My father's mother, Fanny Schapira, and her mother (Rose Ziemand Schapira), along with two of Fanny's five siblings, Josef and Anna, left Zaliztsi for New York in 1911. We know this from the manifest of the ship, the Kronprinz Wilhelm. (This German ship was converted to military use for World War I, captured by the US in 1915, and later renamed the USS Von Steuben.)
Rose's husband, Shevach (Samuel) Schapira, must have come at a different time, with their three other children, but we don't know when.
Samuel had a brother who also came. We knew him only as "Uncle."
We learned from the ship's manifest that the family came from Zaliztsi. In its last column, place of birth, the manifest says Zaloscy.
Fanny Schapira married Henry Lippman in the US. She told us she was "Austrian," by which she of course meant she came from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She said she was from Lvov. In June 2017, my wife and I went to Galicia and hoped to visit her home town, which by then we had learned was not Lviv but "nearby." It turns out to be 120 km away, and not easily reachable without a car. One has to take a bus to Ternopil and change to another bus there. We didn't have extra time, nor any contacts in Zaliztsi. We don't know the names of any ancestors of Samuel and Rose, so we really had nothing to go on. Someday I'll try to do more research on that branch of the family.
Here's some information on the meaning of the town's name, from an ethnographer we consulted:
> I saw big swamps on the maps I looked at. There is mention somewhere of the River Seret, which flows thru Zalozce, turning into a "large pond" near the town. So the town may be Za-lozha / Za-luzha, i.e. beyond the water.
Meanwhile, anyway, we loved Lviv, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Uman, and Kiev, our other stops in Ukraine.
And by the way, there is another Zaliztsi in Ukraine, in the Volyn region, 226 km to the northwest.