Hello Frank Jacobs, Staraya Ushitsa is situated by Kamenez-Podolskyi on Ukraine. There is the third hypotese: ancestors of that person from Staraya Ushitsa chanded their place of residence in every generation ..:-( Sunday, September 9, 2007, 12:03:42 PM, you wrote: gvrrc> Message: 1 gvrrc> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:34:27 -0500 gvrrc> From: "frank jacobs" <fjacobs@cox.net> gvrrc> Subject: [GV] Migration map, Ukraine question. gvrrc> To: "List" <Ger-Volga-L@rootsweb.com> gvrrc> Message-ID: <000801c7f1fb$7370dc10$6400a8c0@YOUR7B9DABC953> gvrrc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" gvrrc> Greetings, gvrrc> Can somebody tell me where I can locate the German migrations gvrrc> to Russia map on line? gvrrc> I have it somewhere in my "non filing" system. gvrrc> I have been notified by FamilytreemakerDNA that my ancestor of the period of the Wars of Religion gvrrc> shares ancestry at the 25 marker level with a person who migrated from Staraya Ushitsa, Ukraine. gvrrc> I am of Volga German extraction, so I am left with two hypotheses : 1. This common ancestor gvrrc> migrated in an exodus from bloody German 400 years ago at the height of the Wars of Religion, or 2. gvrrc> later Volga migrants relocated to the Ukraine? I am not familiar with either, and there may be other explanations. gvrrc> Is it likely one could locate a small village of Staraya Ushitsa, Ukraine? gvrrc> Any enlightenment would be appreciated. gvrrc> Frank Jacobs -- Best regards, Vladimir Chutchev Toglatty sity on Volga walley. mailto:ulu_dimir@mail.ru