Galizien German Descendants

Records and Archives dealing with Galacia

Holdings of the Polish Archives

by Dave Gorz. Due to the constantly changing borders of Poland over the years records of some of our German ancestors in Galicia will be found in the Polish archives in Krakaw. Dave gives a good summary here of the holdings of the Polish Archives and what’s been filmed by the Family History Library.


Family History Library Film Numbers

by Dave Gorz. Dave has taken the list of records filmed by the Family History Library and sorted them by village, religious denomination, and then births, marriages, etc. This is a quick and easy to determine which LDS film number you need.


Catholic Vital Records of Galicia/Halychyna

This article by Matthew Bielawa gives a good overview of the Catholic records of Galicia. The link above takes you Matthew's article on the FEEFHS website.


Ukrainian Greek Catholic File numbers   

The link above takes to you to a list provided courtesy of the Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group.  It lists the Ukraine Archives File Number for Greek church records in villages in the former Galacia - some of which contain some German village Roman Catholic records as well.  A second page gives the LSD film numbers  which can then be ordered from your local Family History Centre.


Dolina Roman Catholic Church Marriage records or here

This Polish site has detailed marriage records for Dolina in the the Archdiocese of Lwow from 1700-1945. The site is entirely in Polish so you need to use this translation page to determine how to fill in the search screen.  Once you find a record, you can sometimes view the microfilm by clicking on the link after the name.


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