chris boyd <cboyd@telusplanet.net> wrote in article > Radciechow and Szczurowice appear on the old Austrian map to the north > of Brody. Can anyone tell me if these towns still exist, what are they > called today? And where would records, if any, have been kept? Chris-- Szczurowice is also spelled Shchurovichi, Churovishe, Shchurovitsa, or Shchurovitse depending upon who did the transliteration from the Cyrillic alphabet. It is located at 50 deg 16' N lat & 25 deg 02' E long. As for Radciechow, I'm wondering if that could be Radechiv which is NE of Lviv and NW of Brody, about where those two lines would intersect on the map. You should probably go to the following site: http://shangrila.cs.ucdavis.edu:1234/heckman/volhynia/ It's a great database of towns, with both the pre- and post-Soviet era town names. It will even do maps! I've found another site to be good as well: http://ic.net/~ggressa/ukr.html I've not yet visited (the Soviets canceled my visa in 1984, without any apparent reason, one week before my departure). My father was born in Bat'kov, later lived in Radzvilov (now Chervonoarmeysk), then studied at the Univ in L'viv before emigrating to the U.S. My dream is to visit these places within the next 3 years. Karl