Re: [Cz-L] I need your help!

Dear Lois.

"Willachia", as you spelled it, does not appear to be correct. I can think
of two possibilities:

1. They came from Walachia, which was a province in the South of old
Romania, several hundred miles from Bukowina.

2. They came from Willawcze, a shtetl near Waschkoutz close to the border
with Galitzia , in the northern part of Bukowina, now part of Ukraine.

 From the papers you mentioned, you should be able to determine whether they
were considered to be Romanian Jews or Austrian (Austro-Hungarian) Jews, if
they came before World War I. If the latter was the case, they most likely
came from Willawcze.

Alfred (Fred) Schneider


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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:46 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] I need your help!


> Dear Friends,
>
> I have been doing genealogy for about 15 years and in one instance
haven't
> been able to move from this one spot. All and I do mean all the papers
from
> my grandparents, their siblings and assorted family all list Willachia as
> their home. I finally came to realize that Willachia is not a town at
all and
> this is where my question comes in....How can I find out which town my
family
> came from. Please understand that everyone in our family who came from
> Europe are all deceased and even the few children of this decedents have
no
> information. How would I go about finding the town of origin of my
grandparents?
>
> Thank you so much,
> Lois Friedman
> Searching: GREIF, LECHNER, SCHIESEL, ZWECKER, BRECHER
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