Looking for a town in Russia named Rokytne, Kiev, where my Great AUnt, Basia Szechtman was born in 1

LegacyUser

Looking for a town in Russia named Rokytne, Kiev, where my Great AUnt, Basia Szechtman was born in 1902. Hoping to find some other family that opted to stay there. SHe emigrated to USA in 1922 and never looked back!

I have found out that there are 2 towns with same name? Am thinking one was in Poland at some point? ALso, the name Shectman, Szechtman has many variations in spelling.

Ellie Vance

Hello!

 

I'm leaning more towards this Rokytne as it is located in the Kiev oblast.

 

If you are looking to connect with family who may still be there (or find out what happened to them), I would recommend using the https://forum.j-roots.info/ site. They have a great forum on there with many Russian and Ukrainian researchers. The site is in Russian, but can easily be naviaged using Google Translate.

LegacyUser

Thanks

i did not realize Google could do this? How do I go about it?

Ellie Vance

If you are using the Google Chrome browser, just right click anywhere on the page and click Translate to English. If you are using a different browser (Safari, Firefox, Edge, etc.) you can still use Google Translate, but just with some extra steps. Go to translate.google.com and change the language settings to translate from Russian to English. Paste the URL: https://forum.j-roots.info/ into the Russian box and then click on the link that shows up in the English box. This will take you a translated version of the site. If you have your own post or question you want to share on the forum, you can write out your post in English first and then put it into Google Translate. Just be sure you are using short, simple, to the point sentences, otherwise Google Translate doesn't do a very great job.

LegacyUser

Thankyou SO MUCH!!!!

Ellie Vance

You are so welcome! Good luck in your search