There are six places in Galicia with the name Olchowiec.... four are now in Ukraine. Deb, provide a link to the manifest record so that it can be examined. _______ Lavrentiy Owner, Yahoo Groups Galicia Forum at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GaliciaPoland-Ukraine/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GALICIA] "Newbie" has questions Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:42:14 -0500 From: The Newcoms <debandkyle@live.com> Reply-To: galicia@rootsweb.com To: <galicia@rootsweb.com> Hi everyone, I hope you can point me in the right direction. Bear with me, I am very new at this! My grandfather's family (Wosachlo) is from Olchowiec, as I found from ship manifests, and I was able to narrow it down to six Olchowiec villages. The family is also listed as being from Galicia so after some research I was able to narrow it down to two. The first is in the administrative district of Gmina Czarna in Bieszczady county in the Subcarpathian voivodeship and the other is Gmina Dukla in Krosno county, same voivodeship. I have absloutely nothing to go on from my family, everyone is deceased that would have any knowledge at all. I was able to locate some churches in the Dukla area but that is where my trouble lies. I found the archdioscese for Liblin which says it includes Dukla, but that voivodeship is for another village called Olchowiec. I assume there were no churches in the village since my reasearch shows anywhere from 400 people to 10 people in each village. Can anyone out there point me in the right direction? Thank you for any direction! Deb