Hi, ... One possibility worth investigating is that this refers to a place in Kielce gubernia (province), which was in Russian Poland. I can't think of any...
If "Kiel" is abbreviated or truncated, then why not "Sabordash" as well? If such is the case, then Zaborowice Duz~e located about 17 miles NNW of Kielce...
Hi, Dennis Benarz wroteL ... It's worth a try! That would at least account for the "-dash" part, phonetically speaking. Once you realize a name has been...
Hello Sylvia, On the "Ukrainian Road Atlas" at: http://lemko.org/atlas/atlas.html Zburazh is located in map grid 10-A1 and it is within Belarus. The dark line...
"Goleowa" is Golcowa. Golcowa was in Galicia's Brzozow district. Now you can see if LDS FHL has microfilms and check Polish State Archives website to see what...
... Ukrainians from Poland had their surnames spelled in Polish for Poles and Austrians couldn't understand cyrillic and Poles and Austrians were the...
... on his family. The information has, "Sabordash, Kiel Province, Russia". And .... do not bother to reply to this, as I will only ignore your message. You...
Near Kielce perhaps one of the following places is "Sabordash": Zagórze 50°51'N 20°40'E E M U Poland 1.2 miles N Zagrody 50°50'N 20°32'E E M U Poland...
Irene, It seems the DNA results even with 64 markers would be so general that it would not help locate a specific "common progenitor." How do you mean that?...
... was ... able transcribe most of it, what I couldn't I had a local Cannon Law Priest fill in the blanks for me as my Latin from High School was rusty. I...
Oklahoma Internment Camp I have just been reading in a German-Russian Genealogy periodical about the US Internment Camp in Oklahoma for Germans and Italians. ...
Hello Sonia, In the US during WWI, Germans who were alien residents (i.e. not US citizens) had to register as "enemy aliens" and some were interned. I do not...
Italian WWI state of war declarations: May 23, 1915 Declared war on Austria-Hungary August 21, 1915 Declared war on Turkey October 19, 1915 Declared war on...
Great Britain (incl. Canada) WWI state of war declarations: August 4, 1914 Declared war on Germany August 12, 1914 Declared war on Austria-Hungary November 5,...
From: http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/pov/pov4.html [At the outbreak of hostilities between Austria-Hungary and Tsarist Russia, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop...
There is some mention of Oklahoma having German prisoner of war camps: http://okielegacy.org/WWIIpowcamps/powcamp2.html Mary ... All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up...
Hello Michael, Suffix -cki is like suffix -ski. Those two suffixes exhibit a hereditary relationship to a feature/trait/characteristic/etc. of the person that...
During WWI in the US, the Polish, Italian, and "Ruthenian" Ukrainian lobbying groups were very effective in stalling the bill's progress through Congressional...
Hi, ... This is all basically true. However, sometimes surnames that can theoretically mean several things have one primary association. According to Polish...
In Canada the situation was very different as most Austrian-Hungarians were settled in western Canada where the new immigrants made up a large propotion of...
Dear Dennis, Thanks again. I believe the name Zwionzek is correct. I looked at ellisisland.org. There is a couple who immigrated in 1913: Stefan Zwionzek,...
I have just received the daily digest, and there are no messages. The is not the first time; is there some sort of problem? When I looked at the messages on...
Hi, ... I'd say ZWIONZEK is likely to be correct -- which is, in turn, a phonetic rendering of the name Poles usually spell ZWIAZEK. The key is, that A is not ...
