I think what you are trying to find is in Ukraine. Using the Shtetlseeker, I found this place. Toda it is called Volodymry-Volyn'skyy, and has had many different names. Polish does not use the letter v in its alphabet, so the names liisted starting with a W are how they would have been spelled when Poland ruled this area. włodzimierski<http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82odzimierz_Wo%C5%82y%C5%84ski> Vladimir, Włodzimierzec, Włodzimierz, Wladimir-Wolynsk, Vlodzimezh, Vladimir-Volynskiy, Vladimir-Volynsk, *Volodymyr-Volyns'kyy*, Volodymir-Volyns'kyy 50°51' 24°20' E<http://www.jewishgen.org/cgi-bin/expediamaps2.pl?&lat=50.8500&lng=24.3333> M <http://www.jewishgen.org/cgi-bin/mapquest.pl?&lat=508500&lng=243333> U<http://www.jewishgen.org/cgi-bin/multimap.pl?&lat=50.8500&lng=24.3333> G <http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.8500,24.3333+(Volodymyr-volyns'kyy)> Ukraine 272.2 miles W of Kyyiv 50°26' 30°31' Woj. is the abbreviation for the word województwo, which means province. I have found nothing on Motnikow or Wotynsitie. I think that Wotyn- (the beginning of the word) should be Wolyn because of the letter l with the slash through it. Many people mix it up with a t. It could be that the word should be Wolynskie, which was the name of a province. It was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojew%C3%B3dztwo_wo%C5%82y%C5%84skie There are maps if you click on a couple of different links. Maybe some members can help you with Ukraine. I am not versed about places in Ukraine. We all kind of have our own area of interest ingrained in us because of the amount of research we do in that specific area. Tina Ellis On 10/22/07, Thomas Krala <thomkrala@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello > > Has anyone heard of > > Motnikow woj or Wotynsitie? > > Can anyone say where it is, what it is now named, what it is near? > > It should be somewhere in Volodymyr Volyns'kyj. > > Thank you. > > Thomas Krala > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >