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Group Administrator: Rabbi Gary Gans galiciadna@gmail.com
Group Co-Administrator: Elise Friedman

Project Surnames:

Alterman	Barasch	Ber	Birnbach
Blitzstein	Boral	Brajer	Burg
Byer	Cooper	Corbett	Davis
Deresiewicz	Derincovsky	Dershowitz	Dick
Diener	Edgins	Einstein	Eisner
Escover	Fayn	Fenichel	Fern
Fiol	Fränkel	Fruchter	Galicia
Gans	Geiger	Geller	Gesher_Galicia
Gleitman	Goldberg	Goldhamer	Goldhirsh
Goldstein	Goodman	Goren	Gorenstein
Gowarczyk	Greenberg	Greenzweig	Gross
Grosz	Gussow	Haas	Hammond
Heffler	Herold	Herszfeld	Herzlich
Hollander	Horowitz	Horvitz	Jewish
Kampel	Kanarek	Kandel	Kestenbaum
Kirstein	Klinger	Kreindler	Krepp
Krepper	Kugler	Landau	Leibowitz
Levy	Loebman	Malter	Olinger
Ostrager	Ploin	Printz	Rubin
Rudloff	Rudlow	Salmon	Schiffman
Schneegurt	Schneider	Schon	Schreier
Schwartz	Solomon	Stechenberg	Stecher
Stern	Storch	Streisand	Szmulewicz
Taub	Trachman	Turnheim	Vogel
Weiss	Weisskirch	Zimmer	Zuckerberg

Project Background:

Gesher Galicia, Inc. is an organization that promotes Jewish genealogical and historical research in Galicia, a province of the former Austrian Empire. Its goals are to promote a forum for researchers to share information and to promote individual and group research of Galicia.

The Gesher Galicia Jewish DNA Project promotes genealogical DNA testing among those with Jewish ancestry from Galicia. The map below gives a general idea of the regions that this project covers. A complete list of 1877 Galicia administrative districts covered by this project can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/towns/admin__dist_.html

Participation Requirements:

You should have confirmed Jewish ancestry from the geographic region described above, on your matrilineal or patrilineal line. Those who do not qualify for this project are encouraged to visit JewishGen's Genealogy by Genetics website at http://www.jewishgen.org/dna/ for other Jewish DNA projects, or Family Tree DNA's website for a comprehensive list of Family Tree DNA projects.
We recommend a minimum of 37 markers for paternal lines and mtDNAPlus (HVR1 & HVR2) for maternal lines for the best results of this study. However, all qualifying individuals are welcome to participate with any test you can (or are willing to) afford. Those who start with lower level tests will have an opportunity to purchase upgrades later.
After your results are in...
- Please specify your earliest known patrilineal and/or matrilineal ancestor(s) and the town they were from under the User Preferences tab of your myFTDNA webpage.
- Follow the instructions on your User Preferences page to specify the town of origin by latitude/longitude. This will mark your town on the member distribution map below.
- Upload a GEDCOM showing your qualifying patrilineal and/or matrilineal ancestry to your myFTDNA webpage.

How to Join:

You should have confirmed Jewish ancestry from the geographic region described above, on your matrilineal or patrilineal line. Those who do not qualify for this project are encouraged to visit JewishGen's Genealogy by Genetics website at http://www.jewishgen.org/dna/ for other Jewish DNA projects, or Family Tree DNA's website for a comprehensive list of Family Tree DNA projects.

EXISTING FAMILY TREE DNA CUSTOMERS

Log in to your personal myFTDNA webpage. Click the blue JOIN button at the top left of the page. Scroll to the Dual Geographical Projects category and click the G link. Then click the "Gesher Galicia" link and follow the instructions to submit a join request.

EXISTING GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT PARTICIPANTS

If you have participated in the Genographic Project, but have not transferred your DNA results to Family Tree DNA yet, you must do so before you can join the Gesher Galicia DNA Project. Log in to your personal Genographic Project page and at the very bottom of your results page, you'll find a link to transfer your DNA results to Family Tree DNA. Follow the instructions and once your results have been transferred, continue by following the instructions above for existing Family Tree DNA customers.

ALL OTHERS

If you have never purchased a Family Tree DNA or Genographic Project test kit, please use the link below to purchase a Family Tree DNA kit and join the Gesher Galicia DNA Project. FTDNA has offered us the following discounted group rates for this project:

Matrilineal (women & men):
mtDNA (HVR1): $129
mtDNAPlus (HVR1&2): $189 Recommended!
mtFullSequence (complete mtDNA): $495

Patrilineal (men only):
Y-DNA 12 Markers: $ 99
Y-DNA 37 Markers: $189 Recommended!
Y-DNA 67 Markers: $269

Matrilineal & Patrilineal (men only):
Y-DNA12 + mtDNA: $199
Y-DNA37 + mtDNAPlus: $339
Y-DNA67 + mtDNAPlus: $409
Y-DNA67 + mtFullSequence: $764

Tests may be upgraded at a later date, after the initial test is complete. Special upgrade pricing will apply.

Matrilineal = Your mother's mother's mother's mother's mother, etc.

Patrilineal = Your father's father's father's father's father, etc.

How Many Markers? The more markers you test, the more recently related your matches will be. If you match a person with a different surname as you at only 12 markers, your connection to that person may be well over 1000 years ago, well before reasonable genealogical timeframes. However, a match at 37 markers or more generally indicates a relationship within the past few hundred years. Therefore, we recommend at least 37 markers for this project.

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Project Goals:

Encourage the use of Genetic Genealogy as an additional tool for Jewish genealogical research in Galicia.
Study the similarity or diversity of the ancestry of our Jewish ancestors from the former Austrian province of Galicia.
Prove or disprove common ancestry between families with the same surnames, when traditional genealogy research has not yet produced a paper trail connecting the families.
Confirm the validity of a paper trail that shows common ancestry between two families with the same surname.
Discover common ancestry between families of different surnames. Many of our Eastern European ancestors adopted modern-day surnames only in the recent past (~200 years ago), so it's to be expected that our ancestors adopted different surnames than their distant relatives did. There were also purposeful surname changes in the more recent years, such as to avoid conscription into the military or, most commonly in Galicia, due to children legally having the mother's maiden name instead of their father's surname.

Brief History of Galicia (from Gesher Galicia website http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/)

Originally called Galicia-Lodomeria by the Austrians when they took that territory from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the First Partition of Poland in 1772, its borders varied slightly over the years, especially during the Napoleonic Wars, following which Krakow and surrounding lands were eventually added to the province.

The largest province of the Austrian Empire, Galicia bordered Moravia to the west, the Russian Empire to the north and east, and Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Moldavia) to the south.

Returned to Poland when that state was reestablished after the First World War.

Divided between Ukraine and Poland after the Second World War. Today, the eastern half of Galicia is part of Ukraine, and the western half is part of Poland. The term "Galicia" no longer describes an administrative or political region in either country. In Poland, Galicia is often called “Malopolska”, or Lesser Poland.

Bukowina, acquired by the Austrian Empire from the Ottoman Empire in 1775, merged with Galicia in 1787, became a separate province of the Austrian Empire after 1849, and shares with Romania a history of Turkish and Romanian administration that was not experienced by Galicia. Bukowina is not included in the focus of Gesher Galicia. Contact the Romanian Special Interest Group, Rom-SIG.

Pronunciation of "Galicia"

The pronunciation of the word "Galicia" is quite varied among researchers. The local pronunciation, if written phonetically by a native speaker of American English, would be something like [gal-EE-tsya]. The Polish spelling of the name is "Galicja." The German spelling is "Galizien."

Project News:

See Gesher Galicia DNA Project on Tracing the Tribe:The Jewish Genealogy Blog: March 7, 2008

http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com:80/2008/03/gesher-galicia-dna-project-launched_07.html

The Galitzianer is the official newsletter of Gesher Galicia and is intended to provide a free exchange of ideas, research tips and articles of interest to Gesher Galicia members.

The Galitzianer welcomes submission of articles, charts, lists, book reviews, and other relevant contributions from its readers that touch on Jewish family history in the communities that were part of Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Galitzianer is published in November, February, May, and August.

Back issues are available to members only for US$4 per copy (paper) or US$2 per copy (electronic).

To join Gesher Galicia and subscribe to the newsletter, to submit a change of address, to contribute articles or other material to The Galitzianer or to order back issues, go to http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia/join_gg.html.

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