jewishgen@... (Eliezer Brauner elib8@...) wrote on
02 Apr 2016 in soc.genealogy.jewish:

I have recently found that my ancestor >from Lwow arrived there in 1802

from Czerszcza.

I can't locate the place. Is it Choroszcz, Poland?

My guess, 14 mi SSW of Lemberg/Lwow:

Shchyrets, Ukraine

Alternate names: Shchyrets' [Ukr], Szczerzec [Pol], Shtcherzetz [Yid],
Shchirets [Rus], Shchezhets, Szczyrzec, Scyrec', Shtsherits, Shterits
Region: Lwow

Before WWI (c. 1900): Szczerzec Lwów Galicia Austrian Empire
Between the wars (c. 1930): Szczerzec Lwów Lwów Poland
After WWII (c. 1950): Shchirets Soviet Union
Today (c. 2000): Shchyrets' Ukraine

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