Gazetteers
Gazetteers are important to genealogists for many reasons.
- Help find your ancestral village.
- Give correct spelling (or alternate spellings) of your ancestral home.
- If you know your village, you need the gazetteer to locate the parish to which
it belonged in order to find church records. Remember to check various
gazetteers since parish boundaries often changed.
- If you know your village, you'll need to learn about neighboring villages to
see where "missing" ancestors may have come from or gone to.
- Learn more about your ancestral village: the population, the size, religious
breakdown, history.
Here are the most important gazetteers for research in Halychyna/Eastern
Galicia
Click on each link to learn more about each gazetteer, to see what type of
information each gazetteer provides, to view examples, and to learn how to read
them.
Gemeindelexikon der im Reichsrate
vertretenen
Königreiche und Länder.
(Gazetteer of the Crown Lands and Territories Represented in the Imperial
Council)
Volume 12: Galizien (Galicia). Vienna, 1907.
Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia
written by Brian J. Lenius. 1999.
Istoriia mist i sil Ukrainskoi RSR
(A History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR). 1967-1974.
Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
(Index to Places of the Republic of Poland). 1934.
Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych
krajów słowiańskich
(Geographic Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and Other
Slavic Countries)
15 volumes. 1880-1902.
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