In the third article in the series on genealogical and historical sources from Ukrainian archives presented online, we will talk about documents related to the territories of historical Galicia and Transcarpathia.
Home page of the State Archives of Lviv Region
State Archives of Lviv Region (DALO) today cannot boast of a significant number of documents available for remote processing by researchers. Of the latest publications of archival files on the archive website, these are civil status records for 1940, which began to be kept after the first arrival of Soviet power in Western Ukraine. The situation with the publication of descriptions of the archive's funds looks better. First of all, finally appeared online list of archive funds, however, it is not clear why it is still of the old, Soviet model. On the site you can download descriptions of the 1st fund - "Lviv Voivodeship Administration". This is a huge fund, quite in demand among researchers, which touches on various aspects of the life of the Lviv region in the interwar period. No less important are the descriptions of fund No. 2 - "City Administration in the Royal Capital City of Lviv", which, for example, contains information about the plans and documentation of hundreds of houses in Lviv. The materials of fund 266, which are displayed on the DALO website, relating to the Union of Defenders of Lviv, are not in demand among Ukrainian researchers. I would really like the archive to more actively make available descriptions and documents from its truly powerful collection of materials on the history of the Lviv region in the interwar period, funds with personal files of students of Lviv University, Lviv Polytechnic, gymnasiums, schools and colleges, documentation of magistrates, county boards of the Austrian and interwar periods.
Let's not forget that the lion's share of documents on the history of Galicia from the Middle Ages to 1939, including metric books, are stored in the Central Historical Archive in Lviv. People often confuse this archive with the State Archive of the Lviv Region.
State Archives of Ternopil Region (DATO) can boast of significantly better results in digitizing its holdings compared to the Lviv Regional Archive. The archive's website already contains dozens of metric books online. The same applies to fund descriptions.
First of all, the metric books from the fund 487 - "Greek Catholic county administrations of the Ternopil region of the Galician governorate" are presented online. For now, the work has stopped at the publication of the first two hundred metric books of the first description, which could previously be found on the Family Search website. We hope that the work of publishing metric books online will continue and, in addition to Greek Catholic metrics, will cover the metric books of the Orthodox churches of the Kremenets district, as well as the books of Roman Catholic churches.
As for the Kremenchinsky region, the site publishes the files of Fund 37 - the Kremenchinsky City Magistrate. The materials relate to the city itself and its residents. The registry books of the Kremenchinsky synagogue for the years 1870-1900 have also been digitized.
Among the documents on the website of the State Archives of Ternopil Region, you can find files from the R-274 fund, which relate to the damage caused in various settlements of the Ternopil region during World War II by German invaders.
Things look much better with digitized descriptions. The DATO website presents dozens of descriptions of various funds - these are county elders, the Ternopil branch of the emigration syndicate, county and city courts, city administrations and magistrates, gymnasiums, notaries, various kinds of trade, industrial and cultural organizations. Many descriptions of funds from the Soviet period, after 1945, are presented online.
State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Region (SAIFO) updated his website, where he posted indexes to metric books, as well as dozens of descriptions of collections. The archival files themselves have not yet been published. Some of the metric books from the first descriptions of the fund 631 can be found on the Family Search website. Among the funds that deserve the attention of genealogical researchers are the Stanislavsk Voivodeship Administration, county elders, magistrates, county and city courts, funds of commune administrations, police stations, funds of cultural and educational organizations, such as Prosvita, Sokil, funds of gymnasiums, seminaries and other educational institutions, documents of notaries.
Home page of the State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Region
State Archives of the Transcarpathian Region (DAZO). Unfortunately, the archive itself does not yet post documents online on its website. However, on the DAZO website in the electronic archive section you can view dozens of descriptions of various funds. Valuable are materials that have already been published online, but on third-party resources. In particular, the Hungarians scanned and posted online a unique a collection of maps from Transcarpathia (fn. 125), and also 1921 census materials. (fn. 849).