Ukraine Maps

Maps of districts (povit) with villages existing about 1900 for the areas of Ukraine from which people emigrated to Alberta can be found at the website of the Ukrainian Cultural Village.

Villages that aren't named on Google maps can be accurately located by copying the name of the village from the Family History Library catalog, and pasting the Ukrainian version of the name into the Google search field.

Here's an example using the topic details window for the village of Kyseliv in Bukovina. Google can't find Kyseliv if this Romanized version of the name is the search term. If you click on the third link in the Subjects box (it's in Ukrainian) this link takes you to the subject details page from which you can copy and paste the Ukrainian version of the village name into the Google search field. The name of the village in the FHL catalog is from country to village-Google likes searches to be from smallest geographic unit to largest so you can reverse the names by copying and pasting or just search for the rightmost word in the FHL entry.

February 2011-The method described in the previous paragraph won't work because the link in the Subjects area takes you to a page which doesn't have the Ukrainian version of the village name. I don't know of an easy way to get the text of the Ukrainian version of the name from the link to paste it into Google maps. Copying the link copies the hypertext link not the text of the link.