Ukrainian Resources: Websites, Books and Organizations

These websites, books and organizations will help you find your family in Ukraine.

Websites

• Archives of Ukraine: Genealogical Research <scarch.kiev.ua/Eng/genealogia.php/>
• Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press <www.ciuspress.com/>
• Cyndi’s List: Eastern Europe <www.cyndislist.com/eastern-europe>
• Digital Atlas of Ukraine at Harvard University <gis.huri.harvard.edu>
• Eastern European Genealogical Society <www.eegsociety.org>
• FamilySearch Wiki Ukraine <www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Ukraine>
• Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies Ukraine Resources <www.feefhs.org/resource/ukraine>
• Genealogy of Halychyna/Eastern Galicia (HALGAL) <www.halgal.com>
• GenForum: Ukraine <genforum.genealogy.com/ukraine> 
• Gesher Galicia <www.jewishgen.org/galicia>
• Historical Atlas of the 20th Century <users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm>
• InfoUkes <www.infoukes.com>
• JewishGen <jewishgen.org>
• Lemko Genealogy Primer <lemko.org/genealogy/primer.html>
• Perry-Castañeda Library:  Ukraine Maps <www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ukraine.html>
• Tracing the Tribe <tracingthetribe.blogspot.com>
• Ukraine Genealogy Forum <genforum.genealogy.com/ukraine/>
• Ukraine Mailing List <www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-ukr.html>
• Ukraine Message Boards <boards.ancestry.com/localities.eeurope.ukraine/mb.ashx>
• Ukraine WorldGenWeb <www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrwgw/>
• Ukraine World GenWeb:  Mailing Lists <www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrwgw/maillist.htm>
• Ukraine historical regions <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_regions_in_Ukraine>
• Ukrainian Town Location Guide <www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrwgw/ukrainetown.html>

Books

• A History of Ukraine by Paul Robert Magocsi (University of Washington Press)
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine, 5 vols., vols. 1 and 2 edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc and vols. 3-5 edited by Danylo Husar Struk ( Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)
• Finding Your Ukrainian Ancestors 4th edition by Muryl Andrejciw Geary (Heritage Publications)
• Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century by John-Paul Himka  (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)
• Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia by Brian J. Lenius (self-published)
• In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents: Volume I: Polish;  Volume II: Russian by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman (Langline)
• Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (The Jewish Genealogy Series) by Miriam Weiner (Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots)
• Peasants with Promise: Ukrainians in Southeastern Galicia 1880-1900 (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies)
• Sources for Researching Ukrainian Family History by Paul J. Himka (Libraries Unlimited)
• Ukraine: A History, 4th Edition by Orest Subtelny (University of Toronto Press)
• The Ukrainian Americans by Kevin Osborn (Chelsea House, out of print)
• The Ukrainian Americans: Roots and Aspirations, 1884-1954 by Myron B. Kuropas (University of Toronto Press)
• Ukrainian Genealogy by John D. Pihach (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press)
• Ukrainian Recipes edited by Joanne Asala (Penfield Books)
• The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation by Andrew Wilson (Yale University Press)
• Ukrainians in North America: A Biographical Directory of Noteworthy Ukrainians in the United States and Canada edited by Dmytro M. Shtohryn (Association for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies)

Organizations

• Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kyiv 24 Solomianska St., Kyiv 03110 Ukraine, +380 (044) 275-2777, <www.archives.gov.ua/en>
• Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv 3a Soborna Sq., 79000 Lviv, Ukraine, +380 (0322) 72-30-63, 97-86-57 <www.archives.gov.ua/en>
• Consulate General of Ukraine in New York 240 East 49 St., New York, NY 10017,  (212) 371-5690, <www.ny.mfa.gov.au/en>
• Embassy of Ukraine in Canada 310 Somerset St. West, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0J9 Canada, (613) 230-2961, <www.canada.mfs.gov.ua/en>
• Embassy of Ukraine to the United States of America 3350 M St. NW Washington, D.C. 2007, (202) 333-0606, <usa.mfa.gov.ua/en>
• Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute 34 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 495-4053, <www.huri.harvard.edu>
• Immigration History Research Center University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, 311 Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455, <www.umn.edu/ihrc>
• Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe Box 905 Stn. M, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2J6, Canada, <www.sggee.org/databases.html>
• The Ukrainian Genealogical Society 127 Taunton Ave., West Berlin, NJ 08091, <www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrgs/index.htm>  
• Ukrainian Museum-Archives 1202 Kenilworth Ave., Cleveland, OH 44113, (216) 781-4329, <www.umacleveland.org>
• Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority Har Hazikaron, PO 3477, Jerusalem 91034 Israel, <www.yadvashem.org>

A version of this article appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of Family Tree Magazine