MY LIBRARY

Books I enjoy

Many of these books I have purchased from used book dealers on the Internet BookFinder.com: Search for New, Out of Print and Used Books

Church in Ruins, The Demise of Ukrainian Churches in the Eparchy of Peremyshl, Iwanusiw, Oleh Wolodymyr, St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics in

Ontario, Canada, 1987 Wonderful pictures of wooden churches, some sketches, commentary on status. This book is now online at this address Church in Ruins however there is something magical about leafing through a book in front of a fire in a winters night. I think you would enjoy having an actual copy.

Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia, Lenius, Brian J., 3^rd edition, Brian J. Lenius, Manitoba, Canada, 1999

Grisak Family History This book of almost 100 pages can be downloaded from the Internet. This family shares their story of early immigration with us. A great view of what life was like in Europe and in the USA for our ancestors.

In Their Words, A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin and Russian Documents, Volume I: Polish Shea, Jonathan D. and Hoffman, William F., Language and Lineage Press, New Britain CT, 2000

In Their Words, A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin and Russian Documents, Volume II: Russian Shea, Jonathan D. and Hoffman, William F., Language and Lineage Press, New Britain CT, 2002

Narrow Escapes, A Boy’s Holocaust Memories and Their Legacy, Oliner, Samuel P.,

Paragon House, 2000. This true experience took place close to the area where some of my ancestors lived.

North of the Danube, Caldwell, Erskine and Bourke-White, Margaret, Viking Press, 1939 Short stories and photographs about their travels prior to WWII.

Poland and Her National Minorities 1919-39, A Case Study, Horak, Stephan, Vantage Press, N.Y., 1961 Excellent, Excellent book! If you can buy it from a used book dealer, do so. From an historical perspective the author examines how issues of the ethnographic minorities, German, Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Belorussian, were handled in Poland, during these years. A good lesson for current world conflicts.

Roundtrip to America, the Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930, Wyman, Mark, Cornell Uni Press, Ithaca, NY 1993. Many immigrants came to the USA fully intending to return to their homeland. Gives percentages from various areas who really did that.

Slovakia in photographs, Plicka, Karol, Obzor Book and Journal Publishers, Bratislava, 1967 Beautiful photographs of Slovak folk costumes.

Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States 1550-1850, Dobson, David, Clearfield Co., Baltimore MD, 2000 This book lists Scottish surnames and sources traced back to Medieval period when economic opportunity attracted entrepreneurs and soldiers of fortune from Scotland to the Baltic areas.

The 23^rd Psalm, A Holocaust Memoir, Salton, George Lucius, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 2002 Describes persecution of the Jews of Tyczyn, Poland which is just south of Rzeszow and 72 miles north of my ancestral village of Dudynce.sss

The Frugal Gourmet On Our Immigrant Ancestors, Recipes you should have gotten from your grandmother, Smith, Jeff, William Morrow and Company, Inc, New York, 1990

The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914, Stauter-Halsted, Keely, Cornell University Press, 2001 You will get an understanding of what life was like in 19^th century in your ancestor’s village.

Ukrainian Embroidery Designs and Stitches, Ruryk, Nancy R.,compiler, Trident Press Ltd., 1974

Under the Carpathians, Home of a Forgotten People, Heisler, J.B., and Mellon, J.E., Lindsay Drummond London, 1946

Also:

Past issues of The New Rusyn Times published by the Carpatho-Rusyn Society, 125 Westland Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15217-2538 Carpatho-Rusyn Society

Do you have suggestions of other books about the culture that I would find interesting? E-mail me!

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