All Galicia Database
Subject: Announcing the "All Galicia Database" - Gesher Galicia's new search engine
From: Pamela Weisberger
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:19:26 -0700
Gesher Galicia proudly announces the launch of the brand-new "All
Galicia Database" (AGD) at:
http://search.geshergalicia.org/
This search engine currently features 172,954 records from 41
different data sources, covering everything from birth, death,
marriage and divorce records to phone-books, school and landowner
records, all from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia.
The majority of this data exists nowhere else online and major kudos
goes to Gesher Galicia board member, and programmer extraordinaire,
Brooke Schreier Ganz, for its creation.
About this database:
Although Gesher Galicia's primary focus is on helping people research
their Jewish roots in this region, the diverse, community records in
this database contain names that span all of the ethnic and religious
groups who lived in Galicia. If you know people who are researching
their Galician ancestors of Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Polish or German
background, encourage them to take a look. Although many Galician
communities are represented, with myriad records, those with an
interest in Jewish vital records for Drohobycz, Sambor, Brody,
Zbarazh, Mikulince, Bialy Kamien, and Lviv will be especially pleased.
Searching particulars:
After logging in and reading the home page, I suggest you read the
"instructions and notes" for more productive searching.
You can search by given name and surname, with wildcard search
options. When your results appear click the + (plus) sign to produce a
drop-down list of record particulars. Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching
(BMPM) will be coming in a few months' time, and Daitch-Mokotoff
soundex will follow. In the meantime, one excellent innovation
created by Brooke is the ability to search by "kinnui" - Jewish
nickname or name variant. For example, searching for Rebecca will
also turn up matches for names like Rivka, Becky, and a search for
Hersch will find spelling variants like Hers and Hirsch, but also Tvi
and Zvi. If your record results show a modern-day town name
underlined in light blue, click that link to show a helpful pop-up map
of the area, and geo-spacial searching will be coming soon.
In addition to the search boxes at the top of the page, please note
the left-hand column where you can sort/search by record type, record
sources, towns, and repositories.
A word of thanks...
The launch of this database is an admirable accomplishment for our
small organization and huge kudos go to everyone who coordinated the
indexing projects that are included. The volunteers who worked
tirelessly doing data entry are mentioned in the "thank you" section
of the website, but the following individuals deserve special
accolades: Eric Bloch, Tony Hausner, Max Heffler, Mark Jacobson, Ada
Green and Ami Elyasaf.
More coming your way:
We are in the process of indexing more landowner, property and voter
records, so keep checking back for updated entries. We also welcome
submissions of new data sets for inclusion in the AGD. Do you (or
someone you know) have copies of records that could be helpful to
genealogists and historians researching Galicia? Examples are school
yearbooks, landsmanschaften records, Chevra Kaddisha books, mohel
records, tax lists, census records, etc. If so, please contact me.
Feedback:
A brand-new search engine like this is considered in beta (testing)
mode, so please be patient. If you have specific suggestions,
questions or feedback don't write to me, but please use the "Contact
Us" link at the very bottom of the page. The same goes for data
corrections you feel should be made. (And don't forget to read the
instructions first to get the full value of this database.) Again,
the URL is easy to remember: http://search.geshergalicia.org
If this search engine brings you closer to your Galician ancestors,
and you find someone you thought was lost...or a relative you never
knew existed, please let us know and we'll feature it in the next
issue of "The Galitzianer." To find out more about Gesher Galicia's
work go to: http://www.geshergalicia.org. If you are not already a
member, consider joining.
Pamela Weisberger
President & Research Coordinator
Gesher Galicia
pweisberger@gmail.com
http://www.geshergalicia.org
http://www.search.geshergalicia.org
From: Pamela Weisberger
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:19:26 -0700
Gesher Galicia proudly announces the launch of the brand-new "All
Galicia Database" (AGD) at:
http://search.geshergalicia.org/
This search engine currently features 172,954 records from 41
different data sources, covering everything from birth, death,
marriage and divorce records to phone-books, school and landowner
records, all from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia.
The majority of this data exists nowhere else online and major kudos
goes to Gesher Galicia board member, and programmer extraordinaire,
Brooke Schreier Ganz, for its creation.
About this database:
Although Gesher Galicia's primary focus is on helping people research
their Jewish roots in this region, the diverse, community records in
this database contain names that span all of the ethnic and religious
groups who lived in Galicia. If you know people who are researching
their Galician ancestors of Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Polish or German
background, encourage them to take a look. Although many Galician
communities are represented, with myriad records, those with an
interest in Jewish vital records for Drohobycz, Sambor, Brody,
Zbarazh, Mikulince, Bialy Kamien, and Lviv will be especially pleased.
Searching particulars:
After logging in and reading the home page, I suggest you read the
"instructions and notes" for more productive searching.
You can search by given name and surname, with wildcard search
options. When your results appear click the + (plus) sign to produce a
drop-down list of record particulars. Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching
(BMPM) will be coming in a few months' time, and Daitch-Mokotoff
soundex will follow. In the meantime, one excellent innovation
created by Brooke is the ability to search by "kinnui" - Jewish
nickname or name variant. For example, searching for Rebecca will
also turn up matches for names like Rivka, Becky, and a search for
Hersch will find spelling variants like Hers and Hirsch, but also Tvi
and Zvi. If your record results show a modern-day town name
underlined in light blue, click that link to show a helpful pop-up map
of the area, and geo-spacial searching will be coming soon.
In addition to the search boxes at the top of the page, please note
the left-hand column where you can sort/search by record type, record
sources, towns, and repositories.
A word of thanks...
The launch of this database is an admirable accomplishment for our
small organization and huge kudos go to everyone who coordinated the
indexing projects that are included. The volunteers who worked
tirelessly doing data entry are mentioned in the "thank you" section
of the website, but the following individuals deserve special
accolades: Eric Bloch, Tony Hausner, Max Heffler, Mark Jacobson, Ada
Green and Ami Elyasaf.
More coming your way:
We are in the process of indexing more landowner, property and voter
records, so keep checking back for updated entries. We also welcome
submissions of new data sets for inclusion in the AGD. Do you (or
someone you know) have copies of records that could be helpful to
genealogists and historians researching Galicia? Examples are school
yearbooks, landsmanschaften records, Chevra Kaddisha books, mohel
records, tax lists, census records, etc. If so, please contact me.
Feedback:
A brand-new search engine like this is considered in beta (testing)
mode, so please be patient. If you have specific suggestions,
questions or feedback don't write to me, but please use the "Contact
Us" link at the very bottom of the page. The same goes for data
corrections you feel should be made. (And don't forget to read the
instructions first to get the full value of this database.) Again,
the URL is easy to remember: http://search.geshergalicia.org
If this search engine brings you closer to your Galician ancestors,
and you find someone you thought was lost...or a relative you never
knew existed, please let us know and we'll feature it in the next
issue of "The Galitzianer." To find out more about Gesher Galicia's
work go to: http://www.geshergalicia.org. If you are not already a
member, consider joining.
Pamela Weisberger
President & Research Coordinator
Gesher Galicia
pweisberger@gmail.com
http://www.geshergalicia.org
http://www.search.geshergalicia.org
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