TRANSLITERATION AND SPELLING

The Slavic Institute of Paris method of transliteration into the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet has been used throughout.
In the alphabetical lists, the letters [ch, sh, shch and zh]* have been alphabetized as regular latin letters, except when they appear as the first letters of a proper name, in which case they are alphabetized separately in order to avoid confusion in finding the names
All place names are transliterated from the Cyrillic as they were spelled in the [1934] shematism.
Because many of the old spellings or Polonized names were considerably different from the [1934] spellings, see references have been included in the alphabetical index of churches.
Throughout the section on parishes, filial churches and localities, the old spelling(s) are given in parentheses after the names of main churches, e.g. Hlynyci [Gnojnice].
Some additions to place name are interchangeable Vyzhnyj, horishnyj, gorny are equivalent, as are nyzhnyj, dolishnyj and dolny. It was not always possible to be consistent in the lists, but the Polish expressions - gorny and dolny - have not been used.

* I could not duplicate letters with characters above them (diacritics), so decided to use the Library of Congress equivalents [ch, sh, shch and zh] - W. Maksimovich 5/05/1997

Document Information Document URL: http://lemko.org/religion/shematism/index.html

Page prepared by Walter Maksimovich
E-mail: walter@lemko.org