FHL Greek catholic records from Munkacs diocese

[kika3_au]

I have located the Greek catholic records from Mukachevo diocese that FHL filmed from the Ukraine state archives. The titles are in Cyrillic and I translated these into English. Unfortunately no place names are given. As there are 1036 films in the parish registers, it is difficult to know where to start!

Does anyone know which locaities are associated with each film number? Has anyone ordered any films from FHL and can tell me which towns the fill referred to?

Catherine

[Jiggy]

What is FHL? I have only ordered films from what I refer to as LDS (Latter Day Saints). Are you talking the same thing? Maybe it would be easier to order through LDS as you can order by searching out village name to get the film number that you need?

Curious to know more about FHL if it is different than LDS?

Sandra

[kika3_au]

Hi
FHL stands for Family History Library which is the website run by the LAtter day Saints. They are one and the same. So have you ordered any films? what nilm numbers did you order?

[Jiggy]

I don't have the information handy. Basically when you go to thier website www.familysearch.org click on catelog and search by place names. I always start with "Ukraine" and then the village name. When you start typing the village names the menu drops down and starts to show you village names.

When searching for you village keep in mind that the search function does not cross reference village names from Polish version to Ukrainian name of the village. I have found some recoreds under the Polish name of the village and others under the Ukrainian name. Be sure you have the correct village, oblast and district. There can be many villages with the same name so be certain which one is yours. Second, keep looking if at first you do not succeed. I could not locate one village until someone else found it for me (on this forum). The village name misspelled on the website.

Hope that helps. You do need the film number but first you need the village name. Do you know which village you need?

Sandra

[kika3_au]

Hi Sandra,
Thanks for your advice, I have used your technique for finding records within Hungary and Slovakia.

Unfortunately I have looked at the titles of each of the films title in the grk Catholic Mukachevo records and none of the film titles list the locality of the records. Furthermore they are all written in Cyrillic.. Only a few districts are listed in LDS for the Zakarpatska area: Mukacheve, Uzhgorod, Khust and Berehove. Both Mukacheve and Uzhgorod both lead to the above mentoned records written in Cyrillic and it is not possible to further refine the data by village name.

This is why I was curious to know if any of your readers had ordered any of these microfilms from LDS and if anyone has any idea how they are organised.

If anyone is interested in the ZaKarpatska region in the Ukraine and would like to collaborate with me to pool our information on these Mukachevo Greek Catholic records, please contact me on kika3_au@yahoo.com.au

I suspect it may be a long time before LDS transcribes these records and to make use of the records and find out what localities they refer to we will need to order a few records on an ad hoc basis.

Catherine

[Jiggy]

Catherine, that is too bad. I know LDS has many films that are waiting to be indexed to their site. If I knew how to read the language I would volunteer to help them out. Sadly, I do not. (Hoping to learn though).

Good Luck.

Sandra