Ukrainian Genealogical Center

The letter is stored in the documents of the Emigration Office, Department in Równe Ukrainians who went to Argentina could wait a long time to be sent by ship from Poland. Here is a letter from the head of the family asking to send them to Argentina as soon as possible, as they only have […]

Abandoned Polish cemetery and the place the ruins of a church of the town of Druzhkopil, which does not exist today. There remain single graves on which candles are rarely lit. The metrical books of this church partially survived, they are stored in Lutsk and Lublin.

A letter home, written by a Ukrainian who just arrived to Argentina by a ship, from Polish Gdynia

At this place there were a church and there was a Polish cemetery. Now there are several graves preserved, on some of them you can even read the names.  

The Royal Borodino Regiment, the elite army. Photo of 1910

Acknowledgments from the Lutsk County Administration for participating in military exercises

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