Joe, I can't think of many people I would trust more than those at FEEFHS. I'd go with the information. Joe 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