Thanks, Lavrentiy ... Your information is very much appreciated, read, filed, and stored ... against the day I find a hopeful "thread-of-a-trail" to follow to the homeland of my husband's DAVIS family. Still, if I never get that far, the journey will have been worth the time spent and knowledge gained. The history you and other list-members hold is astounding to me! One is never too old to learn something new :-), and there is certainly much for me to learn! What dedicated teachers YOU must have had, too! Thank you again for your reply! Jo Davis ----- 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