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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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All Galicia Database!
This search engine currently features more than 192,268 records from 60 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.
Cadastral Map & Landowner Records Project
Click on the title for the description and details for this ongoing project.
Click on Searchable Database of Inventoried Towns to see if there is a completed inventory of maps and record acquisitions for your town. Use the official Polish or Ukrainian spelling of the town. Go to www.jewishgen.org's Search for a Town for the official spelling.
GG Spring 2012 Meetings
Click on the titles for details of the programs.
KRAKOW Tuesday, May 29 – 6:00 PM
The HORN Identity: Using Historic Vital Records To Reconstruct the Lives of Two Galician Sisters
Speaker: Marla Raucher Osborn
Jewish Community Center, Krakow, Poland
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JERUSALEM Wednesday, May 30 – 7:00 PM
Exploring the Archives: Unique &
Unusual Resources in Galician Research
Speaker: Pamela Weisberger
AACI Glassman Family Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Sponsored by the Israel Genealogical Research Association (IGRA)
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TEL AVIV Sunday, June 3 – 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Exploring Jewish Life, Culture and Ancestry in Galicia
Pamela Weisberger, Keynote Speaker
Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv University Campus, Tel Aviv, Israel
Symposium presented by The Israel Genealogical Society & The Association of Former Jewish Residents and Descendants of Lwow and the ACLS – the Association for the Commemoration of Lwow Jewish Heritage and Sites. In Hebrew [H] or English [En].
All lectures and presentations will be accompanied by translation subtitles to the second language, screened on a separate screen.
Entrance fee: 30 NIS - Refreshments will be served
We recommend early registration to reserve your your place.
For registration send your name/s and e-mail address to info@isragen.org.il
32nd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
Paris Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center
July 15 – 18, 2012
A fully bilingual conference
Conference web site – http://www.paris2012.eu/
Gesher Galicia Activities at Paris2012
Sun. July 16 – 2:00 PM Gesher Galicia Table at the SIG Fair
Sun. July 16 – 5:00 PM Rohatyn Birds-of-a-Feather Meeting
Mon. July 16 – 8:00 PM Screening of In Darkness
A film about hidden Jews of Lviv, during WW II
Tues. July 17 – 10:50 AM Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting
Tues. July 17 – 12:30 PM Gesher Galicia SIG Luncheon
Luncheon Speaker: Agnieszka Holland, Film Director of In Darkness
Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
Tues., July 17 - 4:10 PM
Cadastral Maps, Landowner, School & Voter Records:
New Horizons for Genealogists
Speaker: Pamela Weisberger
Wed., July 18, 2012 - 2:50 PM
Sources of Jewish genealogy of XVIII to XX centuries, in the Fond of
the State Central Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
Speaker: Alex Dunai on behalf of Diana Peltz, Director of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine
Click here for program details.
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Previous Gesher Galicia Programs
at IAJGS Conferences and Regional Meetings.
Gesher Galicia SIG Projects on JewishGen-erosity
Brody Cemetery, Eastern Poland Cemeteries, Yizkor Books: Ukraine: Ivano-Frankivsk, Kolomyya; Poland: Lancut, Przemysl, Rzeszow, Sanok
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
Gesher Galicia - Jewish DNA Project
The Lviv House & Street Photography Project
Photographs of streets, buildings and residential addresses in Lviv, Ukraine, taken by Dick Koops in July 2009
Gesher Galicia Publications
14 Years of The Galitzianer CD – 1993-2007
The Jews of Galicia in 1839 - Book
A Guide to Jewish Genealogy - Kraków
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