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