Hello Mary and Ellyn, All the information gathered needs to be examined more closely. There is a Volovets in Transcarpathian Ukraine (formerly Hungarian territory)... this matches the information on the manifest that Mary found. But, there is also a Volovets (Wolowiec) in Galicia. _______ Lavrentiy Krupniak http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Galicia_Poland-Ukraine/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [GALICIA] FILL Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:20:25 -0500 From: Mary Snow <marysnow@bellsouth.net> Reply-To: galicia@rootsweb.com To: galicia@rootsweb.com References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAx53kQhYfvkuMwOhuaHzUwMKAAAAQAAAAph38I9Tam0iIpP3wwbHvbAEAAAAA@verizon.net> <4942E6C6.B15BDA6@erols.com><003401c95d51$7641d5d0$62c58170$@com> Ellyn, You've done a tremendous amount of worthwhile research! To confirm, I note that Andrew's manifest shows him being Hungarian Ruthenian; town name Wolowice. There must be an interesting history for the town, since Russian was their mother tongue. : ) http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=102167020970 First Name: Andreas Last Name: Fyl Ethnicity: Hungarian, Ruthenian Last Place of Residence: Wolowice Date of Arrival: Jan 04, 1906 Age at Arrival: 19y Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Francesca Port of Departure: Trieste Manifest Line Number: 0010 Regards, Mary Ellyn wrote: > Starting to make the leap into a region that I know little about to try to > locate/confirm parents and learn more about Galicia and the lives of our > ancestors. The little I know is below and would appreciate any direction > that the learned people on this list can share. > Andrew (Andro) Fill born: 10 December 1886 > Brothers: Peter (Petro) Fill born: 15 June 1884 and Harry (Hritz) Fill born: > 01 May 1979 > Copy of Declaration of Intention (January 17, 1914) immigration papers in > file (#15116 - Ohio - Cuyahoga County). > Emigrated to USA from Trieste, Austria on the vessel Francesca. Arrived > Port of New York January 4, 1906. > June 5th, 1917 Andro registered for the draft for World War I. Form > indicated that he was born in Volovec Austria. > 1920 census states that both Andrew and Mary's parents were born in Galicia > and their "tongue" was Russian. > Brother Peter's WWII Draft registration card indicates place of birth as > Wolawecs, Poland. > All lived in Cleveland, OH and worshipped at St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox > Church > Harry's death certificate had parents as Theodore Fill and Rose Bibel - no > other corroborating information or details. > Thank you. > Ellyn Hayes Fill > Marietta, GA > ellynf@mindspring.com > Researching Fill and Horbal > > ********************************* 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