Gesher Galicia has significantly updated the contents as well as the
descriptions of its online inventories >from three important archives,
or sets of archives, with Jewish Galician records: AGAD in Warsaw, the
Przemysl state archive, and the three western Ukrainian state archives.

- AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records)
There are two fonds of Jewish records at AGAD.
a) Fond 300 consists of bound volumes of vital records. Books are
transferred annually >from the Civil Registration Office (USC) in Praga
district, Warsaw, once they are so eligible under the law relating to
civil registration offices. The transfer for 2019 (with birth registers to
1919 and marriage and death registers to 1939) is now expected in
September or October.

Fond 300 currently holds 4,101 Jewish vital record books -- as well as
indexes of vital records books and censuses -- >from 109 localities, all
but four of them in the eastern part of the former Galicia. USC Warsaw
still holds around 700 Jewish Galician vital record books.

AGAD has in recent months scanned the 30 books it received >from
USC in late 2018, as well as almost 200 other record books in Fond
300 that had always been at AGAD but which hadn't yet been digitized.
Over 98% of the books in Fond 300 have now been digitized, with the
links added to AGAD's online inventory of the fond.

Gesher Galicia has significantly improved and updated its description
of Fond 300. All the current 4,101 books are now listed in our own
inventory of the fond, and links are provided to all the available sets of
scans. The revised description of AGAD's Jewish records is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad/
and the Fond 300 inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad_fond_300/

b) Fond 424
AGAD has a second set of Jewish records, Fond 424, currently with
207 files. Many of these are also vital records, but in loose form (such
as certificates and certifications of vital events). There are also
community records and marriage banns records. Most of the towns
with records in Fond 424 are >from the eastern part of former Galicia,
with a few >from western Galicia. There are also a handful of towns now
in Ukraine that were never in Galicia.

Gesher Galicia has scanned those files in Fond 424 with useful
genealogical information, and is making them available in the
members-only area of our website. Many of these scanned files have
also been indexed by Gesher Galicia. The inventory of Fond 424 can
be viewed at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-424/


- Ukrainian state archives
The specifically Jewish archival material >from the former Galicia held
in Ukrainian state archives are is to be found in three archives in
western Ukraine (the area of the eastern part of the former Galicia):
the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), the
State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), and the State
Archive of Ternopil Oblast (DATO).

Most of the bound volumes of vital records and censuses, including
index books, and loose vital records are held at TsDIAL in Lviv, in their
Fond 701, Series 1. A number of vital record books are held at DAIFO,
and one set of Tarnopol Jewish marriage records >from the mid-19th
century, as well as the 1910 Jewish census of Tarnopol, are to be
found at DATO.

There are 64 towns with Jewish Galician vital records in the Ukrainian
archives, all but three >from the eastern part of the former Galicia. The
records >from many of these towns have been indexed and put online
now. Gesher Galicia's description of Jewish records in the Ukrainian
archives is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/ukrainian-archives/
and the inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/ukraine/


- Przemysl state archive
The Przemysl State Archive is an important one for Galician
genealogical research, containing as it does a large number of files
with Jewish vital records and community records, >from both eastern
and western Galicia. It is also the only state archive in southern
Poland with a significant quantity of Jewish records >from eastern
Galician towns.

Over the past two years, the Jewish material in the Przemysl archive
has been subject to significant restructuring. Files have been moved
between existing fonds, and much new material that researchers were
not previously aware of has been introduced.

The largest fond of Jewish Galician records in Przemysl is Fond 154,
with 70 first-level files, in which there are 1,039 units, or subfiles. The
first 68 files are town-specific, each one for a separate Galician town.
File 50, for instance, contains 28 subfiles >from Stanislawow, including
material >from the Stanislawow ghetto. The subfiles are of different
types -- vital record books or index books, sets of loose certificates,
lists of residents, and Jewish community documents.

There is a surprise when we come to Fond 154, File 69. This consists
of 573 volumes, all of which are >from unknown towns. Nearly all of
them are index books of vital records. We will have more to say later
about this set of books, previously largely unknown to researchers.

Fond 395 contains material >from schools >from nine towns, the largest
collection being >from the Jewish school in Przemysl itself. There are
20 other fonds of Jewish records, all town-specific, >from the towns of:
Dobromil, Jaroslaw, Jaworow, Kanczuga, Mikulince, Mosty Wielkie,
Oleszyce, Olpiny, Pomorzany, Pruchnik, Przemysl, Radymno, Sieniawa,
Skalat, Skole, Stryj, Tarnopol, Wielkie Oczy, Zbaraz, and Zloczow.
These town fonds existed previously, but new material has been
added to some of them, and notably to the fond for Tarnopol, which
now contains 328 files.

The description of records in Przemysl and their inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/przemysl-archive/


We have introduced a new style for the display of the inventories
mentioned above. The online inventories can now be sorted as a
viewer wishes -- by town name, fond and file numbers, or in other ways.
Our online inventories >from other archives -- those in Bochnia, Nowy
Sacz, Rzeszow, Sanok, and Tarnow -- are for the moment unchanged.
Over the coming months, we will update these inventories too in the
new style, adding, where required, new material or new links to scans.


For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do NOT reply to this email.


Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

---
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Gesher Galicia has significantly updated the contents as well as the
descriptions of its online inventories >from three important archives,
or sets of archives, with Jewish Galician records: AGAD in Warsaw, the
Przemysl state archive, and the three western Ukrainian state archives.

- AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records)
There are two fonds of Jewish records at AGAD.
a) Fond 300 consists of bound volumes of vital records. Books are
transferred annually >from the Civil Registration Office (USC) in Praga
district, Warsaw, once they are so eligible under the law relating to
civil registration offices. The transfer for 2019 (with birth registers to
1919 and marriage and death registers to 1939) is now expected in
September or October.

Fond 300 currently holds 4,101 Jewish vital record books -- as well as
indexes of vital records books and censuses -- >from 109 localities, all
but four of them in the eastern part of the former Galicia. USC Warsaw
still holds around 700 Jewish Galician vital record books.

AGAD has in recent months scanned the 30 books it received >from
USC in late 2018, as well as almost 200 other record books in Fond
300 that had always been at AGAD but which hadn't yet been digitized.
Over 98% of the books in Fond 300 have now been digitized, with the
links added to AGAD's online inventory of the fond.

Gesher Galicia has significantly improved and updated its description
of Fond 300. All the current 4,101 books are now listed in our own
inventory of the fond, and links are provided to all the available sets of
scans. The revised description of AGAD's Jewish records is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad/
and the Fond 300 inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad_fond_300/

b) Fond 424
AGAD has a second set of Jewish records, Fond 424, currently with
207 files. Many of these are also vital records, but in loose form (such
as certificates and certifications of vital events). There are also
community records and marriage banns records. Most of the towns
with records in Fond 424 are >from the eastern part of former Galicia,
with a few >from western Galicia. There are also a handful of towns now
in Ukraine that were never in Galicia.

Gesher Galicia has scanned those files in Fond 424 with useful
genealogical information, and is making them available in the
members-only area of our website. Many of these scanned files have
also been indexed by Gesher Galicia. The inventory of Fond 424 can
be viewed at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-424/


- Ukrainian state archives
The specifically Jewish archival material >from the former Galicia held
in Ukrainian state archives are is to be found in three archives in
western Ukraine (the area of the eastern part of the former Galicia):
the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), the
State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), and the State
Archive of Ternopil Oblast (DATO).

Most of the bound volumes of vital records and censuses, including
index books, and loose vital records are held at TsDIAL in Lviv, in their
Fond 701, Series 1. A number of vital record books are held at DAIFO,
and one set of Tarnopol Jewish marriage records >from the mid-19th
century, as well as the 1910 Jewish census of Tarnopol, are to be
found at DATO.

There are 64 towns with Jewish Galician vital records in the Ukrainian
archives, all but three >from the eastern part of the former Galicia. The
records >from many of these towns have been indexed and put online
now. Gesher Galicia's description of Jewish records in the Ukrainian
archives is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/ukrainian-archives/
and the inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/ukraine/


- Przemysl state archive
The Przemysl State Archive is an important one for Galician
genealogical research, containing as it does a large number of files
with Jewish vital records and community records, >from both eastern
and western Galicia. It is also the only state archive in southern
Poland with a significant quantity of Jewish records >from eastern
Galician towns.

Over the past two years, the Jewish material in the Przemysl archive
has been subject to significant restructuring. Files have been moved
between existing fonds, and much new material that researchers were
not previously aware of has been introduced.

The largest fond of Jewish Galician records in Przemysl is Fond 154,
with 70 first-level files, in which there are 1,039 units, or subfiles. The
first 68 files are town-specific, each one for a separate Galician town.
File 50, for instance, contains 28 subfiles >from Stanislawow, including
material >from the Stanislawow ghetto. The subfiles are of different
types -- vital record books or index books, sets of loose certificates,
lists of residents, and Jewish community documents.

There is a surprise when we come to Fond 154, File 69. This consists
of 573 volumes, all of which are >from unknown towns. Nearly all of
them are index books of vital records. We will have more to say later
about this set of books, previously largely unknown to researchers.

Fond 395 contains material >from schools >from nine towns, the largest
collection being >from the Jewish school in Przemysl itself. There are
20 other fonds of Jewish records, all town-specific, >from the towns of:
Dobromil, Jaroslaw, Jaworow, Kanczuga, Mikulince, Mosty Wielkie,
Oleszyce, Olpiny, Pomorzany, Pruchnik, Przemysl, Radymno, Sieniawa,
Skalat, Skole, Stryj, Tarnopol, Wielkie Oczy, Zbaraz, and Zloczow.
These town fonds existed previously, but new material has been
added to some of them, and notably to the fond for Tarnopol, which
now contains 328 files.

The description of records in Przemysl and their inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/przemysl-archive/


We have introduced a new style for the display of the inventories
mentioned above. The online inventories can now be sorted as a
viewer wishes -- by town name, fond and file numbers, or in other ways.
Our online inventories >from other archives -- those in Bochnia, Nowy
Sacz, Rzeszow, Sanok, and Tarnow -- are for the moment unchanged.
Over the coming months, we will update these inventories too in the
new style, adding, where required, new material or new links to scans.


For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do NOT reply to this email.


Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

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Genners,

I would appreciate a translation of the Yiddish text on this postcard. It is on ViewMate at the following address

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74396

Please respond using the online ViewMate form.

Thank you.

Evan Fishman

Genners,

I would appreciate a translation of the Yiddish text on this postcard. It is on ViewMate at the following address

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74396

Please respond using the online ViewMate form.

Thank you.

Evan Fishman

New vital records and Jewish taxpayer records are now available for
all to search on the All Galicia Database:
https://search.geshergalicia.org

Vital records
- Stanislawow (Stanislav, Stanislau, Ivano-Frankivsk). Jewish
marriages, 1934, 1935, 1937 (611 records)
- Zborow (Zboriv). Jewish marriage banns, 1878-1920 (330 records)
- Tarnopol (Ternopil). Jewish births (index books), 1924, 1927 (593 record=
s).

Tarnopol is the most recent town whose Jewish vital records and
censuses held in western Ukrainian archives have been completely
indexed and uploaded to the All Galicia Database. The first records
indexed >from Tarnopol were the set of death records >from the Holocaust
period, July 1941- September 1942, which were worked on in 2011 by an
independent indexing group. The last records, the transcriptions
mentioned above of two index books of births, >from 1924 and 1927, were
uploaded on July 21, 2019.

The Vital Records project in 2018-2019
In the 12-month period July 2018-July 2019, Gesher Galicia has indexed
about 33,000 vital records, >from 17 towns: Klasno-Podgorze
(Wieliczka), Lwow, Mielnica, Mikulince, Mosciska, Nowy Wisnicz,
Podwoloczyska, Radziechow, Rzeszow, Sambor, Sokolow Malopolski,
Stanislawow, Szczurowa, Tarnopol, Zbaraz, and Zborow. For the rest of
the 2019 Vital Records project, we have records to index from:
Kroscienko, Mikulince, Mosciska, Nowy Targ, Podhajce, Stanislawow, and
Tartakow.

Vital records coming soon:
- Stanislawow. Jewish deaths, 1845-1863 and 1927-1931
- Podhajce. Jewish births, 1854-1881, 1884, 1886-1889.


Jewish taxpayers project
- Tarnopol (Ternopil). Jewish taxpayers, 1936 (1,054 records).
We have now completed indexing six of the 10 Tarnopol-region Jewish
taxpayer files >from 1930s projected for this year=E2=80=99s project, of whi=
ch
the one for the town of Tarnopol was by far the largest set. Close to
4,500 taxpayer records have been uploaded to the database in 2019. The
remaining four files, >from Skala, Trembowla, Zbaraz, and Zloczow,
should follow soon - and possibly more.

Thanks as always to Mark Jacobson and Eddy Mitelsbach for their
continuing work on the Taxpayers project.


For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do NOT reply to this email.


Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

---
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS.
Send all inquiries to info@geshergalicia.org
---

Gesher Galicia has significantly updated the contents as well as the
descriptions of its online inventories >from three important archives,
or sets of archives, with Jewish Galician records: AGAD in Warsaw, the
Przemysl state archive, and the three western Ukrainian state
archives.

- AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records)
There are two fonds of Jewish records at AGAD.
a) Fond 300 consists of bound volumes of vital records. Books are
transferred annually >from the Civil Registration Office (USC) in Praga
district, Warsaw, once they are so eligible under the law relating to
civil registration offices. The transfer for 2019 (with birth
registers to 1919 and marriage and death registers to 1939) is now
expected in September or October.

Fond 300 currently holds 4,101 Jewish vital record books - as well as
indexes of vital records books and censuses - >from 109 localities, all
but four of them in the eastern part of the former Galicia. USC Warsaw
still holds around 700 Jewish Galician vital record books.

AGAD has in recent months scanned the 30 books it received >from USC in
late 2018, as well as almost 200 other record books in Fond 300 that
had always been at AGAD but which hadn=E2=80=99t yet been digitized. Over 9=
8%
of the books in Fond 300 have now been digitized, with the links added
to AGAD=E2=80=99s online inventory of the fond.

Gesher Galicia has significantly improved and updated its description
of Fond 300. All the current 4,101 books are now listed in our own
inventory of the fond, and links are provided to all the available
sets of scans. The revised description of AGAD=E2=80=99s Jewish records is =
at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad/
and the Fond 300 inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad_fond_300/

b) Fond 424
AGAD has a second set of Jewish records, Fond 424, currently with 207
files. Many of these are also vital records, but in loose form (such
as certificates and certifications of vital events). There are also
community records and marriage banns records. Most of the towns with
records in Fond 424 are >from the eastern part of former Galicia, with
a few >from western Galicia. There are also a handful of towns now in
Ukraine that were never in Galicia.

Gesher Galicia has scanned those files in Fond 424 with useful
genealogical information, and is making them available in the
members-only area of our website. Many of these scanned files have
also been indexed by Gesher Galicia. The inventory of Fond 424 can be
viewed at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-424/


- Ukrainian state archives
The specifically Jewish archival material >from the former Galicia held
in Ukrainian state archives are is to be found in three archives in
western Ukraine (the area of the eastern part of the former Galicia):
the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), the
State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), and the State Archive
of Ternopil Oblast (DATO).

Most of the bound volumes of vital records and censuses, including
index books, and loose vital records are held at TsDIAL in Lviv, in
their Fond 701, Series 1. A number of vital record books are held at
DAIFO, and one set of Tarnopol Jewish marriage records >from the
mid-19th century, as well as the 1910 Jewish census of Tarnopol, are
to be found at DATO.

There are 64 towns with Jewish Galician vital records in the Ukrainian
archives, all but three >from the eastern part of the former Galicia.
The records >from many of these towns have been indexed and put online
now. Gesher Galicia=E2=80=99s description of Jewish records in the Ukrainia=
n
archives is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/ukrainian-archives/
and the inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/ukraine/


- Przemysl state archive
The Przemysl State Archive is an important one for Galician
genealogical research, containing as it does a large number of files
with Jewish vital records and community records, >from both eastern and
western Galicia. It is also the only state archive in southern Poland
with a significant quantity of Jewish records >from eastern Galician
towns.

Over the past two years, the Jewish material in the Przemysl archive
has been subject to significant restructuring. Files have been moved
between existing fonds, and much new material that researchers were
not previously aware of has been introduced.

The largest fond of Jewish Galician records in Przemysl is Fond 154,
with 70 first-level files, in which there are 1,039 =E2=80=9Cunits=E2=80=9D=
, or
subfiles. The first 68 files are town-specific, each one for a
separate Galician town. File 50, for instance, contains 28 subfiles

from Stanislawow, including material >from the Stanislawow ghetto. The

subfiles are of different types=E2=80=94vital record books or index books,
sets of loose certificates, lists of residents, and Jewish community
documents.

There is a surprise when we come to Fond 154, File 69. This consists
of 573 volumes, all of which are >from unknown towns. Nearly all them
are index books of vital records. We will have more to say later about
this set of books, previously largely unknown to researchers.

Fond 395 contains material >from schools >from nine towns, the largest
collection being >from the Jewish school in Przemysl itself. There are
20 other fonds of Jewish records, all town-specific, >from the towns
of:
Dobromil, Jaroslaw, Jaworow, Kanczuga, Mikulince, Mosty Wielkie,
Oleszyce, Olpiny, Pomorzany, Pruchnik, Przemysl, Radymno, Sieniawa,
Skalat, Skole, Stryj, Tarnopol, Wielkie Oczy, Zbaraz, and Zloczow.
These town fonds existed previously, but new material has been added
to some of them, and notably to the fond for Tarnopol, which now
contains 328 files.

The description of records in Przemysl and their inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/przemysl-archive/


We have introduced a new style for the display of the inventories
mentioned above. The online inventories can now be sorted as a viewer
wishes - by town name, fond and file numbers, or in other ways. Our
online inventories >from other archives - those in Bochnia, Nowy Sacz,
Rzeszow, Sanok, and Tarnow - are for the moment unchanged. Over the
coming months, we will update these inventories too in the new style,
adding, where required, new material or new links to scans.


For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do NOT reply to this email.


Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

---
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Send all inquiries to info@geshergalicia.org
---

New vital records and Jewish taxpayer records are now available for
all to search on the All Galicia Database:
https://search.geshergalicia.org

Vital records
- Stanislawow (Stanislav, Stanislau, Ivano-Frankivsk). Jewish
marriages, 1934, 1935, 1937 (611 records)
- Zborow (Zboriv). Jewish marriage banns, 1878-1920 (330 records)
- Tarnopol (Ternopil). Jewish births (index books), 1924, 1927 (593 record=
s).

Tarnopol is the most recent town whose Jewish vital records and
censuses held in western Ukrainian archives have been completely
indexed and uploaded to the All Galicia Database. The first records
indexed >from Tarnopol were the set of death records >from the Holocaust
period, July 1941- September 1942, which were worked on in 2011 by an
independent indexing group. The last records, the transcriptions
mentioned above of two index books of births, >from 1924 and 1927, were
uploaded on July 21, 2019.

The Vital Records project in 2018-2019
In the 12-month period July 2018-July 2019, Gesher Galicia has indexed
about 33,000 vital records, >from 17 towns: Klasno-Podgorze
(Wieliczka), Lwow, Mielnica, Mikulince, Mosciska, Nowy Wisnicz,
Podwoloczyska, Radziechow, Rzeszow, Sambor, Sokolow Malopolski,
Stanislawow, Szczurowa, Tarnopol, Zbaraz, and Zborow. For the rest of
the 2019 Vital Records project, we have records to index from:
Kroscienko, Mikulince, Mosciska, Nowy Targ, Podhajce, Stanislawow, and
Tartakow.

Vital records coming soon:
- Stanislawow. Jewish deaths, 1845-1863 and 1927-1931
- Podhajce. Jewish births, 1854-1881, 1884, 1886-1889.


Jewish taxpayers project
- Tarnopol (Ternopil). Jewish taxpayers, 1936 (1,054 records).
We have now completed indexing six of the 10 Tarnopol-region Jewish
taxpayer files >from 1930s projected for this year=E2=80=99s project, of whi=
ch
the one for the town of Tarnopol was by far the largest set. Close to
4,500 taxpayer records have been uploaded to the database in 2019. The
remaining four files, >from Skala, Trembowla, Zbaraz, and Zloczow,
should follow soon - and possibly more.

Thanks as always to Mark Jacobson and Eddy Mitelsbach for their
continuing work on the Taxpayers project.


For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do NOT reply to this email.


Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

---
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Send all inquiries to info@geshergalicia.org
---

Gesher Galicia has significantly updated the contents as well as the
descriptions of its online inventories >from three important archives,
or sets of archives, with Jewish Galician records: AGAD in Warsaw, the
Przemysl state archive, and the three western Ukrainian state
archives.

- AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records)
There are two fonds of Jewish records at AGAD.
a) Fond 300 consists of bound volumes of vital records. Books are
transferred annually >from the Civil Registration Office (USC) in Praga
district, Warsaw, once they are so eligible under the law relating to
civil registration offices. The transfer for 2019 (with birth
registers to 1919 and marriage and death registers to 1939) is now
expected in September or October.

Fond 300 currently holds 4,101 Jewish vital record books - as well as
indexes of vital records books and censuses - >from 109 localities, all
but four of them in the eastern part of the former Galicia. USC Warsaw
still holds around 700 Jewish Galician vital record books.

AGAD has in recent months scanned the 30 books it received >from USC in
late 2018, as well as almost 200 other record books in Fond 300 that
had always been at AGAD but which hadn=E2=80=99t yet been digitized. Over 9=
8%
of the books in Fond 300 have now been digitized, with the links added
to AGAD=E2=80=99s online inventory of the fond.

Gesher Galicia has significantly improved and updated its description
of Fond 300. All the current 4,101 books are now listed in our own
inventory of the fond, and links are provided to all the available
sets of scans. The revised description of AGAD=E2=80=99s Jewish records is =
at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad/
and the Fond 300 inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad_fond_300/

b) Fond 424
AGAD has a second set of Jewish records, Fond 424, currently with 207
files. Many of these are also vital records, but in loose form (such
as certificates and certifications of vital events). There are also
community records and marriage banns records. Most of the towns with
records in Fond 424 are >from the eastern part of former Galicia, with
a few >from western Galicia. There are also a handful of towns now in
Ukraine that were never in Galicia.

Gesher Galicia has scanned those files in Fond 424 with useful
genealogical information, and is making them available in the
members-only area of our website. Many of these scanned files have
also been indexed by Gesher Galicia. The inventory of Fond 424 can be
viewed at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-424/


- Ukrainian state archives
The specifically Jewish archival material >from the former Galicia held
in Ukrainian state archives are is to be found in three archives in
western Ukraine (the area of the eastern part of the former Galicia):
the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), the
State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), and the State Archive
of Ternopil Oblast (DATO).

Most of the bound volumes of vital records and censuses, including
index books, and loose vital records are held at TsDIAL in Lviv, in
their Fond 701, Series 1. A number of vital record books are held at
DAIFO, and one set of Tarnopol Jewish marriage records >from the
mid-19th century, as well as the 1910 Jewish census of Tarnopol, are
to be found at DATO.

There are 64 towns with Jewish Galician vital records in the Ukrainian
archives, all but three >from the eastern part of the former Galicia.
The records >from many of these towns have been indexed and put online
now. Gesher Galicia=E2=80=99s description of Jewish records in the Ukrainia=
n
archives is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/ukrainian-archives/
and the inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/ukraine/


- Przemysl state archive
The Przemysl State Archive is an important one for Galician
genealogical research, containing as it does a large number of files
with Jewish vital records and community records, >from both eastern and
western Galicia. It is also the only state archive in southern Poland
with a significant quantity of Jewish records >from eastern Galician
towns.

Over the past two years, the Jewish material in the Przemysl archive
has been subject to significant restructuring. Files have been moved
between existing fonds, and much new material that researchers were
not previously aware of has been introduced.

The largest fond of Jewish Galician records in Przemysl is Fond 154,
with 70 first-level files, in which there are 1,039 =E2=80=9Cunits=E2=80=9D=
, or
subfiles. The first 68 files are town-specific, each one for a
separate Galician town. File 50, for instance, contains 28 subfiles

from Stanislawow, including material >from the Stanislawow ghetto. The

subfiles are of different types=E2=80=94vital record books or index books,
sets of loose certificates, lists of residents, and Jewish community
documents.

There is a surprise when we come to Fond 154, File 69. This consists
of 573 volumes, all of which are >from unknown towns. Nearly all them
are index books of vital records. We will have more to say later about
this set of books, previously largely unknown to researchers.

Fond 395 contains material >from schools >from nine towns, the largest
collection being >from the Jewish school in Przemysl itself. There are
20 other fonds of Jewish records, all town-specific, >from the towns
of:
Dobromil, Jaroslaw, Jaworow, Kanczuga, Mikulince, Mosty Wielkie,
Oleszyce, Olpiny, Pomorzany, Pruchnik, Przemysl, Radymno, Sieniawa,
Skalat, Skole, Stryj, Tarnopol, Wielkie Oczy, Zbaraz, and Zloczow.
These town fonds existed previously, but new material has been added
to some of them, and notably to the fond for Tarnopol, which now
contains 328 files.

The description of records in Przemysl and their inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/przemysl-archive/


We have introduced a new style for the display of the inventories
mentioned above. The online inventories can now be sorted as a viewer
wishes - by town name, fond and file numbers, or in other ways. Our
online inventories >from other archives - those in Bochnia, Nowy Sacz,
Rzeszow, Sanok, and Tarnow - are for the moment unchanged. Over the
coming months, we will update these inventories too in the new style,
adding, where required, new material or new links to scans.


For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do NOT reply to this email.


Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

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Gesher Galicia has significantly updated the contents as well as the
descriptions of its online inventories >from three important archives,
or sets of archives, with Jewish Galician records: AGAD in Warsaw, the
Przemysl state archive, and the three western Ukrainian state archives.

- AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records)
There are two fonds of Jewish records at AGAD.
a) Fond 300 consists of bound volumes of vital records. Books are transferred
annually >from the Civil Registration Office (USC) in Praga district, Warsaw, once
they are so eligible under the law relating to civil registration offices. The
transfer for 2019 (with birth registers to 1919 and marriage and death registers to
1939) is now expected in September or October.

Fond 300 currently holds 4,101 Jewish vital record books - as well as indexes of
vital records books and censuses - >from 109 localities, all but four of them in the
eastern part of the former Galicia. USC Warsaw still holds around 700 Jewish
Galician vital record books.

AGAD has in recent months scanned the 30 books it received >from USC in late 2018,
as well as almost 200 other record books in Fond 300 that had always been at AGAD
but which hadn't yet been digitized. Over 98% of the books in Fond 300 have now
been digitized, with the links added to AGAD's online inventory of the fond.

Gesher Galicia has significantly improved and updated its description of Fond 300.
All the current 4,101 books are now listed in our own inventory of the fond, and
links are provided to all the available sets of scans. The revised description of
AGAD's Jewish records is at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad/
and the Fond 300 inventory is at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad_fond_300/

b) Fond 424
AGAD has a second set of Jewish records, Fond 424, currently with 207 files. Many
of these are also vital records, but in loose form (such as certificates and
certifications of vital events). There are also community records and marriage
banns records. Most of the towns with records in Fond 424 are >from the eastern part
of former Galicia, with a few >from western Galicia. There are also a handful of
towns now in Ukraine that were never in Galicia.

Gesher Galicia has scanned those files in Fond 424 with useful genealogical
information, and is making them available in the members-only area of our website.
Many of these scanned files have also been indexed by Gesher Galicia. The inventory
of Fond 424 can be viewed at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-424/

- Ukrainian state archives
The specifically Jewish archival material >from the former Galicia held in Ukrainian
state archives are is to be found in three archives in western Ukraine (the area of
the eastern part of the former Galicia): the Central State Historical Archives of
Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), the State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), and
the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast (DATO).

Most of the bound volumes of vital records and censuses, including index books, and
loose vital records are held at TsDIAL in Lviv, in their Fond 701, Series 1. A
number of vital record books are held at DAIFO, and one set of Tarnopol Jewish
marriage records >from the mid-19th century, as well as the 1910 Jewish census of
Tarnopol, are to be found at DATO.

There are 64 towns with Jewish Galician vital records in the Ukrainian archives,
all but three >from the eastern part of the former Galicia. The records >from many
of these towns have been indexed and put online now. Gesher Galicia's description
of Jewish records in the Ukrainian archives is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/ukrainian-archives/
and the inventory is at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/ukraine/

- Przemysl state archive
The Przemysl State Archive is an important one for Galician genealogical research,
containing as it does a large number of files with Jewish vital records and
community records, >from both eastern and western Galicia. It is also the only
state archive in southern Poland with a significant quantity of Jewish records from
eastern Galician towns.

Over the past two years, the Jewish material in the Przemysl archive has been
subject to significant restructuring. Files have been moved between existing fonds,
and much new material that researchers were not previously aware of has been
introduced.

The largest fond of Jewish Galician records in Przemysl is Fond 154,with 70
first-level files, in which there are 1,039 units, or subfiles. The first 68 files
are town-specific, each one for a separate Galician town. File 50, for instance,
contains 28 subfiles >from Stanislawow, including material >from the Stanislawow
ghetto. The subfiles are of different types vital record books or index books,
sets of loose certificates, lists of residents, and Jewish community documents.

There is a surprise when we come to Fond 154, File 69. This consists of 573
volumes, all of which are >from unknown towns. Nearly all them are index books of
vital records. We will have more to say later about this set of books, previously
largely unknown to researchers.

Fond 395 contains material >from schools >from nine towns, the largest collection
being >from the Jewish school in Przemysl itself. There are 20 other fonds of Jewish
records, all town-specific, >from the towns of: Dobromil, Jaroslaw, Jaworow,
Kanczuga, Mikulince, Mosty Wielkie, Oleszyce, Olpiny, Pomorzany, Pruchnik,
Przemysl, Radymno, Sieniawa, Skalat, Skole, Stryj, Tarnopol, Wielkie Oczy, Zbaraz,
and Zloczow. These town fonds existed previously, but new material has been added
to some of them, and notably to the fond for Tarnopol, which now contains 328
files.

The description of records in Przemysl and their inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/przemysl-archive/

We have introduced a new style for the display of the inventories mentioned above.
The online inventories can now be sorted as a viewer wishes - by town name, fond
and file numbers, or in other ways. Our online inventories >from other archives -
those in Bochnia, Nowy Sacz, Rzeszow, Sanok, and Tarnow - are for the moment
unchanged. Over the coming months, we will update these inventories too in the new
style, adding, where required, new material or new links to scans.

For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do not reply to this email.

Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

Please do not reply to this email address.
Send all inquiries to info@geshergalicia.org

Gesher Galicia has significantly updated the contents as well as the
descriptions of its online inventories >from three important archives,
or sets of archives, with Jewish Galician records: AGAD in Warsaw, the
Przemysl state archive, and the three western Ukrainian state archives.

- AGAD (Central Archives of Historical Records)
There are two fonds of Jewish records at AGAD.
a) Fond 300 consists of bound volumes of vital records. Books are transferred
annually >from the Civil Registration Office (USC) in Praga district, Warsaw, once
they are so eligible under the law relating to civil registration offices. The
transfer for 2019 (with birth registers to 1919 and marriage and death registers to
1939) is now expected in September or October.

Fond 300 currently holds 4,101 Jewish vital record books - as well as indexes of
vital records books and censuses - >from 109 localities, all but four of them in the
eastern part of the former Galicia. USC Warsaw still holds around 700 Jewish
Galician vital record books.

AGAD has in recent months scanned the 30 books it received >from USC in late 2018,
as well as almost 200 other record books in Fond 300 that had always been at AGAD
but which hadn't yet been digitized. Over 98% of the books in Fond 300 have now
been digitized, with the links added to AGAD's online inventory of the fond.

Gesher Galicia has significantly improved and updated its description of Fond 300.
All the current 4,101 books are now listed in our own inventory of the fond, and
links are provided to all the available sets of scans. The revised description of
AGAD's Jewish records is at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad/
and the Fond 300 inventory is at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/agad_fond_300/

b) Fond 424
AGAD has a second set of Jewish records, Fond 424, currently with 207 files. Many
of these are also vital records, but in loose form (such as certificates and
certifications of vital events). There are also community records and marriage
banns records. Most of the towns with records in Fond 424 are >from the eastern part
of former Galicia, with a few >from western Galicia. There are also a handful of
towns now in Ukraine that were never in Galicia.

Gesher Galicia has scanned those files in Fond 424 with useful genealogical
information, and is making them available in the members-only area of our website.
Many of these scanned files have also been indexed by Gesher Galicia. The inventory
of Fond 424 can be viewed at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/fond-424/

- Ukrainian state archives
The specifically Jewish archival material >from the former Galicia held in Ukrainian
state archives are is to be found in three archives in western Ukraine (the area of
the eastern part of the former Galicia): the Central State Historical Archives of
Ukraine in Lviv (TsDIAL), the State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (DAIFO), and
the State Archive of Ternopil Oblast (DATO).

Most of the bound volumes of vital records and censuses, including index books, and
loose vital records are held at TsDIAL in Lviv, in their Fond 701, Series 1. A
number of vital record books are held at DAIFO, and one set of Tarnopol Jewish
marriage records >from the mid-19th century, as well as the 1910 Jewish census of
Tarnopol, are to be found at DATO.

There are 64 towns with Jewish Galician vital records in the Ukrainian archives,
all but three >from the eastern part of the former Galicia. The records >from many
of these towns have been indexed and put online now. Gesher Galicia's description
of Jewish records in the Ukrainian archives is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/ukrainian-archives/
and the inventory is at: https://www.geshergalicia.org/inventories/ukraine/

- Przemysl state archive
The Przemysl State Archive is an important one for Galician genealogical research,
containing as it does a large number of files with Jewish vital records and
community records, >from both eastern and western Galicia. It is also the only
state archive in southern Poland with a significant quantity of Jewish records from
eastern Galician towns.

Over the past two years, the Jewish material in the Przemysl archive has been
subject to significant restructuring. Files have been moved between existing fonds,
and much new material that researchers were not previously aware of has been
introduced.

The largest fond of Jewish Galician records in Przemysl is Fond 154,with 70
first-level files, in which there are 1,039 units, or subfiles. The first 68 files
are town-specific, each one for a separate Galician town. File 50, for instance,
contains 28 subfiles >from Stanislawow, including material >from the Stanislawow
ghetto. The subfiles are of different types vital record books or index books,
sets of loose certificates, lists of residents, and Jewish community documents.

There is a surprise when we come to Fond 154, File 69. This consists of 573
volumes, all of which are >from unknown towns. Nearly all them are index books of
vital records. We will have more to say later about this set of books, previously
largely unknown to researchers.

Fond 395 contains material >from schools >from nine towns, the largest collection
being >from the Jewish school in Przemysl itself. There are 20 other fonds of Jewish
records, all town-specific, >from the towns of: Dobromil, Jaroslaw, Jaworow,
Kanczuga, Mikulince, Mosty Wielkie, Oleszyce, Olpiny, Pomorzany, Pruchnik,
Przemysl, Radymno, Sieniawa, Skalat, Skole, Stryj, Tarnopol, Wielkie Oczy, Zbaraz,
and Zloczow. These town fonds existed previously, but new material has been added
to some of them, and notably to the fond for Tarnopol, which now contains 328
files.

The description of records in Przemysl and their inventory is at:
https://www.geshergalicia.org/przemysl-archive/

We have introduced a new style for the display of the inventories mentioned above.
The online inventories can now be sorted as a viewer wishes - by town name, fond
and file numbers, or in other ways. Our online inventories >from other archives -
those in Bochnia, Nowy Sacz, Rzeszow, Sanok, and Tarnow - are for the moment
unchanged. Over the coming months, we will update these inventories too in the new
style, adding, where required, new material or new links to scans.

For more information, please contact: info@geshergalicia.org
Please do not reply to this email.

Tony Kahane
Research Coordinator and Board Member, Gesher Galicia
https://www.geshergalicia.org/

Please do not reply to this email address.
Send all inquiries to info@geshergalicia.org

Looking through social networks I came across a comment posted by a Judith Meyers
Sage stating that she may be a descendant of Rabbi David of Novarodok (author of
"Galia Mesechet"). I couldn't make when the post was written or where does Judith
live.

As I am researching a possible descendancy >from Rabbi David's father, Moshe, if
Judith or anyone who knows her can contact me to discuss the above further.

I'll be very happy if any other members of this forum who are
descendants of the above R' David contact me.

TIA

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Looking through social networks I came across a comment posted by a Judith Meyers
Sage stating that she may be a descendant of Rabbi David of Novarodok (author of
"Galia Mesechet"). I couldn't make when the post was written or where does Judith
live.

As I am researching a possible descendancy >from Rabbi David's father, Moshe, if
Judith or anyone who knows her can contact me to discuss the above further.

I'll be very happy if any other members of this forum who are
descendants of the above R' David contact me.

TIA

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem

Hello all,
As can be seen here:
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=635
(alternate link: https://tinyurl.com/yywtv2vr )
(the page is in Hebrew), there were two censuses in Oradea: on 1941 and on 1944.
Does anyone know if these censuses data can be accessed online or otherwise?
If so, how and where?

Thanks.

Hello all,
As can be seen here:
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=635
(alternate link: https://tinyurl.com/yywtv2vr )
(the page is in Hebrew), there were two censuses in Oradea: on 1941 and on 1944.
Does anyone know if these censuses data can be accessed online or otherwise?
If so, how and where?

Thanks.

Sally,

This is my first post here. I'm replying to a digest, and I have not logged in. Having said that: It knows who I am (my "from" address was automatically filled in), so perhaps I'm still logged in from the last session?

If you are attending the IAJGS Conference in Cleveland next week, I
look forward to seeing you at the annual Svencionys District BOF
meeting:
Wednesday, July 31 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, Veterans C

The towns in the Svencionys District are:
Adutiskis
Ignalina
Kaltanenai
Kamelishki (Belarus)
Kobyiniki (Naroch, Bel.)
Komai (Belarus)
Linkmenys
Lyntupy (Belarus)
Mielagenai
Naujasis Daugeliskis
Pabrade
Smalvos
Stajetiske
Svencioneliai
Svencionys
Svir (Belarus)
Zhodzishki (Belarus) and nearby villages.

Rhoda Miller, Ed.D., CG
Svencionys District Coordinator
Litvak SIG

If you are attending the IAJGS Conference in Cleveland next week, I
look forward to seeing you at the annual Svencionys District BOF
meeting:
Wednesday, July 31 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM, Veterans C

The towns in the Svencionys District are:
Adutiskis
Ignalina
Kaltanenai
Kamelishki (Belarus)
Kobyiniki (Naroch, Bel.)
Komai (Belarus)
Linkmenys
Lyntupy (Belarus)
Mielagenai
Naujasis Daugeliskis
Pabrade
Smalvos
Stajetiske
Svencioneliai
Svencionys
Svir (Belarus)
Zhodzishki (Belarus) and nearby villages.

Rhoda Miller, Ed.D., CG
Svencionys District Coordinator
Litvak SIG

Time is almost here for the IAJGS Conference in Cleveland. I'd like to
point out a few sessions of interest to those with Romanian ancestry. The
JewishGen Romania SIG will have some events at the IAJGS conference that I
hope will interest you.

SHARE Fair Sunday >from 11:30-2:30 in Hope A B and C: Please stop by to say
hello and to have the opportunity to speak with members of the SIG leadership
team to learn more about what the SIG offers to genealogists. We welcome
your questions and participation.

ROM Sig Meeting >from 3:15-4:30 on Monday in Center Street C. Michael
Moritz will speak about the major Iasi project underway and his experiences
to date. There will be ample opportunity for questions, comments and
opportunities to let us know of your research interests. We will offer
several volunteer opportunities and will speak of the status of our other
projects.

A second meeting, listed as the Jewishgen ROM Sig Board Meeting is really not
a board meeting (we don't have a Board) but an opportunity for follow-up
to any items >from the first meeting, to continue discussion and meet people
who were unable to make the first meeting. That is scheduled on Tuesday at
1:45 in room Center Street B.

On Thursday, at 4:45 in Center Street D, Teven Laxer has a program re
witnesses to the Shoah Highlight Search for Family in Three Countries that
includes his experiences in Romania doing personal research and encountering
eyewitnesses to the events relevant to his history. While not specifically
a Romanian discussion, he anticipates that it would be of great interest to
those researching Romania.

You are also invited to work on KehilaLinks pages commemorating your family's
Jewish communities. Their history and way of life should be recorded,
preserved and memorialized for future generations. The KehilaLinks BOF on
Thursday >from 1:45 in Veterans A will be time to hear >from others and to ask
questions about creating or adding to pages for your communities. Barbara
Ellman is the technical coordinator for KehilaLinks and will chair this session.

from that team, if you do not have the necessary technical skills we

have a team of dedicated volunteers who will create a webpage with the
material provided.

Welcome and enjoy the Conference!

Barbara Hershey
Co-Coordinator of the Jewishgen ROM Sig

Researching in Romania, Iasi area, HERSCOVICI, HAIMOVICI and LOWENTHAL