Archives in Mosyska or Lviv

[Vlodko_D]

Hello All,

We're in midst of writing a letter to our Uncle who lives in Sambor, on whether or not he'll go to the Archive offices in both Mosyska and / or Lviv, on our behalf. I'd like to find out what information he needs in order that he be successful in requesting information from these Archive offices.

Also, what sort of information is available from these offices?

If there are only birth/death certificates there, what difference is there between those and the records I've been able to obtain through the Church of Latter Day Saints Family History Library for the village of 'Hankovichi'?

....Vlodko Dziuba

[Hannia]

LDS films generally predate 1870/80's. For closer to turn of the century, most Western Ukrainian villages have not been filmed yet. Records under 75 yrs are in District Archives/RAHS.

Make sure to read thru.
Archives of Ukraine - Questions and Answers
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/q-a.php

The Address for Mostyska RAHS (District Civil Registration Archives) follows.

RAHS
v. Hrushevskoho, 6
m. Mostyska
UA 81300

It has been my experience that GREASING PALMS IS VERY HELPFUL to obtaining access to village church logs in the District Archives. That is if they are still there and they could very well be.

Otherwise you will have to obtain privacy releases etc.

In previous post I wrote that your Grandfather would have had to register at District Office when he arrived on the Ukraine SSR side. Make sure that clerk at Archives understands to check for both Hankovichi and Myshljatychi. Hopefully those records should provide you w/Grandfather's place of origin on the Poland side.
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[Hannia]

<Thus, on September 9. 1944, Poland and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on population transfers. According to this agreement. "people of Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian, and Rusyn nationality" living in postwar-Poland should be "evacuated"' to the Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Belorussia; in return, Poles and Jews in the Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Belorussia should be repatriated to Poland. Although this movement was to be voluntary, many people were strongly pressured and even forced to move eastward by local Polish officials and armed vigilante groups still active in the immediate postwar period.

As a result, between the spring of 1945 and early summer of 1946, an estimated 130.000 inhabitants from the Lemko Region were settled in the Soviet Ukraine. The highest percentage of these were from the eastern Sanok and Lisko districts, where the population had generally come to identity itself as Ukrainian, and from the Jaslo and Krosno districts (near the Dukla Pass) which had suffered much destruction in the closing months of the war. This meant that about 35.000 Lemkos-generally those who rejected identification as Ukrainians-remained in their native villages, most especially in the western Lemko Region.>

The Lemko Rusyns: Their Past and Present
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/lemkos/lemkos2.htm

[Vlodko_D]

Thank you Hannia for your constant help.

.....Vlodko Dziuba

[Hannia]

I found this to be a well written, informative article. Thought u might find it interesting as well.

http://www.interklasa.pl/portal/doku...a_polska_2.htm