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Library Holdings

Library Collection

Our library collection, consisting of over 300 titles, is housed in the 5th-floor Atrium of the University of Winnipeg Library and is open to the public. As it is a non-lending library, you can be sure that our holdings will be available when you visit. Photocopying and free scanning facilities are available nearby.

Library staff can provide directional assistance in locating materials in the collection, but questions as to their content and use should be directed to the East European Genealogical Society

The holdings of the collection are listed by author, title, subject, and other attributes in the downloadable PDF catalogue of EEGS Library Holdings (2015). A complete list of our holdings is available in the online catalogue of the University of Winnipeg Library website using a keyword search.

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Search tip: To refine the search to include a particular word found in the title, add the Boolean operator “AND” to the search box at the top of the page followed by your word(s) of interest.

Before you visit:

Map Collection

The EEGS map collection is located in the Map Library at the University of Winnipeg and comprises three series of maps:

  • Generalkarte von Mitteleuropa [General Map of Central Europe] (1:200,000), 223 maps - these maps cover most of central and eastern Europe. The eastern extent is a north-sound line that runs roughly from Žlobin, Belarus in the north through Kyiv, Ukraine down to Odessa in the south.
  • Karte des Deutschen Reiches [Map of the German Empire] (1:100,000), 59 maps - these maps cover northern Poland, part of Lithuania, and the area formerly known as East Germany.
  • Ukraina Oblast Topograficheskaia Karta [Topographical Map: Ukrainian Oblasts] (1:200,000), 25 maps - these maps cover all of Ukraine and the immediate edges of bordering countries.
Partial display of the EEGS map collection
Close-up showing the labels of the EEGS map library drawers

Additional individual maps include:

  • Roztocze: mapa topographiczno - turystyczna (a topographical map of the present day Poland- Ukraine border region) 1:200,000 scale
  • Carpatho-Rusyn Settlement Map 1:355,000 scale
  • Przemyśl, Plan miasta (city map of Przemyśl)
  • Judaicow w Polsce (Judaica in Poland)
  • Eastern Europe 1915, map reprint. Drawn by the cartographer G. Peltier. 18" x 24"
  • A New Map of Germany Divided Into Its Circles 1805, map reprint. Drawn by Thomas Jeffries 18ʺ x 24ʺ
  • • A large sized map of former Galicia, Ethnic Groups of the South-Western Ukraine (Halyčyna- Galicia), compiled by Volodymyr Kubijovyč illustrates the ethnic composition of all the villages in former Galicia and is shelved with our book collection rather than in the Map Room.