Hi Tracy,
The bullet point above, about "
records may be held by a synagogue or church" was my transcript from your message on the 2014 forum that I linked to. I personally would suppose a synagogue over a church - but you'd have to research the political & religious 'atmosphere' of the place and times to know if that is a reasonable line of enquiry. All sorts of laws & oppressions may have been occurring at those times that determined how/where/what records were kept.
Being Jewish and from Lviv/Lemberg - which is the same place - not only do you have the blurred lines of nationality or allegiance, you have the dual consideration of religion. .... How were the Jewish population of Lviv treated at that time? What places of worship did they have? Then you have the language barrier (if you don't speak the local language) - right now it's the Cyrillic alphabet on the maps linked to on Galicia site; Lviv is presently part of the Ukraine. I understand the Jewish population of Lviv didn't fare well in WW2 either, so would imagine actual places of Jewish worship and their religious records, might not have survived - just my guess.
So you could battle all those obstacles but my suggestion would be to contact the Lviv Archives. There's a lot of information on that Galicia site to work through and read and digest, to help you make your way. Even contact the Galicia site owners themselves to ask if they can point you in the right direction or advise what more you might hope to find aside from what they indexed online. For example, asking the question of what a Synagogue or Jewish Committee, or local civil office in 1857 would have collected in relation to a birth record of a Jewish child.
Also, from the 'House Number' indexed for each record - for Isumer Hersh KARP it was
103 2/4, you can identify the District (precinct) of Lviv they were living at when the births occurred. That will help you too narrow down areas.
As far as I can work out, for:
Lviv Jewish Birth Records (1805-1872) - which are held at :
The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
Their contact information here:
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.phphttp://tsdial.archives.gov.ua/ (use the google translate toolbar if need be to get the gist of things)Cheers
AMBLY