Fwd:Announcing the "All Galicia Database" - Gesher Galicia's new search engine
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Suri Greenberg
Jul 30, 2011, 4:42:42 PM7/30/11
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Shavua Tov, Ozerna friends,
For several years there have been many dedicated volunteers who transcribed private collections of Galicia records into searchable databases.
Gesher Galicia undertook to put these online. A few people are in the process of transcribing some records from Jezierna that were copied by a Galicia researcher.
For a couple of years, I have been one of those volunteers. We are slowly working on German language birth records from 1886-1898 and Polish language birth records from 1922-1942. The information will be ready to add to Gesher Galicia's database some time this year, God willing.
If any of you would like to help in this effort, it will be completed faster.
Meanwhile some of you may find family information from other towns in the area.
Enjoy!
Suri Edell Greenberg
_______________________________
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
At the IAJGS Conference in D.C. I'll be giving a tutorial on how to use the
All Galicia Database at the Gesher Galicia SIG meeting on Monday, August 15
at 11:00AM.
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." And remember...it is GG's annual membership dues that fund
our research and our website/search engines which are free to all. If you
aren't a member yet, but would like to support our work, go to:
http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/join_gg.html. If you are already a member,
but would like to contribute to our general/research fund, go to:
http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/paypal.html to find out how.
Thanks from Gesher Galicia and here's to successful searching!
Pamela Weisberger
President & Research Coordinator
Gesher Galicia
pweis...@gmail.com
http://www.geshergalicia.org
http://www.search.geshergalicia.org
The Gesher Galicia Discussion Group is sponsored by Gesher Galicia
and hosted by JewishGen, the Home of Jewish Genealogy.
Please help us help you:
- Sign up now for value-added services
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/ValueAdded.asp
- Contribute to the JewishGen General Fund
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen-erosity/.
- Visit our home page at http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia
and become a Gesher Galicia member.
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
At the IAJGS Conference in D.C. I'll be giving a tutorial on how to use the
All Galicia Database at the Gesher Galicia SIG meeting on Monday, August 15
at 11:00AM.
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." And remember...it is GG's annual membership dues that fund
our research and our website/search engines which are free to all. If you
aren't a member yet, but would like to support our work, go to:
http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/join_gg.html. If you are already a member,
but would like to contribute to our general/research fund, go to:
http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/paypal.html to find out how.
Thanks from Gesher Galicia and here's to successful searching!
Pamela Weisberger
President & Research Coordinator
Gesher Galicia
pweis...@gmail.com
http://www.geshergalicia.org
http://www.search.geshergalicia.org
The Gesher Galicia Discussion Group is sponsored by Gesher Galicia
and hosted by JewishGen, the Home of Jewish Genealogy.
Please help us help you:
- Sign up now for value-added services
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/ValueAdded.asp
- Contribute to the JewishGen General Fund
http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen-erosity/.
- Visit our home page at http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia
and become a Gesher Galicia member.
Richard Field
Jul 30, 2011, 5:10:21 PM7/30/11
to Suri (Jezierna) Suri, Jezierna, wa bieler
Hi Suri,
Our cousin Wilma Bieler would like to join the group.
Rich
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