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