Other Maps of Galicia

Gazetteer of the Crownlands and Territories
Represented in the Imperial Council of Austro-Hungary

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary of places and where they are located. If you know the name of your ancestral village it will assist you to find its location.

This gazetteer was published in German (Gemeindelexikon der in Reichsrate vertretenen Königreiche und Länder) between 1903 & 1908 and is available at Mormon Family History Centers for a small fee on microfilm #1187928 but Volume 12 (Galizien) is now available online at the Brigham Young University Family History Archives. It contains valuable information like population, area, religion, native language, livestock, buildings, etc for most of the villages and towns in the Austro-Hungarian territories of Galizien, Bukowina & Dalmatien We have two aids to help you get the most from this gazetteer:

The good folks at HALGAL (Genealogy of Halychyna / Eastern Galicia) have made available an explanation on how to use this gazetteer (available here including abbreviations used and column headers).
Member Dave Gorz has created a finding aid to complement the information available on HALGAL. It has maps and tables to help you locate the administrative district of your village and an index showing on which pages each district will be found in the gazetteer. It can be viewed here (1.4MB).

Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia

by Brian Lenius, 3rd Edition 1999. Brian has collected information from a large number of sources (including the gazetteer above) to create his gazetteer.
More information about Brian's gazetteer and how to purchase it is available at this link and at Brian's website.

Austrian Empire Military Maps

Militär-Landesaufnahme und Spezialkarte der österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie

Published by the "Österreich Militärgeographisches Institut" from 1910 to 1937. The scale of each map is 1:75,000 (which is approx. 1 inch = 1.2 miles). These maps are very detailed, even individual houses can be seen. They were filmed by LDS on 142 Microfiche ; (11cm x 15cm) (#6000199 to #6000339). Fiche number 60000199 has a map index. Fiches can be ordered and viewed for a small fee at Mormon Family History Centers around the world.
Reproductions of these maps on paper can be purchased at www.genealogyunlimited.com (Genealogy Unlimited also has 1:200000 scale maps).

The Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics in Hungary is providing free downloads of what appears to be scans in color of the above maps. Their website has maps for much of central Europe from as far north as Berlin, to Rome and Istanbul on the south. There is no gazetteer available for these maps but there is an index map page with major placenames marked. Each map was scanned at high resolution so the JPEG image of each map averages 3MB.

Here is the map index page.

Polish Galician Maps

This is a very large site that contains hundreds of detailed maps, most from German sources before 1942. The topographical map set of eastern Galicia at 1:100,000 seems complete and shows tiny squares for each house. The main introductory page is in English, but many of the detailed map selection pages are in Polish, although that does not seem to be a problem in choosing a map.
The main site is at english.mapywig.org/news.php. As an example, the topographical map index is here.
Please note that these are detailed maps and as such are very large downloads (6 Mb for good detail, 15 Mb for excellent detail).

Polish Tourist Maps

This map covers south eastern Poland from about Rzeszow to Lwow, but mostly NORTH of that line (see Galicia map ). It lists about 2000 villages in that region, but only by POLISH name. Clicking on the Polish name brings up a detailed map of the area.
The area covered is at http://www.roztocze.com/mapa_regionu.htm. The village list is at this link.

Ungarn, Galizien, Slavonien, Croatien, Siebenburgen by Joseph Meyer 1796-1856
from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection © Cartography Associates

FEEFHS Maps

FEEFHS - Federation of East European Family History Societies

Map of Galicia scanned from Blackie & Sons Atlas (Edinburgh, 1882),
Scale: 1:2,700,000 (or one inch = about 42 miles)

The complete FEEFHS Map Room Index

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