Former German speaking settlements near Lemberg, Galicia
I have found two sites that contain information about former German speaking settlements in the vicinity of Lemberg, Galicia. These sites are in German and since I don't speak or write German, using a translation website was very useful.These sites are: http://private.addcom.de/J.Kraus/http://private.addcom.de/J.Kraus/ and http://www.galizien-kraus.de/http://www.galizien-kraus.de/.
The owner of the sites, Werner Kraus, has a family history data base of more than 10,000 names of former residents and descendants and is willing to share information with anyone who is researching ancestors from those settlements. He is very interested in adding information on former residents who left those Galizien settlements for other parts of the world (ie: Canada and United States).
The paternal side of my family ("Austrian") came from the settlements of Wiesenberg/Weissenberg and were involved in the founding of Lemberg, Saskatchewan.
The maternal side of my family (Polish) came from the Polish settlements of Markowa/Oleszyce in Galicia and settled in the same area of Saskatchewan.
Dick Mann
Researching: Mann, Bruch, Golling, Balbierer, Kuehnert (or Kuhnert), Leniczek, Osiowy, Englot, Krupski