Pamela Weisberger (President and Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia Inc.) on "The All Galicia Database: digitizing and indexing religious community records to enable easy public access and productive research" held on 28.04.2015 at the international conference "Archival Cooperation and Community Building in the Digital Age" within the panel "Genealogical resources: the rooting and branching" at Břevnov Archabbey in Prague (CZ).

1.  Digitizing and indexing religious and
community records to enable easy public
access and productive research

3. THE GALICIAN ARCHIVAL
RECORDS PROJECT INCLUDES:
The Cadastral Map & Landowner Records Project
The Voter, School, Tax and Tabula Records Project
The Vital Records and Census Project
The Stanislawow 1939 Census and Passport
Applications Project
The Tarnopol 1910 Jewish Census Project
The Polish Magnate Records Project
The Austrian State Archives Project
The Austrian Ministries Project
The Galician Refugees Project

4. We take original images
and scans and index the key
information, but the only way
to make the data accessible
and useful to global
researchers is to create free,
online search engines.

5. The Tarnopol 1910 Jewish Census
Project14,000 + names
were indexed in four
months by our team in
Warsaw. Fine tuning
the translations of
professions took
another few months.
The data was uploaded
and became searchable
on the All Galicia
Database and we have
scans of the entire
census.

6. Census records
are especially
complicated 

8. The Austrian Ministries Project
Chula Katz’s application to sell alcohol in 1907–1908 in Skołoszów
and the appeal when the application was rejected. The number of
dates and deadlines shows the level 0f bureaucracy involved in
conducting business in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

9. SKALAT TAX LIST
1936

10. SCHOOL RECORDS FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

11. Landowner
Records

12. List of house owners List of shop owners

13. www.leafseek.com

14. Leafseek lets you combine databases of all shapes and sizes into one big unified searchable
interface that finds possible connections between your datasets. You can limit your search
to one dataset, or encompass them all. Common data types like given names, surnames,
and towns are recognized among multiple fields in multiple databases. Other fields, like
record years and occupations, can be broken out into searchable facets to find links
between different pieces of data.
LeafSeek can also handle data that’s stored in many different formats, such as:
Adobe PDF files
CSV (comma-separated value) files
JSON files
Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet files
Microsoft Word documents or other word processing documents
MySQL databases
…and more!

17. The key to making data work is to provide it in a searchable database:
http://search.geshergalicia.org

19. Click to
Sort by
record type
The plus
sign produces
more record
details
If you only
want records
for Ester click
just that name
The icon denotes
record type
(marriage)
The icon denotes
record type
(birth)
The ALL GALICIA DATABASE offers many searching & sorting options:

20. We make it simple for a researcher to order a digital
image of the original record

21. Here is how a search result appears on the All Galicia Database:
Ewa Citron – a foster child in an orphanage - was born in New York
City! (New-Jork, Ameryka)

22. Eva was born in 1901,
but the birth was
not registered until 1909

23. Landowner records provide a rich
historical accounting of a town’s residents,
their property and livelihood. Our search
engine integrates digital records with our
databases.

24. Searching on the
surname GRUNHAUT
GRUNHAUT

25. THE SEARCH FOR SURNAME
GRUNHAUT PRODUCES
105 RECORDS

26. 

27. HOUSE OWNER RECORDS

28. CENSUS RECORDS

29. www.geshergalicia.org