Help with birth place in Ukraine

[smpanko]

I have a birth certificate that I am not sure of where the person is born in Ukraine. The certificate says that Alexander Gresiuk's parents were farmers in Moszkow. But it looks like the birth certificate gives the place of birth as Szmitkow. I am trying to find out where in Ukraine Alexander's family came from. He was married to my husband's gr-aunt in Sebechiv, Ukraine in 1910. When he came to Canada in 1927 he gave his place of birth as Moszkow but does it match his birth certificate. I am confused. Where are these places? Can anyone help? I have attached a copy of Alexander's birth certificate (I hope I did this right)

Thank you.

Sharon

[Hannia]

Welcome Sharon,

Your ancestors would have referred to themselves as Halyczany.

From late 18th century to 1919 wies/village Moszkow was hamlet
size. Sokal was both the POWIAT/adm district-county and the
GMINA/judicial-tax district. The filial Roman Catholic Church was
in Warez and the filial Greek Catholic Church was in Szmitkow.
(The Archdiocese for Szmitkow was in Przemysl > SE Poland today.)
This was the Galician/Halyczyna Province, under administration of ethnic
Poles for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From 1919-1939
this region became a part of Reconstituted Poland. Technically Poland
had not existed as a geopolitical entity for the previous 125 yrs.
Post WW2 it was incorporated into SSR Ukraine, under Soviet
domain until 1991, when Ukraine became independent.

Austro-Hungarian Galizien Map.
On the top border go to 50' . Right beneath you will find all
the villages you have mentioned. This is appx 6 miles due
West of Sokal > NW Ukraine, pretty close to current Polish border.
Notice Siebieczow (Sebechiv) is due SW.
http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/42-50.jpg

Today Moszkow is called selo/village Huta (Гута in Ukr) >
Sokalskij (Sokal) raion/district > Lvivska (Lviv) oblast/region >
Ukraine, latest zip code 80042.

LDS has not filmed church records for Smytkow/Shmitkiv.

PS> It is very probable you still have family residing in the immediate area???

[smpanko]

Thank you Hannia. The link to the map was most helpful. It helps to know we are looking in the right place.