Laurence ... Thank you so much for your contribution to my search for ancestors in that part of Europe you are so familiar with! Sharing info with all of us is a sure-fire way to "climb fences" no matter what generation of descendants we are, or where we find ourselves on planet Earth at this moment, in this century! Your links are so useful to me ... in many more ways than I had imagined. Keep up the good work ... Jo DAVIS also looking for WEIL, WEISKOPF, and BENESCH ... "over there" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Krupnak" <LKrupnak@erols.com> To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Aida's link to Roll Map, re Galicia Settlements > > Hello Jo, > > The Roll map has "Galacia", but there is no "Galacia," nor is > Galicia spelled "Galacia" and "Galacia" is not where Galicia was > located. > > Galicia is a former territory whose areal extent now lies in the > nation-states of Poland and Ukraine - about 3/5 of Galicia is in > west-central Ukraine (the L'viv, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts > of Ukraine) and 2/5ths is in southeastern Poland. The Roll map has no > indication that there were German settlements in that area. Halychyna > (in Ukrainian) (Galicja in Polish), was called Galizien by the Austrians > who invited Germans to colonize Galicia in the late 1700s. > > A group called Galizien German Descendants has excellent maps which > show the location of former German colonies in Galicia. Germans > comprised about 2.5 percent of the population of Galicia. > > Jews comprised about 10 percent of the Galician population: > > > http://www.halgal.com/1907popbyrel.html > > Jews resided in Galicia long before Germans were invited to colonize > in the 1700s. Jews were invited in by former Polish landowners, etc. > during the 14-17th C. > > _______ > > Lavrentiy Krupniak > ............................................ > > Jo Davis wrote: >> >> What's missing or wrong with this 1700 - 1800 German-Russian Settlement >> map, >> Lavrentiy? >> << http://www.rollintl.com/roll/grsettle.htm >> >> >> Would you, then, know anything about 'Jewish'-German local settlers in >> this >> time frame? Were they part of this "settlement" movement back then? How >> about the early 1900's? >> >> I appreciate any comments. >> >> Jo Davis