Galicia (in Ukraine and Poland). This group provides information for finding your Galician ancestors and living relatives.

Discussions go beyond providing genealogical research help, that is beyond the simple collection of names and dates. Religion, culture, politics, macro history, and current events in Eastern Europe are frequently debated.

An appendage website is at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Galicia-Ukraine-Poland


[This is the former Austrian Empire province of Galicia, the areal extent of which is now located in southeastern Poland and southwestern Ukraine. This is NOT the Galicia in Spain.] Halychyna (Ukrainian name and origin of term Galicia) Galicja (in Polish language) Galizien (in German | Austrian)

MAP of Austria's Galicia: http://www.feefhs.org/maps/ah/ah-galic.html

Poles , Galizien Germans, Jews , Ukrainians , Carpatho-Rusyns (Ruthenians, Rusyns, Rusins, Rusnaks, Carpatho-Russians , Lemkos, Bojkos / Boikos / Boykos, Hutsuls

Administrative boundaries as of 1998 map: Magocsi, P. R., ed. 1998. Historical atlas of East Central Europe. University of Washington Press.

Austrian Galicia province (Draft) delineation created on 9/14/2004. copyright 2004