Jul. 12th, 2022

calzephyr: Scott Pilgrim generator (Default)
I think there's something fascinating about having ancestors and current-day cousins in an area that no longer exists. After plunking in as many relatives as I could think of, I let Ancestry's black box magic do the work of suggesting hints and I found my relatives in another family tree. Apparently my great-great-grandparents were from Galicia which no longer exists. This helpful map from Wikipedia overlays it with modern Europe, which is perhaps where some of the confusion of their origins comes from. My great-great-grandparents and my great-grandmother were probably not up and up on shifting borders back in the day.

Looking at the map, it feels good to find a place to point at--but then, I wonder--where they from the Polish side of Galicia or the Ukrainian side? Sigh.


Location of Galicia
By CMS Green - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link


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