Northern half of former Bukowina province in now in Ukraine and southern half in Romania. _______ Lavrentiy Krupniak KarenHob@aol.com wrote: > > The following information applies to any search for parish records, not just > those of Bukovina. > > I forgot to mention the Linzmayer place name Bajnitz is a German spelling. > > That place may have also had a Slavic name. Today it may be in Belarus, > Ukraine or, IF it is very far south in Bukovina, in Moldovia and it may have yet > another name. > > It is a good idea to know all the past and present names for a place when > beginning a search for records. > > It is also necessary to know where the parish church was located. Some > parish communities included several villages within walking distance from the > place with the church. > > Get a high resolution map showing the ancestral place as well as all the > places within 10 km. It should also include symbols showing locations of churches > if possible -- usually a black circle with a cross on top of it. > > You should be able to get one from the University of Wisconsin Geography > Library. Call 1-800-558-8993 to speak to a librarian. > > The LDS also has black and white films of old Austrian military maps that > are in very high resolution. You just have to be sure you get the film > that has the right latitude and longitude on it. > > www.familysearch.org for the online catalog. > > Spezialkarte der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie > Film numbers 6000198 - 6000339. > Film 6000198 is the index. The index data should make it > possible to identify the number of the right map and film. > > Some places once in Bukovina may have records in Lviv. > > The Third Reich "liberated" a lot of church records from Eastern Europe in > the 1940s and they took them to Berlin for microfilming. The LDS has copies > of the films -- or they may have made their own films. > > The AUTHOR of those films is usually: Reichssippenamt > An AUTHOR search using that word with the name of a land (Poland or Russia > work best) finds the church records and also some census records > (Volkszahlung) made by the Third Reich. > > The "liberated" originals of protestant records on film remain in Potsdam > archive. The Roman Catholic records were in the German Catholic Archive in > Regensberg. Germany has recently given the originals back to Poland and they may > now be in an archive there. The old microfilms are still in Regensberg but > the archivists say some are hard to read because of a poor focus when the > film was made. > > In some cases Christian church records willl include Jews. A KEYWORD search > with the name of a modern country plus Jewish should find those > records, if any. > > If the LDS made their own copies from the original records they would not > have the problem of bad focus. Then Regensberg would have copies of the LDS > films. We have to assume that the poor copies are all that are available > for some of the Catholic parishes but it is still worth a look if the LDS has > a copy of any film with an ancestral place name on it. > > Church records usually have the type of record as the TITLE and the name of > the parish as the AUTHOR. The list of villages included in the parish > community are in Title Details. Sometimes there will be additional places listed > in Film Notes. > > Older entries in the LDS catalog give titles in the original language. > Newest entries may have English "Titles" saying "Metrical Books". > Other English words may also apply in the very latest additions to the > catalog. > . > A KEYWORD search with Poland Church Records finds over > 10,000 titles. Reduce the number of hits with separate searches > using: Poland Catholic; Poland Greek Catholic; Poland Greek Orthodox, > Poland Jewish as appropriate. Most titles hit with Greek Orthdox will be > in Russian Cyrillic script. However, the older records on the films may be in > German or Polish so select for year dates if an ancestral parish can be > identified. > > Learn the Cyrillic spelling for an ancestral parish if the parish was located > in what is now Ukraine or another "Russian" area. The University of Wisconsin > library may be able to provide that. as well as the correct spelling of all > other > names used by a certain place. > > Use the KEYWORD search with the ancestral place name to find what the LDS > has. Start with the German name of the parish (place where church was located) > and repeat the KEYWORD search with all other spellings of that place name. > > The KEYWORD search hits include all mentions of that place name > in titles, title details and film notes. A PLACE search will only find > the titles that have the place name in the title data. > > Karen