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Info on town/villiage in Poland

zeropolis79zeropolis79
edited February 2015 in Chit chat
I need some help from anyone in this group who might live in Poland.. I'm trying to find out information about a specific town in the country for my surrogate US based mother who is trying to update her grandfather's journals with a view for publication (he and his family fled to Michigen, USA in 1913) with info about the town which was called Zytyn. As far as we can make out, it's no longer there but we can't find out anything. A lot of the websites I get my info from have let me down.. Many thanks!

(I did find an obituary of someone whose father came from the town, but typically, the woman is her aunt!)
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  • fogfog
    edited February 2015
    go on atari forum e.g. atari age.. you might find a lot more people who know. due to it selling a lot over there.
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited February 2015
    Thanks..
  • DCMDCM
    edited February 2015
    You don't mean Zytyn Wielki do you? It's now called Velykyi Zhytyn and, thanks to WW2, is in the Ukraine though it was in Poland before.
  • RalfRalf
    edited February 2015
    There is no town in modern Poland called Zytyn or anything similar enough.

    I also suspect that it could be Żytyń Wielki whicch is currently in Ukraine:

    https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BByty%C5%84_Wielki

    https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%96%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD

    If you use Polish or Ukrainian spelling, you'll probably get much more results from Google than from Zytyn :)

    And you want to know anything special about this place, let me know and I may try a little search myself:)
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited February 2015
    Do you know if there are still records on people there?

    Anyhow, my surrogate mum's grandfather left Zytyn in 1913. She thinks the Russians might have been occupying it at the time.

    Anything you can unearth would be very gratefully recieved thank you.

    Many thanks for the help.
  • RalfRalf
    edited February 2015
    Do you know if there are still records on people there?

    Anyhow, my surrogate mum's grandfather left Zytyn in 1913. She thinks the Russians might have been occupying it at the time.

    Yes, there was neither Poland nor Ukraine in 1913 as independent countries, it was part of Russia then.
    Do you know if there are still records on people there?

    You can't be sure but there is some chance. Either in Russian archives or church archives.

    Still many of this info isn't in the web. I know stories of people taking some travel to learn about their ancestors.
  • zeropolis79zeropolis79
    edited February 2015
    I read something along those lines in one of my books about Colditz.

    Sadly, she has no money to come to Europe to research herself.

    Thanks for those..
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