About this search engine
This search engine was created for the non-profit organization Gesher Galicia by Brooke Schreier Ganz. The back-end was built using a customized version of the open source Apache Solr search platform, with a front-end PHP toolkit for Solr called Solarium. JQuery, CSS3 (including some cross-browser effects made possible by CSS3PIE), web fonts from Typekit, icons from Symbolicons, and a javascript tooltip package called Tipped round out the front-end work.
The underlying search engine codebase, named "LeafSeek", was released by Brooke as a free open source project in Januarya, 2012. That means that other groups and organizations can use the same underlying software on their own websites, free of charge. Learn more about LeafSeek here.
The alpha version of the All Galicia Database premiered publicly at the May 22, 2011 regional meeting for Gesher Galicia, which was held in New York City. The beta version of the site was available for testing by a select number of contributors between July 1 and July 28, 2011. The site was announced to the wider genealogical community on July 28, 2011.
Thank You to our contributors!
Thank you to everyone who has transcribed, managed, and/or submitted datasets to this project! The following information is incomplete; more names of volunteer transcribers and contributors will be added soon.
Bialy Kamien, Nadworna, Solotwina, and Stanislawow records
- Project Leader: Ada Green
Brody Jewish vital records
- Project Leader: Ami Elyasaf
- Ada Green
- Alex Billig
- Barry Scheer
- Charles Mahler
- Diana Sachsen
- Hanna Palmon
- Klaus Dunser
- Lilian Schorr
- Rosemary Eshel
- Susanne Jakubowski
- Yechezkel Anis
Brody Jewish cemetery
- Ami Elyasaf - Project Coordinator, Israel
- Alexander Denisenko - Project Coordinator, Ukraine
- Konstantine Czechowski - photography assistant and cemetery topography, Ukraine
- Sylvie Bisseliches
- Ron Kaminker
- Hagit Matras
- Achiya Elyasaf
Dębica, Pilzno, and Ropczyce records
- Stanley Diamond
- Eden Joachim
Drohobycz and Sambor Jewish vital records
- Project Leader: Mark Jacobson
- Barbara Ellman
- Carole Feinberg
- Sandra Gross
- Jeff Kaiser
- Nuno Martins
- David Joel Priever
- Nancy Siegel
- Suzan Wynne
- Joanna Zimmerman
Lviv Jewish vital records
- Project Leader: Eric Bloch
- Shaul Berger
- Eli Brand
- Fay Bussgang
- Linda Epstein
- Rita Falbel
- Rebecca Fenning
- Linda Fine
- Howard Fink
- Bella Fox
- Toni Platus
- Judith Ritter
- Morton Rumberg
- Errol Schneegurt
- Sari Silver
- Philippe Volvovic
- Joanna Zimmerman
- (...and other anonymous contributors)
Lists of Rabbis in Galicia (two books)
- Project Leader: Tony Kahane
Grzymalow records
- Project Leader: Tony Kahane
Mikulince, Winniki, Zimna Woda, and Zniesienie records
- Project Leader: Max Heffler
- Art Lerner
- Bette Stoop Mas
- Brian Lehman
- Bruce Reisch
- Israel Pickholtz
- Jessica Eber
- Lancy Spalter
- Lauren Marshall
- Rivka Schirman
- Robert Landau
- Suri Edell Greenberg
- Susana Friedman
- Tony Hausner
Rohatyn area donations to Kollel Galicia in Jerusalem
- Project Leader: Israel Pickholz
Rozdol records
- Project Leader: Israel Pickholz
Tarnopol Jewish vital records
- Mark Halpern
- Tony Kahane
- Toni Platus
- Karl Seligman
Zbarazh records
- Project Leader: Tony Kahane
- Gloria Blair
- Paule Diamond
- Carole Feinberg
- Jacob Laor
- Eugene Merfeld
- Shirley Nesbit
- Toni Platus
- Ronnie Richards
- Judith Scarani
- Irene Scharf
- Jeff Segal
- Karl Seligman
Zloczow records
- Project Leader: Yoav Sharon
Do you have a dataset you'd like to submit?
We also welcome submissions of new data sets. Do you (or someone you know) have copies of records that could be helpful to genealogists and historians researching Galicia? Vital records, yearbooks, landsmanschaften records, Chevra Kaddisha books, tax lists, census records, and so on? If so, please let us know, and we can add them here so everyone can benefit. We do not have a requirement for a minimum number of records, so any type of material is welcome.