I really thought in the case of my great-grandfather from Nemryiv that the information had been lost—all the other documents I had ever seen for him gave his place of birth as Podolia, which is a region, not a town. It was on his wife's naturalization papers, spelled as if in Russian, not Ukrainian. He spoke Russian; we know because he banned it from being spoken in his house.
Based on when he came to the US, one of my great grandfathers probably left Poland because of the 1905 - 1907 revolutions.
(Legit.)
It would be neat to find out about my grandfather's uncle (or great uncle?) who supposedly was one of the Whites (it's unclear if that means White Russian or the Polish White faction), but we haven't had luck so far.
I hope you can find out at least which! I am glad you have so many more records available.
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I really thought in the case of my great-grandfather from Nemryiv that the information had been lost—all the other documents I had ever seen for him gave his place of birth as Podolia, which is a region, not a town. It was on his wife's naturalization papers, spelled as if in Russian, not Ukrainian. He spoke Russian; we know because he banned it from being spoken in his house.
Based on when he came to the US, one of my great grandfathers probably left Poland because of the 1905 - 1907 revolutions.
(Legit.)
It would be neat to find out about my grandfather's uncle (or great uncle?) who supposedly was one of the Whites (it's unclear if that means White Russian or the Polish White faction), but we haven't had luck so far.
I hope you can find out at least which! I am glad you have so many more records available.