Gesher Galicia

06/01/2026

Scheduled Maintenance

The Gesher Galicia website will undergo routine maintenance on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. During the maintenance window, from 3:00 AM to 8:00 AM ET, users may experience intermittent downtime.

05/24/2026

We’ve expanded the All Galicia Database again with over 3600 newly indexed records from the towns below. If your family came from any of these places, let us know in the comments what you have discovered!

Scott Genzer
Research Coordinator

Gliniany Jewish Voters (1861, 1867, 1870)
Gorlice Jewish Banns (1907, 1911-1912, 1920, 1922-1923, 1932)
Gorlice Jewish Births (certificates) (1875, 1880, 1888-1889, 1903, 1906)
Gorlice Jewish Deaths (certificates) (1942)
Gródek Jagielloński Jewish Births (1893)
Gródek Jagielloński Jewish Deaths (1915)
Jezierna Jewish Marriages (1940)
Korolówka (near Borszczów) Jewish Births (1940)
Mielnica Jewish Births (1940)
Mielnica Jewish Deaths (1940)
Mikulińce Jewish Births (1867, 1905-1907, 1918-1920, 1940.04-1940.12)
Mikulińce Jewish Deaths (1940)
Mikulińce Jewish Marriages (1940.06-1940.12)
Mosty Wielkie Jewish Marriages (1920-1938)
Nadwórna Jewish Births (1925)
Nadwórna Jewish Births (certificates) (1942)
NKVD Files, Kyiv and other locations, TsDAHOU (1939-1941)
NKVD Files, Stanislav Region, AUCBUI-F (1939-1945)
Okopy Jewish Births (1940)
Przemyślany Jewish Marriages (1919-1939)
Rohatyn Jewish Voters (1865 + 1870)
Sołotwina Jewish Births (1925)
Stanisławów Jewish Births (1923-1932)
Stary Sambor Jewish Marriages (index book) (1874-1935)
Tarnopol Jewish Births (1940.01-1941.06)
Tarnopol Jewish Deaths (1940.01-1940.12)
Trembowla Jewish Births (1940.04-1940.06)
Zabłotów Jewish Marriages (index book) (1877-1920)
Złotniki Jewish Births (1940)

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05/10/2026

NEW YOUTUBE CLIP RELEASED OF THE MAMALES SINGING YIDL MITN FIDL FROM THE GESHER GALICIA VIRTUAL CONCERT

A clip from this performance was just uploaded to YouTube and you can watch it by clicking on this link.
https://youtu.be/LW4Emlu_rx8

The response to the concert has been incredible. By popular demand we are thrilled to be able to offer an encore opportunity to grab tickets and see this unforgettable performance for yourself.

BUY TICKETS HERE - https://tinyurl.com/geshergalicia

Purchasing this ticket will entitle you to start watching the concert within 30 days and then for another 30 days after you start watching it you can watch it as many times as you like.

Previously a clip from the finale was uploaded to YouTube and you can watch it by clicking on the picture below. Hear them sing the classic Chiribim Chiribum.
https://youtu.be/RE2o_Lyh1DQ


The Mamales go a great job bring our Galician Yiddish culture to a new and wider audience. We are very confident that if you choose to watch the concert you will thoroughly enjoy it.

Happy Mothers Day to all our Mama's out there. A ticket to this concert is a great gift for our Yiddishe Mamas.

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05/03/2026

FIRST BATCH OF VOTER RECORDS RELEASED FROM THE SCHNEIDER COLLECTION

Gesher Galicia is happy to announce the release of the first batch of voter records from the Schneider Collection Project, which are being extracted and indexed by our team from fond 684 stored at the Krakow National Archive. The project page for the collection can be found on our website here.
https://www.geshergalicia.org/projects/voter-lists-from-the-antoni-schneider-collection/

Antoni Schneider (1825–1880) was an ethnographer whose life was consumed by a monumental obsession to document the "cultural fabric" of Galicia. While serving a three-year sentence for participating in the 1848 Hungarian uprising, he developed a visionary plan: the creation of a definitive encyclopedia of his homeland Galicia. To this end, Schneider scoured paper mills and antique shops for documents building an extensive archive of documents on Galicia.

The specific records we obtained from the Schneider collection are lists of residents eligible to vote in parliamentary elections for the Galician Sejm (parliament) for the elections of 1861, 1867 and 1870. These lists typically record the names, occupations, and house numbers of eligible individuals. It is important to note that these lists do not represent the entire population (during this period in Galicia (1860-1870), only a small percentage of residents were permitted to vote - primarily male heads of families who paid significant taxes). Despite this partiality, the data included in the lists is an important substitute for missing census records and can be also used to cross-reference with other resources such as vital records and tax lists which researchers may have from other sources. This is useful for the following purposes:

(1) Pinpointing Ancestral Residences: The house numbers found in some voter lists allow researchers to cross-reference data with cadastral surveys and vital records to locate the exact plot of land an ancestor inhabited.
(2) Socio-Economic Profiling: Understanding an ancestor’s eligibility to vote for the Sejm, alongside their listed occupation, provides insight into their tax status and social standing - especially with the occupation.
(3) Insights into less-documented locations: Schneider documented locales that often lack their own archival fonds, preserving the only surviving evidence of their 19th-century residents.

We thank Ross Maurer, Logan Kleinwaks, Idan Livne, Yoav Mentesh for their work on this project.

Prof. Yaron Wolfsthal
Director, Gesher Galicia
Project Coordinator, Schneider Collection

04/30/2026

The response to the live stream has been so incredible that by popular demand, we’re thrilled to offer an encore opportunity to grab tickets and see this unforgettable performance for yourself.
Tickets are priced at $25 (plus a $7.28 service charge) and will entitle the viewer for 30 days to log in and view the concert and then for 30 days after the purchaser starts to view it to watch as many times as they like.

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS HERE:
https://tinyurl.com/geshergalicia

Here is a clip of The Mamales singing the Yiddish classic Chiribim Chiribum from the finale to give you a taste of what the concert has in store for you when you choose to watch.
https://youtu.be/RE2o_Lyh1DQ

Besides Yiddish classics, the set includes Broadway show tunes and pop hits - many in English and many in a Yiddish/English combination.

The legendary genealogist, Miriam Weiner wrote after viewing the concert on the livestream:
"The voices, interpretations and joyous enthusiasm remind an entire generation of these long-ago memories and more importantly, that they are shared memories with our parents and grandparents.
As a long-time genealogist, I understand how important it is to connect with the past and while our work is done primarily in old archives, cemeteries and interviewing relatives, what you all
do adds another component to the end result. It is equally important and I say that with much sincerity."

With Mother’s and Father’s Days coming up this may be a good present to purchase for a parent with love of this music. With a ticket one can view this concert on a TV or on any computer, tablet or mobile device. This is a very professional production. There were 5 cameras mounted around the theatre that filmed the entire concert and then afterwards it was edited from those 5 feeds to maximize the viewing experience.

Your purchase of tickets supports Gesher Galicia and the work we do and we appreciate that support. We hope you take advantage of this special opportunity to experience and celebrate our Jewish culture.

Thank you.

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04/26/2026

We are so happy to report that The Mamales were a huge success in the virtual concert produced by Gesher Gesher today. As someone commented in the chat on the livestream, "somewhere up in heaven the Barry Sisters are smiling down on these 3 talented young women".

Those who watched the livestream can attest to the wonderful joy that watching The Mamales brings. The "on demand" video will be available starting tomorrow for those who bought tickets.

Please let us know your thoughts on the event. Thank you.

04/13/2026

We've added over 10,000 new records to the Gesher Galicia All Galicia Database over the past six months. If you have family from any of the towns below, try a new search and let us know if you make new discoveries!

Bolechów (Bolekhiv)
Borszczów
Brzeżany
Brzuchowice (Briukhovychi)
Chodorów
Dobromil
Gliniany
Grzymalów
Gwoździec (Hvizdets)
Jaworów
Jazłowiec (Yazlovets)
Jezierna (Ozerna)
Jezierzany near Borszczów
Korolówka near Borszczów
Korszów
Kozowa
Krakowiec
Krzywcze
Łanczyn
Lubaczów
Lubycza Królewska
Łysiec
Mielnica
Nadworna
Nizankowice
Lviv Region Aucbulo
Olesko
Oleszyce
Pistyń (Pistyn)
Podgorze
Podwoloczyska
Potok Złoty (Zolotyi Potik)
Pruchnik
Rohatyn
Romanowe Siolo
Rozdół
Rożnów (Rozhniv)
Skała (Skala Podilska)
Skalat
Sokołówka (Sokolivka)
Stryj District
Strzylki
Tarnopol (Ternopil)
Tłuste (Zaleszczyki) (Tovste)
Uścieczko
Zaleszczyki
Załoźce (Zaliztsi)
Zbaraż (Zbarazh)
Zboiska (Zboyishcha)
Zborów (Zboriv)
Złoczów (Zolochiv)

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03/27/2026

Here are three more historical maps from the Rzeszów archive, covering the towns of Raniżów and Majdan Królewski near Kolbuszowa plus the village of Wisłok Wielki further south, near the Polish border with Slovakia. Each of these is a final-state cadastral map including building parcel numbers but no house numbers.

The map of Raniżów from an 1853 survey:
https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/ranizow-ranischau-1853/
shows an unusual market square closed at the west end by Christian cemeteries plus a brick Roman Catholic church to the east of the square. The German Lutheran colony of Ranischau branches north of the square with its wooden Evangelical church and orderly building and land parcel arrangement. A large unlabeled Jewish cemetery west of the colony was added in redlines in a later survey, evidence of the rising Jewish population which would reach more than 350 by 1900.

The nearly-complete map of Majdan Królewski, also from an 1853 survey:
https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/majdan-krolewski-1853/
records most of the residential and commercial areas (only one map sheet is missing). Features visible on this map include a sparse market square flanked by a brickworks, a brick church, and parish buildings; nearly every building in the original survey was wooden, but redline annotations from a later survey show progress in building up the town in masonry. In the decades after the survey, the Jewish community would make up more than a quarter of the town; a Jewish cemetery was later established southeast of the town center.

The map of Wisłok Wielki from an 1852 survey:
https://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/wislok-wielki-1852/
colorfully reveals the village was merged from what had been small separate settlements, and shaped by the mountainous Carpathian terrain and the rivers which cut the valleys. In 1900 and until WWII almost the entire population was Lemko (one church still survives), with a few Jewish and Roman Catholic families. Gesher Galicia thanks member Ed Yadlowsky for help in acquiring the digital scans for this map.

These digital maps are processed and presented in interactive format by Gesher Galicia. The original paper maps are preserved by the Polish State Archive in Rzeszów. To see many more historical maps of Galician cities, towns, and villages, visit the Gesher Galicia Map Room:

https://maps.geshergalicia.org/

03/25/2026

Today we released the first issue of “The Galitzianer” of 2026! With a rich mix of articles, this issue answers a lot of questions. What’s a brush maker? Did sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem incorporate Jewish themes into his work? How does a civilian internment camp differ from a concentration camp? Just to name a few.

“The Galitzianer” is a membership benefit of Gesher Galicia. To get it, join Gesher Galicia or renew your membership today at www.geshergalicia.org.

Have an idea for an article or a photo you’d like to share? Contact us at [email protected]. Both members and nonmembers are invited to submit.

12/23/2025

We’re closing out 2025 with the December issue of “The Galitzianer,” which was released today. With a new fresh look, this issue takes readers from untapped genealogical sources to a daring Holocaust rescue to the literary work of Ida Fink and more.
“The Galitzianer” is a membership benefit of Gesher Galicia. To get it, join today at www.geshergalicia.org.
Have an idea for an article on a Galicia-related theme or a photo of a Galician relative you’d like to share? Contact us at [email protected]. Both members and nonmembers are invited to submit.