Galicia Basics: What Every Galitzianer Needs to Know

GALICIA BASICS: WHAT EVERY GALITZIANER NEEDS TO KNOW

Shelley Kellerman Pollero, [email protected] Chair of Membership and Past President, Gesher Galicia

Renée Stern Steinig, [email protected] Discussion Group Moderator and Family Finder Editor, Gesher Galicia

Presentation Overview

Where and what is Galicia? Culinary and language clues Foods and food preparation • The largest province of the Austrian Empire • Religious and secular languages • Today, part of southeastern Poland • and southwestern Ukraine Major resources for Galician Research • Political divisions and major cities • Gesher Galicia Special Interest Group Brief history of Galicia • JewishGen • The Partitions of Poland (1772 - 1795) • Jewish Records Indexing - Poland • Napoleonic Wars (1800 - 1815) • Routes to Roots Foundation World War I (1914 - 1918) • (Details on sources are on the following pages.) • Interwar Poland (1918 - 1938) • World War II (1939 - 1945) • Post-war period (1945 - 1989) Learn More! • Modern Poland and Ukraine For more information about researching Identifying and locating towns Galician families and towns, check the conference program schedule for these and Maps and gazetteers • additional Galicia-focused presentations: • Past and current place names Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting Unique marriage and naming patterns Monday, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM • Given names • Surname adoption and usage Andrew Zalewski • Civil marriages vs. religious marriages The Story of Galicia: Vital Records, • Legitimacy vs. illegitimacy Maps, Censuses and Much More Monday, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Religion and society Brooke Schreier Ganz • Hasidim Using the Gesher Galicia Website • Assimilation and All Galicia Database • Galitzianers vs. Litvaks to Research Towns and Families • Education and economy Tuesday, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Record-keeping practices Mark Halpern • Format of vital records Researching Your Galitzianer Family: • Effect of religious marriages and Working with Vital Records “illegitimacy” Thursday, 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM

• Relevance of Administrative Districts Selected Sources for Galician Research

Websites

Ancestry ! Ukraine Database www.ancestry.com ! Poland Database (includes the 1891 Galicia Including WWII draft registrations and Business Directory; Krakow and Lvov Ghetto Hamburg emigration records, searchable by Databases; Oshpitsin Database; 1890-1891 NY town of birth/residence. Immigrants from Poland, Austria, and Galicia)

Ellis Island Database Jewish Records Indexing-Poland http://stevemorse.org/ellis2/ellisgold.html www.JRI-Poland.org Also searchable by town – useful for observing 5 million records from 550+ Polish towns, inclu- patterns of name occurrence. ding many in Galicia, are now indexed or fully extracted – and often linked to original images! Family History Library Catalog www.familysearch.org/catalog-search JGSNY Burial Society Database Project https://tinyurl.com/JGSNY-societies GenealogyIndexer www.genealogyindexer.org Microfilmed Jewish Vital Records Links to historical directories and other sources. from the Central State Archives in Lviv http://jri-poland.org/agad/lviv.htm Gesher Galicia www.GesherGalicia.org NY Public Library’s Yizkor Books Online ! About Galicia http://yizkor.nypl.org ! All Galicia Database ! Archival Inventories Routes to Roots Foundation ! Family Finder* www.rtrfoundation.org

• Galician Town Locator SEZAM: Polish State Archives Database ! Galitzianer archives* www.archiwa.gov.pl ! Map Room ! Research Projects Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

* available to paid GG members only http://vhaonline.usc.edu/login Search nearly 52,000 audiovisual testimonies Google Maps collected in the 1980s and 1990s by the www.GoogleMaps.com Spielberg Shoah Project.

JewishGen Shoreshim www.JewishGen.org www.shoreshim.org/en/default.asp Click the Research tab for Yad Vashem ! KehilaLinks Database of Shoah Victims’ Names ! Yizkor Books http://db.yadvashem.org/names/search.html?language=en Click the Databases tab, then “Complete List of Databases” for the YIVO’s People of a Thousand Towns ! Family Finder http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org ! Communities Database (c. 6,000 communities) ! Gazetteer (c. 1 million localities) Third Military Mapping Survey ! Burial Registry (JOWBR) of Austria-Hungary ! Holocaust Database http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/3felmeres.htm Very detailed maps of Galicia. ! 1929 Polish Business Directory – Town Index

Selected Sources for Galician Research

Books Gesher Galicia

Alexander Beider, A Dictionary of Jewish Names Free to all: from Galicia ! Website (See the previous page for details.) Andrew A. Bonar and Robert Murray ! E-mail Discussion Group. Sign up at M'Cheyne, The Jews of Galicia in 1839 www.jewishgen.org/ListManager/members_add.asp Available from Gesher Galicia or search Google ! Regional meetings and presentations Books for Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to ! Annual conference events the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839, Membership benefits include: then search for your town. ! Listings in and access to the Gesher Galicia Danuta Dabrowska, Abraham Wein, Aharon Family Finder Weiss, Pinkas HaKehillot – Polin ! Electronic and/or paper subscription to The (Encyclopedia of the Communities – Poland) Galitzianer, a quarterly journal focused on Hebrew. Vols. II – Eastern Galicia, Volume III – Galicia, and access to almost two decades of Western Galicia and Silesia. Some articles are back issues online. translated on JewishGen. Annual membership is $36 with electronic Felix Gundacker, Historisches Ortsverzeichnis delivery of The Galitzianer or, with paper des Königreiches Galizien und des Herzogtums delivery, $42 (U.S. residents) or $49 (overseas Bukowina residents). To join, go to Brian Lenius, Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia www.geshergalicia.org/membership

Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack, Where Once We Walked ______

Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman, In Their Words: A Genealogist's Translation Guide... (Volume I: Polish)

Shmuel Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust

Miriam Weiner, Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories; Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories

Geoffrey M. Weisgard, Krakow: A Guide to

Jewish Genealogy and History. Third Edition. Pre-WWI borders of the Austrian Kronland Suzan Wynne, The Galitzianers: The Jews of (crown land) of Galicia. Western Galicia (west of Galicia; Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia the line) is now in southeastern Poland; Eastern Galicia is now in southwestern Ukraine. The Andrew Zalewski, Galician Trails: The Forgotten entire region that had been Galicia was part of Story of One Family; Galician Portraits: In Poland between World Wars I and II. Search of Jewish Roots