Lynda's grandfather's ancestors (Chwedchuk from the village of Strelno, a Ukrainian settlement in Byelorussia (Belarus - The spellings Belorussia and Byelorussia are transliterations of the name of the country in Russian and should be considered obsolete -http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Byelorussia/ ) near the Polish border), and and Lynda's grandmother birthplace (Beloretsk in the Ural mountains)

• General Map [Source: http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/stories/enemy/images/ural_mountains.jpg ]

• Strelno - Strelna [Стрельно, Strzalno, Strelno, Strielno - http://www.radzima.org/mapa.php?alcyr=83&lang=en ] is a place in the Ivanava district, Brest region of Belarus  [Source: http://www.belarus.by/en/belarus/territory/brest/]. Ivanava Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanava_Raion ]

• Beloretsk - In the southern Urals, in the Republic of Bashkortostan ( formerly known as "Bashkiriya whose the capital is Ufa), W Siberian Russia, situated on the Belaya River, 106 km/66 mi northwest of Magnitogorsk. [Source: http://encarta.msn.com/map_701514385/magnitogorsk.html ]

• Belaya River - [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Belayarivermap.png ]

• Historic Belarus [http://www.nowogrodzki.com/genealogy/belmap.jpg ]

• Balarus [http://www.nowogrodzki.com/genealogy/belorus1.jpg ]

• 1940 Balorussia [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Belorussian_SSR_1940.jpg ]