Updated Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map and Landowner Records Project page. 11 Mar 2009 - Updated Main page regarding the 2009 Philadelphia Conference and added "Let us know if you are going" page. 24 Feb 2009 - Updated In Memoriam page 2 Feb 2009 - Updated Email Discussion Group page 31 Jan 2009 - Updated Contacts page 30 Dec 2008 - Revised Main page regarding the 2009 Philadelphia Conference 28 Sep 2008 Added: Fall 2008 Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting to the home page. 27 Sep 2008 Added: International Tracing Service (ITS) at Bad Arolsen to the Research - Databases page. Collection of Symbols Used on Jewish tombstones in Poland and Image Before My Eyes to the Life in Galicia page. 21 Sep 2008 Added Prague Conscription Database (1850-1914) to Databases page. Updated Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map and Landowner Records Project page. 15 Aug 2008 Added: Gesher Galicia Research Projects Projects initiated or supported by Gesher Galicia. The acquisition of data was funded and/or donated by members of Gesher Galicia for he benefit of their fellow researchers. Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map and Landowner Records Project To inventory the land records and maps for individual Galician towns Cadastral Map Inventories (Towns in 2007 GG Project), Central State Historical Archive, L'viv Land & Other Records for Jewish Research (Towns in 2007 GG Project), Central State Historical Archive, L'viv House Numbers in Zborow in the 19^th Century and the People Who Lived There - A Project To Link Families When No Other Data Is Available and project in table format by Ann Gleich Harris. House Numbers in Zborow in the 19^th Century And the People Who Lived There by Ann Harris Actual House Number Data JRI-Poland / Gesher Galicia LDS Inventories Project Lviv Metrical Records. An introduction to the project and listing of the LDS records and film numbers of towns included. Inventories of LDS Films of Jewish Holdings of the Ukraine State Historical Archive in L'viv. Presented in table format, these inventories have been updated by people who have looked at the films and are the most accurate available to date. 3 Jul 2008 Added 2008 Special Event - Rymanow Jewish Community Remembrance Days Program to Main page. Added 2008 Special Event - Rymanow Jewish Community Remembrance Days Program details. 2 Jun 2008 Revised Main page regarding the 2008 Chicago Conference. Added 28th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Gesher Galicia program details. 16 Apr 2008 Revised Main page regarding the 2008 Chicago Conference 15 Apr 2008 Revised Polish State Archives Project on the Research - Databases page Added National Yiddish Book Center to the Vendors section Galician Traces to the Other Links section of the Other Resources page Revised instructions on PayPal page 8 Apr 2008 Added four books to Books with Web Links section and one vendor to the Vendors section on the Other Resources Revised Historic Polish Directories on the Research - Databases page Revised Update your membership section of GG Contact Information page 2 Feb 2008 Added five books to Books with Web Links section on the Other Resources Added link to Belzec: Prototype of the Final Solution; Hitler's Answer to the Jewish Question to the Holocaust Research page and Revised Political Maps section of Maps page 31 Jan 2008 Added link to Gesher Galicia - Jewish DNA Project to the Main page and Other Resources page Revised Other Galicia Genealogical Research Organizations, Member Web Sites and Other Links sections on the Other Resources page 30 Jan 2008 - Revised Benefits of Membership on About Gesher Galicia page and added: links to Displaced Persons Card Index for two Berlin DP Transit Camps 1945-1949 and Gedenkbuch 1933 - 1945 to the Holocaust Research page link to Jewish Records in the Family History Library Catalog to the Databases page The Galitzianers: The Jews of Galicia, 1772-1918 to Gesher Galicia Resource Groups page 13 Nov 2007 - Added link to Video of Debica Synagogue to the Life in Galicia page 16 Oct 2007 - Added 14 Years of the Galitzianer page. 14 Sep 2007 - Added Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting (Oct. 21, 2007) 13 Jun 2007 - Added 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Gesher Galicia program details. 7 Feb 2007 - Added The Jews of Galicia in 1839 page. 2 Jan 2007 - Added SLC 2007 conference announcement to home page along with "Let us know if you are going" and "See who is going" pages. 30 Sep 2006 - Added Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting (Oct. 22, 2006) 9 Sep 2006 - Revised and updated web pages: GG Home Page revised About GG: Benefits of Membership, Online Discussion Group FAQ, and GG souvenirs revised GG Contact Information revised Join GG web page revised and added 2006-7 Membership Form Research: Other Databases – Added Historic Polish Directories Town Research Groups & Historians updated Other Resources – GG member web sites updated; added new links to Books with Web Links and Other Links Life in Galicia – added Polish postcard sites to Images; added link to The Petroleum Industry in the Drohobycz A.D. 29 May 2006 - Added entries to: Web sites created by Gesher Galicia members page Gesher Galicia Research Groups page Other Resources page 25 Mar 2006 - Alphabetized and add entry to Web sites created by Gesher Galicia members page. 23 Jan 2006 - Skala Research Group Coordinator contact information revised and added a link to the Podhajce ShtetLinks web page from Town Historians section of Gesher Galicia Research Groups page. 1 Jan 2006 - Changed Skala Town Research group link to the new website location. 7 Dec 2005 - Added NYC 2006 conference announcement to home page along with "Let us know if you are going" and "See who is going" pages. 30 Oct 2005 - Added the following links to the Other Links in the Other Resources page Beth Hatefutsoth the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv. "The Museum of the Jewish People ONLINE". The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center Center for Jewish History. New York. The Center Archives, Library, and Museum holdings include the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. New York. Exhibitions: Jewish Life A Century Ago, The War Against the Jews, and Jewish Renewal, special exhibitions, collections, events, performances, education. 29 Oct 2005 - Added a link to Babel Fish Translation to the home page. 17 Oct 2005 Made List of Jews Deported from France a subheading under United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) on the Holocaust Research page. Alphabetized entries on Databases, Towns, Research, and Life in Galicia pages 15 Oct 2005 Added Israel OPickholtz to Member at Large on Contacts page and replaced Beverly Shulster with Marcia O. Kaplan as Discussion Group Moderator. Added Pickhotlz Genealogy and Shelley Kellerman Pollero's Genealogy Homepage to Gesher Galicia Member Web Sites. Added The Museum of Family History to the Other Links section of the Other Resources page. Added Austrian Victims of the Holocaust: Registration by Name, List of Jews Deported from France, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) on the Holocaust Research page. Changed "All-Poland" Database to The JewishGen Poland Database or The "All-Poland" Database and updated its description on the Databases page. Added A Rich Remembrance of Pre-War Sniatyn: An interview with Keila Adlerstein, born in Snityn, 1904 to as part of a new Personal Stories section in the Life in Galicia page. 7 Aug 2005 - Removed IAGJS Conference from main page and updated "What's New" 6 Aug 2005 - Updated numerous links that had moved 15 May 2005 - Added links for Conference events to research group pages Kolbuszowa Region Suchostaw Region Rzeszow 8 May 2005 - Added link to sign-up sheet for those planning to attend the 2005 Conference 6 May 2005 - Added Gesher Galicia Grant Proposal Form to About GG and Research Groups pages 3 May 2005 - Updated Coference SIG Luncheon date on home page 18 April 2005 - Updated Conference Activites on home page 13 April 2005 Life in Galicia page updates Attached "Images of Galicia" page and postcard pages Moved Exchange Rates from Research Databases 12 April 2005 - Attached "Jews of Galicia" article to its main page 11 April 2005 Replaced "Site Info" page with Life in Galicia Added Holocaust Research under the Research page and a Holocaust margin button 28 March 2005 Updated Gesher Galicia activites for the Las Vegas conference In Other Resources page Removed Other Links that were duplicated elsewhere Added links to: The Polish National Library Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives 30 January 2005 - Added link to Las Vegas conference site on Gesher Galicia home page. Added information about town and research groups for Skala, Zmigrod, Strzyzow, Rohatyn, Krosno, Mikolajow, and Bobrka on Research Groups page. Added information about the book "A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia" on the Other Resources page. 13 August 2004 Added the following link to the Databases page: Polish State Archives Searchable Databases. Added the following links to the Other Resources page: Vendors: Allegro - Online auction (like eBay ) for old postcards, photos, memorabilia, music, Judaica etc. of Polish towns. Other links: Galicia Jewish Museum - Photographic exhibitions in tribute to the Jewish culture and civilization of Polish Galicia, concerts, lectures, education, Hebrew lessons Galizian German Descendants Other Galicia Genealogical Research Organizations: Galizien German Descendants Updated the Gesher Galicia contact information Updated the Gesher Galicia Research Groups page 4 April 2004 - Added the following link to the Other Resources page: The Polish-Jewish Heritage Foundation of Canada - To preserve the unique heritage of Polish Jewry, foster research, promote better understanding between Poles and Jews, and encourage greater knowledge of the history and culture of Polish Jewry. 13 Feb 2004 - Added link to “Sample Records” page on the KRRG website on the “Other Resources” page. Link has translations of headers from Galician records. Added link to JewishGen Holocaust Database on the “Databases” page. Added links to Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities, Poland (Volume II) Eastern Galicia and Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities, Poland (Volume III) Western Galicia & Silesia on the “Towns” page. Added links to Austro-Hungarian Empire 1:200,000 Topographic Maps and Ukraine 1:100,000 Topographic Maps on the Maps page. 2 Feb 2004 - Added “Gesher Galicia Souvenirs” page. 15 Oct 2003 - Updated Research Group Page, added links to All-Poland Database, Slownik Nazwisk database, Meorei Galicia database, and Commercial Directory for Poland and Danzig (plus guide to navigating the directory) on Databases page, added link to Jerusalem 2004 Genealogy Conference on home page, added the books Secret City: The Hidden Jews of Warsaw, 1940-1945, The Enemy at His Pleasure A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I, and Jews-Officers and Enlisted-Men in the Polish Army, Prisoners of War in German Captivity 1939-1945 on the Other Resources page. 25 Mar 2003 - Added link to EEGS, and to the Jewish Encyclopedia on Other Links page. 2 Mar 2003 - Added Galicia Given Names Database. 21 Feb 2003 - Added list of Jewish records held in the Lviv archive. 18 Nov 2002 - The web master finally got an Internet connection at home again and put up the entirely redesigned web site. 15 June 2002 - Added Database of Eastern Galician Localities, 1919-1939, Including some Western Galician Districts and search page. 19 May 2002 - Added Austro-Hungarian Monetary Exchange Rates page. 21 April 2002 - Added to link to "Routes to Roots Foundation" on "links" page. 25 Feb 2001 - Added "Galician Administrative Districts" page. 19 Feb 2001 - Added links to "Galician Research", "Galician Administrative Districts", and "Vital Records for Galician Towns" as suggested by Adelle Weintraub Gloger. 16 Feb 2001 - Sharpened research group guidelines. Explained the requirements in greater detail. 17 Dec 2000 - Added this "what's new" page. Added Galicia surname index. 26 Nov 2000 - Added new links on "links" page, split "towns" page into separate pages for research groups, web sites, and memorial books and other Holocaust sources. Added research group guidelines. Added images that can be used by web masters to make links to Gesher Galicia's site.