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Carpatho-Rusyn DNA Project (FamilyTreeDNA)

The Carpatho-Rusyn Heritage DNA Project welcomes all males and females of Carpatho-Rusyn(C-R) heritage, a distinct group of people that live or once lived in portions of the Carpathian Mountain range. Their region is comprised of what is now South-Eastern Poland, Transcarpathia, Northwestern Slovakia, and a small pocket in Vojvoidina. Their region, called Galicia, was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 until 1918. Starting in 1880 many C-R people immigrated to the United States and Canada. Those in SE Poland {Lemkos} suffered various misfortunes. Some were sent to the Talerhof concentration camp during 1914-1917, and post WW-II most Lemkos in SE Poland were involuntarily relocated to Western Ukraine between 1944-1947 - the remaining Lemko population was forcibly removed between 1947-1948 and relocated to Western Poland during the Vistula Action. Carpatho-Rusyns are sometimes known as Carpatho-Russian, Carpatho-Ukrainian, Rusnak, Ruthene, Ruthenian, Uhro-Rusyn--all relate to their traditional association with the East Slavic world of the Rus'. In Poland they refer to themselves as Lemko/ Lemko Rusyn.

Jewish Family History Centre (Prague)

Research project for Jewish families dwelling in Bohemia and Moravia within the period 1790-1848.

Slovak Pride

Search 25,500 Slovak surnames with village of origin, plus a few from neighboring regions. The Slovak Pride Database website is sponsored by the Slovak Heritage & Folklore Society International.

Slovak Surname Location Reference Project

A database of immigrants from Slovakia and where their descendants can be located today in North America.

Surnames of Carpathorusyn Villages

Research of surnames from three Rusyn villages located in the Carpathian Mountains of southeastern Poland (Lemko area) and northeastern Slovakia: Dudynce, Swiatkowa Wielka and Hrabovcik. All the resources used to gather family information are described.

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries