Ukrainian Genealogical Center

The ID cards certifying the person’s Polish citizenship were as follows:

Temporary ID cards were used to move from one place to another.

During the interwar period the migration of Volhynia population abroad was rather active. For this purpose it was necessary to issue a passport for travelling abroad, which was valid for one year, as a rule.

They are more than a hundred years old: these shell casings from the First World War can be still found in Volyn fields. Volyn, Ukraine, 2016

A communication agent of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (ukr. UPA ) Yaroslava Borys told us about her 15 years of Soviet camps. Ternopil region, 2016

Metrical books can also be found in churches.This is how Greek Catholic churches in Ternopil Region look like. Church in the village of Bajkivtsi, 5 km from Ternopil, Ukraine

In such villas lived the leaders of the local Polish administration during the interwar period. The house where the Volyn voivide Henryk Juzewski lived. The city of Lutsk, Ukraine. Today the building houses the city department of education.

Cemeteries are an important source for genealogical researches. Abandoned Orthodox cemetery in Suhava village, Włodawa County, Lublin Voivodeship. August 2019

You need to look for your roots on other shores, in other countries. Banks of the Western Bug river – the Polish-Ukrainian border in Volyn. August 2019

Talk about the interwar period with Mrs. Anna Kukharuk (born 1927) in the village of Zabuzhya, Lyubomlsky district, Volyn region. August 2019