Galician Flag From 1538

Galizien is the German/Austrian name for Galicia.  Galizien was a Crown land (Kronlander) of Austria prior to WW I.  Events after WW I:  A West Ukrainian People's Republic (WUPR) was declared on November 1, 1918.  In January 1919, the WUPR gained unity with the Ukrainian National Republic which had been restored in Kyiv/Kiev after the fall of the Hetmanate government in December 1918.  Then conflicting local and international interests and invasions by Poles, Bolsheviks, White Russians, even the French in Odessa region, various peasant revolts, etc. -- general civil war -- destabilized the entire region.  The Poles which had the support from the Western Powers gained the upper hand.  This information attributed to Laurence Krupnick in the Galicia Topica of October 9, 2001 

Halychyna is the Ukrainian name and Halychyna is the Polish name for this region. The ancient capital city, Galych, is the source of the root name. First historical mention of Galicia dates to 898 AD.

The name of Galicja is most commonly associated with the Austro-Hungarian partition of Poland in 1772, the province was made up of Wolyn and Podole.  During 1st Partition in 1772.  Both towns, Zurawno and Rozniatow are closely associated with town Stryj but as Austria had subdivided Galicia into circles and districts, towns have been relocated to the different administration and judicial districts.

In the year after the 1st Partition in 1773, Austria has subdivided all Galicia Crown Land into 6 administrative Circles (Kreis in German or Okreg in Polish). Circles Wieliczka and Pilzno in Western Galicia and Circles Belz, Halycz, Lwów and Sambor in Eastern Galicia.

Circle Halych included Stryj, Rozniatow and Zurawno.

In 1784, 18 smaller Circles had replaced old 6, and Stryj and Stanislawow became administration centers. Zurawno was placed under the Stanislawow circle and Rozniatow under the Stryj Circle. This placement did not change during next three Circles reshuffling in 1787, 1815 and 1867.

In 1867, Austria introduced new administration divisions known as Districts (Kreisdistrikten in German, Powiat or Okreg in Polish).

This time and for the next five administration changes, Rozniatow was placed under the Dolina and Zurawno under the Zydaczow Administration Districts.

At the same time both towns were the seats of the judicial districts courts which were under the jurisdiction of the judicial circuit court in Stryj 2) Where do Rozniatow and Zurawno fit into your previous discussion of East and West Galicia? East. From a posting by Alexander Sharon

More information can be found at 
http://www.kresy.co.uk/galicja.html 

Galicia is a region lying along the north side of the Carpathian Mountains, consisting of the pre-1939 Polish provinces of Krakow, L'viv, Ternopol and Stanislawow, which between the years 1772 and 1918, formed a crown land of the Austrian Empire.  

Austria lost to Russia nearly all lands acquired in 1795: It should be noted again, that there were territorial readjustment made during 1815 Vienna Congress when Austria has lost to the victorious Russia Zamosc region, parts of Wolyn and Podolia and nearly all lands acquired in 1795 with exception of the City of Krakow.

Nevertheless, those 20 years when Austria ruled over the parts of Podolia, Wolynia, Lublin, Radom, and Prussia ruled over Warsaw, Bialystok, Lomza and Suwalki had a significant influence on the Jewish people.

During the 1930s, keep in mind in your research, that all of western Ukraine was either located in Poland and/or Czechoslovakia.  Before WW I, Galicia was part of Austria and several partitions occurred in the 1700s and 1800s.

After WW II, western Galicia became a part of Poland and Eastern Galicia  became a part of Ukraine.  The southern boundary follows the Carpathians; on the west is the Polish province of Katowice: on the east by Ukraine and on the southeast by Romania.  On the north, it is bounded by both Kielce and  Lublin provinces.  The western border of the historic Galicia lays along the towns of Chelm (Kholm), Jaroslaw (Yaroslav) and Przemysl (Peremyshl) in southeast Poland.  The western part of the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia and the city of Krakow (Cracow) were artificially incorporated into Galicia by the Austrians in 1772.

Today, Galicia is divided between southern Poland and western Ukraine.  Some of the larger cities and towns in this region include:

Krakow (Cracow), Poland; Przemysl (Pshemishl), Poland; Tarnow, Poland; Brody (Brod, Prode), Ukraine; Drogobych (Drohobycz), Ukraine; Kolomyya (Kolomea), Ukraine; Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislawow), Ukraine; L'viv (Lwów, Lemberg, Leopol), Ukraine; Ternipol (Tarnopol), Ukraine

Galicia, which since the late 1700s, was once referred to as Cherevna and was identified as being between Przemysl and L'viv as Grody Czerwienskie (Red Towns). The western part (west of the San river) traditionally called Malopolska, i.e. Little Poland (as opposed to Greater Poland around Poznan). The eastern part of Galicia was also called Ruthenia and originally inhabited by Ruthenians (now split into Ukrainians and Byelorussians). (A  historical description, written by Alexander Sharon, about Galicia can be reviewed at the Gesher Galicia SIG  Archive of January 20, 2000  galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org 
More details can also be found at 
http://www.polishroots.com/genpoland/gal.htm

After the first division of Poland in 1772, Empress Maria Theresa named her new province the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodmeria. The Galician area  became a part of the Austro-Hungarian crown lands until the end of World War I.  The province was made up of Wolyn and Podole. The Carpathian Mountains are a natural boundary at the Hungarian border. Look for information also in the  Hungarian Index, Banat, Croatia and Siebenburgen. 

According to a translation by William 'Fred' Hoffman of the Slownik Geograficzny: Galicia
www.polishroots.com  

Galicia was bordered by Silesia to the west, by Russia, the Kingdom of Poland, Volhynia and Podolia to the north/northeast and by Bukowina and Hungary to the south/southeast.  Mostly Poles inhabited West Galicia while Ruthenians inhabited East Galicia, the San river being the dividing line between east and west.  You can find this and tons of other information to help you in your research at 
www.polishroots.com  

When WW I was over, Galicia really split into two parts.  The western part became a part of southeastern Poland, sometimes called Malopolska (Little Poland) which Kleinpolen translates to the same thing i.e. Little Poland.  The eastern part of Galicia became what is in today's world, Ukraine.

There are a great deal of interesting links available at the PolishRoots™ web site including Austrian Military Recruitment in Galicia; Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów; Galician Federal Representatives; Galician Provincial Representatives; Galician Vital Records; The Martyrs of Zloczow which includes a list of people detained during the tumultuous times at the end of WW I 
http://www.polishroots.com/database.htm

European Galicia - Galicia Genealogy in General
http://emol.org/zucker/genealogy/galiciaeurope.html

The Galician Index Program incorporates 74 Administrative Towns from the eastern part of Galicia -- 71 are now in Ukraine and 3 are in Poland.  Of these 74 towns, 50 are listed with an Indexing Priority Number.  Of these 50 towns, 34 have had their records indexed and 2 are partially indexed. From a posting on 4-3-02.  Check the status of your town at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/agad/agadtowns.html

Galicia Jewish Museum - located in Krakow.  Web site is in English
http://www.galiciajewishmuseum.org/en/index.html

Prior to WW 1, the churches (Roman Catholic and Evangelical) and the head Rabbi of the Jewish Community, were given the responsibility for maintaining vital statistics for Austria.  That part of the Ukraine that was in the Russian Empire, the churches also maintained vital statistics for the country as did the Chief Rabbi. 

Galician emigrants usually departed from Galicia via England and would have most likely have taken a train to one of the two large German ports, Bremen or Hamburg.  Here they would have gone to England, most likely from the ports of Liverpool or Southampton, and boarded a British steamship for passage to North America. The most likely routes, from 1900 to 1910 would have been Hamburg direct to a US port; Hamburg indirectly through Grimsby/Hull, England and/or rail to Liverpool or an ocean liner from Liverpool to a US Port. The 'indirect' route was both cheaper and faster, and popular.  Other ports of emigration may have been Bremen, Antwerp or Amsterdam.

"Many went to England because the cost of passage to North America on a British ship was less expensive than on a German ship (North German Lloyd or Hamburg American lines)."

"The emigrants would have either purchased all of their tickets from ticketing agents in Galicia (such as in L'viv or tickets would have been purchased in North America by their relatives or friends who were already there".

Jewish Wedding Dances in the Carpathian area (Stanislav, Yasen, Mitvina, Delyatin and Pereginsky); Kaperush (a dance where everyone has to imitate exactly what the leader does.) Other dances emanating from this area also include Mitsve-Tants, Broyges-Tants, slow volokh, sirba, kolomeyka "Kabinya Marisya", Yiddishe Troika and Hutsulka.  Wedding songs include "Shrayt shoyn 'Mazel Tov', "Ot Azoy Makht Men Khasene Kinder" and "Chipkelakh mit Fasolyes".

Major events in the Galician history can be found itemized at this wonderful site
http://www.kresy.co.uk/galicja.html

Halych - old capital of Galicia 
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm

Books

There are Yizkor Books available for Galician Jewish Celebrities by Regions at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html  

Further information, along with a detailed description about 'Yizkor Books' can be found at my  Book page.  See also my link to amazon.com by
clicking here > Jewish Genealogy

"Accessible Vital Records For Jews, Germans, Ukrainians and Poles in Galicia, Volhynia, Lithuania and Latvia- A Second Zabuzanski Collection" available at the downtown branch of the Vancouver Public Library.  Other Libraries may also have a copy. Brian Lenius is Chairperson and Editor of East European Genealogist.
www.eegsociety.org
or e-mail eegsociety.com 

"Austrian-Jewish Life Stories From the Time of the Hapsburg Monarchy" (Als haetten wir dazugehoert: Oesterreichisch-Juedische Lebensgeschichten aus der Habsburgemonarchie) authored by Professor Albert Lichtblau and published by Boehlau-Verlag in Vienna in German.

"Eastern European Genealogist" is published by the East European Genealogical Society, PO Box 2536, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3C 4A7
Phone: 204 989 3292
http://www.eegsociety.org/

"Encyclopedia of Hahamei Galitzia" authored by Meir Wunder.

"Encyclopedia Me'orei Galicia" - authored by R" Meir Wunder

 "Finding Your Jewish Roots In Galicia" - authored by Suzan F. Wynne and published by Avotaynu.  Possibly available in genealogically oriented libraries or through inter-library loan and from Avotaynu.  Galician town listings start at page 132, including the district and sub district in which they are located. Many of the names are Polish in origin, but some are German.
http://www.avotaynu.com/galicia.htm

"Galician"

A quarterly Galician genealogical magazine at http://www.feefhs.org/surname/frg-ggm.html  

My notes indicates that in the April 2, 1996 issue, there appeared an article on a census conducted on 12/31/1900 in Gorlice, Poland.  Since there are no known Jewish Vital Records for this time period currently available for Gorlice, this information may prove to be of value to those searching the Gorlice area.

Galicia, Editorial Offices, PO Box 312, PL-50-950 Wroclaw 2, Poland.  FEEFHS Representative: Edward Tadeusz Wojtakowski at the above address.  Phone and Fax: + 48 (71) 61 32 16 

"Galizien - Eine Reise Durch die verschwundene Welt Ostgaliziens und der Bukowina" - Published by "insel Taschenbuch"    ISBN 3-458-34447=0

"Gazetteer of the Former Galicia and Bukowina", compiled by Felix Gundacher and published in Vienna, Austria in 1998 by the Institut fur Histroische Familienforschung (Institute for Historical Family Research) in both German and English. Listings of towns and districts of both Galicia and Bukowina, and also notes of those towns having a formally recognized "Jewish Community" under the Austrians, as well as those with Christian parishes of the primary denominations i.e. Roman Catholic, Orthodox and several others. The names of town included are the ones used by Austria in the 1870s.  It can be purchased directly from this web site
http://www.netway.at/ihff/index.htm/

"Geographic Dictionary of The Polish Kingdom and Other Slavic Countries" (Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajow Slowianskich" - edited by Bronislaw Chlebowski in Warszawa in 1892.

"Gorodenka Memorial Book" web site is http://shangrila.cs.ucdavis.edu:1234/heckman/
gorodenka/membook.html 

"Meorei Galicia: Encyclopedia Lekhakhmei Galicia" - (Encyclopedia of Galicia Sages) - authored by Rabbi Meir Wunder and reviewed by Chaim Freedman.  This five-volume work is quite extensive and reliable sources of rabbinical genealogy written in the twentieth century. The article may be accessed from the "What's New" section of the Rav-SIG home page
http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic

http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/journal/mgalicia.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/rabbinic/databases/mgalicia.htm

"Sefer Stryj" (Book of Stryj), edited by N. Kudish of Tel Aviv who was a former resident of Stryj, and published in Israel in 1962.

"Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego" - an excellent classical Polish gazetteer available at the New York Public Research Library (42nd St. and 5th Ave. New York - hard copy) and on several rolls of microfilms at the Family History Center (FHC) in New York City. Other FHCs should either have the microfilm or order it for you.

"Treasures of Jewish Galicia" from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in L'viv, Ukraine".  A catalog of the exhibit at Beth Ha'tefutsorth in 1994-5 - edited by Sarah Harel Hoshen. Published in soft cover in 1996.

An excellent site to find information about most European countries is at http://searcheurope.com

and type in the name of the country you wish to research in the search field.  This site is a great source to find information for almost every European country.

Global Gazetteer is a great web site. It is a directory of  2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town.  A tab separated list is available for each country.
www.calle.com/world/

Towns of Galicia - what a great site by Roman Zakharii!  There are tons of information and photos linked to this site  www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Many of the microfilm records photographed by the LDS, are supposed to be deposited in the Polish Archives of Warsaw and Katowice, as in the Ukrainian Archives in L'viv (Lwów or Lemberg in the  Austro-Hungarian Empire). There are no complete listing of Galician villages on-line, however, there are several excellent gazetteers in hard copy and some are available at FHL (Family History library) or those that were filed by the LDS.  To determine what LDS has for Galicia, you need to examine the FHL Catalog at
http://www.familysearch.org

and also examine this site:
http://lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html 

One of the best resources for information that I know of, is the JewishGen Archives
http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~archpop

If you wish to review files in any of the SIG Archives http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~sigspop 

If the town you are researching doesn't show having records available, consider determining which was the Administrative District and Sub-district town nearest.  The Jewish Community in each town was required by law to collect the vital records for all the towns that were part of the Sub-district.  Some Galician towns are now either located in Poland or in Ukraine, so when you search the AGAD record indices, you may want to change the Province from Poland to Ukraine.

The indices to not have all the genealogical relevant data.  You can order the actual record from the AGAD Archives using the Order Form

1881 Great Britain CD Lookup - if you suspect that one of your ancestors went to England to live, email Jane@Henio.Muc.De and she has offered to do a lookup.

1890-1891 Index of New York Immigrants from Austria, Poland and Galicia. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/1890ny.htm

1891 Galician Business Directory Database - compiled by Phyllis Kramer, offers over 20,000 surnames and over 1,000 shtetls.  This database was transcribed from a photocopy of the directory, found at the British Library, call number [PP 2440.BB C295] 
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/galicia1891.htm  

1929 Business Directory of Ustrzyki Dolne.  David Thaler has created this database.

Ancient History of Galicia -
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Archives

AGAD Archives - (The Archiwum Glowne Akt Dawnych - The Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw) this site will provide you with the ability to order records from their archives.  JRI-Poland database has added more indices from these records - over 20,000 - which include Tarnopol birth and marriage indices and Trembowla birth indices.  Also included are Kozowa births from 1877 to 1892; Tarnopol births from 1866 to 1897, Marriages from 1878 to 1897 and Trembowla births from 1877 to 1891.

The Archives is the repository of 2,010 Jewish metrical books for the area of the former Lwów, Stanisiawow and Tarnopol Voyevodship (now known as L'viv, Ivano Frankivsk and Ternopol Oblasts in Ukraine).  These registers are mainly for the period from 1877-1899 when these areas were a part of the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia.  Other Jewish metrical books for this area will be found in the L'viv branch of the Ukraine state Archives.  The overall total of records is estimated to be close to two million and are generally written in Polish.  There are separate books for births, marriages and deaths.  Information about the JRI-Poland AGAD Archives Project can be viewed at 
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/agad/

Altogether, the JRI-Poland reports that they have indexed more than 1.5 million records.  The goal is to create a searchable on-line database of the indices of all 19th century Jewish records from current and former territories of Poland.  Further information about the project can be found at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriintro.htm 

Note that to write to the Archives, you can write in English.  To a registry office, local official, etc., write in Polish.  Writing in the language of the person that you are writing to is always best ... it exhibits respect and courtesy.  Make it as easy as possible if you want the quickest response.  Six to eight months for a reply, is not uncommon.

Letter Writing Guide to Archives
http://www.halgal.com/archivesineurope.html 

There is an Excel spreadsheet that includes a good deal of information about the records of these 90 district and sub-district towns and a status report for each town is constantly being updated. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/galicia/index.htm

Each year, the Warsaw Srodmiescie USC Archives transfers vital records registers to AGAD.  These are registers that only include vital records that have now become more than 100 years old.  This transfer occurs in compliance with Polish privacy laws that permit public access to vital records only after 100 years.  Recently, AGAD had received many registers that contain records mainly for 1898 and 1899.  These registers will be available for indexing about September 2001.

Should you contact the Polish State Archives, the following information should be of value.  Len Markowitz priluki@voicenet.com offered the following in a posting at Gesher Galicia SIG: 'I guess that it is time to repeat the method that I have used successfully to send money to Poland.  Admittedly, it has been about five years since I have last done this, but it was done on at least 4 occasions.  To pay for information from the Polish State Archives, purchase a Postal Money Order at your local post office for about $1 - not an International Postal Money Order, which costs about $8.50 (five years ago).  Address the Postal Money Order to the bank, including the bank account number, suggested previously by the Polish State Archives.  Also make a copy of the Postal Money Order and send it with your next letter to the Polish State Archives' 

Another method of handling payment to the Polish archives is to check out a personal PayPal account
www.paypal.com 

This commercial service offers a wide variety of payment options, including electronic transfers from your bank account to another.  PayPal sends you a confirmation of your transaction. 

Note: one of the problems is the frequent name changes, not just of families, but of towns in which they lived.  Check out this site that Miriam Margolyes wrote about  which contains a list showing most of the hundreds of town name changes from German to Polish in 19th Century Posen Province
http://www.posen-l.com/

Check this site out at
http://www.eegsociety.org/council.html  
provides Archive Addresses, Oblast and Raions names in Ukraine; Genealogical Sources in Russian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian Archives based on professional research experience.

Archive Addresses - Polish Archives addresses 
http://ihff.nwy.at/g.htm 

Central State Historical Archives Lviv - address is 

Tsentralny Derzhavnyi Istorychnyi Arkhiv (TsDIA-L) 
290008, Lviv - 8, pl. Sobornosti Square 3-a, 
Ukraine   
Phone/Fax: (0322) 72 35 08 or 72 30 63 

Director is Orest Laroslavoych Matsiuk; Deputy Director (Directress) is Diana Peltc who, it has been noted, forwards personal researcher requests to a "freelancer"  who then increases the price, but the cost is still relatively reasonable  archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net   Hours are Monday through Friday 9 to 3 pm. 
http://lemko.org/
then select Genealogy and then  Archives.

Director of the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine - 110 Solomianska Street, 24, 252601 Kiev, Ukraine

It is recommended that both addresses be also written in Ukrainian.  A sample of how to address the Archive can be found at
http://lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html  
where you will also find 'Vital and Marriage records from Greek Catholic and Orthodox Parishes in Former Austrian Galicia, Former Malo Rus, Ukraine, Poland and Belarus.'

Arenda - a leasing system in Galicia. "Economic Origins of anti-Semitism: Poland and Its Jews in the Early Modern Period" - authored by Hillel Levine and "History of the Jews in Russian and Poland" - both address the subject, though just in passing.  You might also review "Studies in Polish Jewry: Focusing on Galician Jews, Poles and Ukrainians" - edited by Israel Bartel and Antony Polansky and "Dimensions of a Triangle: Polish-Ukrainian=Jewish Relations in Galicia" might also be of interest.  The latter shows that Poles constituted the gentry in Galicia, owning most of the landed estates and sharing very little with Jews around the turn of the 19th century, who by the beginning of the 20th century had begun to buy the estates. Polish peasants identified Jews with the manor owners and resented them at least as much as they did the nobility, according to Hinka's study.  Further information can be found in Naomi Fatouros; review on Gesher Galicia SIG memo of October 15, 2001 

Austrian Census Returns 1859-1910 With Emphasis on Galicia

Authored by Johnathan Shea, A.G.  
http://www.feefhs.org/an/gal/jshea-ac.html 

Austrian Census for Galicia - authored by Gayle Schlissel Riley and edited by the FEEFHS Webmaster is located at
http://www.feefhs.org/ah/gal/1880-gal.html 

Austrian Galicia Administrative Map

Also a Resource Center, other maps, History, Ships, and more
http://www.pgsa.org/galicmap.htm 

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/
eceurope/haxpoland.html

Austro-Hungarian Empire -Galicia Map

http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/ah/ah-galic.html 

http://feefhs.org/maps/ah/ah-galic.html

Should you require old maps of the Austro-Hungarian military topographic maps (scale 1:75k), the U.S. Library of Congress has quite a collection.

Birth Records Information - contact the Registry Office (Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, USC) in Poland directly, rather than a Consulate.  The USC will perform the search for records and will send it to the Polish Consulate nearest to your residence.  You will be billed for their efforts,  Upon payment by money order or certified check, the Consulate will then send any material that the Registry Office has.  Request from the manager of the USC a complete extract of the entry, rather than a brief certificate.

Eastern Galicia - there is an on-going project by the JRI-Poland, to index all the vital records held by the AGAD Archives in Warsaw.  You can search this database at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm 
Enter your surname using the "Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex" and Province=Ukraine.

There were 90 East Galician Administrative district and sub district towns in the AGAD project -
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/galicia/index.htm
then click on '90 towns' in the first paragraph.  There are two ways to determine if your town's records were registered in one of these 90 towns.

East European Genealogical Society
www.GateWest.net/~eegsi/

Eastern Slovakia - Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogical Research http://www.lemko.org/related.html 

Galicia (region) - Chapters on districts of Kolomyia and Stryy from the dissertation Emergence of genocide in Galicia and resettlement transports to Belzec extermination camp - Galician Jewish Celebrities http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Galicia (Gallich, Galitsiya, Halicz, Galizien) - resources, map and links http://www.rootsweb.com/~autwgw/agsgai.htm

http://www.pgsa.org/pubindex.htm

Galicia - Popiel Family site contains  great background information about Galicia and this particular Polish family background
http://members.tripod.com/krolpopiel/

Galicia - a quarterly non-Jewish Galician genealogical magazine. Edward Tadeusz Wojtakowski, Responsible Editor - Telephone and Fax: + 48 (71) 61 32 16

Editorial Offices
Galicia,
P. O. Box 312,
PL-50-950 Wroclaw 2 Poland
http://www.feefhs.org/surname/frg-ggm.html

Galicia Discussion Group

Galicia Discussion Group - to access the mailing list's archives http://www.topica.com/lists/galicia

http://genforum.genealogy.com/galicia 

Galicia Research List -

This site is a wonderful source for the Jewish genealogist researching their ancestry and it includes a link to translate documents; links to general information, Associations and Societies, Historical Records, Gazetteers and Maps, Archives and Libraries and more at
http://feefhs.org/ua/gal/resource.html

I noted in a posting on JewishGen by Steve Gold  that Gayle Riley has a contact to do research in Krakow and she may be able to put you in touch with that researcher e-mail: Gayle at  key2pst@PACBELL.NET 

Galicia Surname Index - a consolidated index of Galicia surnames, with links to web pages having databases of surnames is in the planning states by the Gesher Galicia.  Galicia related databases already on-line as searchable databases on JewishGen will be part of the All-Galicia Database.

Galician Town Locator - identify where Jewish vital records were registered, using the Austrian era name, you insert your town's name and click on 'search'.  The resultant table will show where Jewish records were kept.  http://www.polishroots.com/galicia_towns.htm

Gazetteer of the former Galicia and Bukowina (about 16,000 towns listed) was produced by Felix Gundacher of the Institute of Historical Family Research in Vienna.  This has a CD Rom of maps from the 1880s. 
http://ihff.nwy.at/index.htm/  

You will also find Jewish Records of Vienna; Dictionary of Bohemian Parishes in the Czech Republic; Register of vital statistics in the Czech State Archives; Register of Jewish Vital Statistics in Czech State Archives pertaining to Bohemia; Comprehensive Index of Military Weddings in Vienna 1775-1860; Names and addresses Archives and more.

There is also a page entitled "Genealogical Research Problems Concerning The Former Empire", that offers an excellent dissertation on many of the problems you will encounter in researching these countries. 

The 3rd Edition of the "Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia" includes more than a simple list of village locations ... it includes data from various church shamanisms (Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Evangelical) and Jewish synagogue locations.  Cost is around $40.00 (US) Contact: Brian J. Lenius, Box 18, Group 4, R.R. #1, Anola, Manitoba R0E OA0, Canada
www.eegsociety.org
or e-mail info@eegsociety.org  The Gazetteer is available also at the LDS or from Brian.

Genealogical Research in some lands of the former Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy
http://www.ihff.at

General Haller's Army - this 'army' formed in 1917 as the Polish Army in France, was also known as the 'Blue Army' because of the color of their uniforms.  Many of the fighters were Americans of non-Jewish Polish descent.  They fought on the Western Front. 

After the end of WW I, Haller's Army were involved in the liberation of parts of Poland and western Ukraine from the Red Army and Ukrainians.  There is evidence that many Galicians, including Jews who had been held in various Allied prisoner-of-war camps volunteered to serve under General Haller.  An article containing much information is being planned to be published in a future issue of The Galitzianer.

Gesher Galicia Discussion Group - this 700 active member group offers 
The Galitzianers and Gesher Galicia Family Finder publications by mail.  
This special interest group (SIG) is for those with Jewish roots in the former 
Austrian-ruled province of Galicia. Edward Goldstein is the Editor of The Galitzianer 
http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/ 

The Galicia SIG is currently developing a searchable database of names from data extracted from microfilms located in the LDS Family History Library and/or US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
http://www.ushmm.org   
To subscribe to the group: galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org

The Spring Issue, 1994 (Volume 1, No. 3) has a list of Galician Rabbis in Rabbi Meir Wunder's Meorei Galicia (Volume IV) "Encyclopedia of Galician Rabbis and Scholars".  

In the Winter, 1996, Volume 3, No. 2 issue, there is a 1922 listing of some doctors,  lawyers and dentists in various Galician Towns.

GGD 1939 Resettlement Records Page (Galizien German Descendants) - there are 55,694 individuals and 18,689 families representing 5,451 surnames in this database
http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org/BDC_Files/index.htm

Historical Archives of Ukraine has Austrian period cadastral records for Galicia

JewishGen ShtetlSeeker - locate your town (shtetl) - http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker/loctown.htm

Jewish Records Indexing

Poland AGAD project includes 87 Administrative District towns and the Indexing of the 19th century Jewish vital records of 90 towns and villages in the former Galician Province in Eastern part of the former Austrian province of Galicia.  A map of the area is included in this site which shows what is currently work in progress, etc.
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/agad/index.htm

Lemko

A name of the people of the Carpathian Mountains, commonly known as Lemkos. If you are looking in this area of Galicia, which is now mostly located in Ukraine, I would suggest looking at this informative site.  Historical,  background and genealogical research information is offered 
http://www.lemko.org/ 

Maps of Galicia

http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetLinks/lviv/links.html

Meorei Galicia Indexes to Meorei Galicia (Encyclopedia of Galician Sages)

With two indexes is on-line and includes 1,362 surnames and 324 cities, towns and shtetls found in Indexes to Meorei Galicia.

Meorei Galicia: Encyclopedia Lekhakhmei Galicia (Encyclopedia of Galician Sages) is a five volume bio-bibliographical work containing extensively detailed genealogies of Galician rabbinical families.  This impressive and scholarly work is one of the most extensive and reliable sources of rabbinical genealogy written in the twentieth century.

The author, Rabbi Meir Wunder, is chairman of the Institute for the Commemoration of Galician Jewry.  The Institute's main achievement is the published five volume Meorei Galicia.  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/journal/mgalicia.htm

Military records can be a useful source of genealogical information. In the context of Galician Poland (1772-1918) many of our male ancestors undertook military service freely, while others were obliged to go on active duty for 2 or 3 years, followed by perhaps 8-10 years in reserve units.  The army kept detailed records on its personnel at all levels and useful information can be gleaned from these.  Records for the period up until 1869 were retained in Vienna at the Vienna Kriegsarchiv and has also been extensively filmed by the Mormon Church and can be traced through the Family History catalogue.

It is also possible to write for copies of personal records from years up to 1869 to the Archive in Vienna.  Kriegsarchiv Nottendorfergasse 2, A-1030 Wien Austria. Further information can be found at
http://www.polishroots.com/austrian_recruit.asp 
Here you will find an "Austrian Recruitment Search"

For post 1867 military records, write to the Archives in Ukraine This site is offering information on "Austrian Census Returns 1869 to 1910 with Emphasis On Galicia"
http://www.feefhs.org/ah/gal/jshea-ac.html

Newsgroups:  soc.genealogy.german and  soc.culture.austria

Post Offices of Former Austrian Territories - includes Base post offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bohemia, Hungary, Levant, Lombardy, Mantua, Moravia, Silesia, Prague, Poland (Galicia), Venetia and Yugoslavia - all places are in alphabetical order, with provinces prefixed   http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/austamps/pobook/main.htm

WW I in Galicia and proclamation of western Ukrainian National Republic - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Research Steps

These steps are offered by Phyllis Kramer to help Todd Katz search for a shtetl called Semyatichi:

1. Checked on JewishGen's Shtetl Seeker for the name of the shtetl, using the standard query.  No results.  Tried with the Soundex ... aha ... it has another name ... Semiematichi ...

2. Clicked on the longitude/latitude ... aha ... a map of its location.  Printed that out.

3. Checked on the JewishGen Family Finder, using the standard query ... no results.

4. Checked on JewishGen Family Finder using the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex ... aha .. for Semyatichi ... 83 researchers listed ... good chance that's the town.  Why not e-mail some of them, especially any researchers looking for similar sounding surnames?

5. Checked the 1891 Galician Business Directory ... 3 hits

6. Checked on the archives ... 187 messages with Siemiatycze in it.  Lots of folks interested in this shtetl ... bets some of those prior postings are fascinating ...

7. Two more to go ... the JewishGen web wide search ... and ShtetLinks ...

Slavic Cataloging Manual - Ukrainian Transliteration Table http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/sgman/trukr.html 

Spanish Galicia - yes, there is one, but is it relevant? http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm

Maps

Austrian Galicia Map -
http://www.pgsa.org/galicmap.htm

Austrian Galicia Administrative Map - plus a Resource Center, other maps, History, Ships, and more at
http://www.pgsa.org/galicmap.htm 

Austrian Kingdom of Galicia in 1772 -  http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Austro-Hungarian Empire
http://www.iarelative.com/maps/ah_1895/

http://feefhs.org/maps/AH/ah-galic.html

The Baltics - East Russian Empire 1882 http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Central Area of Galicia -  http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm

"Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia" 1902 The Polish Provinces of Russia-East Russian Empire 1902 -
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

"The Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World" published 1882 by Blackie and Sons, Edinburgh, Scotland Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html

East Prussia - German Empire 1882 http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Galicia-Austro-Hungarian Empire 1882 - Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Galicia - The western area Turkel settled in and other map sites
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm

Galicia under Hungarian and Polish Rules Time Line - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Galician Administrative Map showing the district names. http://www.pgsa.org/galicmap.htm 

General Map (in Russian) of Galicia (Western Ukraine) including Transcarpathia, West Bukovina and southern parts of Volyn on the north.  You can click on the map to enlarge the map http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Map of Austro-Hungarian Empire 1882 - Galicia in color. http://www.feefhs.org/maps/ah/ah-gaic.html

Map of Galicia 1875
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetLinks/lviv/links.html

http://www.polishroots.com

which also shows the administrative divisions.  Once connected, select 'Site Search' from the left hand side menu, type in Galician Maps and note the several maps displayed.  The first one is the administrative map.  You can save the map image to your computer by using the right click button on your mouse and saving the image/target as a bitmap file.  Then you can print it enlarged for easier viewing.

Map of eastern part of Galicia (in Russian) , namely Ternopol region with river Zbruch on the east. Zbruch was the eastern border of Galicia and Austria since it was also a border between Russian and Austrian Empires.  You can click on this map to enlarge
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

The river Zbruch is administrative border between Ternopol and Khmelnytsky (former Proskuriv/Proskurov regions of Ukraine). 

Map of Poland -
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm

Map of Ukraine -
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm

Name and Geographic Locations  http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Names

"As it is generally known, Galician Jews have been compelled to adopt German
sounding surnames in 1787 during Joseph II, Empress Maria Theresa son's rule, following the introduction in 1781 the first genuine reforms in Central Europe - Judenreformen und Toleranzpatent (Jew-reforms and Edicts of Tolerance).

When in 1772 during the 1st Partition, Austria has captured new lands, which
covered all of Western and Eastern Galicia, the Empire 1787 rule of surname
adoption was extended to the all territories. This also included parts of
Wolyn and Podolia that have captured by Austria at the same time. This rule was extended to the regions of Sandomierz, Lublin and Radom acquired by Austria in 1795."  From a posting by Marlene Bishow 5-30-05

Passports for Citizens of Galicia - local authorities throughout the Empire issued passports.  The register that LDS has only includes a listing of passports that were issued by the Vienna passport office (i.e. the register doesn't include passports which were issued by other offices in Austria, such as Galicia, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc.).

Here is what LDS has from the Vienna Passport Office:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/
supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=96036&disp=
Pa%C3%9Fregister+1792%2D1918%20%20&columns=*,0,0

Note, that it's just the register of passports which were issued by
that office (i.e., it's not the register of the several hundred passport
offices which were located throughout the Austrian portion of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire).

Polish Jewish Web site - offers a lot of information and it is in English
http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/

Posen-Prussia-German Empire East 1882 - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Routes To Roots - this site offers travel advice
http://www.routestoroots.com

and a searchable database by town name at
http://www.rtrfoundation.org  

Russia-The Crimean - Russian Empire-European Russia 1882  http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Silesia-Prussia-German Empire East 1882 - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - an excellent classical Polish gazetteer.  It is available in the New York Public Research Library on 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, New York and the Mormons (FHC) in New York City have the entire Slownik on several rolls of microfilms.

Szlachta Zagrodowa - in Polish this refers to a 'land nobility'.  They were the 'upper crust' and were small landowners, presumptuous and arrogant: - "A nobleman on his land is equal to a governor'.

Time Line of Galician Medieval History - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Translating Polish - Check out this site for free assistance - http://www.dcitionaries.travlang.com/ 

Vital and Marriage Records From Greek Catholic and Orthodox Parishes in Former Austrian Galicia, Former Malo Rus, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus (former Byelorussia) available through The Mormon Family History Library (FHL)
http://lemko.org/genealogy/galiciapl.html

Galicia (Region)

• Chapters on districts of Kolomyja and Stryy
From the dissertation Emergence of genocide in Galicia and resettlement transports to Belzec extermination camp
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/galicia/galicia.html
 
Galician Jewish Celebrities
 
Rabka Police School

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html

Towns and Cities 

Bavoriv (Baworow, Bavorov) - a village in the Ternopol district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Belchatow - a new pamphlet was added to the Yizkor Book Project http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

Belsk (Bielsk) and Belsk Uyezd (district) are available in the Grodno (Belarus) archive.  These include Revision Lists, family lists and the 1897 Russian Census.  These films have not yet been filmed by the FHL, they are planning to do so.

Berezhany (Brzezany, Brezany, Byeryezhany) - It is 4.5 miles to Zavaliv (Galician mile = 7.5 km) district center in Ternopol region which is in the heart of Galicia.  The town site information, the history of medieval town and photographs and an electronic street maps of the town, and more are at
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Memorial page to bygone world of Berezhany Jews
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/brzezaner.htm

Berezhany District - site contains list, descriptions of all villages, photos, maps, a Brzezaner Memorial Page to Berezhany Jews, Yellow Pages, Telephone and Address Book (in Ukrainian), a list of all villages in the Berezhany district and history at
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Bialy Kamien

The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Bibrka (Bobrka) 

Bobrka (G) - (Bibrka, Bobree) 

Bobrice is a grammatical form of Bobrka.  There are three different towns of Bobrka in three different administrative districts of: Bobrka; Krosno and Lisko.  Note that Bobrka spells with an accent over the 'o'.  Bobrka was formerly Galicia (near Lemberg) and now in Ukraine. A Yizkor book exists and much of the information appears to be from Landesarchiv in Vienna.  The City Hall was destroyed in WW1.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bobrka/default.htm

http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/lviv.htm

http://www.jewish-guide.pl/sites/33

A Yizkor Book,  "Le-Zeykher Kehillot Bobrka u-Benoteha" (Boiberke Memorial Book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

Contact is Beverly Shulster bbevy@012.net.il  Beverly has a picture postcard entitled "Rynek w Bobree" and a picture of the local market in the town where her father was born.

Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Bielsko Biala

There is a Yizkor Book

Bilshivtsi (formerly Bolszowce, Bolshovtsy)

A village in Halych district.  It was once known as Bolszowce when it was in Galicia, but is now knows officially as Bolshovtsy, Ukraine.
 http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Bilyavyntsi (Biliavuntsi, Bialanowce, Bielyavintsy) a village in  Buchach district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Bircza - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Bishche (Biszcze) - a village in Berezhany district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Bobrka - (Bobrce)  the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

The town is near Krosno and Zmigrod in Western Galicia according to a translation of the Polish "Slownik Geograficzny" published between 1880 and 1902.

Bogorodchany - Contact is Susannah R. Juni  http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Bohordczany

Bolechow - the cemetery is across a couple of hills and is unfenced.  There are maybe two hundred vertical gravestones.  The inscriptions face away from the graves and in most cases surnames appear on the reverse side.  Often full names.  The reverse side usually has a number inscribed as well.  http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm

Bolekhov (Bolekhev) - located in the area near Ivano Frankivsk (Stanislawow) which was in eastern Galicia.  There is a major chapter that has been translated by Dr. M. Hendel's "Maskalim and Haskalah (Enlightenment) Movement in Bolekhov in the 19th Century" (35 pages).  This chapter should be of interest to anyone researching the region of Galicia, not only in Bolekhov itself.  This chapter tells a fascinating story of the history of Jewish schools in the region including mention of the major leaders of the Haskala movement who were from Bolekhov, and also discusses some of the controversies which stirred the political and education spheres of our ancestors.  More chapters are currently being translated -  for further info and status 
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bolekhov/bolekhov.html 

There are 10 articles written by Yonah Ashel-Ellendman, under the heading "Daily Life," pages 219-241, plus other articles from that section on pages 261-263, and pages 267-277 are now in the process of translation.

Bolszowce - currently Bolshovtsy, Ukraine

Borislav, (Boryslav, Boryslaw) Drohobycz (Oil City) and surrounding area - a group of Jewish genealogists headed by Alexander Sharon  are working on a web site for these towns and will include Sambor.  This group has already identified and compiled names of more than 75 small villages  (except for Stryy which has it's own site)  Details can be found in the archives of Gesher Galicia SIG galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org 12/29/99 entitled:

Town information
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm

There is a Jewish cemetery in existence for the past 200 years.  More information about the cemetery can be obtained from William Fern Whfern@aol.com

Regional Special Interest Groups -  Contact Laurel White http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Borshchiv (Borszczow, Borszczew, Borschtschiw, Borshchev, Borshchov) - located in the center of the Ternopol district in Eastern Galicia.  there is a comprehensive list of village in the area at http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Regional Special Interest Groups -http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Boryslav (Boryslaw) a town in Drohobych district  http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Borzna  
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Brezdowicz - the shtetl is adjacent to New Rozdol and doesn't show up on most maps.  The cemetery site is at the top of a hill, across some fields and is so thickly wooded and overgrown that it is not identifiable as a cemetery site.  There are no graves or stones visible. 
http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm

Breslau (see Wroclaw) located at one time in the Posen Province. The Jewish community archives of this town from the late 18th century to the mid-twentieth century, including materials of Breslau's famed Jewish Theological Seminary are stored with The Jewish Historical Association   ul. Tlomackie 3/5, 00-090 Warsaw, Poland Telephone/Fax (48-2) 625 0400; Email reisner@plearn.edu.pl

There appears to be between twenty to thirty microfilms containing records of this Jewish community in the FHL Archives.  Births: 1184384; Marriages 1184389; Families: 1184402 

Breslau had become an entrance gate to Prussia and other parts of Germany for Jews from Galicia and the Posen province - probably because the "Schutzjuden" were only allowed to many one son in Breslau -- so that many stayed only for one generation in Breslau.

Brody - located in Brodivs'kyi Raion, L'vivska Oblast. It is about 90 km NE of L'viv.  Marjorie Rosenfeld marjorie.rosenfeld@cwix.com is working on a Brody web site.  She has finished the 17th through the 19th century records translations and is now developing the 20th century records.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Brody/brody.htm

http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Brzesko - a medium sized town on the main road halfway between Krakow and Tarnow and Bochnia.  Many of its residents left  following the big fire of 1904. The Mormons have the birth and marriage registrations records from 1864-1876. The office of civilian affairs there has the records from 1876 onwards.

Brzeziny (Brezany, Berzhan Brezezany) -   "Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews and Ukrainians 1919-1945" authored by Prof. Eva Hoffman.  Brzezany (East Galicia, now-a-days Berezhany in the Ukraine)  published by Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheba in 2002. This shtetl was called Berzhan in Yiddish and Brezany in German.

Brzozow -
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/krosno/krosno.htm

Buchach - a district center in the Ternopol region of Eastern Galicia - photos, history and more at
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm  

Regional Special Interest Groups -http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Budanov - Regional Special Interest Groups -http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Bukaczowce - the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Burakuvla - Regional Special Interest Groups  http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Burshtyn (Bursziyn, Burschtyn, Burshtin) - a town in Halych district
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

Busk - Regional Special Interest Groups  http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Butsniv (Bucniew, Bucnow, Butsnev) - a village in the Ternopol district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Bykiv - located in Sambir district.

Chmil'nyk (Chmelnik) - Contact is Herbert Lazerow - Regional Special Interest Groups -
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Chorowiec - once in the sub-administrative Podgorze district  within the main district of Wieliczka.  Birth, Marriage and Death records are located in the Krakow Branch of The Polish State Archives. For information on obtaining records from this archive, you will find that in Suzan Wynne's Book "Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia".

Chortkov - (Czortkow, Czortkow) a district center in Ternopol region of Eastern Galicia - site has information page, photos and more. http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Czaczow - the main district of Nowy Sacz, sub district Labowa.  According to Suzan Wynne's book, "Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide' which includes a complete list of LDS holdings for Galician Jewish records, but Nowy Sacz/Labowa records are not among them.  However, LDS may have non-Jewish records for that district/sub district.  The records were maintained by religious denominations under the Austrian government and, when the Poles agreed to provide LDS with films in the 1960, they chose to film very few Jewish districts.  It was a time of intense anti-Semitism in Poland.

Czchow - near Brzesko (Brzesko district) and the LDS Family History Center
has a microfilm roll for Brzesko (b.1849-1886). Czchow is in the Brzesko district. The Czchow records are listed in the USC archives and in the Tarnow archives (1877-1893).

Czernowitz (Chernovitz, Chernovitsy) - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Czestochowa, Poland - information may be available at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

Dabrowa - (in Yiddish, Dombrov (n)(a) (Dombrau in German, Dabrow/Dabrowie (in Polish),  There are over 20 listed Dabrowa in partitioned Poland and are some are located in in these administrative districts: Dabrowa, Kalusz, Bochinia, Rzeszow, Nowy Sacz, Cieszanow and Chrzanow.  There are also some tiny villages of the same name. One is Dabrowa Tarnowska, about 25 miles north of Tarnow. 

Debica - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Debno - Contact is Elaine Rosenberg - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Delyatin (including Dora and Lanchin) - a Shtetlach in the Carpathian area.  Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html

Dobrachyn (Dobraczyn) - was in Austria's Galicia province.  It is now in L'viv

Dobromil -land records are at the L'viv Archives for most of the 19th century. Przemysl Archives has a variety of records over many years beginning with 1870.  Also, I am told, Jewish Birth, Marriage and Death records are also in the L'viv Archives.  Fond 701, Series 1 contains "church books" of the Jewish Community in L'viv for the years 1785-1942 in 419 volumes.  Dobromil is one of the communities covered, according to a posting on JewishGen by Bob Weiss RWeissJGS@aol.com on 4/2/2002

"Dobromil" - authored by Saul Miller and published in 1980 by Lowenthal Press, PO Box 1107, New York, NY 10009
ISBN 0-914382-01-2  LOC # 80-81470

"Dobromil Year Book" has 83 pages in English and 50 pages in 
Yiddish by Saul Miller.  The translation was by Leo Miller, PO Box 1107, New York, NY 10009.

Dolina - (Dolyna) - a village in Terebovlya district and west of Ivano Frankivsk-  the cemetery site is a grassy, unmarked, unfenced hillside.  There are a handful of stones that are nearly completely buried.  http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm
 www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

Town information at 
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Regional Special Interest Groups - 
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Dolzanka

Located in the Tarnopol District

Dormaradz

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/krosno/krosno.htm

Drohobycz (Drogobych, Drohobitch)- (Once in Eastern Galicia, now Drogobych, in Western Ukraine)

L'viv oblast in western Ukraine. About 25,200 vital records are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and will be indexed by JRI-Poland:  

Births: 1877-1897  
Marriages: 1877-1881, 1884-1897, (1886-1891, 1893-1897);  
Deaths:  1852-1896 

Included in the records for this Administrative center are the vital records for nearby smaller towns and villages.  Contact the town leader for further information: Carole Glick Feinberg feincgs@cs.com 

See also additional information at my Ukrainian web page by clicking here Ukraine

Drohobych
http://www.britannica.com/seo/d/drohobych/ 

Drohobycz Administrative District - at this excellent website, Valerie Schatzker has offered an insight into the lifestyle of the Jews of the area and the petroleum industry 
dz_histoil.htm

Deportation of the Jews to Belzec death camp.  Between 1942 and 1943, the Nazis deported 10,000 Jews from Drogobych to Belzec death camp.  Of a prewar Jewish community of 15,000, only a few Jews survived.  http://motic.wiesenthal.com/gallery/pg19/pg3/pg19368.html 

Information on both the town and the Drohobych district is available at  http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Drohobycz (Drohobych, Drubich) - Contact is Laurel E. White Regional Special Interest Groups -
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Town information page at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

Kolbuszowa -

List of over 300 Jews who left Kolbuszowa for Ellis Island 1899-1923 in Excel format is available by contacting Harvey Kaplan harvey@hkaplan.freeserve.co.uk

Kobylolowki

West Ukraine border area south of Ternopol and about 22.8 miles from Satanow

Kolomyia (Kolomea, Kolomiya, Kolimia, Kolimeya, Kolomai, Kolomey, Kolomyia, Kolomaya)

Included in the records for this Administrative center are 38,500 vital records for nearby smaller towns and villages.  Contact the Town Leader for further information: Alan Weiser alanboy@erols.com  The marriage and death records are available.

Kosov - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Kovel - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Kozienice - many of the vital records were filmed by the Mormons from 1826-1877.  
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/

Krakow (Kroke) - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Kremenets - now in Ukraine. These web sites contains some general information including Kremenets records, and updates on the progress of the Shtetl Co-Op
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/kmain.html

Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Krivoluka - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Krosno area - today, Krosno is a major town and the center of dozens of smaller towns in southern Poland and was a part of Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary from 1776 to 1919 when it was returned to Poland.  It is 45 miles west of Przemysl and 180 miles south of Warsaw.  There is a ShtetLinks page at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/krosno/krosno.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Kryvche (Krivichi, Krywcze, Krivche, Krivichi) - a village in the Borshchiv district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Kudryntsi (Kudrynce, Kudrintsy) a village in the Borshchiv district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm  

The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Kuty - Regional Special Interest Groups  http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Lanchin
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

Lancut - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Lanovtse - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Lezajsk (Lizhensk) Contact Sarah and Stephen Katz Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Lipowice  - located southeast of Dolina

Lubaczow - a small village in the southeastern corner of Poland.  In 1931, there were 6,291 residents, of which 1,794 were Jews. There is a wonderful  web site entitled "Remembering the Jews of Lubaczow" offered by Eva Floersheim at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lubaczow/
where you can read, under the title "Religious Life", a text "Learning about the Gravestones from Lubaczow"

"A Beginner's Tutorial" http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/lubaczow/bgntut.htm
Here you will find under different sections with English explanations and Hebrew texts; Introduction; The Stone; Two Small Letters in Hebrew; Decorations; The Hebrew Calendar - A Mini Dictionary; The Hebrew Language; The End.  The text is based on the gravestones photographed at the Jewish Cemetery in Lubaczow by Howard Bodenstein in 1999 and shown on the web site.

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Lublin - Radom, Lublin and Sandomierz were annexed to Austria during the third partition, in the Vienna Congress they were integrated into the
Congress Poland Autonomy ruled by the Czar. They were part of Austria for
only 20 years, from 1795 to 1815.

Luboml - In October, 1941, this village disappeared from the face of the earth.  Nazi storm troopers occupied the shtetl of more than 4,000 Jews who were systematically massacred and then buried in mass graves.

"Remembering Luboml: Images of a Jewish Community" - is an exhibition that showed at the Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library on the Emory University campus in Atlanta, Ga. from March 10th through May 31.  Information at (404) 727 6868.

Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Luka - was a village near (4.5 miles) Sambir and 3 miles south of Drogobych.  It was renamed to Ozerne after WW II.  It lays south of impenetrable mud lands nearby. In 1880, the village had a population of 695 in rustic part and 349 in noble part and there were also 66 residents of the manor or castle that belonged to the Lutsks family.  The word rustic refers to peasantry, from the Latin word 'rusticus'.

Two rich Jews were known to live here: Diamandshein, known in the village as Yos'ko and Kiva.  Further information can be found in Michael Volodymyr Skoryk's story at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~retengnr/m_v_skormem.html 
on page 11.

"Memoirs of a Galician Jewish Family from Luka" - a bit difficult to read the 'broken' English, but it gives you an idea of life during WW II in the Luka Ghetto in Boryslav where the Jews were taken  http://members.tripod.com/~Gurnicht/luka.htm

Lukov (Maciejow) - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

L'viv
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/
Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

The AGAD Archives in Warsaw houses many of the 19th century vital records including:

60,699 Births:  1814-1837, 1862-1899
4,752 Marriages: 1870-1899
36,957 Deaths: 1864-1899
Josef Herz josef@jaherz.com  is the Town Leader of this JRI-Poland project

JRI-Poland Project for Lemberg/Lwów includes a list of towns in the Lwów Administrative area
http://lwow.jaherz.com/ 

Rabbi Ronald Lubofsky of Australia, owns the 3 volumes of census records for L'viv.  The only cemetery which exists is post Holocaust.  The tombstones are largely in Cyrillic. 15 volunteers have been working diligently on a project
that will create a searchable data base of persons that died in the Jewish
Hospital in the city of L'viv for years 1941/42.

The list has some 9000 surnames, given names, age, dates of death and burial, last known address, plot and tomb numbers and costs associated with their  burial. To date some 6000 line items have been entered. This project is part of the joint agreement between Yad Vashem and JewishGen.  A portion of the 1941 sheets are written in Cyrillic and represent some 1200 surnames.  Further information may be obtained from Errol Schneegurt  ESLVIV@aol.com 

Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Lvovo (Lvowo) -  Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Lysiec - There are probably a hundred or more standing tombstones at various angles.  The cemetery is fenced.  There are a handful of stones with surnames.  Inscriptions face away from the graves and the reverse sides are eroded. There is one grave that indicates the date of 1815. http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm

Lyubar - Contact Ellen Shindelman Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Magdalowka - 

Malow (Maliv) - located near Terebovlya.  

Mielec - located in western Galicia- Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Mielnica (Melnitsa Podolskaya) - the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.  This town is now located in Ukraine.

Birth, Marriage and Death Records have been indexed, but not all the indices have been added to the database.
Births: 1878-1879, 1883-1884, 1888-1890
Marriages: 1877-1898
Deaths: 1851-1895

Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Mikulintsy (Mykulyntsi, Mikulince) - a village in Terebovlia district.  The town information page is at
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Mitvina - a Shtetlach in the Carpathian area.

Mizhhirya (Mezhgorye) a village in the Borshchiv district - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Monastyriska (Monastrische) - Contact is Cynthia Stern Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Mosciska - the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Mukacsevo (Munkacs) - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Nadvornaya (Nadvirna, Nadvorna, Nadworna)  - the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

There is a ShtetLinks Page created by David Sotkowitz and Ada Green http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Nadvorna/nadw.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Narayiv (Narajow) - a village in Berezhany district - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Nemirov - is located north of Breslov. There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Nezhin - Contact is Alfred Feller Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Nizhnev - Contact Susannah R. Juni Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Nizniow - There is a cemetery and it is located up a hill making accessibility a bit difficult.  There is little left. 

Nowy Sacz -

http://miasta.gazeta.pl/krakow/1,42699,5121325.html

http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/slady_i_judaica/nowy_sacz

http://www.nowysacz.pl/eng/?main=inc-buildings

Obertin (Obertyn) - the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Odessa - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Okopy (Okupy, Okapi) - a village in the Borshchiv district - This town is now located in Ukraine.
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

All vital records are indexed and include:
Marriages: 1854, 1867-1876

Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Ostropol (Osterpolye) - Contact is Martin Horwitz Regional Special Interest Groups -
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Ottynia - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Ozeryany (Jezierzany) - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Palashevka - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Pavoloch (Pavolitch) - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Pereginsky - a Shtetlach in the Carpathian area.

Perehinsko - The cemetery is about the size of a good-sized house and yard and is fenced in.  All the stones are broken off at the base.  Many Jews from this shtetl were buried in neighboring Rozniatow.  http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm

Peremyshlany (Peremyshlany, Przemyslany, Pyeryemyshlyant, Peremyshl' in Ukraine) district center in L'viv.  Town information and List of Villages of Peremyshlyan, Kamyanka Buska (Kamionka Strumilowa/Kamenka Bugskay, Radekhiv (Radziechow/Radekhov) districts at http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm  
The site offers an information page on the town, two pages of recent photos and a list of villages of Peremyshlany, Kayanka Buska (Kamionka Strumilowa/Kamenka Bugskaya) (Radziechow/Radekhov) districts.

The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 789.

Pidvysoke (Podwysokie, Podwysoke, Podvysokoye) a village in the Berezhany district. At this site , you will find village information, views, etc. http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Pistyn (Pystin) - located 13 miles south of Kolomyya/Kolomea and about 4 miles northwest of Kosov/Kossow.  This town was in the Kossow district in 19th century Galicia.  There are no vital records available according to Mark Halpern on the Gesher Galicia SIG on 10/8/01

Plotycha (Plotycze, Plotycza) - a village in Ternopol district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Podhajce - (Podgavtsy) the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns. 

Births and Marriage records are available at AGAD at  http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Deaths: 1896, 1898, 1899
Deaths (Index Only); 1879-1882, 1884, 1887, 1893-1895

Index Only entries are extracted from indices and the underlying records are not available and cannot be ordered from AGAD.

Podkamen - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Podwoloczyska -
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm

Polonnoye - Regional Special Interest Groups -

Pomortsy - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Popiel -  is a village in Drohobycz county, presently in the Ukraine and about 6 miles from Boryslaw in Eastern Galicia. Popiel is in the Dnestr basin, on the banks of Ratoczyna river.  The village buildings are located in the middle of the area in the Katowice Valley and encompass several hamlets.  For further descriptive information please refer to the Archives of Gesher Galicia SIG at galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org and click your way to March 3, 2000 and Alexander Sharon's description. 

http://members.tripod.com/krolpopiel/

Priluki - Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Przysucha

Radom - Radom, Lublin and Sandomierz

Annexed to Austria during the third partition, in the Vienna Congress they were integrated into the Congress Poland Autonomy ruled by the Czar. They were part of Austria for only 20 years, from 1795 to 1815.

Radomysl (Radomysl Wielki), See also my Ukrainian Shtetl page

Radymno (Radimno, Redem)

Rafalovka 

Ray (Raj, Rai) -

Rohatyn - (Rogatin) 

Romaniolo Siolo  

Romanovka

Romanowe Siolo -

Rzepnik

See also my Ukrainian - Romanian  pages

Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

See also my Ukrainian site for additional information by clicking here Ukraine

Sanok - click here to go to my Poland web page

Siedliska - there are a least three Siedliska and one Siedliska Bogusz - all located within what used to be Austria and/or Galicia: JewishGen's ShtetlSeeker lists around 28 towns in Poland with this name

Siedliska near Jaworow
Siedliska near Przemysl
Siedliska near Rzeszow
Siedliska Bogusz west of Przemysl

Skala Podilska (Skala Podolska, Skala Podolskaya) - a town in the Borshchiv district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

AGAD Archives in Warsaw houses many vital records including
Births 1872-82, 1886-97 
Deaths: 1839-92

The Skala Benevolent Society (Skala Podolaska) has a video "Skala on the Border" which gives a history of this Jewish community from the 15th century through the holocaust.  For further information contact Tony Hausner tthausner@yahoo.com 

Skala - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Skalat (G) - formerly in Galicia (Austro-Hungary), then Poland, and now in Ukraine.  It was home to a large Jewish population, and even more families lived in the surrounding villages and towns, according to an article by Schelly Talalay Dardashti in The Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/03/JewishWorld/JewishWorld.41063.html 

History of Skalat - includes information from the 1971 Skalat Yizkor book, and a list of members researching families from Skalat  http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Skalat/skalat.html 

A visit the Skalat Holocaust Memorial in the Holon Cemetery, which can be viewed from the Skalat site at SRRG http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Skalat/Skalat.html 
The page for the memorial is labeled "New".  You'll also find a 'Trip Report' including photos.

The Skalaters Association in Israel is planning to visit and dedicate a memorial consisting of Jewish gravestones that had been used as building material, in July 2002.  This memorial was constructed in a corner of the former cemetery now being used by a nearby school as a soccer field.  At the edge of the soccer field, there is some fifteen gravestones, neatly stacked.  There is also a Holocaust memorial outside the town.  This memorial includes about twenty gravestones that had been taken from the cemetery, standing around the central memorial.  So that the stones would all be of the same height, some were cut at the bottoms, where the names appeared.
http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm  
Further information can be obtained from Haim Braunstein 03 618 3213 or 40 Hibat Zion, Ramat Gan 52408, Israel. 

There is a 'synagogue' which had been turned into a warehouse and is deserted now.

For an accurate first person description of "A Visit To Skalat", http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/Skalat.htm 

and for an amazing collection of area community records, try http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL 

Yizkor Book - "Skalat; Kovets Zikaron Le-Kehila she-Harva ba-Shoa" -  http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Sniatyn - now located in Ukraine.  Most of the Jews were sent to Belzec Camp by the Nazis in April, 1942 and July 9, 1942

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Snovich is a small town near Zlochev/Zolochev in Galicia.

Sokolowka (Sokal)- the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

AGAD Sokal Project has been posted to
 http://sokal.jaherz.com
and contains the latest status on the project to acquire 19th century birth, marriage and death records for the Sokal district and the towns under its administrative control in Galicia.

Soroeka - 

Sosnovoye (Selisht) - Contact Larry Lavitt Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Stanislaviv (Stanislawow - see also Ivano Frankovsk) & Tysmenitsa - This town is now located in Ukraine. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm 

The cemetery is a large, fenced in area.  The fence is just a few years old.  There is a central section with several dozen post-war graves (in Cyrillic), but the rest of the cemetery has no stones with inscriptions.  Many horizontal stones - sloped on both sides - are in good condition.  But the vertical stones - with the inscriptions - are mostly gone. The ones that are there are mostly broken and fallen, though there are a few that are erect and legible.  The inscriptions face the graves.  The old Stanisiawow cemetery is under a movie theater. 
http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm

The following records are being indexed by JRI-Poland:

Births: 1864-1874, 1877-1897
Marriages: 1872-1876, 1889-1897
Deaths: 1890-1896

On-line Birth Records: 1881-1892

Included in the 25,600 vital records for this Administrative center are the records for nearby smaller towns and villages. 

Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Contact the town leader for further information: Denise Azbill Famaz@prodigy.net 

Staryy Sambir (Stary Sambor, Sambor) - there is currently some restoration work being done on the cemeteries of this shtetl which was known in Yiddish as Alstadt - Stary which means old.  It is organized by a Mr. Gardiner in Vancouver, Canada, using the services of Reb Meilech Shochet of L'viv.  Since there are many gravestones still visible in places, this may be an added source of information according to Rabbi A. Marmorstein Mehadrin@aol.com 

Contact Laurel White Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Stepan - Contact Daniel G. Shimshak Regional Special Interest Groups

Stratyn

The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed. This town is now located in Ukraine.

Births: 1859-1876
Deaths: 1859-1876

Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Strusov

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostaw/sl_strusow.htm

Stryy (Stryj)

At one time located in Eastern Galicia; about 40 miles south of L'viv. Much information, including maps, Yizkor Book, Business Directory Database (1891)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stryy/stryy.htm  

The Yizkor Book Project has a CD with scans of the Stryj Memorial scroll containing names of about 3,000 victims.  The names need to be transliterated from Hebrew to English, but familiarity with Germanic names is mandatory as about 90% of the names are 'Germanic."  Further information Joyce Field, JewishGen Yizkor Book Project Manager jfield@jewishgen.org

Chapters on districts of Kolomyia and Stryy from the dissertation Emergence of genocide in Galicia and resettlement transports to Belzec extermination camp
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Strzeliska Nowe

The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.
http://www.zchor.org/hitachdut/pinkas2.htm

http://www.pikholz.org/Pioneers/Pioneers.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/town/strzeliska_nowe.htm

Strzyzow

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/strzyzow/strzyzow.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Suchostav

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Suchostav Region Research Group (SRRG) - this group is researching an area within 25 mile radius of Suchostav, Ukraine.  
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostaw/SRRGhome.html

Towns in this area include
Borshev, Buchach, Budanov, Burakuvla, Chortkov, Dolina, Gorodnitsa, Grimaylov, Gusyatin, Jagielnica, Kamenka, Khorostkov, Kopychintsy, Kosov, Mikulintsy, Ozeryany, Palashevka, Poortsy, Probuzhna, Romanovka, Satanov, Skalat, Strusov, Suchostav, Terebovlia, Tolstoy, Tudorov, Ulashkovtse and others.

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/SRRGhome.html 

Contact for further information Joan Baronberg njbaron@uswest.net 

Sudilkov

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://grossmanproject.net/sudilkov_jewish_history.htm

http://asimplejew.blogspot.com/2009/05/sudilkov-challah.html

Svezhkovtse

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Svidova - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Svinech (Sviniochi, Swiniuchy)

North east of L'viv and about 12 km from Horochov.  Before WWI it had a population of about 1,000. 

Swirz

This town is now located in Ukraine.  Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Deaths: 1877-1897

Synewodzko Wyzne

Located near Skole, in eastern Galicia

Szczerzec (now called Shcherets)

The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Tarnobrzeg - 

Gayle Riley has a Tarnobrzeg-Dzikow web page that includes photos at 
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Tarnobrzeg/ 

The site includes a 1772 Census of the Jews of Dzikow which was later known as Tarnobrzeg; a list of people selling alcohol; and several other lists, maps, including a map of Jewish sites and more.  Gayle has a mailing list of those who desire to have the index to the Tarnobrzeg death index for 1903 - 1928 provided to them.  Contact Gayle at key2pst@pacbell.net 

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Tarnopol (Ternopol) -

This town is now located in Ukraine.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm 

Tarnopol Births for 1893-1897 and records for 12 nearby towns, are included in the web page at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/agad/agad_tarnopol.htm  
History, photos and monuments are at http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

To access records at the State Archive of Tarnopol Oblast, the
State Archive in L'viv, or other Archives in Ukraine, you can
contact the Archive directly, hire a professional researcher, or
visit yourself.

The cemetery is fenced in and all the graves are in one corner.  Perhaps two hundred or more.  Most of the stones are still standing and fairly legible.  Almost all have surnames - sometimes the names are in Latin letters. http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm

Births and Marriage records are on-line.  All 11,500 death indices are also on-line: 1870-1876, 1878-1892, 1894-1899

Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Tarnoruda - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Terebovlya (Terebovla, Terebovlia, Trembowla, Terebovlya) old capital of Terebovlya province in East Galicia and district center in Ternopol region. Information about the town including history and monuments at  http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Ternopil - From 1772 to 1919, it was in Austria's Galizien Crownland (Galicia).  During this time it's name was spelled Tarnopol.  Prior to that it was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.  From the end of WW I to 1939 it was in Poland and was spelled Tarnopol.  Then it was in the Soviet Ukraine and now Ukraine.  During the Soviet era it was spelled Ternopol, now it is spelled Ternopil. (see Tarnopol, Ternopol, Tarnopol) - photos, history and a monument at
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Tlumach - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html

Tolstoye (Tluste) - located at 49° 16'  Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Trenolo -
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511/GaliciaW.htm 

Tributkhovtsy - Regional Special Interest Groups

Trochinbrod - Regional Special Interest Groups

Trostyanets (Troscianiec, Troscaniec, Trostyanyets) - a village in the Berezhany district
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Truskavets (Truskawiec) - a town in Drohobych district - information available at
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm

Tuchin - Regional Special Interest Groups

Tudorov - Regional Special Interest Groups

Tysmenitsa (Tysmenitza, Tismenitsie) - Contact Susannah R. Juni Regional Special Interest Groups

Ulanow - mentioned in the 1891 Galicia Business Directory.  It is located in the area of large forests.  Polish Count Wlodzimierz Czartoryjski was an owner of the majority of the forests (Las Glinianka) and other lands in this region. 

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Ulashkovtse

http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/places/ftp.py?places//ukraine/chortkiv/commission-report.440621-28

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/ukraine.html

Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/ukraine.html

Ulaszkowce - the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Urman - a village in Berezhany district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Uscie (Ujscie) - translates as an outlet 'of the river'.  Population of 800 people and was (is) located in Zydaczow district near town of Mikolajow, Stanisiawow Province on the Dniester River near where the Shirka River empties into the Dniester River.

Uscie Biskupie - (Ust'ye) (Bishop outlet) is located in the Borszczow region in the Tarnopol Province.  The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  Town Leader is Ignacio Sternberg

Births: 1832-1833, 1837, 1840, 1844, 1846, 1848-1849, 1851-1876
Deaths: 1831-1832, 1835-1836, 1839, 1842, 1844, 1846, 1848-1876

Uscie nad Prutem - translates to 'over River Prut' and is in the Sniatyn district of Kolomyia area, and the Stanisiawow Province.  There were 1,240 residents before WW II.

Uscie Ruskie - located in the Gorlice District.

Uscie Solne - located in Bochinia near Krakow vicinity.

Ustrzyki Dolne (Stryker) -

Velykiv Bychkiv (Bychkov, Zakarpatska) - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Vialalge - located in Zydaczow district near the town of Mikolajow on the Dniester River and had a pre war population of 800.

Vignanka - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Vinnitsa (Vinitza) - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Vishnevets - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Volhynia (Wolin) Guberniya - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Volochisk - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Vorvolintse - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Voynilov - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Wielkie Oczy (Vilkatch, Vilkatchi) -This town is now located in Poland.  Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and at the Wielkie Oczy Registrar Office are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/WielkieOczy/

All available records have been indexed and are on-line
Births: 1843-1874
Deaths: 1843-1874

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html
 
http://roots.home.att.net

http://www.ShtetLinks.JewishGen.org/WielkieOczy

Winniki (Vinniki) - This town is now located in Ukraine. Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

All of the vital records at AGAD are now indexed and on-line
Marriages: 1881, 1883, 1886, 1892-95, 1897, 1899
Deaths: 1885, 1887-89, 1891-92, 1895-96

Wisniowczyk - located in the Tarnopol Province and is associated with the sour cherry (Wisnia or the alcoholic beverage known as Vishniak).  There were two villages in this province by the same name.  One Wisniowczyk was located in Podhajce (Pidgaytsy) region and the other in Przemyslany (Peremyshlany).  By entering the town name Wisniowczyk for Ukraine in the ShtetlSeeker, current Ukrainian names, slightly modified from the original names will show up.  There is a third village known as Wisniowiec (Ukrainian: Vishevets) that is located near Kremenets in Volhynia.

Yablanov - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Yasen - a Shtetlach in the Carpathian area.

Yablunivka (Jablonowka, Jablunuwka, Jablonovka) a village by Buchach - http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Yagelnitsa - Contact Constance Cowen Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Zablotow  - the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanislawow.  Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.  This is one of the towns currently being indexed.

Zabolotov - Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Zalozce (Zalosce) - there is a remnant of a Jewish cemetery in this shtetl.  The land where it was located is kept empty and well maintained.  It is not fenced, though there are a few broken and illegible tombstones still visible according to Israel Pickholtz at
http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/Zalosce.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Zavaliv - located in the Galician Podilya (lowlands), on the river Zolota Lypa (Golden Linden), on the  left side of river Dniester, some four miles (Galician mile = 7.5 Km) south of Berezhany. The name Zavaliv means "behind the bulwarks".

In Zavaliv in second half of 19th century were 191 houses and 1285
dwellers consisting of 698 Ukrainians, Graeco-Catholics and 587
Roman-Catholics (presumably Polish colonists and Ukrainians christened
 in Polish church), 12 Germans, 17 Jews and remainder Armenians and other
 unspecified nations. 'Memoirs by A Galician Ukrainian' is a perspective on life at
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~retengnr/m_v_skormem.html

Zawalow -This town is now located in Ukraine.  Indices created from the records house at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

All of the vital records available at AGAD are indexed and on-line
Births: 1870-1874, 1876, 1878, 1880-1899

Zbaraz - the cemetery is located on a small street leading in from Zalozce.  There are about 120 gravestones with varying degrees of legibility.  The cemetery is not fenced in.
http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm

Zhabokrich (Kryzhopol) - Contact Charles Lapkoff Regional Special Interest Groups
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Zhydachiv - (Zydaczow, Zhydachev, Zhydachov) the district center in Lviv region; town information
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm  
The site offers town information and includes Khodoriv (Chodorow, Khodorov) town in Zhydachiv district

Zmigrod Nowy - 1,250 Jews were murdered by the Nazis in July, 1942 Further information about this shtetl and the surrounding towns are at  http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/zmigrod/zmigrod.htm

Regional Special Interest Groups http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/poland.html 

Zolkiew - located in Eastern Galicia (Zhovkva , Zholkva and it was known in Yiddish as Zholkva.  During the Soviet era it was known as Nesterov.  Zolkiew is the Polish name.   If you are a Lemberg researcher, you also may find information of interest.  Included on this web site are: Lists of Ellis Island Arrivals from Zolkiew with links to the manifests on the Ellis Island site; maps, Galicia Business Directory, History
http://home.earthlink.net/~brians99/

Zoloty Potik (Zolotyy Potik, Zloty Potok, Zolotoy Potok) a village by the Buchach castle
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm 

Zolynia -

Regional Special Interest Groups
www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/sigs.htm 

http://www.polishroots.com/reference/international_resources.htm

http://www.zolynia.org/zolynia2002/research-9-weblinks.htm

Zurawno (Zhuravno - [Ukrainian spelling] Zuravno) is one of 82 towns from Eastern Galicia included in the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland project to index the vital record registers maintained at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw.  All of the vital records available at AGAD are indexed and on-line.  Town Leader is Israel Pickholtz.

Included are Births from 1877 to 1884. 
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/agad/index.htm  
 according to the Polish Archives (Urzad Stanu Cywilnego) , there are no Jewish records in their holdings. Before the war, this shtetl was located in the Zydaczow district of Stanisiawow Province and had 3,208 residents which included 865 Jews.  It is about 19 miles from Stryy.

"In 1676, during the Turkish and Tartar Wars, the Battle of Zurawno was fought for three weeks in late September through mid October. After this battle, a treaty was signed and a large number of Polish prisoners were repatriated. It appears that Zurawno was retained as a part of the Polish territories. I know that after the partitions, Zurawno and Rozniatow became part of the Austrian Crownland of Galicia, but I am not certain when this happened. During the inter-war period, I know that a cousin, who was still living in Zurawno, served in the Polish army and on all documents (manifests et al)" From a posting by Marlene Bishow on 5-30-05

There is listings for 629 records of the surname Katz in Stanislawow Province. Records are spread through nine different administration centers, but the majority are located in near to Zurawno towns Stryj, Zydaczow, Bolechow and Stanislawow

Zurow (Zhuriv)

Zywiec - according to Suzan Wynne's book "Finding Your Jewish Roots in  Galicia, A Recourse Guide" there are no Jewish records for Zywiec that have been found.

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