Thanks Robert. The links will be really useful Let me know if I can help you in any way. Andy Kowaluk "Robert Jerin" <rjerin@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:5kzMa.22580$Jw6.9440059@news1.news.adelphia.net... > > "Andy Kowaluk" <akowaluk@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message > news:3f02a46e$0$30823$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... > > Thanks Robert, > > > > The village of origin was Kostomloty near Koden in what is now Easter > > Found no Easter Poland but there is Ostre 196 miles SSW of Warsaw > > There are also several places called Kostomloty in present day Poland. > > > Poland. My father Wiktor was born there in 1926. He was sent to Germany as > a > > slave labourer in 1944 and migrated to Australia in 1950. > > This is the type of info that is important to include when you post a query. > My earlier info was mistakenly based on the typical family researcher whose > G Parents or GGP immigrated to the US around 1900. No problem with me > wasting my time, BUT for the sake of your research you need to inc anything > that will narrow your search. You never know when someone who has info from > your father's area will be lurking! > > Records from many churches in that part of Europe are available for rent at > a LDS Church (Mormon) Family History Center near you. Here is what I got > when I searched for Kostomloty at the LDS web page > > Place search results > Poland, Lublin, Kostomloty (Biala Podlaska) > Poland, Wroclaw, Kostomloty (Sroda Slaska > > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp > > Also I am fairly certain that Australia arrivals of post WW II ships is > available. > > http://www.naa.gov.au/Publications/fact_sheets/FS86.html > > > > > > I have some information about him and his past. Wouldf I would also like > is > > some info about his parents. They married in Siberia where his > grandparents > > had been exiled. I don't know the name of the village but am told it was > > near Omsk. Is there anyway to refine my search? > > Omsk 1,390 miles ENE of Moscow > > http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Andy Kowaluk > > > > > > "Hugh Watkins" <hugh_watkins@net.dialog.dk> wrote in message > > news:bdtc6c$10e6cb$1@ID-71976.news.dfncis.de... > > > > > > "Robert Jerin" <rjerin@adelphia.net> wrote > > > > > > snip > > > > > > > > > > > What is the village of origin? > > > > > > > > FYI in the late 1700s Poland was split 3 ways with the west going to > > > > Prussia, the south to Austria (known as Galicia) and the east to > Russia. > > > > After WW I Galicia was split in 2 with the west going to Poland and > the > > east > > > > to Ukraine. > > > > > > > > Once the village of origin is determined then you can begin to get > some > > real > > > > information? The LDS Church (Mormon) has thousands of microfilm > parish > > > > records > > > snip > > > > > > use library search > > > > > > place search > > > > > > but many villages have to or three names > > > > > > so find some old maps > > > > > > eg http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=galicia+digital+map > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~atpc/research/map-library.html > > > > > > > > > big and slow > > > > > > > > > enjoy > > > > > > > > > Hugh W > > > > > > > > > > > >