A village name can unlock an entire family history.
Maps help connect surnames, churches, neighboring villages, migration routes and historical events. For descendants who know only a remembered village name, geography can be the bridge into the larger LEMKO.org archive.
Existing Map Collection
Enter the original LEMKO.org map archive.
Genealogy & Villages
Use geography alongside family names, documents and oral history.
Village Reminiscences
Connect mapped places with memories of the people who lived there.
Photographic Geography
See villages, churches and landscapes represented in the photo archive.
Churches & Sacred Places
Religious buildings often provide enduring landmarks for village history.
Archives & Documents
Use maps together with documentary evidence preserved elsewhere on the site.
Lemkovyna is not an abstraction on an old map.
The valleys, roads, fields and mountains remain real places. Modern photographs can sit beside historical maps so visitors understand both the geography remembered by earlier generations and the landscape that exists today.
More to explore
- Original Maps Collection — Browse the earlier maps collection preserved beneath the modern map gateway.
- 1:100,000 Maps — Open the detailed 1:100,000 map collection.