G2G: Are you able to find your family's home village in Poland?

Question

I am lucky and was able to find my family's home village.  

My grandmother's father, Frank Czlonka, came from the Ulanów, Poland area.  Her mother, Mary Rzeszutek came from Zaczernie, Poland.

Ancestry updated their DNA Ethnicity Estimates maps today.  It may help you to narrow down parish records for your family if all else fails.  I checked my Ethnicity Estimate and it indicated 18% Eastern Europe (some of my Polish ancestors were German settlers during the Josephine Colonization) and highlighted Northern Subcarpathia (purple area below).  I include below a map with their starred villages.  The diameter of the purple blob is approximately 40 miles.  You can see how even DNA Ethnicity data can help narrow your search.  Is Ancestry just mapping data I provided?  Or are the tools this good?  I would be curious what others see.

Answer 1

Nice!  I would say accurate for me as well (as far as narrowing down region)

It looks just like yours.

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I don't know the region sizes, but when you figure a parish might have 15 marriages a year in the 1800s.  Getting a blind search down to 20 parishes for surnames makes it possible.  Then search same parish for births....

Answer 2

Seems to work for me also.  Narrowed it down to the Central Ostroleka region, which Skye had previously helped me find!

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Approximately how big is Ancestry's "Central Ostroleka" region?

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That region is approximately 25 miles in diameter.  Thank you for the info.