In a message dated 3/7/2006 9:08:17 AM Mountain Standard Time, LKrupnak@erols.com writes: Northern half of former Bukowina province in now in Ukraine and southern half in Romania. Laurenty is correct about the southern half of Bukowina now being in Romania. I found a map at: http://www.aboutromania.com/maps3.html Moldavia / Moldova appears to be too far east to include much of Bukowina. Another map at: http://www.scholtoi.de/Villages.html shows the relative location of Bessarabia (old name for Moldova) to Bukovina. It was once known as Bessarabia and there were a number of German settlements, especially in the south. Those who have an interest in those German settlements see: http://www.grhs.com/bessarabia/ The website includes a list of LDS fims available for Bessarabian villages. http://www.grhs.com/bessarabia/Bess_FILMLIST_2005.pdf The list can be saved to disk by interested researchers. Place names are listed with film numbers. Remember, the LDS is always updating the film library and this list is datedd 2005. Check about every 3-6 months for new updates. The best way to find ALL Bessarabia films is with a KEYWORD search of the catalog using a Bessarabian place name or Bessarabia. A websearch using Germans Bessarabia hits: http://www.scholtoi.de/index_en.html The home page says this village was settled by Germans from GALICIA as well as resettled Germans from villages in northern Bessarabia.. Under the geography link at the site is a note that Ugartsthal and Kolomea were the places from which the Galicians came. There is a link to villages on the home page. Click to get and alphabetical list of German names of settlements. A map of the German settlements is at: http://www.scholtoi.de/PDF/DeutscheBessarabien.pdf Genealogists interested in that area should know that Bessarabia was joined to Romania 1919-1940. From 1940 to 1991 there was a separate Socialist Republic of Moldavia (part of USSR) that included most of old Bessarabia except for the northermost part. -- which may now be in Ukraine. The most helpful resources may be with "Germans from Russia", but also search for information on Moldova Germans and Bessarabia Germans. Because of the mixed history, documents may be in Romanian, Moldovian or Russian. There may even be some in German. There is an interesting essay about the area's language and history at: http://www.east-west-wg.org/cst/cst-mold/diana.html There was a recent TV broadcast about Moldova. The gist of it was that the area is one of the poorest in Eastern Europe. Karen