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Broad project to list European immigrants from any European country. From any European country and any date (Century). Everyone is welcome to collaborate and add more profiles.
Ukraine FamilySearch Genealogy Research Groups are resources where individuals can post specific genealogical questions or translation requests regarding a country or region in the world. The community consists of individuals who wish to collaborate and help one another find answers. To find a research group, you can go to one of two places: 1. FamilySearch Community: found on the FamilySearch ...
❢IMPORTANT❢==Do not start adding random people to this project. It helps nobody and will quickly turn it into some sort of flame-war regarding who belongs and who doesn't. Please read the goal of the project below. After you understand what the project is about and you want to add relevant people, please make sure that you inform Volodya Mozhenkov , so that profiles are not duplicated.==About==...
To the project Family Roots in Ukraine you can connect profiles of persons who have family roots in Ukraine. The purpose of this project is also to link such information, which could help to find Ukrainian relatives from archives and other resources. Genealogical research in the areas of present-day Germany, Poland and Ukraine is influenced by historical events that have taken place over the c...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION GRanDMA refers to the Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry GRanDMA contains genealogical information on individuals, most of whose ancestral lines can be traced to Mennonite and Hutterite communities in Prussia (now Poland) and South Russia (now Ukraine). It is the product of collecting and merging data from thousands of family histories, church records, ...
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century until 1795, when its territory was occupied by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania included the lands of much of the former Kievan Rus and other neighboring states, including present-day Lithuania , Belarus , most of Ukraine , and parts of...
Volhynia ( Polish: Wołyń, Ukrainian: Волинь, romanized: Volyń, French: La Volhynie, Latin Lodomérie ), is a historic region in Central and Eastern Europe, situated between south-eastern Poland, south-western Belarus, and western Ukraine. While the borders of the region are not clearly defined, the territory that still carries the name is Volyn Oblast, located in western Ukraine. Volhynia has ch...
Lutsk is a city in Volhynia, the Ukraine and is situated on the river Styr, 470 km from Kyiv.During World War I the Jews suffered both from the armies and from war devastation, as the town changed hands several times and was occupied by Russian and German troops.Between the world wars the Lutsk community led a rich religious and cultural life as well as several social and medical organizations,...
This is a project for Jewish families from the town of Radomyshl (Yiddish: ראַדאָמישל, Russian: Радомышль, Ukrainian: Радомишль) in what is now the Zhytomyr Oblast of Ukraine. Before the establishment of the modern state of Ukraine, the town was part of the Kiev Governate of the Russian Empire, and later the Zhytomyr Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR. Radomyshl is situated on the left bank of Teteriv...
The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. They were soon join...
Ukrainian Coffee Corner about Ukraine languages Romanian Belarusian Bulgarian Crimean Tatar Gagauz Greek Hebrew Hungarian Polish Russian Slovak Yiddish Generally we would like you to discuss matters in English, but if you want/like/need a conversation in your own dialect or language, please use a distinguised discussion-line, so others can follow just the En...
The gentry of: the Principality of Halych ('Red Ruthenia') of the Kievan Rus' (1124-1199) and its predecessors the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia (1199-1340) the territory divided between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the Galicia-Volhynia Wars (1340-1392) the Belz ( województwo bełskie ) and Ruthenian voivodeships ( województwo ruskie ), of the Polis...
Tracing the roots of the Mennonites and Hutterites who moved from German speaking lands, including modern day Germany, Austria, Hungary and Poland to Russia (modern day Ukraine), where they lived for about a century before coming to America and Canada. Includes direct ancestors shortly before the move to Russian controlled lands (1650) and direct ancestors up to about 1950 of those who arrived ...
Trying to gather all my royal ancestors in one place. Direct ancestors only. William Henry Whiting was a descendant of King James II, King Charles 1st, 2nd. learnt Urdu from From Abdul Karim (the Munshi) scribe to queen. He grew up at Windsor Castle Victoria. HE was relatedto Prince Francis Teck, princess Mary Adelaide who from evidence they knew personally. He worked on the state Coach His ...
This project aims to compile the names of all the Jewish citizens of Uzhhorod. Uzhhorod (Russian: Uzhgorod, Czech: Užhorod, Hungarian: Ungvár) is a city in western Ukraine. It is situated along the Uzh River just east of the Slovak border. For centuries Uzhhorod has been an important cultural, educational, religious, and economic centre of the Carpathian Mountains region. It was founded in th...
This project is to bring people with common Ukrainian connections. Due to the difficulty of searching for Eastern European records, it is a benefit for all of us with ties to Ukraine to have a resource like this for additional help. >> Any links, stories or historical references are welcome. * Jewish Records of Odessa, Ukraine * Jewish Ukraine * YIVO Archives re Ukraine * Ukrainian Jews' Fate I...
The Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories the Jewish community flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions.Jews have been present in contemporary Armenia and Georgia since the Babylonian captivity. Records exist from the 4th century showing that there were Armenian cities...
This project is an "Umbrella Project" for all of the Jewish Communities of Galicia (now Western Ukraine and Southeastern Poland). See the examples for Krakow , Lemberg , Przemyśl , Tarnopol , and Tarnow . and Daleshowa ( Jewish Communities (Shtetls) of Ukraine )>Please feel free to add more towns or create town projects for these towns and add them to this page. Then add public profiles to the ...
The Lviv Ghetto or the Lwów Ghetto (also known as Lvov or Lemberg Ghetto , Polish: getto lwowskie) was a World War II ghetto set up in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) on the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland. It was one of the largest Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany after the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland. The city was a home to o...
Transnistria was a geographic freak, but a historic reality. The name was coined by the Fascists to designate a territory of about 16,000 square miles, designated for the annihilation of Jews deported from Romania. It was an area situated in south-western Ukraine, between the River Dniester to the west, the River Bug to the east, the Black Sea to the south, and a line beyond the city of Moghile...
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century).[10][11] Important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, arose there. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes Europe's thi...
Ukrainian Brazilians (Portuguese: Ucraino-brasileiro, Ucraniano-brasileiro; Ukrainian: Українські бразильці, Ukrayins'ki Brazyl'tsi) are Brazilian citizens born in Ukraine, or Brazilians of Ukrainian descent who remain connected, in some degree, to Ukrainian culture. In 1994, 400,000 people of Ukrainian descent lived in Brazil, 80% (or approximately 350,000) of whom lived in a compact region a...
Croatian Emigration indicates that of the Croatians who were reported to have "emigrated", at least 30% eventually returned to their homeland. Hrvati izvan domovine / Croatians outside the homeland Adresar trgovaca, obrtnika i drugih uglednijih pripadnika iz Hrvatske, Dalmacije i Istre nastanjenih u Americi, Africi, Aziji i Australiji iz popis hrvatskih družtava i hrvatskih novina u Ameri...
=Background== Kolomea (or Kolomyya; Pol., Kołomyja; Ger., Kolomea, Colomea), city on the Prut River in Ukraine. Jews first settled in Kołomea, then part of Poland, at about the turn of the sixteenth century. Although many were murdered and the community was destroyed during the Khmel’nyts’kyi massacres of 1648–1649, the Jewish population quickly reestablished itself and numbered more than 1,000...
=Jewish Community of Brody= In celebration of the town of Brody , Austria, present day Ukraine, and the people who came from there, particularly those who died in the Holocaust. A city, where wisdom and wealth, Torah and understanding, commerce and faith are united - Nachman Krochmal , in a letter to Isaac Erter 1961 Please add your ancestors or heroes from Brody to the project. You can do so b...