Galicia Genealogy Guestbook. Year 2006

Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006
From: GGrinbank$$$rccl.com United States
Subject: Searching for Relatives

Hello,
My father Julius Thumim-Riedler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1914. His father's name was Max Thumim and his mother's Rosa Riedler. The family moved to Lvov when his mother died and my grandfather re-married. His new wife was Malka Kauf.
They emigrated to Argentina in 1924 and he remembered his grandfather and one of his father's sisters remained in Lvov. I would like to know if there are any Thumims in Lvov. I have the feeling the family was originally from there.
Thank you!
Graciela Grinbank (nee Thumim)

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006
From: Dave Malina dm2384$$$hotmail.com United States
Subject: Malina Surname

My grandfather was Vasili Malina. Emigrated to the US around 1880-1890. He lived in L'viv. Any suggestions on where to start in L'viv?

David Malina

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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006
From: Jeanette James namelessinleander$$$hotmail.com United States United Kingdom
Subject: Tracing my father's roots

Hi,
My father, John Psuj, came to the UK as a displaced person after the war in about 1946/1947. He was from Lvov and was born on 1st March 1916. I think his mother was called Maria and he had a twin sister and brother named Stefan and Stefanie, I believe. I think his father was a coach maker. I don't know anything about my father's family apart from these details. I would love to be able to trace my roots and one day travel to that part of the world.
Can anyone advise me how to go about finding more information - unfortunately I don't speak Polish.
Thankyou,
Jeanette James

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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006
From: wlower$$$starpower.net United States
Subject: Peremyshlany, Przemyslany

Hello,
I am a historian editing a Jewish diary from 1943 that details events of the Holocaust in Peremyshlany. Several names are identified by the diarist, such as Zimmer, Hochberg, Golliger, Alwaglow, Katz, Gabel. If your family is from this small town (about 40 km SE of Lviv) please contact me. Thank You!
Wendy
email: wlower$$$starpower.net

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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006
From: faye wilson senori_ta2002$$$yahoo.co.uk United Kingdom
Subject: tracing stadnyk

HELLO
MY NAME IS FAYE AND IM TRYING TO TRACE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS OF MY GRANDFATHER WHO PASSED AWAY THIS YEAR HIS NAME IS THEODORE STADNYK HE WAS 84 YRS, HE WAS MARRIED TO MARIA WHOM HE MET IN GERMANY THEN THEY MOVED TO ENGLAND AND HAD THREE DAUGHTERS JENNY,OKSANA AND ANNA, AND ONE SON JOHN, WHO IS THE ELDEST, I DO BELIEVE THAT MY GRANDFATHER CAME FROM LVOV AND HAD TWO SISTERS MARIA AND ANNA, AND TWO BROTHERS MICHEAL AND DO NOT KNOW THE OTHER BROTHERS NAME BUT WAS TOLD THAT HE WAS KILLED IN THE WAR,IN LVOV,ONE OF MY GRANDFATHERS UNCLE I THINK MOVED TO NEW YORK IN 1920/30S AND I BELIEVE MY GRANDFATHERS FATHERS NAME WAS JOHN,
ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE HELPFUL, MANY THANKS.

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006
From: MEEpstein$$$aol.com United States
Subject: Weitzners of Lemberg/Lvov

Looking for information about my grandfather Rubin Weitzner and his brother Charles. We originally heard that they came to America in 1892 when Rubin was 8 yrs and Charles was 14 yrs. We have since heard that this information was not exactly right. They might have been a little older and they might not have traveled together. We think that they came before computerized Ellis Island records (pre 1892). They both settled in the NY/NJ area. Charles married Yetta Upin and my grandfather married Pauli Schein/Pauline Schoen. We always believed her name was Pauline Schoen but have found information that her name might have been Pauli Schein. Her family is believed to have come from Lvov also but don't know if she was born in Lvov or America. I have recently been contacted by a granddaughter of Charles that I never met (maybe when we were very young) so I've been able to fill in some small gaps but don't know the names of our family members that might have remained in Lvov. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Martin Epstein
Louisville, KY

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006
From: nina tzarevna_y$$$yahoo.com United States
Subject: looking for friends from lvov

Hello!
My name is Nina (Antonina Yekimova). I was born and grow up in Lvov. I have visited my home town twice since i left it in 1992 , but didn't have any time to find my school friends . I do wonder how are they. I went ot school #17 Chernyahovskogo. May be we weren't close friends ( very possible ..) but you know know something about gays and girls from my class. I am 37 now. Or may be we went together to Pedagogichskoye Uchilishe? Do you know anything about Ulyana Golovatskaya ? Ira Shishkina ? Natasha Zemlyanaya?
Will be happy to hear from you.

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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006
From: Earl+Catherine Magee magee$$$mts.net Canada
Subject: Fw: surnames

Searching for people of the following surnames, or any related to them. Kuzniak, Janyk, Bosominski, Zabaczka. They said the are from Stanislau near Lwow river. Might have misspelled Lwow. At the time they left it was under Austrian rule 1899. Any information appreciated. They came to Canada with a large group of immigrants. Story goes at the time some family were taken to Argentina.

Thank you in advance
Catherine.

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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006
From: jtaras57 jtaras57$$$aol.com United States
Subject: Lost Relatives

Hi,
My name is now John Taras but I was born Evan Lucak in 1957. I believe my Father Wasyl Lucak was born around 1924 in Lvov. He had a brother Iwan who I was named after and two sisters. Anna and I think Nasturnia. My Grandfathers name I think was Mykyta Lucak. I have a letter to my father from my Uncle Iwan dated January 1965. At this time he was working in Solotwyne. My father Wasyl died on November 5th 1990 in Preston Lancashire. I would dearly like to make contact with my Cousins wherever they are. I know from the letter that my Uncle and both Aunts had children.

Any help you can give me would be great.
Kind regards
Evan

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006
From: Markian Prokopovych Prokopovychm$$$ceu.hu Hungary
Subject: person search

I am looking for those who knew or are related to the following persons from Lemberg/Lwow, all of them at some point related to building No. 6 on Asnyka (now Bohomolcia) Street in the city centre.
Leon Stauber, owned this real estate in 1905
Dora Stauber and Irena Goldberg, owned it in 1928 and 1936.
I do not know whether Dora Stauber was related to Leon, but presumably she was either his wife, or his daughter.

Many thanks for posting this,
Markian Prokopovych

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006
From: Alex Alexander al_alex111$$$yahoo.com
Subject: Assiatance in Lvov

Hello!
I live in Lvov. I can give an assistance to westerners which are visiting Lviv.
If you have any difficulties during your staying in Lvov with renting an appartment, translations of documents, local telephone calls, tourist escorting, contacting a doctor or any accident, or if you get into any trouble situation in Lvov, please contact me and I try help to solve your problem. Contact me 24 hours a day! al_alex$$$yahoo.com
Thank you for your time.
Alex

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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006
From: M ROJOW m.rojow$$$btinternet.com United Kingdom
Subject: Rojow family

I am searching for any information regarding my fathers family.
He was born in Lwow in 1927, William (Walack) Rojow. he had 2 sisters and a brother.
He left at approx age 16 and has lived in the UK ever since.
I would be grateful for any information regarding this family.

M. Rojow
England

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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006
From: amsluvsfun$$$aol.com United States
Subject: ZIMMER FAMILY

SEARCING FOR ANY INFORMATION REGARDING MY MOTHER'S FAMILY.
SHE WAS BORN IN L'VOV IN 1931, HAD A BROTHER NAFTALI AND FATHER SAUL, MOTHER GENIA.
AS FAR AS I KNOW, MY MOTHER'S FATHER AND BROTHER WERE KILLED DURING THE WAR IN OR AROUND BELZEC.
SHE AND HER MOTHER GENIA SURVIVED AND CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE WAR.
ANY INFORMATION REGARDING THIS FAMILY WOULD BE HELPFUL.

ANNETTE S.
LOS ANGELES

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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006
From: Cary Adams cavalleyboy$$$earthlink.net United States
Subject: Hello Lemberg

Like many of you my family came from Lemberg (Lvov). My grandmother Sophia Martini was born in 1894 somewhere in or near Lvov to Leo Martini and Roselia Lozinska. He was a tailor, born in 1862 to parents Joseph and Sophia Martini. Leo and Rose lived in Stryji, just south of Lvov. He died in 1897.
Rose was born in the same area in 1871 to parents Nicholi Lozinska and Yula Korchinska. They died when she was a child. Rose had three brothers, Bisho, Yashow and Useow. One hung himself and another died in war. Rose left the area between 1901 and 1903. Daughter Sophia was left in a convent in Lvov until Rose returned in 1909 to bring her to the United States.
In 1975 my mother and I visited Lvov and Stryji. We visited an address on Karakrina Street where we believe they lived. Other than that I know little. Do any of these names or places ring a bell with anyone?
Cary Adams,
North Hollywood, California

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006
From: Domenica.Giorgi$$$statbel.mineco.fgov.be Belgium
Subject: wechsler family - buczacz

Hello,
I live in Belgium and looking for information about WECHSLER-WEKSLER family coming from Buczacz (Buchach) now Ukrainia.
My gr-grmother was WECHSLER Maria and was born in april 1864 in Buczacz and was of jewish confession. Her parents called : Jacob and Frazda FEKO.
Can you help me to obtain the WECHSLER members-family still living now and coming from Buczacz ?
Thank you for your answer
Domenica-Anita Giorgi

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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006
From: Tomek Bohaczek tomek_pl$$$yahoo.com United States
Subject: Bohaczek, Dobosiewicz & Bekier Families

I am looking for information on the following families:
My Grandmother Bronislawa Dobosiewicz born 12 Jul 1903 in Skole, p. Stryj, Woj. Lwowskie, Poland and her parents were Michal Dobosiewicz & Barbara Bekier

Also when she married my grandfather Jozef Bohaczek they went to Sokoliki Gorskie by Lwow. If you have any information on these families please email me at:
tomek_pl$$$yahoo.com

Thanks again for any help,
Tomek Bohaczek

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006
From: annbills99$$$aol.com United States
Subject: Please post on your wonderful website

Hi Everyone:
I'm researching my father's roots - he passed away a few years ago.
My father lived in a small town that I can't find and it exists/existed near Lvov. It's called something like LELAPULYA, LILIPUYA. I've searched high and low and just can't find it. Any suggestions? Does it sound familiar? Any help would be soooooo appreciated.

Thanks, Ann

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006
From: MEN RANIEL mraniel$$$yahoo.com United States
Subject: lvov university

i work on a biography of judge i. kahan, who studied law at lvov university 1931- 1935. i look for teachers, study programs and so on for those years. how can i get the information?

m. raniel

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2006
From: KYMBO20$$$aol.com United States
Subject: Thank you!

Thanks to your site a brother I never knew existed found me via a message I posted on here in December of 1998!
Kym Sutton-Sacca

You are welcome Kym.. I am very happy for you guys! - nick

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006
From: knifethrwr$$$aol.com United States
Subject: Add post to 2006 website on Lvov

Hello - It is a pleasure to see so much history of our family roots on-line. My family has a deep history in Lviv and I certainly hope to travel back some day to see it all for myself. Certainly, if any groups are looking for an unusual performance by a man who carries the name of the city, it would be my honor to come and do so for the citizens of my ancestral home. Thank you for all the hard work and energy that was obviously put into this web effort.
Sincerely Yours, Rick Lemberg - World Champion of Knife Throwing - 2003 Inductee into the International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame (www.IKTHOF.com) - Master Instructor - Montara, California

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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006
From: carol wagner cmw5551$$$yahoo.com United States
Subject: Family from Mosty Wielkie

Hello, I just found this site and was thrilled. My Grandfather was born in Mosty Wielkie in 1892 and came to the US in 1907. His last name was Sliwinski, and he said his mothers maiden name was Bandill. He had a older brother Peter, and older sisters who married men with the surnames of Scheremeta and Kmyta. I do not know if there is any family still there.
I would love to find out more about the town- they lived on a farm, and his father was sort of the town official.
Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Carol

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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:05:21
From: SHAESG$$$aol.com United States
Subject: lvov survivor

i am looking for a survivor by the name of Jolenka from Lvov. She was born probably around 1938-1940. Her last name was Knobel. My father was taken to the Russian army at the time and she was left with her mother. My father had a grocery store in Lvov prior to the war. After the war when my father returned to Lvov he was told by the janitor of the building where he lived that his wife had given her away to a family.
Any information would be very greatly appreciated.