Ukrainian Genealogy

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This guide has had minor revisions in October 2016.
Getting Started
This guide focuses on resources at the Toronto Reference Library. For help with your genealogy research, please visit the Humanities and Social Sciences Department on the 2nd floor.
Searching the Library Catalogue
Suggested Subjects and Keywords:
- Ukrainians – [Place name] -- Genealogy (e.g., Ukrainians – Canada – Genealogy ; Ukrainians – Canada, Western – Genealogy)
- Ukraine – Gazetteers
- Poland – Gazetteers
- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
- Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine)
- Poland – Genealogy – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Ukraine – Genealogy – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Ukrainian Canadians – Genealogy
- Ukrainian Canadians -- Biography
- Cemeteries – [Place name]
- Registers of births, etc. – [Place name]
Suggested Titles
General Works
- Frazin, Judith R. A translation guide to 19th-century Polish language civil-registration documents: (including birth, marriage and death records)
- Geary, Muryl Andrejciw Finding your Ukrainian ancestors
- Himka, John-Paul Galicia and Bukovina: a research handbook about Western Ukraine, late 19th and 20th centuries
- Magocsi, Paul R. Galicia: a historical survey and bibliographic guide
- Pihach, John D. Ukrainian genealogy: a beginner’s guide
Maps and Gazetteers
- Adams, Arthur E. An atlas of Russian and East European history
- Czaplinski, Wladyslaw The historical atlas of Poland
- Gilbert, Martin Atlas of Russian history
- Lenius, Brian J. Genealogical gazetteer of Galicia
- Magocsi, Paul R. Historical atlas of East Central Europe
- Magocsi, Paul R. Ukraine, a historical atlas
- Tesla, Ivan Historical atlas of Ukraine
Ukrainians in North America
- Canadian Museum of Civilization The Ukrainians in Canada 1891-1991
- Chumer, Vasyl A. Recollections about the life of the first Ukrainian settlers in Canada
- Nay, Marshall A. Trailblazers of Ukrainian emigration to Canada: Wasyl Eleniak and Ivan Pylypow
- Gregorovich, Andrew Chronology of Ukrainian Canadian history
- Kaye, Vladimir J. Early Ukrainian settlements in Canada, 1895-1900; Dr. Josef Oleskow’s role in the settlement of the Canadian Northwest
- Kaye, Vladimir J. Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian biography, pioneer settlers of Manitoba, 1891-1900
- Martynowych, Orest T. Ukrainians in Canada: the formative period, 1891-1924
- Luciuk, Lubomyr Y. and Iroida Lebid Wynnyckyj Ukrainians in Ontario (Please note: this title is also available to read online)
- Shtohryn, Dmytro M. Ukrainians in North America: a biographical directory of noteworthy men and women of Ukrainian origin in the United States and Canada
- Sokolyszyn, Aleksander Ukrainians in Canada and the United States: a guide to information sources
CIUS (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) Archives:
Loyalties in Conflict: Ukrainians in Canada during the Great War
Jewish Genealogy
- Beider, Alexander A dictionary of Jewish surnames from Galicia
- Arthur Kurzweil and Miriam Weiner Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy
- Kronik, Aleksander Some archival sources for Ukrainian-Jewish genealogy
- Sack, Sallyann Amdur and Gary Mokotoff Avotaynu guide to Jewish genealogy
- Mokotoff, Gary Where once we walked: a guide to the Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust
- Weiner, Miriam Jewish roots in Poland: pages from the past and archival inventories
- Weiner, Miriam Jewish roots in Ukraine and Moldova: pages from the past and archival inventories
- Wynne, Susan F. Finding your Jewish Roots in Galicia: a resource guide
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