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Go to [[Jewish Genealogy Research|Jewish Genealogy Research Main Page]]<br>Go to [[Poland|Poland Main Page]]  
Go to [[Jewish Genealogy Research|Jewish Genealogy Research Main Pag[[Category:Jewish records]]]<br>Go to [[Poland|Poland Main Pag[[Category:Jewish records]]]  


=== Maps of Galicia  ===
=== Maps of Galicia  ===


*To view a 1914 map of Galicia, click [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Map_of_the_Kingdom_of_Galicia%2C_1914.jpg here].  
*To view a 1914 map of Galicia, click [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Map_of_the_Kingdom_of_Galicia%2C_1914.jpg her[[Category:Jewish records]].  
*Visit the Gesher Galicia Online Map Room by clicking [http://maps.geshergalicia.org/ here].  
*Visit the Gesher Galicia Online Map Room by clicking [http://maps.geshergalicia.org/ her[[Category:Jewish records]].  
*For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click [[Jewish Population Maps|here]].  
*For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click [[Jewish Population Maps|her[[Category:Jewish records]]].  
*For a map showing the percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland, c. 1905, click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_percentage_of_Jews_in_the_Pale_of_Settlement_and_Congress_Poland,_c._1905.png here].  
*For a map showing the percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland, c. 1905, click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_percentage_of_Jews_in_the_Pale_of_Settlement_and_Congress_Poland,_c._1905.png her[[Category:Jewish records]].  
*To view an additional historical map showing the historical percentage of Jews in governments, click [http://books.google.com/books?id=sr85AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&dq=%22percentage+of+jews+in+governments%22+map&source=bl&ots=BK42kcedcz&sig=Eb1EvyRT9xaaOxNAlNit1-q2_yU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PcwMU5-xMcGBogTyqYKABg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22percentage%20of%20jews%20in%20governments%22%20map&f=false here].<br>Definition of "Pale of Settlement" from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement Wikipedia.org]:<br>The Pale of Settlement (Russian: Черта́ осе́длости, chertá osédlosti, Yiddish: דער תּחום-המושבֿ, der tkhum-ha-moyshəv, Hebrew: תְּחוּם הַמּוֹשָב, tḥùm ha-mosháv‎) was the term given to a region of Imperial Russia in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish permanent residency was generally prohibited. It extended from the eastern pale, or demarcation line, to the western Russian border with the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and with Austria-Hungary. The English term "pale" is derived from the Latin word "palus", a stake, extended to mean the area enclosed by a fence or boundary.
*To view an additional historical map showing the historical percentage of Jews in governments, click [http://books.google.com/books?id=sr85AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&dq=%22percentage+of+jews+in+governments%22+map&source=bl&ots=BK42kcedcz&sig=Eb1EvyRT9xaaOxNAlNit1-q2_yU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PcwMU5-xMcGBogTyqYKABg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22percentage%20of%20jews%20in%20governments%22%20map&f=false her[[Category:Jewish records]].<br>Definition of "Pale of Settlement" from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement Wikipedia.or[[Category:Jewish records]]:<br>The Pale of Settlement (Russian: Черта́ осе́длости, chertá osédlosti, Yiddish: דער תּחום-המושבֿ, der tkhum-ha-moyshəv, Hebrew: תְּחוּם הַמּוֹשָב, tḥùm ha-mosháv‎) was the term given to a region of Imperial Russia in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish permanent residency was generally prohibited. It extended from the eastern pale, or demarcation line, to the western Russian border with the Kingdom of Prussia (later the German Empire) and with Austria-Hungary. The English term "pale" is derived from the Latin word "palus", a stake, extended to mean the area enclosed by a fence or boundary.


=== Gazetteer of Galicia  ===
=== Gazetteer of Galicia  ===
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=== History of the Jews in Galicia  ===
=== History of the Jews in Galicia  ===


*To visit the Galicia Jewish Museum online click [http://www.en.galiciajewishmuseum.org/ here].<br>The Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective.
*To visit the Galicia Jewish Museum online click [http://www.en.galiciajewishmuseum.org/ her[[Category:Jewish records]].<br>The Galicia Jewish Museum exists to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting Jewish history from a new perspective.
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=== Gesher Galicia's Databases  ===
=== Gesher Galicia's Databases  ===


*This search engine currently features 267,883 records from 104 different data sources, covering everything from birth, death, marriage and divorce records to phonebooks, school and landowner records, all from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, which today is part of eastern Poland and western Ukraine.<br>To access the Gesher Galicia Search Engine, click [http://search.geshergalicia.org/ here].
*This search engine currently features 267,883 records from 104 different data sources, covering everything from birth, death, marriage and divorce records to phonebooks, school and landowner records, all from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, which today is part of eastern Poland and western Ukraine.<br>To access the Gesher Galicia Search Engine, click [http://search.geshergalicia.org/ her[[Category:Jewish records]].


=== Division of Galicia (1918)  ===
=== Division of Galicia (1918)  ===
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*Use maps and gazetteers to determine whether your family's home city/town became a part of Poland or of the Ukraine.  
*Use maps and gazetteers to determine whether your family's home city/town became a part of Poland or of the Ukraine.  
*Continue research by using resources on these two pages:  
*Continue research by using resources on these two pages:  
**[[Poland Jewish Research]]  
**[[Poland Jewish Researc[[Category:Jewish records]]]  
**[[Ukraine Jewish Research]]  
**[[Ukraine Jewish Researc[[Category:Jewish records]]]  
*Note: For towns near the border between Poland and the Ukraine, pertinent records may have ended up in an archive now on the other side of the border.
*Note: For towns near the border between Poland and the Ukraine, pertinent records may have ended up in an archive now on the other side of the border.
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