Ukraine, Avgustovka, aka: Avhustivka

[BlandTree]

Hoping to trace relatives from this village/town.  Does anyone have any connections around there or any advice about research in this area of the Ukraine?  Any help/advice welcome!
We hope to travel there overland, perhaps in 2012.

[jorose]

http://genealogy.about.com/od/ukraine/Ukraine_Genealogy_Family_History.htm
 - I don't have anything specific but there are some general links/advice here.

[BlandTree]

That's great, Jorose!

I have not followed the links yet because I shall not be with the person with whom I am doing this research until later this month & I know that she will want to look at these links with me.

However, I have had a look at the titles on the links and I think that several may be exactly what we are looking for.  As ever, RootsChat comes to the rescue!

Malcolm

[Bluebird Research]

Hi there

My first advice is that, if you are at all uncertain of the location, be very careful that you travel to the correct place. There were at least 11 places called Augustówka in inter-War Poland (which included much of what is now western Ukraine) and presumably others outside its then borders in neighbouring Belarusian and Ukrainian USSR.

Having said that, I think the most likely candidate is the village Augustówka / Avgustivka about 8km SSW from Zborów / Zboriv in the region of Tarnopol / Ternopil. If the family was Polish (or other) Roman Catholic, the parish of worship was Koniuchy. If the family was Ukrainian Greek Catholic, the church was in Avgustivka itself. This village was primarily Ukrainian (Ruthenian): circa 1907, the population was 112 Roman Catholic, 553 Greek Catholic and 15 Jewish.

Where the records are, and whether they survive, may well depend on the religion and nationality.