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The Parish of
Bilyi Kamin
(Білий Камінь) /
Biały Kamień

                                                                          Olesko

                Ozhydiv                                                              Pidhirtsi

Petrychi              Rozvazh                                         Hutyshche

                                     Bilyi Kamin

                  Buzhok             Cheremoshnia          Ushnia

           Honcharivka
     Skvariava                                                                    Sasiv
                                                   Zhulychi
              Pochapy
      Kniazhe                           Horodyliv

                   Khyl'chytsi                     Ielykhovychi

                                                                                            Zozuli
                               ZOLOCHIV

These pages are devoted to the parish of Bilyi Kamin (Білий Камінь) / Biały Kamień .

Bilyi Kamin (Білий Камінь) is the Ukrainian name
Biały Kamień is the Polish name

Most of my mother's family originated from this parish, which is located today in Ukraine, in the district of Zolochiv (Золочів) / Złoczów. It is located about 60 kilometers east of the large city of Lviv (Львів) / Lwów.

Before the end of World War II when most of the ethnic Poles were resettled to what is today western Poland, the parish had a large Polish and Roman Catholic minority. Today, the population is almost entirely Ukrainian and Greek Catholic (also known as Ukrainian Catholic).

Villages in the parish

Includes both Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic parishes

Immigration to America from the villages of Czeremosznia and Usznia NEW

Gazetteer Information on the parish. Here are extracts of each gazetteer pertaining to villages in the parish of Bilyi Kamin / Bialy Kamien. These can be used as examples of what each gazetteer offers.

Parish Information as found in Gemeindelexikon der im Reichsrate vertretenen Königreiche und Länder.
(Gazetteer of the Crown Lands and Territories Represented in the Imperial Council)
Volume 10: Galizien (Galicia). Vienna, 1907.

Statistics by Language (Entire Zloczow district)
Statistics by Religion (Entire Zloczow district)

Parish information as found in Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia
written by Brian J. Lenius. 1999.

Parish information as found in Istoriia mist i sil Ukrainskoi RSR
(A History of Cities and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR). 1967-1974.

Parish information as found in Skorowidz miejscowości Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
(Index to Places of the Republic of Poland). 1934.

Parish information as found in Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich
(Geographic Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Countries)
15 volumes. 1880-1902.

Maps

Photos

1929 Business Directory (PDF files)

Bilyi Kamin (Білий Камінь) / Biały Kamień (PDF file in Polish and French)
- English translation of the Polish and French
Cheremoshnia (Черемошня) / Czeremosznia (PDF file in Polish and French)
- English translation of the Polish and French
Ushnia (Ушня) / Usznia (PDF file in Polish and French)
- English translation of the Polish and French
Zhulychi (Жуличі) / Zulice (PDF file in Polish and French)
- English translation of the Polish and French

This information is taken from the incredible Jewish Genealogical website www.jewishgen.org. Among the many diverse databases is this one-the 1929 Polish Business Directory, which lists thousands of cities, towns and villages. The Jewishgen site states: "The Polish Business Directories of the 1920s and 1930s have thousands of pages of information about people in current and former areas of Poland, including regions now part of the Vilna area of Lithuania, the Grodno area of Belarus, and Volhynia and East Galicia, now parts of the western Ukraine." I encourage you all to visit their site!

Usznia ---> Domaniów, Poland (ethnic Poles resettled to western Poland after WWII)
(Located about 30 km south of Wroclaw in western Poland)
(Includes articles appearing in web-based newspapers from the town of Olawa, Poland)

Czeremosznia ---> Kurznie, Poland (ethnic Poles resettled to western Poland after WWII)
(Located just north of Brzeg in the province of Opole)

Gazeta Powiatowa - Wiadomości Oławskie (online newspaper from Oława, a county/district southeast of Wrocław in southwest Poland) Many Poles from Złoczów were resettled to Oława. There are often historic and cultural articles about the Resettlement, current ties to the Zolochiv / Złoczów region in Ukraine.