Mark your calendars for Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh on 18-23 June 2023! The week-long virtual course – Researching Your Ancestry in the Austrian Crownland of Galicia – will be offered for the first time. The course will be coordinated by Michelle Chubenko and include Tadeusz Piłat, AG; Emily Garber; and Paul Woodbury, AG, as instructors. The week-long schedule is comprised of four 75-minute sessions per day, Monday through Thursday and two 75-minute sessions on Friday.

 

Course Description:
This course is designed for those have identified their immigrant ancestor from Galicia (Königreich Galizien), a crownland within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and are seeking in-depth instruction on Empire’s history and genealogically relevant record groups beyond birth, marriage, and death records. Instruction will be given on record types which can be used for not only Polish and Ukrainian, but German and Jewish ancestry. There will be hands-on exercises in class and optional homework assignments to help you gain experience. Attendees will have the opportunity to (re)construct the historical context for their ancestral village/town using many sources like gazetteers and historical maps as well as a mapping exercise using Google Earth.

 

Registration opens on Wednesday, 16 February 2022, at noon ET. To register for information and registration updates, please subscribe to email changes in the sidebar column on the GRIP website: https://www.gripitt.org/.