Digitizing and indexing religious and community records to enable easy public

access and productive research

THE GALICIAN ARCHIVAL

RECORDS PROJECT INCLUDES:

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 ProjectThe Polish Magnate Records Project The Austrian State Archives Project The Austrian Ministries ProjectThe Galician Refugees Project

We take original imagesand scans and index the key information, but the only wayto make the data accessible and useful to global researchers is to create free, online search engines.

The Tarnopol 1910 Jewish Census Project14,000 + names

were indexed in fourmonths by our team in Warsaw. Fine tuning the translations of professions took another few months. The data was uploaded and became searchable on the All Galicia Database and we have scans of the entire census.

Census recordsare especially complicated

The Austrian Ministries Project

Chula Katz’s application to sell alcohol in 1907–1908 in Skołoszów and the appeal when the application was rejected. The number ofdates and deadlines shows the level 0f bureaucracy involved in conducting business in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

SKALAT TAX LIST1936

SCHOOL RECORDS FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Landowner

Records

List of house owners List of shop owners

www.leafseek.com

Leafseek lets you combine databases of all shapes and sizes into one big unified searchable interface that finds possible connections between your datasets. You can limit your search to one dataset, or encompass them all. Common data types like given names, surnames, and towns are recognized among multiple fields in multiple databases. Other fields, like record years and occupations, can be broken out into searchable facets to find links between different pieces of data.

LeafSeek can also handle data that’s stored in many different formats, such as:

Adobe PDF filesCSV (comma-separated value) filesJSON filesMicrosoft Excel or other spreadsheet filesMicrosoft Word documents or other word processing documentsMySQL databases…and more!

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 recorddetails

If you onlywant recordsfor Ester click

just that name

The icon denotesrecord type

(marriage)

The icon denotesrecord type

(birth)

The ALL GALICIA DATABASE offers many searching & sorting options:

We make it simple for a researcher to order a digital image of the original record

Here is how a search result appears on the All Galicia Database:

Ewa Citron – a foster child in an orphanage - was born in New York City! (New-Jork, Ameryka)

Eva was born in 1901,but the birth wasnot registered until 1909

Landowner records provide a rich historical accounting of a town’s residents, their property and livelihood. Our search engine integrates digital records with our databases.

Searching on the surname GRUNHAUT

GRUNHAUT

THE SEARCH FOR SURNAME GRUNHAUT PRODUCES 105 RECORDS

HOUSE OWNER RECORDS

CENSUS RECORDS

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