The following paragraph taken from "Catholic Vital Records of Galicia/Halychyna" by Matthew R. Bielawa (FEEFHS Journal XI p 37) describes well the geographic region of this project: "The term Galicia is one of the most confused geographic entities to East European genealogists. The English term “Galicia”, which can be found in various North America documents such as census records, naturalization papers and passenger ship lists, refers commonly to the northern-most province of the Austrian Empire, roughly from 1772 to 1918. The official full name of the province was Galicia and Lodomeria (in German Galizien und Lodomerien). In Polish, the term is known as Galicja, and in Ukrainian as Halychyna. The Austrian Empire was commonly called the Austro-Hungarian Empire after 1867 and the Ausgleich, or Compromise, which transformed the Empire into a dual monarchy Austria and Hungary. Today, this area covers southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, roughly from Kraków in the west to Ternopil in the east."