Hi All, I have need of your expertise and hope that you are willing to help educate me. I have been trying to pay attention to the discussions about this southeastern portion of Poland, and I have read a good bit of history on various web pages. I want to find out more about where I should be looking for families that state they are from Wysocko, Ukraine-Poland, or Wysocko, Galicia on their ship manifests. I understand how the borders have changed over time due to wars, etc. I am trying to search for the ancestors of my 2nd cousins. Our 3 grandmothers were sisters. These women came from Parchanie, Inowroclaw, Poland and went to Crompton, RI. One sister married a man named Havrylo/Gabryl Szelest. Another sister married a man named Tadej/Tadeusz Zommer. I have been researching my own grandmother and grandfather for the past 4 years and have traced back to ~1700 on their ancestors in towns in northern Poland. Now I want to help my cousins research their grandfathers. I want to be sure I am looking in the correct place. Havrylo Szelest was born 13 Dec 1878 in Wysocko. He was the first husband of Pelagia. This branch of the family reports that Havrylo/Gabryl Szelest died ~1919 and Pelagia married the brother, Stefan Szelest. Stefan Szelest was born in Wysocko ~ 1895 according to his ship manifest, but the family is not sure of this, nor do they have any papers from Stefan Szelest. These brother list their parents' names as Thomas and Mary Szelest from Wysocko, Austria. On various documents the brothers report: Ukraine, or Galicia, or Austria. I do understand why. Somehow I suspect these brothers are also related to Mikolaj Szelest and Paraska Szelest (who are brother & sister) found on ship manifests, who came from Wysocko and who lived in Crompton, RI. The other sister married Tadej/Tadeusz Zommer. He was born 18 Sep 1881 in Wysocko. This branch of the family reports that they always had to celebrate Greek Catholic Christmas for their grandfather at his insistence. Tadej had brothers Prokop/Reler, Benjamin, and another one. On the LDS site I find microfilms for Wysocko (Brody), Wysocko Wyzne (Borynia), and Wysocko Nizne (Borynia). If I am lucky, I may only be able to find the birth record for Havrylo/Gabryl Szelest in 1878 on LDS film 2010583 Item 4 or maybe Item 6. Do you think I will find him there? Am I looking in the right place? How and where can we write to request the birth records for the grandfathers in 1881 and 1895? Thank you in advance for any help you can be. Bobbi McCaffrey (100% Polish, just hiding behind this Irish name :)

You want the LDS FHL Wysocko (Borynia) records. Wysocko is Polish place name for Vysits'ko which was comprised of mostly Rusyn/Ukrainian people. _______ Lavrentiy Krupniak Raven Fan wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have need of your expertise and hope that you are willing to help educate > me. I have been trying to pay attention to the discussions about this > southeastern portion of Poland, and I have read a good bit of history on > various web pages. I want to find out more about where I should be looking > for families that state they are from Wysocko, Ukraine-Poland, or Wysocko, > Galicia on their ship manifests. I understand how the borders have changed > over time due to wars, etc. > > I am trying to search for the ancestors of my 2nd cousins. Our 3 > grandmothers were sisters. These women came from Parchanie, Inowroclaw, > Poland and went to Crompton, RI. One sister married a man named > Havrylo/Gabryl Szelest. Another sister married a man named Tadej/Tadeusz > Zommer. I have been researching my own grandmother and grandfather for the > past 4 years and have traced back to ~1700 on their ancestors in towns in > northern Poland. Now I want to help my cousins research their grandfathers. > I want to be sure I am looking in the correct place. > > Havrylo Szelest was born 13 Dec 1878 in Wysocko. He was the first husband > of Pelagia. This branch of the family reports that Havrylo/Gabryl Szelest > died ~1919 and Pelagia married the brother, Stefan Szelest. > > Stefan Szelest was born in Wysocko ~ 1895 according to his ship manifest, > but the family is not sure of this, nor do they have any papers from Stefan > Szelest. > > These brother list their parents' names as Thomas and Mary Szelest from > Wysocko, Austria. > > On various documents the brothers report: Ukraine, or Galicia, or Austria. > I do understand why. > > Somehow I suspect these brothers are also related to Mikolaj Szelest and > Paraska Szelest (who are brother & sister) found on ship manifests, who came > from Wysocko and who lived in Crompton, RI. > > The other sister married Tadej/Tadeusz Zommer. He was born 18 Sep 1881 in > Wysocko. This branch of the family reports that they always had to > celebrate Greek Catholic Christmas for their grandfather at his insistence. > Tadej had brothers Prokop/Reler, Benjamin, and another one. > > On the LDS site I find microfilms for Wysocko (Brody), Wysocko Wyzne > (Borynia), and Wysocko Nizne (Borynia). If I am lucky, I may only be able > to find the birth record for Havrylo/Gabryl Szelest in 1878 on LDS film > 2010583 Item 4 or maybe Item 6. Do you think I will find him there? > > Am I looking in the right place? > > How and where can we write to request the birth records for the grandfathers > in 1881 and 1895? > > Thank you in advance for any help you can be. > > Bobbi McCaffrey (100% Polish, just hiding behind this Irish name :) > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, Here are the URLs of the Szelest and Zommer pages that name Wysocko as their town of origin in Ukraine-Poland. Hawrylo/Gabryl Szelest 1905 Line 5 http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=8679&iid=MDT844_47-0930&fn=Hawrylo&ln=Szelest&st=r&ssrc=&pid=415212 Paraska Szelest Line 28 http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=8679&iid=MDT844_51-0503&fn=Paranka&ln=Szelest&st=r&ssrc=&pid=288314 Mykola Szelest Line 16 http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_1776-0405&fn=Mykola&ln=Szelest&st=r&ssrc=&pid=4008895520 Stefan Szelest Line 12 http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_2059-0253&fn=Stefan&ln=Szelest&st=r&ssrc=&pid=4041672625 Tadeusz Zommer Line 15 http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=8679&iid=MDT844_35-0736&fn=Tadinsz&ln=Zommer&st=r&ssrc=&pid=161678 Thank you for looking at these Bobbi

RavenFan: Have you looked at the two Szelest passport applications on Ancestry? They don't appear to be from this village or Rhode Island, but you are scooping up all Szelest. Teodor's has two letters from Poland attached which BEG him to come home and help on the farm in 1921. Just an FYI. PolishDragon@att.net