On my lunch break, after buying and eating a sandwich with enough stuff that half of it will probably be tomorrow's lunch, I poked around Google images, researching European geography and terminology for [livejournal.com profile] eve99. It turns out that defining the borders of either Silesia or Galicia is difficult, even once you've explained to Google that you mean the Galicia that's at least partly Polish, not the one in Iberia. My grandmother was a Galitzianer, not a Galician, but this may not be a distinction that can readily be translated into French.

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Do you want to know what countries a particular village was in at particular dates in history? I figured that out for my ancestral villages (now in Lithuania and Belarus), which took a lot of work with historical atlases and history books and such.
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