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Eric Baizer

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Jul 26, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/26/96
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Does anyone know the current name, country, and location for
what would have been called "Volina, Russia" in 1920s census
and immigration documents? Thanks.


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Yehuda Nathan

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Jul 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/31/96
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b>Does anyone know the current name, country, and location for
b>what would have been called "Volina, Russia" in 1920s census
b>and immigration documents? Thanks.

Podolia is also known as Volyn. The city of Zviehl was known as Novgorod
Volynsk. The western area between Lithuania & Ukraine was called by both
names.

Yehuda Nathan
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Mark R. Heckman

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: TO: BAI...@CS.UCSB.EDU

: b>Does anyone know the current name, country, and location for
: b>what would have been called "Volina, Russia" in 1920s census
: b>and immigration documents? Thanks.

My grandparents' documents identified their birthplace as
"Wolin", but the actual town was Kamin-Kaschirsky in the Volhynia
Gubernia, a province now entirely (or at least mostly) located
in the northern Ukraine. Perhaps this gubernia is also the place of
origin referred to on the documents that you have.

There is a mailing list for a Volhynia special interest group,
"volh...@jewishgen.org".
To subscribe, I think you send a message to "list...@jewishgen.org",
containing the line "Subscribe volhynia" in the message body.

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Alan Wachtel

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Aug 1, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/1/96
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Eric Baizer <bai...@cs.ucsb.edu> asks:

>Does anyone know the current name, country, and location for

>what would have been called "Volina, Russia" in 1920s census

>and immigration documents? Thanks.

Volhynia or Volyn was a czarist guberniya (similar to a province or state) in
northwest Ukraine. I don't think it existed as an admistrative division
under the Soviets, but 1920s documents in the U.S. probably reflected
prerevolutionary times.

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