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

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