mikek420
13 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Travel and migration in late 19th - early 20th centuries [9]
That's helpful advice. I hope my next post will meet 1Jola's standards.
That's helpful advice. I hope my next post will meet 1Jola's standards.
mikek420
13 May 2010
Genealogy / Travel and migration in late 19th - early 20th centuries [9]
I'm trying to learn how my Polish ancestors lived. My best information is that they were farmers that came from Wolhynia, now part of the Ukraine. Hajki, the town my grandfather came from, is about 330 km/200 mi from Warsaw.
An application he filed in 1936 says he was born in Warsaw in 1893. Is it likely that people would have moved from the city to a small village 200 miles away? Did people move around that much? I wonder if Warsaw was a mistaken entry.
It also looks like most of his village left and went to the USA before the 1914-1918 war. A lot of them settled in the same area of the Brooklyn and Queens Boroughs of New York City. Was this migration encouraged by the government?
I'm trying to learn how my Polish ancestors lived. My best information is that they were farmers that came from Wolhynia, now part of the Ukraine. Hajki, the town my grandfather came from, is about 330 km/200 mi from Warsaw.
An application he filed in 1936 says he was born in Warsaw in 1893. Is it likely that people would have moved from the city to a small village 200 miles away? Did people move around that much? I wonder if Warsaw was a mistaken entry.
It also looks like most of his village left and went to the USA before the 1914-1918 war. A lot of them settled in the same area of the Brooklyn and Queens Boroughs of New York City. Was this migration encouraged by the government?