Searchers here is a story about the Ukraine records with some links. I'd like to here your links! Laura in Seattle DIGGING IN UKRAINE by Betsy de Parry [email protected] My father-in-law was born in a village south of L'viv in 1912. At the time, the area was under Hapsburg rule. His village was named Czartoria (now Kamiane) and L'viv was then Lemberg. We had been unsuccessful at finding anything. Last October we visited the city of L'viv and, with the help of our guide who spoke English, visited the L'viv Historical Archives. Unlike here in the U.S.A., not everyone off the street can go in to look at records, so we paid $80 to have someone there search through records for us. After several months, our guide got in touch with us and said many records had been found and he asked for another $50 to cover the costs of copying and mailing. We were happy to pay this. When the records arrived, we were very excited. Copies of documents went back to 1806 and our guide had made a pedigree chart from the information in the records. If you have ancestors from the L'viv Oblast, I would suggest writing to the Historical Archives because a wealth of information exists. The language barrier makes it difficult, and the economy is so poor in Ukraine that one must be willing to risk sending payment first -- which is easily accomplished through Western Union. EDITORS' NOTE: Also see ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES (includes tracing Jewish ancestors) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson25.htm (includes links for Polish, Russian, Czech, etc. research) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson27.htm ROUTES TO ROOTS http://www.routestoroots.com/ JEWISH ROOTS IN UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA, by Miriam Weiner http://www.rtrfoundation.org/html/jacket_two.html