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Gesher Galicia’s Cadastral Map Room &
Galician Archival Records Project
A virtual recreation of a a vanished world
Gesher Galicia is an internationalnon-profit research group focusing on the populationand history of Galicia, as explored in community genealogical records, historical documentsand cadastral maps.
Introduction to Gesher Galicia
The Kingdom of Galicia was the largest and
northernmost province of Austria from 1772 until
1918, with Lemberg (Lwów, L'viv) as its capital city. It
was created from the territories taken from the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the
partitions of Poland and lasted until the dissolution
of Austria-Hungary at the end of the First World War.
Today Galicia is an historical region split between
Poland (Western Galicia) and Ukraine (Eastern
Galicia.) People who grew up hearing stories about
ancestors who came from “Austria,” it is highly
possible they
actually came from Galicia.
THE GACLIAN ARCHIVALRECORDS PROJECT
The Cadastral Map & Landowner Records ProjectThe Voter, School, Tax and Tabula Records Project
The Vital Records and Census Project The Stanislawow 1939 Census and Passport
Applications ProjectThe Tarnopol 1910 Jewish Census Project
The Polish Magnate Records Project The Austrian State Archives Project
The Austrian Ministries ProjectThe Galician Refugees Project
Lviv Historical Archives
Lviv Historical Archive Reading Room
CartographyThe art or technique of making maps or charts.
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GenealogyThe study and tracing of lines
and descendants
THE GARP PROJECTINCLUDES:
The Cadastral Map & Landowner Records ProjectThe Voter, School, Tax and Tabula Records Project
The Vital Records and Census Project The Stanislawow 1939 Census and Passport
Applications ProjectThe Tarnopol 1910 Jewish Census Project
The Polish Magnate Records Project The Austrian State Archives Project
The Austrian Ministries ProjectThe Galician Refugees Project
Stanislawow 1939 Census & Regional Passport Applications Indexing
Project
Gitel AbzugBasia AbzugHilda Abzug
RachelaHerschFryder
Amalja BlumenfeldKlara BlumenfeldMarek Blumenfeld
The Tarnopol 1910 Jewish Census Project
14,000 + nameswere indexedlast year and
are now searchable
online on theAll Galicia Database.
SCHOOL RECORDS FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The Austrian Ministries ProjectExample from the Austrian MinistriesProject of the regulation of licensedalcohol sales. This is Chula Katz'sapplication to sell alcohol in 1907–1908in Skołoszów and the appeal when theapplication was rejected. The quantity ofdates, deadlines, andother items shows
the level of bureaucracyinvolved inconducting
business in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The project objectives are:
⌂ to inventory archival property records and maps of Galicia⌂ to digitally photograph or scan cadastral maps ⌂ to digitize and/or index landowner records as companion pieces to the maps⌂ to create an online portal to display high resolution maps and provide search engines for researching records⌂ to annotate maps by merging data from records, personal testimonies, newspapers, and ephemera to create a multi-dimensional portrait of a town, showing its evolution in a cartographic timeline
Cadastral maps are works of art, in full color with great geographic detail, but they usually do not
display the names of the property owners or the house numbers, which can both be seen on the “sketch”
(feldskizzen) maps. They will, however, have the land parcel numbers.
Cadastral Maps
maps.geshergalicia.org
The “intermediate” orIndikationskizzen map
RYNEK
Detail Map of Town Center SKALA
Bukachivtsi Market Square over a span of years….
Kleinfeld, Schulim
Schwarz Sommer
Glanz AinsilSchenker Daniel
Dickmann, Alter
Szumski,Roman
Pwaczyj, Mikolaj
KOMARNO
Detail maps of the rynek
Flying Bridge
Post Office
Inn
ornamentalgardens
orchardsvegetablegardens
vineyards
pastures swampcommunitypastures
Hardwood forestEnglish garden
chestnut wood olive forestsand & gravel
pits clay pits
BELZ CADASTRAL MAP
Two Synagogues
VEGETABLE GARDEN
orchards
We can merge data from records with cadastral maps…
(he owned a tavern)
1810 TAX LIST
Who is Josef Perl?
TARNOPOL
Josef Perl, author of the first Hebrew
(satirical) novel
BRODY had three cemeteries over hundreds of years...
We have inventories for Przemysl,Rzeszow, Lviv Archives maps
and records...
The key to making data work is to provide it in a searchable database:
http://search.geshergalicia.org
Click to Sort by
record type
The plussign producesmore record
details
If you onlywant records
for Ester clickjust that name
The icon denotesrecord type
(marriage)
The icon denotesrecord type
(birth)
The ALL GALICIA DATABASE offers many searching & sorting options:
Here is how a search result appears on the All Galicia Database:
Ewa Citron was born in New York City!(New-Jork, Ameryka)
Drohobycz
Drohobycz 1931 Jagiellonian Gymnazium
Bruno Schulz
School Records
David Einsiedler
DrohobyczGymnasium
Records
Grzymalow Children’s Census
Grzymalow Childrens’ Census
www.geshergalicia.org/videos/
SKALAT TAX LIST1936
Gesher Galicia has many 20th
century records, an important
factor in Holocaust-era research
These contain information of genealogical value, documenting the residents of towns and their interactions with the
nobility
Polish Magnate Landowner Records
Case studies for individual towns highlighting the scope of documentation
available to researchers
Grzymalow Castleoriginally built 1590
Full-color cadastral map of the center lithographed in 1828. shows Developing market square with spaced masonry and wooden buildings, grid-style housing ringing the market, the damaged but complete castle structure, a Jewish cemetery and two Catholic cemeteries, plus a large synagogueandtwo churches; outside the town center, two suburban villages are growing.
Castle
Synagogue e
Jewishcemetery
the river
Market SquareRynek
CASTLE
Shops in the Rynek
Diener, Chaje
Schonhaut, Chaja
Blitz, Hersch
Piotr PininskiGreat Great Grandson of
Count Leonard Pininski
Memories from a Polish Magnate Landowner’s Family
I have a large collection of family photographs going
back to about the middle of the 19th century.
Grzymalow is today not even a shadow of what it once
was. However I have much of the castle and town
captured in photographs, including the late baroque
Roman Catholic church built by the Princes
Czartoryski, the castle rebuilt as a kind of palace by my
great great grandfather in the 1840's, the 17th century
synagogue, the great Steam Mill built by my great
grandfather in the early 1870's etc etc\
April 2013
The Gatehouse
View from the gatehouse
In 2013
The synagogue today....
MEMORY MAPS
The chemist shop of Mr. Braun
The castle
1765 Inventory For Grzymalow
Jewish Bakers
Christian Bakers
Jewishcemetery
on a 1939hand-drawn
map
The Jewish Cemetery of Grzymalow
List of creditors of Countess Constantia Rzewuska,nee Lubomirska, c.1820
Public sale of the right to rent the properties of the town of Grzymalow, c. 1829
…Three groups of Jews turned up at the public sale. Among them there were the previous lease-holders from the town of Satanow, person by the name Atlas from the town of Tarnopol, and the person by the name old Lieber from Satanow. Atlas took 100 rubles for not interfering in the public sale.
The old Lieber gave 200 rubles to the official responsible for the public sale and promised to give him 400 rubles more if the lease contract will be approved by the court as well as 50 rubles worth of goods namely coffee, sugar, tea, tobacco and wax candles to confirm the deal.
The 1828file on Leopold
Anthony ElkanVon
Elkansburgof BavariaThe first (Jewish)owner of
Grzymalow
BAD ISCHL
The Evolution of Eleanorowka
Historicaland personalAnnotationsusing a mapAs the base
List of Kalush pub keepers 1801
1 Joel Schenker , # 357 Died in 1800.Widow is keeping pub
10 Lachman Reis ,# 343. Bought the house in 1800
14 Naftula Hochman, # 339. Bought house along with vodka distillery in 1788
15 Juda Fogel,# 338. Bought house in 1801
20 Chaje Lewin, # 330. Died in 1793
22 Samuel Friedman,# 328. Died in 1801.Had sold vodka distillery equipment as per hiswidow
Marcus Luz(profession:
Kramarz)
Chune Roth
Moses Ausfchmitt
Moses RosenfeldBen Herschmen
Josef Landau
Brody Voters List 1874
SUMMONS
The magistrate of the freeHanseatic town of Brody
asks the following people to register: all individuals due for
military service but absent during the recruitment of
1846 on the Ussenplatz have to register within six weeks
and must explain why they did not
show up, or they will be treated according to the
current rules as “draft dodgers.”
GERMAN CONSULAR VISA APPLICATIONS LWOW AREAGesher Galicia is digitizing and indexing visa and passport
applications
Emigration application of Leon Sobel
Stanislawow Passport Application
Passport forEsther Blima Berner 1928
The Indexing Cooperativewill extract names, birth dates,
and key family information from these records.
Most of them have photographs of the
applicants.
Landowner
Records
Landowner records provide a rich historical accounting of a
town’s residents, their property and livelihood. Our
search engine intergratesdigital records with our
databases.
SKALAT TAX LIST1936
World War I Records (Lviv Archive)
“People who suffered during the war”
Circa 1918
Meilach David& Eisig Flank
List of people who bought sheckels in Obertyn
Buczacz 1914
Tarnow 1914 - WWI
Stryj Marketplace
Like Google Street-View of the World War I era...
Merging Maps with Data
Annotating the maps to bring the towns to life....
Yizkor Books
Shmul Pickholzlived in the Rynek House #8
We can merge data from records with cadastral maps…
(he owned a tavern)
Facebook & Crowdsourcing
Before the war, Sanok had six synagogues; two survivors can be found in town today, along with a number of other buildings and sites of Jewish significance. The "new" Jewish cemetery,
which can be visited, is on Kiczury St. Only about 50 headstones remain today, the others having been used by the
Nazis to pave Sanok roads.
www.geshergalicia.org
The End!THE END!