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Genealogical Resources

First Steps	There are many aids on the Jewish Genealogy Website and on the Internet that can aid a researcher. Those researching their families in the Drohobycz Administrative District should first consult the following:
The JewishGen Family Finder	The Family Finder is an invaluable resource. You may search under your family names or by towns of origin. There you will find others who are searching for the same names in the same towns. You may contact these people by email and if you register your information in the Family Finder, others searching these names may contact you.
JewishGen Databases	JewishGen Databases lists all the databases available in the JewishGen website.
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland	Jewish Records Indexing-Poland is an invaluable resource of Polish vital records and other information. The volunteers in this group have Existing birth. marriage and death records for Galicia are located in the Archiwum Glówne Akt Dawnych (AGAD) in Warsaw and the archive in Lviv. Until the end of 2006, the records in Warsaw were being indexed with the cooperation of AGAD and JRI-Poland. This program has been terminated. In 2006 the LDS Family History Library microfilmed the records in the lviv archive. these are int he process of being indexed by JRI-Poland.
The JewishGen All Poland Database	The All Poland Database can be used as a one-stop service for all databases on the Jewish Genealogy website that relate to Poland.
Gesher Galicia	Gesher Galicia is the special interest group for all towns in the former Austrian province. Membership allows you to receive a yearly Family Finder that has extensive lists of information about the family names and towns of its members. You may also wish to register as a member of the Gesher Galicia Discussion group to receive regular postings about Galician genealogy.
Borislav, Drogobych, Sambor & Vicinity Research Group	For those interested in the Drohobycz Administrative District in the vicinity membership in the Special Interest Group for Drohobycz, Boryslaw, Sambor and other towns is strongly recommended.
Yizkor Books	Jewish genealogy's Yizkor book site has two books about Drohobycz and Boryslaw and other towns in the district. the translations, which ahve been done by volunteers with the project manager, Valerie Schatzker, are not yet complete. For memories of Boyrsław, see Leopold Held, The Tyśmienica Still Flows, http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Borislav/Borislav.html See also Memorial to the Jews of Drohobycz, Boyrsław and Surroundings, Ed. N.M. Gelber. http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Drohobycz/Drogobych.html

Other Databases	Also see the Bibliography section for other databases that may help withyour search for ancestors in the Drohobycz Administrative District.
The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation	This site provides invalable information about research materials and documents for the study of Jewish history in Eastern Europe. See http://www.rtrfoundation.org/
Ellis Island Foundation	For immigrants from the Drohobycz area to America, the Ellis Island Foundation site is an important resource. JewishGen also hosts Dr. Stephen Morse's excellent search engine site that makes research on this website much easier at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/.
LDS Family History Library	The LDS Family History Library has has records from Eastern Galicia. Search under the the town Lviv in Ukraine. Jewish Genealogy also provides guidance in finding Jewish records in this large database.

Family Histories associated with the Drohobycz Administrative District
The Waldinger Family genealogy page. http://www.bway.net/~epic/Waldinger.html
The Turkel Family http://www.geocities.com/turkel.geo/Updates.htm
Other Websites of Interest h2
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/drohobych.htm An English language site with information an d photographs of the town
http://www.republika.pl/mwolter/drohobycz.htm A Polish language site about the town with photographs:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/transcripts/doc_pacs/galicia.htm An interesting first hand account of World War I in the Borysław area.
http://members.tripod.com/~Gurnicht/old_world/boryslav.htm A website dedicated to Boryslaw.
http://members.tripod.com/~Gurnicht/old_world/boryslav.hC A website dedicated to Popiele, a town in the Drohobycz Administrative District.
http://www.en.pgnig.pl/firma/274.htm A website with a time line of the history of petroleum in Poland. There is little information on the Drohobycz/Borysław area.
Websites Associated with the Second World War h2>
http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous/bycountry/germany/beitz_berthold.htm An account of Berthold Beitz, Righteous among Nations.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/transcripts/doc_pacs/galicia.htm An interesting first hand account of World War I in the Drohobycz district
http://www.edwardvictor.com/Ghettos/Drohobycz.html The Drohobycz ghetto.
http://judaism.about.com/library/2_holocaust/testimonies/bl_sroth.htm Schmuel Roth, a conscripted labourer describes the atrocities he witnessed in Drohobycz.
http://www.savingjews.org/righteous/gv.htm The story of a Boryslaw family who hid Jews during the German occupation
http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/staff/scholle/polggproofs.html Stamp of oil derricks in Boryslaw issued during the Second World War.

This material has been compiled by Valerie Schazker.