Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. The research work includes the indexing of archival vital records and census books, Holocaust-period records, Josephine and Franciscan cadastral surveys, lists of Jewish taxpayers, and records of Galician medical students and doctors - all added to our searchable online database. In addition, we reproduce regional and cadastral maps for our online Map Room. We conduct educational research and publish a quarterly research journal, the Galitzianer.

You can search our free All Galicia Database, Map Room, and archival inventories, and read about member benefits starting at $36 per year. You can also join online.

Our general contact address: info@geshergalicia.org

Research Projects

Research Projects

Gesher Galicia's current research projects.

All Galicia Database

All Galicia Database

Online database with over half a million records from Galicia.

Archival Inventories

Archival Inventories

Inventories of genealogical records in Polish and Ukrainian archives.

Map Room

Map Room

Large-scale, zoomable cadastral and regional maps from Galicia.

The Galitzianer

The Galitzianer

Gesher Galicia's quarterly research journal, published since 1993.



Upcoming Programs

    Tuesday, September 10 – Thursday, September 12, 2019
    SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “JEWS IN GALICIA”
    to be held in Kraków, at the Jagiellonian University and Galicia Jewish Museum. For more details of this conference, click here. Tony Kahane will present a paper at the conference on “Institutional antisemitism in the territory of the former Galicia, 1935-1939”, of which this is the abstract. Here is the final program for the conference.

    Sunday, September 22, 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington D.C. Location: B'nai Israel Congregation, 6301 Montrose Rd, Rockville, MD 20852. Andrew Zalewski will present: WORKSHOP: Resources for Genealogical Research (Galicia) (11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) and MEDICAL GLOBETROTTERS AND PERSEVERING WOMEN FROM GALICIA (1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.).

Recent Programs

    GESHER GALICIA AT THE IAJGS CONFERENCE IN CLEVELAND

    Sunday, July 28 – Friday, August 2, 2019. 39th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. Hilton Cleveland Downtown, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Registration required. https://www.iajgs2019.org
    Sunday, July 28, 2019 SHARE FAIR (11:30 am – 2:30 pm)
    Wednesday, July 31, 2019 GALICIA DAY: Galicia Basics: What Every Galitzianer Needs to Know, Speakers: Shelley K. Pollero, Renée Stern Steinig (9:15-10:30 am); Gesher Galicia SIG Meeting (10:45 am-12:00 pm); Gesher Galicia Luncheon : Dr. Steven Turner will present Traveling Through the Heart of Galicia: A Galitzianer’s Journey (12:15 -1:30 p.m.). Click here for details and more conference programming of interest to Galitzianers.

    Sunday, June 2, 2019, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Central Maryland. Location: The Residences at Vantage Point 5400 Vantage Point Road, Columbia, MD 21044. Andrew Zalewski will present: SURVEYS AND MAPS OF GALICIA: VISITING ANCESTRAL TOWNS AND MEETING THE NEIGHBORS. For further details, please click here

Gesher Galicia is a partner of the following organizations:

Jewish Historical Institute
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
POLIN
Galicia Jewish Museum
Gratz College