Bonnie Cieslukowski Weissman wrote on Friday, April 4: >Any help on the following matters would be greatly appreciated. As some >of you know, my Busia came from a Galician town called Dzikow; that >should be simple enough, but now I'm confused. I thought her town was >part of Tarnobrzeg, based on my visit to the Holocaust Museum Library >(where I looked it up in Where Once We Walked) and listings on the >Jewish cemeteries database on the net. It all seemed to add up, because >until now this was the only Dzikow I could find in what used to be >Galicia. Browsing through Mapquest the other night, I found another >Dzikow in the same general area, but this one is very close to >Prezmysl.I do know her town had a high Jewish population because she >lived on the edge of the shetl.G. Gressa of the Carpatho-Rusyn group had >also found this in one of his Galician indexes, and had e-mailed me >about it. Any ideas for searching strategies on this before I order the >LDS tapes? Bonnie- I also had this problem. I was looking for Bilka in the Ukraine and found 4. Then I realized that I should have been looking for Bilke/Bilki/Bilky (found 5 like this). At the same time I found that my father's father came to Bilki from Berezova/o (found 4 of those), and that the two towns were "not too far" from one another and both were near Chust. Using the distance function of JewishGen's Shtetl Seeker, I found the coordinates of Chust and then compared the distances between all the different Bilkis and Berezovas. I think I've got my towns now. If you can find out which large town was the closest to "your Dzikow", that would give you a starting point. (Did you ever stop to think of how many "Springfields" there are in the US? I know of 2 that are suburbs of Philadelphia!) I don't know if this helps, but I tried! Good Luck! Rhonda RCMWenner@aol.com