Russian Ukraine Shtetls

A map of the Russian Ukraine from the early 1900's. The four 's show the locations of our ancestor's shtetls, which are listed below.

Shtetl is a Yiddish word for a small village in which all of the residents had a common ethnic background. Our Ukrainian shtetls were all Jewish.

We have traced our ancestors back to these shtetls:



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