In article <[email protected]>, "Joe" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wrote the following note... and got the following response from John > Movius > FEEFHS Webmaster. > > Does this concur with any information any one else may have??? > > Thanks in advance... > > > My mother was born BRONISLOWA YUSKA, 10 May 23 in Chicago, Illinois USA. > > According to her birth certificate her father was JOHN YUSKA b. 1890 in > > AUSTRIA. Her Mother was HELEN BOROSKA b. 1893 in AUSTRIA. > > > > My research indicates that Lithuania, in that time period, may also be > > considered AUSTRIA, but I have no means to substanciate it. Mother, > however, > > always claimed Lithuanian decent. > > . > > Occupation, (according to my Mother's birth certificate (filed in 1923) > John > > Yuska = Laborer, Helen Boroska = Housewife > > > > Also, according to my mother's original birth certificate (filed in 1923), > > her Father & Mother's birthplace as AUSTRIA but an ammended birth > certificate > > filed around 1942 by my mother listed her father and mother's birthplace > as > > Lithuania. > > > > Thus, my mother's parents were born in Austria or Lithuania. I would tend > > to believe Austria. > > > > They were Catholic. > > > > Joe Lynn > > [email protected] (Joe) > > Please advise this person that Lithuania was in the Russian Partition of > Poland not the Austrian partition of Poland prior to WW I. The surnames > are not Lithuanian - Polish or Slovak maybe. Slovakia or Galicia are > possibilites - most likely Slovakia or Poland. She should have some > idea of the ethnic languages spoken by the ancestors. > She should contact a Slovak gen soc. and maybe a Polish G/S for help. I > will post on the Austrian research list (AURL) although it is an > Austrian Empire listing, which we don't have yet not for Austria > proper. That is all the help i can give and all the time I have to > give it. > John Movius > FEEFHS Webmaster > > Yuska (Juska) is a Lithuanian name. I have been corresponding with several Juskas in this country and over there researching this name. In fact, if you search on altavista for Lithuanian folk culture, you'll find references to a booklegger named J. Juska from around the turn of the century. (My browser has DNS fits now or i'd provide the URL. email me at dejanews and we can exchange family info. Joe Yuska -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum