Bill,
I am so sorry your inquiry took so long to answer. Vasylkivtsy was pretty
easy, but Sokal was a toughie. I have finally found what you need.
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From late 18th century to 1919 wies/village, Wasylkowce, was
predominantly a Ruthenian/Ukrainian village w/its own Greek
Catholic church. The filial Roman Catholic church was in Husyatyn.
Husyatyn was both the powiat/administrative district and the gmina/
judicial-tax district > Tarnopolskie wojiwodstwo/region > Galicia/Halyczyna
Province, administered by ethnic Poles for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1919-1939 this region came under Reconstituted Poland's domain. Technically
Poland had not existed as a geopolitical entity for the previous 125 yrs.
All previous names, except Halyczyna are transliterated from Polish. Post WW2
this region became a part of SSR Ukraine, under Soviet domain, until 1991 when
Ukraine became independent.
Address for Village Administrator:
Holovi Silskoji Rady
selo Vasylkivtsy
Husyatynskij raion
Ternopilska oblast
Ukraine 48257
It seems that LDS has not filmed the GC records for your ancestral
village.
Those can probably be obtained thru oblast archives.
State Archives of Ternopil Oblast
[Derzhavnyi arkhiv Ternopilskoi oblasti]
14 Sahaidachnoho st.,
46001 Ternopil
Tel: (03522) 52-24-40, 52-26-18;
Fax: (0352) 52-26-18
E-mail:
dato_bogs@tr.ukrtel.net
Working hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30-17:15
If you do not speak Ukrainian, consider getting yourself some
local help. Vitalij, a scholar in Boston, has a close friend, Ihor,
from Ternopil. Ihor has recently written a book re Ukrainian
families in the region. He has done extensive research for
several of our members and comes w/exc references. Rates
for translation and research are very reasonable. Additionally,
Ihor also is very familiar w/both the various archives in Ternopil
and the historical archives in Lviv.
vivandr@brandeis.edu
He is also very good at getting around the RAHS/district archives.
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Bare in mind that immigrants frequently referred to their GMINA, judicial-tax district,
as place of origin for geographical reasons, because their own villages were small.
Where did Tekla and her brother, Nicholas (more likely originally
Mykola/Mykolaj), settle upon immigration? Their marriage certificates
might prove helpful. Greek Catholic Church Records are quite detailed.
They should tell you where Tekla and Mykola were born.
I suspect that Grandmother's family was from wies Parczacz, which was hamlet sized.
Both the filial Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic Churches were in Krystynopol, appx 3.5 miles
NNE of ancestral Parczacz. Krystynopol's name was changed to Chervonograd in 1953. Today
it is a town of appx 85,000 people and is called Chervonohrad in Ukrainian. It is a center for mining.
Sokal was both the powiat and gmina > Lwowskie wojiwodstwo > Galicia/Halyczyna > Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This region was bordered by the Russian Empire (Vohlynskaya gubernia/region) at the time.
TODAY Parczacz is called selo/village
Mezhyrichia (means between two rivers) > Sokalskij raion > Lvivska oblast >
Ukraine, 80084.
I would also have someone local check the White Pages in Chervonohrad for your surnames??? Many villagers have
migrated to larger towns for economic reasons.