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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've looked into it.  It can get a little tricky because borders have moved.

For instance, my grandparents were Polish, and came over to America in the late 1800s when all these present-day-countries were under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, after WW2 the lines were redrawn and their villages are now in the Western Ukraine. So does that mean we look toward Polish citizenship or Ukrainian?  Messy![/quote]

Galicia? How interesting!![/quote]

Not that uncommon in dc considering the number of ashkenazis here

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Top PP here.  Yes, Galicia! (but not the Spanish one).  And my ancestors were Roman Catholic Poles, but there were Jews and Ukranians there and many left for the US as Galicia was so poor.  I'm on 23andMe and nobody around there has any of our surnames.  I think that border moving back and forth probably had them getting out of there, or getting killed.  Close to there was the massacre of the Poles after WWII by militant Ukrainians. My grandparents had immigrated before that.

I found a youtube video that has a map and shows the European border changes through the last 1,000 years. I went to the end of the video and took a piece off a post-it and stuck it to where my grandparent's villiage was.  Then I watched the video and the border moved across that village so many times. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzXoc8y2G0k
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