"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 > > > > > >